Extremely OK Games has cancelled its follow-up to Celeste

Extraordinarily OK Video games has cancelled its upcoming sport Earthblade. The followup to the workforce’s beloved indie sensation Celeste was in 2022 and anticipated to launch final 12 months. Maddy Thorson introduced the information on the studio’s web site at the moment.

“Noel and I…started to replicate on how the sport has felt for us to work on day-to-day, and realized that it has been a wrestle for a very long time,” she wrote. “Certain, engaged on one mission for thus lengthy is sure to turn into a slog, however this looks like a deeper drawback. Celeste‘s success utilized stress on us to ship one thing larger and higher with Earthblade, and that stress is a big a part of why engaged on it has turn into so exhausting.”

The studio, led by Thorson and Noel Berry, parted methods with EXOK co-founder Pedro Medeiros in November. Nevertheless, Thorson was clear in her message that the rift between workforce members was not the explanation for cancelling Earthblade. The truth is, all the public dialog between the previous colleagues to date has remained amicable. Thorson supplied agency assist for Medeiros and his new sport mission Neverway in her publish: “For those who had been enthusiastic about Earthblade and offended about its cancelling, Pedro and the Neverway workforce aren’t the enemy and anybody who treats them as such is not welcome in any EXOK neighborhood.”