Supermassive Games, the studio behind horror adventures like Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures anthology sequence, has reportedly ceased improvement on an unannounced Blade Runner sport.
As reported by Insider Gaming, Supermassive was engaged on a “character targeted, cinematic, motion journey” sport concerning the final Blade Runner in 2065, known as Blade Runner: Time To Live. 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 lifeless in a harsh surroundings, with gameplay damaged up into stealth, fight, exploration, investigation, and dramatic character interactions.
Insider Gaming reported that Blade Runner: Time To Live had a full improvement funds 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 technology of consoles.
Via Insider Gaming’s report, the sport allegedly fell aside because of a difficulty with Alcon Entertainment, which owns the rights to Blade Runner, and the mission was cancelled someday late final 12 months.
In the summer season of 2023, writer Annapurna Interactive introduced it might be growing 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. We have heard or seen nothing since.
Supermassive Games has been juggling a number of initiatives, together with the following entry within the Dark Pictures sequence Directive 8020 and improvement on Little Nightmares 3. The studio introduced it was shedding staff final 12 months, round 90 per Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, because it was getting into a “interval of session.”
Meanwhile, Supermassive’s Until Dawn has a film arriving in theaters this weekend. You can try our overview of David F. Sanberg’s adaptation of Until Dawn for the silver display screen right here.
Eric is a contract author for IGN.
