Embark Studios currently has a pretty good track record with the games it's released so far. Launching The Finals in 2023 and then Arc Raiders last year, the devs have done impeccable work and delivered some truly memorable games. It seems like a lot, especially for a smaller and relatively new studio, but in truth competing in the big leagues is something the devs had been preparing for for quite some time.
"To start a new studio from scratch and to compete with the likes of EA and Activision and others, if you follow traditional development methodologies, you're going to have to have five, six, seven hundred people," Embark Studios CEO, Patrick Söderlund, says in an interview with GamesBeat. "We didn't want to be that, we couldn't afford that many people, and we didn't believe that was the way to get to the right type of innovation and quality.
