At the beginning of the month, the developer of Outriders and Bulletstorm canceled the action role-playing game that has been in the works for years, so Project Dagger will definitely not see the light of day. Fortunately, the Polish studio has another game in the works.
An investor report https://twitter.com/MauroNL3/status/1783468687179022353 the People Can Fly team decided to stop development of Project Dagger on April 5th, as they felt it would not be a commercial success in its current form. In Hungarian, it did not meet the quality standard they wanted to achieve.
The studio thus describes the development costs as a loss, as a result of which the company’s financial result in 2023 will be reduced by $16.9 million. It’s better to get over this as soon as possible.
Project Dagger would have been an action role-playing game geared towards cooperative experiences, which has been in the works for the Polish team since at least 2020. Previously, Take-Two would have published the title, but they also canceled the project in the fall of 2022, after which People Can Fly tried to finance the work on their own, since they could keep the IP. The game was still in pre-production at the time.
Fortunately, the brigade has six other projects under development – including one shared with Square Enix, and two they will publish themselves – the latter two will be VR games. And of course, they’re also working with Microsoft on an Xbox game that’s rumored to be a PvP-focused shooter.
