Darkborn Cancelled As Developer Moves Onto New Project

Stockholm-based indie studio The Outsiders has halted development on its debut game, Darkborn, and moved on to a new project that it will reveal “very very soon”. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/04/02/darkborn-gameplay-reveal-15-minutes-of-monsters-vikings-and-story"] The developer announced the situation via a statement posted to Twitter. “Last April we released a gameplay trailer for Darkborn, knowing that it might be our final release,” it said. “In spite of our best efforts to continue, ultimately we had to make the difficult decision to halt development on the project.”

Dear Outsider friends and monster- lovers: pic.twitter.com/NRTwNUHxSp

— The Outsiders (@outsidersgames) April 30, 2020

While Darkborn may be gone (at least for now, The Outsiders has not ruled out returning to it), the studio has something else in the works. “We look forward to being able to share it all with you very very soon.” The studio has offered no hint as to what its new project is, but “very very soon” indicates that a reveal is not far away. Darkhold was revealed by IGN in April last year, and was a stealth action game in which you played as a monster being hunted by Viking-like barbarians. The plan was that your monster would grow from cub to predator over the course of the story, gaining more potent beast powers to make use of when taking your revenge for the slaughter of your family. The Outsiders is a small Swedish studio established by ex-DICE employees David Goldfarb and Benjamin Cousins. Goldfarb was previously game director on Payday 2 at Overkill Software before quitting to set up The Outsiders with his former colleague Cousins. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=darkborn-gameplay-reveal-screenshots&captions=true"] If you’re looking for an indie that lets you play as the monster, then you may be interested in Devolver’s Carrion, due for release this year, which sees you destroy a facility’s worth of scientists and soldiers as you break out of containment. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.

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