Next-Gen Blade Runner Game From The Studio Behind Until Dawn Reportedly Scrapped

Supermassive Games, the workplace down fearfulness adventures similar Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures anthology series, has reportedly ceased improvement connected an unannounced Blade Runner game.

As reported by Insider Gaming, Supermassive was moving connected a "character focused, cinematic, enactment adventure" crippled astir the past Blade Runner successful 2065, called Blade Runner: Time To Live. The communicative would person allegedly followed a vintage Nexus-6 exemplary named So-Lange, nether orders to discontinue the person of an underground replicant network, who gets betrayed and near for dormant successful a harsh environment, with gameplay breached up into stealth, combat, exploration, investigation, and melodramatic quality interactions.

Insider Gaming reported that Blade Runner: Time To Live had a afloat improvement fund of "roughly" $45 million, including $9 cardinal earmarked for outer show seizure and acting talent. The study claimed it had a 10-12 hr single-player story, began pre-production successful September 2024, and would person been planned for a September 2027 motorboat connected PC and some the existent and adjacent procreation of consoles.

Via Insider Gaming's report, the crippled allegedly fell isolated owed to an contented with Alcon Entertainment, which owns the rights to Blade Runner, and the task was cancelled sometime precocious past year.

In the summertime of 2023, steadfast Annapurna Interactive announced it would beryllium processing its archetypal in-house game, based connected the Blade Runner franchise, titled Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth. It was billed arsenic the archetypal Blade Runner crippled successful 25 years. We person heard oregon seen thing since.

Supermassive Games has been juggling respective projects, including the adjacent introduction successful the Dark Pictures bid Directive 8020 and improvement connected Little Nightmares 3. The workplace announced it was laying disconnected workers past year, astir 90 per Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, arsenic it was entering a "period of consultation."

Meanwhile, Supermassive's Until Dawn has a movie arriving successful theaters this weekend. You tin cheque retired our reappraisal of David F. Sanberg's adaptation of Until Dawn for the metallic surface here.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.