Hellraid - Development Put on Hold

HiddenX · May 21, 2015

henriquejr spotted this annoucement on PCGamer:

Originally announced in April 2013, Hellraid is a first-person action game about battling the forces of Hell, who are raiding the dark fantasy world in which the game is set. Or at least it would be, if it ever actually came out. And right now, that's not looking too likely.

"We would like to officially announce that our dark fantasy FPP game Hellraid will not be released this year as previously planned, and the development of the game has been put on hold," Techland announced today. "In the recent months we conducted an internal analysis and came to the conclusion that Hellraid, in its current shape and form, is not meeting our own expectations for this project. Therefore, we decided the best course of action would be to send it back to the drawing board and invent our dark fantasy title anew."

That reinvention isn't going to happen right away, however. Techland said its focus for now will be on the "further expansion of our Dying Light franchise," and there's no indication of a possible future release date. That's not quite the same as an outright cancellation, but it's awfully close.

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henriquejr · May 21, 2015

I don't know about you but I am/I was eagerly awaiting this game. Even more than Dying Light

To me, this kind of "we'll put it on hold for a while" excuse only smells of "we're going to cancel it". Or maybe it's just my pessimistic side speaking.

A game killing another one ... Damn you, Dying Light !!!

Black Rune · May 21, 2015

Too bad. Was on my "want to play"list, well, still is, but it's on hold.
Hope they don't cancel the whole game. It looks interesting.

Gokyabgu · May 21, 2015

That's too bad. I was eagerly waiting for this game. But this "put on hold" is expected. Because after that gameplay videos that they had released last year the project suddenly fell to silent, which didn't seem good then. I think cancellation of the project is near. I looked Hellraid as the Hexen 3. Pity. God, I hate zombie games.

Arkadia7 · May 22, 2015

I was interested in this game too. Oh well, deleted the link in my games list, and I agree this means it's likely cancelled.

Mosaic · May 22, 2015

Nooo! Yes, had my eye on this one as well. Boo, I say.

flabbyjack · May 22, 2015

Wow, the Steam speculators were right this time.

This was sort of expected, the last update on their blog was November, I think.

forgottenlor · May 22, 2015

I would have really liked to play this game. Dead Island was well done. However, if the game doesn't meet their own expectations, than bravo to them for cancelling it. It's better to release no game at all than a bad game.

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