Souls-inspired games are increasingly common nowadays, but that didn’t stop PlayStation 5 exclusive Ballad of Antara from leaving gamers impressed when it was revealed during a May 2024 State of Play. However, despite this fairly recent reveal — and an even more recent gameplay demo in September of that year — the PS5 game has supposedly been canceled.
The first rumblings of Ballad of Antara being canceled came via the GamingLeaksAndRumors subreddit, with a user named MrEpicFerret noticing that a concept artist for the game was sharing some of their art online and mentioned that the game it was meant for had since been canceled. While the Tweet in question has since been deleted, evidence of its existence has been captured by PlayStation LifeStyle, with a series of social media posts from a Chinese insider named @ignusthewise also highlighted. While these comments went under the radar when they were posted back in September 2025, they shed light on what potentially happened to the intriguing soulslite.
Per @ignusthewise and reported via PlayStation Lifestyle, Paper Games, the company who owns Ballad of Antara developer TipsWorks, had a major restructuring in January of last year. This saw TipsWorks’ team cut from 120 people...
