Supermassive Video games, the studio behind horror adventures like Till Daybreak, The Quarry, and The Darkish Footage anthology sequence, has reportedly ceased improvement on an unannounced Blade Runner sport.
As reported by Insider Gaming, Supermassive was engaged on a “character centered, cinematic, motion journey” sport in regards to the final Blade Runner in 2065, referred to as Blade Runner: Time To Stay. The story would have allegedly adopted a classic Nexus-6 mannequin named So-Lange, underneath orders to retire the chief of an underground replicant community, who will get betrayed and left for useless in a harsh atmosphere, with gameplay damaged up into stealth, fight, exploration, investigation, and dramatic character interactions.
Insider Gaming reported that Blade Runner: Time To Stay had a full improvement price range of “roughly” $45 million, together with $9 million earmarked for exterior efficiency seize and appearing expertise. The report claimed it had a 10-12 hour single-player story, started pre-production in September 2024, and would have been deliberate for a September 2027 launch on PC and each the present and subsequent era of consoles.
Through Insider Gaming’s report, the sport allegedly fell aside resulting from a difficulty with Alcon Leisure, which owns the rights to Blade Runner, and the mission was cancelled someday late final yr.
In the summertime of 2023, writer Annapurna Interactive introduced it could be creating its first in-house sport, primarily based on the Blade Runner franchise, titled Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth. It was billed as the primary Blade Runner sport in 25 years. Now we have heard or seen nothing since.
Supermassive Video games has been juggling a number of tasks, together with the subsequent entry within the Darkish Footage sequence Directive 8020 and improvement on Little Nightmares 3. The studio introduced it was shedding staff final yr, round 90 per Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, because it was coming into a “interval of session.”
In the meantime, Supermassive’s Till Daybreak has a film arriving in theaters this weekend. You possibly can take a look at our evaluate of David F. Sanberg’s adaptation of Till Daybreak for the silver display right here.
Eric is a contract author for IGN.
