Supermassive Games, the studio behind horror adventures like Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures anthology series, has reportedly ceased development on an unannounced Blade Runner game.
As reported by Insider Gaming, Supermassive was working on a "character focused, cinematic, action adventure" game about the last Blade Runner in 2065, called Blade Runner: Time To Live. The story would have allegedly followed a vintage Nexus-6 model named So-Lange, under orders to retire the leader of an underground replicant network, who gets betrayed and left for dead in a harsh environment, with gameplay broken up into stealth, combat, exploration, investigation, and dramatic character interactions.
Insider Gaming reported that Blade Runner: Time To Live had a full development budget of "roughly" $45 million, including $9 million earmarked for external performance capture and acting talent. The report claimed it had a 10-12 hour single-player story, began pre-production in September 2024, and would have been planned for a September 2027 launch on PC and both the current and next generation of consoles.
Via Insider Gaming's report, the game allegedly fell apart due to an issue with Alcon Entertainment, which owns the rights to Blade Runner, and the project was cancelled sometime late last year.
In the summer of 2023, publisher Annapurna Interactive announced it would be developing its first in-house game, based on the Blade Runner franchise, titled Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth. It was billed as the first Blade Runner game in 25 years. We have heard or seen nothing since.
Supermassive Games has been juggling several projects, including the next entry in the Dark Pictures series Directive 8020 and development on Little Nightmares 3. The studio announced it was laying off workers last year, around 90 per Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, as it was entering a "period of consultation."
Meanwhile, Supermassive's Until Dawn has a movie arriving in theaters this weekend. You can check out our review of David F. Sanberg's adaptation of Until Dawn for the silver screen here.
Eric is a freelance writer for IGN.
