Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games was working on a Blade Runner game… but it’s already dead

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Supermassive Video games, the studio behind narrative horror video games Until Dawn and The Darkish Photos Anthology, have scrapped their in-development Blade Runner recreation.

Designed to launch on the next-generation PlayStation 6 and Xbox consoles, the sci-fi narrative journey has been scrapped earlier than most followers knew of its existence.

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In a report by Inside Gaming, it’s mentioned that the studio was engaged on the single-player narrative journey for launch in 2027. The sport’s 10-12 hour “compelling” marketing campaign would have been set in New Zurich within the yr 2065 with the participant being town’s sole Blade Runner.

Dubbed Blade Runner: Time to Stay, the sport was set to be a “character centered, cinematic, motion journey” that tried to mix “the philosophical themes of Blade Runner with kinetic action-adventure gameplay”.

Pre-production on the sport is alleged to have began final yr in September 2024 with a plan to start out prototyping this month. Nonetheless, the sport was reportedly scrapped by the IP’s rights holder Alcon Leisure, an organization that has been notably finicky with the franchise.

“Journey from the teeming undercity of New Zurich 2065 to the eerie remnants of the forgotten world past,” reads an alleged synopsis for the sport. “Beneath orders to retire Rev, the mysterious and ruthless chief of an underground replicant community, you might be betrayed and left for useless in a brutally hostile atmosphere.”

Blade Runner: Time to Stay was described as a reasonably costly mission for the studio. Based on the report, the sport’s funds was upwards of $45 million for improvement with a further $9 million for appearing expertise, probably involving some B-Listing celebrities.

Whereas the thrilling title could also be cancelled, the studio remains to be engaged on different video games in its narrative journey system. Directive 8020 is a brand-new sci-fi horror story in improvement by the studio starring No Time To Die’s Lashana Lynch.