Upcoming 2D roguelite The Rogue Prince of Persia has been delayed from its Could 14, 2024 launch date to keep away from competitors with Hades 2, which was launched into Steam Early Entry on Could 6.
Developer Evil Empire introduced the delay on X/Twitter however assured it would not push the sport too far. Although it will not reveal a precise launch date till Could 13, Evil Empire mentioned it could nonetheless be in Could 2024.
“Seeing as everybody and their mum is enjoying [Hades 2] (together with out total crew and their mums), now we have determined to let folks have their enjoyable with it earlier than we launch The Rogue Prince of Persia,” the developer mentioned.
“Whereas now we have each confidence in The Rogue Prince of Persia, it is not day-after-day {that a} sport in the identical style as you, which is one of probably the most anticipated upcoming video games of 2024, will launch into Early Entry every week earlier than you intend to do the identical.
“We aren’t prideful sufficient to ignore the implications of that, and we actually consider that this quick delay is the most effective choice for us and our Early Entry journey.”
Evil Empire mentioned it could hold sprucing the sport within the meantime by including “extra cool issues” and eradicating bugs, however mentioned it understands the delay continues to be irritating. “We are able to solely maintain our fingers up, apologise, and hope you perceive,” the developer mentioned. “It is going to be definitely worth the wait.”
Hades 2 is definitely proving widespread on Steam regardless of solely being in Early Entry, having doubled the unique sport’s concurrent participant rely in a single day. As a sequel to the critically acclaimed Greek mythology themed roguelite, Hades 2 returns gamers to that world as they meet legendary figures like Odysseus, Nemesis, and Dora by way of a mix of storytelling, motion gameplay, and dungeon crawling.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.