have a look to the british adventure scene...
still working, still alive. You can only underestimate the british scene. They bring up the best bands like stones, queen, cure, oasis, best directors like hitchcock... and I am sure - they grow in a successful way with this game genre

link to "terror in adventures"

and you can handle with cruel words like "the graphics are bad and the gameplay is crap" but the difference is... the make and finish it.