In my opinion, one of the main issues is that the expectations were set too high by it being priced like a AAA game + the LOTR "brand". It looks like a PS3 game, so it should have had a more modest price tag.

Daedalic has closed it's game development team (which cancels their next Lord of the Rings game, and likely ends all chances of a Switch port for Gollum) and will focus on publishing games developed elsewhere.

https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/wirtsch ... entwicklung-stellenabbau/