Though it has been 8 years because the final Deus Ex sport (9 in the event you don’t depend Deux Ex: Breach) it looks as if Eidos-Montreal is actively attempting to get a brand new sport within the collection made.
That’s based on a brand new report by Mike Straw of Insider Gaming. Whereas engaged on getting some particulars behind the corporate’s latest layoffs, Mike apparently stumbled throughout some intriguing details about Deus Ex.
Straw discovered that Eidos-Montreal has been “pitching the brand new sport commonly” to exterior publishers and potential companions. Nevertheless, no one appears to be biting.
The reason being that some publishers imagine the collection is simply too area of interest, whereas others “aren’t prepared to tackle the monetary danger that comes with the Deus Ex franchise for the time being.”
The report additionally notes that this is able to be a completely new Deus Ex sport not associated to the one which was being labored on beneath the Embracer group just a few years again. That undertaking was formally cancelled in 2024 as a part of Embracer’s restructuring.
What the report doesn’t clarify is why Eidos-Montreal themselves aren’t making the sport, or why one other inner Embracer studio is prepared to do it. Maybe Embracer doesn’t see any potential in it, both, and can solely agree if some exterior writer is prepared to take the monetary danger.
Or it might be as a result of one supply advised Insider Gaming that the pitch did doesn’t meet “expectations or requirements usually related to the Deus Ex model”. Ouch.
