Avalanche Studios co-founder Christofer Sundberg has just revealed that an Iron Man game was in development at the studio, but was then canceled due to shortened development time and an increased budget.

Surprisingly, the canceled Iron Man game was in development for two years by the time it was scrapped. Sundberg revealed that it was meant to release alongside Iron Man 3 MCU film, but Avalanche was asked to shorten the development time, which was not at all feasible at the time.

“It would’ve broken the studio completely if we had agreed to that,” said Sundberg. “We would have had to hire 70-80 people to the team that I would have had responsibility to find a new project for.”

Sundberg didn’t reveal anything more about the canceled Iron Man game. He only added that the game was meant to have a melee combat system similar to that of the Batman Arkham Series, and that the Iron Man suit would have been able to fly anywhere using Iron Man’s repulsor blasts.

While it is unfortunate that we didn’t get to experience the Iron Man game, Marvel fans have since gotten plenty of new games. This includes PlayStation’s Marvel’s Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Marvel’s Avengers. Marvel’s Midnight Suns is also coming out soon in 2023.

Source: MinnMax via Game Developer