A Stellar Blade sequel has been confirmed by Shift Up

A Stellar Blade sequel is within the works, developer Shift Up has confirmed in an investor relations presentation, and it may very well be coming fairly quickly.

One slide particularly outlines a timetable that extends from 2024 via to 2027, exhibiting two entries for Stellar Blade with “Platform Growth” associated to an impending PC port of Stellar Blade, after which a bigger block labelled “Sequel”.

In different phrases, a sequel is properly on its approach and must be launched by 2027.

A sequel to Stellar Blade clearly makes plenty of sense, when you think about the optimistic crucial opinions and wholesome gross sales that it had. The sport at present sits at 81 on Metacritic and was in a position to rapidly promote 1 million models inside its first two months on sale for PS5, and the IR presentation states that it has made 68.1bn KRW (that’s ~ £365 million). A PC model is about to be launched shortly on eleventh June, which is just going to bolster these figures.

The unique sport took round 5 years to be launched from its first teaser as Undertaking Eve in 2019, via to the sport’s launch in 2024 (although it was initially supposed for 2023). Recreation sequels can usually be faster to develop, because the preliminary burden of conceptualising gameplay, build up a technical basis, and staffing a full group has already been performed. Importantly, a 2026 or 2027 goal would put Stellar Blade throughout the PS5 technology nonetheless, which means that Shift Up wouldn’t have to think about going via all of the ache of gearing up for a brand new sport engine and new console technology.

Stellar Blade is an efficient, strong motion sport from Shift Up, mixing collectively excessive motion a la Bayonetta and Nier Automata, and a few nice PS5 visuals. We mentioned in our Stellar Blade review, “Stellar Blade is a fairly pleasurable sport to swing your hairband sword at, as long as you don’t thoughts the plain sexualisation. There’s just a few tough areas, however nothing to spoil issues total and there’s loads of attention-grabbing story to uncover as you combat your approach via large monsters with round saws for heads and bizarre tentacles for legs.”

Supply: Shift Up by way of Shinobi