Payday 3 developer Starbreeze Studios has launched its yearly monetary report for 2024, and issues are trying fairly grim for a studio that was already arguably on the ropes on the finish of the earlier 12 months.
In its newest report, Starbreeze says its web gross sales for 2024 fell by about 70% when in comparison with the earlier 12 months; it raked in simply 185.9 million Swedish kronor this 12 months in comparison with 633.5 million final 12 months, with each Payday video games dropping nicely into the double digits (having achieved triple-digit gross sales final 12 months).
Just about all of Starbreeze’s numbers are down when in comparison with 2023, nevertheless it seems to be just like the Swedish developer is attempting to maintain a courageous face, with performing CEO Mats Juhl describing the 12 months as “intense however in some ways additionally profitable”.
Juhl says the 12 months has seen Starbreeze “strengthen[ing] the Payday model by collaborations and enhancements” whereas additionally “making nice progress” with upcoming Dungeons & Dragons multiplayer recreation Challenge Baxter.
The performing CEO, who’s at the moment within the place following the departure of former CEO Tobias Sjögren in March final 12 months, additionally says Starbreeze has been specializing in “establishing a robust basis for [its] third-party publishing” this 12 months.
As a reminder, the studio printed “Lovecraftian Stone Age” base-builder The Tribe Should Survive this 12 months, in addition to the FPS roguelite Roboquest in direction of the tail finish of 2023. We do not at the moment know what else is on Starbreeze’s publishing slate for the long run.
In case you want a reminder, it has been a fairly robust couple of years for Starbreeze. Payday 3’s relative failure precipitated each Starbreeze’s CEO and the sport’s director to step down at totally different factors final 12 months, and the sport nonetheless has a fraction of its predecessor’s lively gamers.
You may try Starbreeze’s full monetary report proper right here if you wish to get in-depth with numbers and different statistics.
