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Remake Engine is Back in Business
Gothic 1 Remake sold 500,000 copies in its first week (Embracer's June 12 announcement, June 5 launch), a number the financial press largely missed.
Steam reviews have since passed 29,000 at 88% positive, plus 6,800 in the PSN store; total reviews rose from about 22,000 at the sales announcement to 36,500 now, pointing toward roughly 800,000 units sold.
With Alkimia Interactive at 40-50 staff over 6 years, break-even likely sits at 400-500k copies, making Gothic profitable within the first week.
An analysis of about 100 top Steam reviews shows strong substance-level praise (faithfulness, atmosphere, expanded world); launch complaints (UE5 stutter, crashes, lockpicking) are fixable and read as recoverable churn given fast patching.
"Gothic 2 Remake when" recurs across reviews, and a THQ Nordic interview signals a Gothic 2 remake is likely and would develop faster than the first.
We feel it is likely to be a smaller profit beat for Q1’26/27, given improved mix and Gothic performance.
The true signal is a proven, repeatable remake engine, the cash-generative AA half of which stays with THQ Nordic in RemainCo, the segment the market pays least attention to.
THQ Nordic's Gothic 1 Remake sold 500,000 copies in its first week, a number we think points toward roughly 800,000 once the cross-platform review trajectory plays out, and on our break-even math the title was already profitable within days. In the full note we size the studio economics, read about 100 of the most helpful Steam reviews to separate durable demand from recoverable launch churn (including the recurring pull for a Gothic 2 remake), set Gothic against our Q1'26/27 consensus, and lay out why the buy-remaster-remake-sequel engine is a structurally high-ROI model, with the cash-generative AA half landing in Embracer/THQ Nordic rather than Fellowship.
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