No More Outriders 2? People Can Fly and Square Enix Game Cancelled
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Those hoping to see a sequel to 2021’s non-live service looter shooter, Outriders, it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen anytime soon, as the developer behind the game has just cancelled its game with publisher Square Enix.
People Can Fly. the studio behind Painkiller, Bullestorm, has announced they have cancelled two projects and are even laying people off.
People Can Fly Ends Project With Square Enix
People Can Fly announced the project cancellation and layoffs on the studio’s official Twitter/X account today from studio CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski.
Today we made a very difficult decision to suspend the development of project Gemini and project Bifrost – the relevant current reports have been released to the market.
The suspension of the Gemini project is a consequence of the fact that the Publisher has not presented us with a draft of the subsequent content rider to the Publishing Agreement covering the terms and conditions of further milestones on project Gemini and the lack of communication from the Publisher as to its willingness to continue or terminate the Gemini project.
Project Bifrost was suspended due to the above and the analysis of the Group’s cash flow, which showed a lack of prospects for securing organizational resources and funds necessary to continue the production and release of this project.
As a result, we have to significantly regroup as a studio and scale down our teams, which hurts the most.
We wish to express our deepest regret and sadness over how these events have unfolded and our sincere gratitude for everyone’s contribution up to this point.
Project Gemini is People Can Fly’s game in development with Square Enix. While that wasn’t confirmed to be Outriders 2, the title seems to be the most plausible thing the studio was working on for the publisher. As for Project Bifrost, it’s a VR game, and details on it have been light.
Since Outriders’ release, People Can Fly pushed out one major expansion three years ago, which we reviewed in a positive light. What does this mean for Outriders IP? Probably that it’s dead — unless Square Enix tasks it to another developer.
If you’ve yet to play the looter shooter, it’s usually on sale, and it’s worth the romp. Our review of the base game was overwhelmingly positive, awarding it a 9/10 and highlighting the gunplay and loot grind as some of its key strengths.
People Can Fly is known to be helping development on Gears of War: E-Day with The Coalition, and it’s due for on the Xbox Series X|S and PC.
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