Next step is to set up a Barcelona based studio and head into full production
Just a little over two months after releasing a playable teaser for the Gothic Remake and asking the players for their feedback, the answer is clear: The fans are up for a new “old” Gothic game and the vast majority (read: 94,8%) was in favor to develop a remake of the iconic German RPG Gothic, originally released in 2001.
Over 180,000 players have played the playable teaser so far. On February 16 2020, THQ Nordic took the survey offline, and hereby publicly releases the raw data of the survey, as well as highlight graphs. With more than 43,000 answered surveys and over 9,000 (yes, really) reviews on Steam and various discussions on all social media platforms, there is enough data to check.
THQ Nordic will establish a new studio based in Barcelona, Spain, and will then assess what players liked and what they want to be different than in the playable teaser. One of the most common mentions was, for example, the demand for a grittier and less colorful world.
“We are up for the challenge to develop a full Gothic Remake which will stay as faithfully as possible to the original experience and transport the atmospheric world of Gothic into a high-quality look and carefully modernizing certain gameplay mechanics,” says Reinhard Pollice Business and Product Development Director at THQ Nordic.
The full Gothic Remake will go into production and will be developed for PC and next-gen consoles. There is no release window available yet, but it will not be coming in 2020.
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