#Playdead

Limbo at 16: The Economic Lesson the Industry Never Learned

Sixteen years after its debut on Xbox Live Arcade, Limbo remains a comfortable anomaly in video game history: a title designed by a handful of people, with virtually no budget, no explicit narrative, that imposed its visual grammar on an entire generation of indie developers. The anniversary offers a chance to measure what this game truly changed — and to ask why its model remains so rarely imitated to completion.