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

Extraordinarily OK Video games has cancelled its upcoming recreation Earthblade. The followup to the staff’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 in the present day.

“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. “Positive, engaged on one venture for thus lengthy is sure to change into a slog, however this seems 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 change into so exhausting.”

The studio, led by Thorson and Noel Berry, parted methods with EXOK co-founder Pedro Medeiros in November. Nonetheless, Thorson was clear in her message that the rift between staff members was not the explanation for cancelling Earthblade. In truth, all the public dialog between the previous colleagues up to now has remained amicable. Thorson provided agency help for Medeiros and his new recreation venture Neverway in her publish: “When you had been enthusiastic about Earthblade and offended about its cancelling, Pedro and the Neverway staff aren’t the enemy and anybody who treats them as such is not welcome in any EXOK group.”