Without the other Sumo Digital studios, The Chinese Room is ~50 employees. Their previous games are walking simulator type games - Dear Esther, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Still Wakes the Deep.
Not sure how many action combat devs and testers they might possibly have on their team.

The recent Bloodlines 2 delay is probably exactly due to this self-buyout. And since they paid this bribe, I'm guessing Chinese Room is all in on this game, and if it fails they might go Black Isle.

Hoping its good (eventually). At any rate, its been interesting watching this development hell rival Duke Nukem Forever.

Yeah, I don't know about the rest of the people working there, but if they are anything like their HR and Marketing departments that would explain the troon nonesense