An Unannounced Blade Runner Game May Have Quietly Died in 2024

A Blade Runner game called Time to Live was erstwhile successful improvement but ne'er officially announced—and present that rubric is nary more. All that’s near are a fewer details astir what mightiness person been.

That’s according to Insider Gaming, which claims the task was successful improvement with Until Dawn developer Supermassive Games. The rubric was reportedly a character-focused action-adventure rubric wherever players would instrumentality connected the relation of So-Lange, the sole Blade Runner existing successful 2065 “well beyond their constricted lifespan.”

Pre-production allegedly began successful precocious 2024, with respective unit connected 2023’s The Quarry involved. Had it gone into production,  the crippled was aiming to onshore successful autumn 2027 for PC and existent and next-gen consoles. Documents obtained by the outlet notation gameplay would’ve been a premix of stealth, action, exploration, and investigation, akin to Cyberpunk 2077 or the Deus Ex games.

What reportedly did Time to Live in was Alcon Entertainment, which owns the IP. The institution allegedly canceled the task precocious past year, though a circumstantial crushed wasn’t fixed arsenic to why; erstwhile asked, Supermassive told Insider Gaming it was “unable to comment.” io9 reached retired to some it and Alcon for comment, and the second acknowledged “discussions” of a Blade Runner project past twelvemonth that “did not proceed for concern reasons.”

To date, Blade Runner has had 3 video games. The 1985 crippled was a shoot-em-up loosely inspired by the film, and the 1997 rubric was a point-and-click adventure. Then, 2018’s Revelations was a VR rubric from Seismic Games. A fewer years ago, Annapurna Interactive revealed it was processing Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth, its archetypal in-house game. However, that project’s presumption is unclear pursuing the developer’s internal collapse successful precocious 2024.

Whether Time to Live existed oregon not, Blade Runner has been gradually expanding into a larger franchise these past fewer years. In summation to the games, Prime Video has an upcoming TV series starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer.

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