Until Dawn Dev Supermassive Reportedly Cancels Blade Runner Game | TechRaptor

Until Dawn Dev Supermassive Reportedly Cancels Blade Runner Game | TechRaptor

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Until Dawn and The Quarry developer Supermassive Games has reportedly canceled an in-development Blade Runner game that was set to release some time in 2027.

That's according to an Insider Gaming report, which cites anonymous sources that supposedly worked on the project. According to Insider's report, Blade Runner: Time to Live was a "character-focused, cinematic action-adventure" game that would have run around 10-12 hours.

The game would have featured the four key pillars of "stealth, combat, exploration, and investigation", which would have set it apart from Supermassive's usual fare; the developer is mostly known for movie-style adventure games that don't usually feature much in the way of gameplay.

According to Insider Games, you'd have access to various skills and abilities that you could upgrade in Blade Runner: Time to Live, and you'd also be able to use "past memories to figure out the story", as well as using "in-game technology to complete your investigations".

It sounds like the game would have been a pretty ambitious one, and it sounds pretty far out of Supermassive's usual wheelhouse as well; it puts me in mind of The Chinese Room's work on the upcoming Vampire: The Masquerade -...