Extraordinarily OK Video games has cancelled its follow-up to Celeste

Extraordinarily OK Video games has cancelled its upcoming sport Earthblade. The followup to the crew’s beloved indie sensation Celeste was in 2022 and anticipated to launch final yr. Maddy Thorson introduced the information on the studio’s web site as we speak.

“Noel and I…started to mirror on how the sport has felt for us to work on day-to-day, and realized that it has been a battle for a very long time,” she wrote. “Positive, engaged on one venture for thus lengthy is certain to develop into a slog, however this appears like a deeper downside. Celeste‘s success utilized strain on us to ship one thing greater and higher with Earthblade, and that strain is a big a part of why engaged on it has develop 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 crew members was not the rationale for cancelling Earthblade. The truth is, all the public dialog between the previous colleagues so far has remained amicable. Thorson supplied agency help for Medeiros and his new sport venture Neverway in her publish: “Should you have been enthusiastic about Earthblade and indignant about its cancelling, Pedro and the Neverway crew aren’t the enemy and anybody who treats them as such is not welcome in any EXOK group.”