Well making their money back is only part of the equation, if we as gamers want more games like that they will need to make a decent return on their investment.
They took a gamble by developping Hellblade and i think IMHO that the only way to see games moving that way if they make tons of money out of it.
I am glad they didn't lose any money but we won't see more projects like this if everytime a developper try something interessing they bet the studio on it (pretty sure that's what Ninja Theory did)
We have exemple of really good studios that closed just because they sold below expectation and i can't accept that the market doesn't have any margin for error., especially for sucessfull developper (Looking at you Visceral games)