Remedy Cancels Premium Cooperative Multiplayer Game Codenamed “Kestrel” to Focus on Existing Franchises

While Remedy Entertainment is mostly known for the Alan Wake and Control franchises, the studio was also aiming to move into the co-op multiplayer space with “Kestrel” (working codename), though that has changed today.

In its latest investors report, Remedy has confirmed that they have canned the game whic was in early concept stage, and this was to focus on existing franchises.

Remedy Entertainment Plc (“Remedy”) and Tencent Plc (“Tencent”) have decided to cancel the game project codename Kestrel. Codename Kestrel had a small team working on the early concept stage of a premium cooperative multiplayer game. The game was being developed by Remedy, co-financed with Tencent, and to be co-published with Tencent. The project started in November 2023 as a reboot from an earlier project codenamed Vanguard.

The decision to cancel codename Kestrel allows Remedy to focus more on the other games in its portfolio. Other ongoing game development projects will get experienced developers reassigned from Kestrel. In addition, the planned investment needs for Kestrel are removed and Remedy’s overall recruitment needs are reduced.

Per Remedy, while Kestrel showed early promise, the other projects have advanced well and are moving to the next stages of development. The studio aims to reallocate Kestrel developers to these other game projects.

Currently, the known projects being made is Max Payne 1 & 2 Remakes, which is fully funded by Rockstar Games with a budget similar to Alan Wake 2. Other than that, we also know that Alan Wake is getting free and premium DLC, and Control is getting a sequel.

Will the studio go back to work on a multiplayer game? Who knows, but if we hear anything about it, we’ll let our readers know.

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