Double Tremendous is poised to launch a model new sport known as Keeper in October, however what comes after that? In response to improvement chief Tim Schafer, he’s engaged on a number of initiatives on the Microsoft-owned studio, none of that are sequels.
Keeper is an atmospheric puzzle journey by which a long-forgotten lighthouse is woke up and goes on a journey. It’s led by Double Fine’s Lee Petty, which implies Tim Schafer is hands-off and free to work on different issues.
What are these different issues? Talking to IGN at gamescom 2025, Schafer in fact wouldn’t expose Double Fine’s upcoming video games, however did say the studio has a number of initiatives within the works and they’re all unique IP.
“I am engaged on different stuff,” he confirmed. “The studio is doing a number of initiatives proper now and they’re all unique IPs, as a result of we did Psychonauts 2 and that may maintain us for sequels for some time.”
So, that guidelines out Psychonauts 3 or — and this was all the time an unlikely one — Brütal Legend 2, no less than within the quick to mid-term. As sport builders are fond of claiming, by no means say by no means, however Schafer’s moderately definitive remark provides us an concept of what to anticipate from Double Tremendous within the coming years — and that’s the sudden.
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Psychonauts 2 was Double Fine’s first launch following Microsoft’s acquisition of the corporate in 2019. Schafer has spoken earlier than about how Double Tremendous needed to minimize boss fights from the sport because of price range considerations, however the Microsoft buyout meant it had the assets so as to add them again in. Schafer described Keeper as smaller-scale in comparison with Psychonauts 2, however with a formidable degree of high quality.
Psychonauts 2 finally got here out in 2021. Now, 4 years later, Double Tremendous is about to launch its subsequent sport. Keeper comes out October 17, 2025, on PC and Xbox Collection X and S.
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