The studios behind horror adventures like Supermassive Games, Dawn, The Quarry and The Dark Pictures Anthology series have reportedly stopped developing unannounced blade runner games.
As reported by Insider Gaming, Supermassive was working on a “character-focused, film, action-adventure” game about the final Blade Runner called 2065’s Blade Runner: Time To Live. The story follows a vintage Nexus-6 model named So-Lange, under the orders to retire the leader of an underground replicant network, betrayed and killed in harsh environments, splitting the gameplay into stealth, combat, exploration, investigation and dramatic character interactions.
Insider Gaming claimed that the full development budget for Blade Runner: Time To Live was “a full development budget of about $45 million, including $9 million allocated to external performance capture and acting talent. The report claimed that it had a 10-12 hour single-player story and had pre-production in September 2024, and was planning to launch in September 2027 and in September 2027 on current and next-generation consoles.
Through an Insider Gaming report, the game is said to have been torn apart due to issues with Alcon Entertainment, which owns the rights to Blade Runner. The project was cancelled late last year.
In the summer of 2023, publisher Annapurna Interactive announced that it would develop its first in-house game, titled Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth, based on Blade Runner Franchise. It was billed for my first Blade Runner game in 25 years. Since then, we have not heard anything.
Supermassive Games has juggled several projects, including the next entry in Dark Pictures Series Directive 8020 and the development of Little Nightmares 3. The studio announced last year that it had left workers after being in “consultations” of about 90 people per Bloomberg Jason Schreier.
Meanwhile, until Supermassive’s, Dawn has a film that arrived at the theatre this weekend. Check out David F. Sanberg’s review of Dawn adaptation for the Silver Screen.
Eric is an Passthecontroller freelance writer.
