“Blade Runner” Video Game Cancelled?

Supermassive Games, the company behind the “Until Dawn” game and “The Dark Pictures Anthology” titles, has cancelled an unannounced major “Blade Runner” video game that had been in development.

According to Insider Gaming, the project was titled “Blade Runner: Time To Live,” and was described as a “third-person, character focused, cinematic, action adventure” with a 10-12 hour single player campaign.

Set in the year 2065, players would play as a Blade Runner named So-Lange – someone who is also a vintage model Nexus-6 that is “inexplicably still alive well beyond your limited lifespan”.

As you journey from the teeming undercity of New Zurich 2065 to the eerie remnants of the forgotten world beyond, you are under orders to retire Rev – the mysterious and ruthless leader of an underground replicant network. You are betrayed and left for dead in a brutally hostile environment.”

The game was to feature a “compelling story blending the philosophical themes of Blade Runner with kinetic action-adventure gameplay” and was aiming for a September 2027 release on PC, Xbox and PlayStation.

The game’s development budget was roughly $45 million but didn’t include music production, image rights and usage fees for performers, QA and game testing, localization, and any future DLC.

Much of the team that worked on Supermassive’s acclaimed title “The Quarry” were to return for this with pre-production running from last September through to last month.

The reason for the cancellation isn’t clear, but the report claims “Blade Runner” rights owner Alcon Entertainment was key to it and the cancellation took place late last year.

Asked for comment, Supermassive Games told the outlet they were “unable to comment on this” while Alcon Entertainment has yet to respond.

Source: Insider Gaming

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