Sorry, puzzle geeks. Do not count on a Blue Prince 2 any time quickly. Or, ever, actually.
That is what we discovered from talking with Blue Prince creator Tonda Ros final month. We requested him a great deal of questions and you may learn our full interview proper right here, however one huge thriller we wished to clear up was if he’d ever make a sequel to Blue Prince. And, no, he will not. No sequel to Blue Prince, nor to some other recreation he makes sooner or later.
However he’s going to make one thing else.
“I can say I’ll by no means make a sequel to my work as a result of I really like creating one thing standalone after which happening to one thing utterly totally different,” he stated. “It is going to seemingly not even be in the identical precise genres. I’ll in all probability be mixing it up. You may begin to see overlap. You may begin to see overlaps with a few of my pursuits. So will probably be acquainted, and hopefully I am going to inadvertently have issues that basically labored with Blue Prince that I am going to keep it up by way of at the least technicals. However yeah, we’ll see. I am hesitant to do one other 3D recreation as a result of for my first recreation, 3D was so troublesome. I actually want I did a 2D recreation. I in all probability might have achieved it in 5 years as a substitute of eight. However yeah, I believe it will be one thing completely totally different.”
This is perhaps disappointing to listen to for Blue Prince followers, particularly for these nonetheless mulling over the sport’s remaining unsolved mysteries and wishing there was some form of reply to them. It additionally feels like, from our interview, he will not be doing any extra main content material updates to Blue Prince after the upcoming so-called “last replace.” “I do love full video games,” he stated. “And I do love when one thing is definitively achieved. So I had tried my finest to get all the pieces into the sport at launch as a result of that was one thing I simply actually wished. I did not wish to eternally be updating this.”
No matter it’s Ros is engaged on subsequent, will probably be a whereas earlier than we see it. He says he nonetheless expects to be engaged on Blue Prince in small methods for the subsequent yr, ending the ultimate replace, bug fixes, and such. And on condition that Blue Prince took about eight years to create, he’ll want a lot extra time on prime of that to create one thing model new. Not less than Blue Prince followers have already accomplished a critical train in persistence by ending the sport in any respect.
You’ll be able to learn our full interview with Ros right here, and take a look at our assessment the place we gave Blue Prince a 9/10. As our reviewer wrote: “If The Witness, Portal, and Myst are already emblazoned on the Mount Rushmore of first-person puzzle video games, I wouldn’t be shocked to see Blue Prince carved alongside them quickly sufficient.”
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Received a story tip? Ship it to rvalentine@ign.com.
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