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Hello esteemed Abbey follower! First of all, thank you for meeting us here! After the Renowned Explorers 10-year anniversary post, we quickly rose from 2200 to almost 3000 followers! It's the only place where we can communicate effectively outside of... working years on something and releasing a new game! So we're happy about that. Our goal with this page is to inform you without asking big commitments. We know Discord and other socials are all the buzz lately. And we have our own Discord[discord.gg] too - and we're always happy to chat! But we think many of you have a job, a family, friends, or are otherwise engaged in another community that already asks a lot of your time. We want to be a more relaxed and keep the focus on our games. We plan to write an update every 3 or 4 months.

You can imagine that such a focus is a challenge in today's gaming space, where marketing is becoming more and more important. We're looking for answers ourselves, and be open to ideas! In any case, the fact that you're reading this is a fantastic start! Thank you, and I hope you enjoy this update!

Adriaan and the monks of the Abbey.

Reus 2 has remained our main focus throughout 2025. If you haven't seen it yet, you can check the full game and its DLC here! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1875060/Reus_2/Generally speaking, we've been happy with Reus 2! It has sold well enough to warrant expansions, and many people absolutely love the game! In short here are some key numbers:

• 120K+ units have been sold. This is a decent amount to sell within 1.5 years.

• 50K+ DLC units have been sold. This is pretty good, and showcases that the quality of the game paid off.

• €900.000+ revenue for Abbey Games. This includes publisher payments and royalties and before tax. This might seem like a lot, but it's not enough to cover the full development cost since 2020. In other words, we're still running on a loss. We do think this will change in the future, though!

• Roughly 65% of the budget went to salaries, 15% to overhead, and 20% to royalties and freelancers. In hindsight, we think we spent too much time on some things in Reus 2, inflating the salary costs.

What do we make from all of this? Well, Reus 2 seems like a healthy game that will support our portfolio for some time to come! We've been working on new cool content as well... Here is an exclusive preview!

I Wonder what they're running towards...

Besides Reus 2, we started working on a new prototype this year! We will want to keep most info for the announcement...

but for you we will make an exception. ;)

(Concept art and work in progress!)

We tried to keep the game a bit easier to design and more mainstream this time... and utterly failed. It's promising to be another true Abbey Game, with thoughtful and intricate gameplay. We're heavily drawing on Renowned Explorers for characters and pacing, while keeping a lot of the combo gameplay of Reus 2 running wild.

We are trying to take a unique perspective: you won't be playing the heroes, but guiding them. Whether they achieve triumph or meet a tragic end, all stories help you to save the Greek world. How that works? You'll have to wait for that a bit longer! We're very excited to show you more, but the game is still cooking. As always, we're taking major gameplay risks, and we first want to see them work out as well as Renowned Explorers and Reus 2!

It's always nice to hear what the makers of games play themselves!

Adriaan (Me, the Designer!) has been engrossed in Ark Nova[boardgamegeek.com], Hades 2, Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3, Mario Kart World, and The Great Ace Attorney: Chronicles.[www.ace-attorney.com] I also admit I've played a fair bit of Reus 2...
Besides that I want to highlight Promise Mascot Agency as a chill, narrative collectathon with a lot of love! Great for the harder days in your life. :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2585830/Promise_Mascot_Agency/

Manuel (programmer) has also been playing Hades 2 (but who hasn't?), Outer Wilds, Blue Prince and wants to highlight Roadwarden. He says:
"By almost nothing but text and great soundtrack Roadwarden made me live in this tiny tough fantasy world. I especially enjoyed how it makes the world even more real with some tiny but impactful resource management."
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1155970/Roadwarden/

You might have noticed that making games has become quite hard. F2P and microtransactions reign supreme, but it's not really our style. We're looking for some new sources of income while still being able to focus on making games. The question for you is; what would you prefer to see? Some ideas:

• Be more present with cosmetic DLC's.

• Create a Patreon which unlocks all our games and some premium content.

• Focus more on kickstarter.

We'd be happy to hear you ideas!

That's it for this update! Thank you for reading, and we hope you have a great day!

- Adriaan and the Monks from the Abbey