Cyan, the studio behind iconic puzzle journey video games Myst (1993) and Riven (1997), garnered their fair proportion of success with their April 2019 Kickstarter marketing campaign, which sought to convey to life their subsequent VR-compatible title, Firmament. Now Cyan says the sport is seeing one other delay, bringing the sport’s potential launch to Q1 2023.
Replace (October twenty sixth, 2022): As soon as focusing on a July 2020 launch, Firmament has slipped once more and is now focusing on a Q1 2023 launch date. Right here’s that assertion is full; we’ve additionally included a 9-minute take a look at the work-in-progress recreation, embedded beneath this replace:
Because of discussions with key staff member and employees, Cyan is making the vital choice to maneuver the launch of Firmament to Q1 2023. The sport could be very closed to finish, and the event is quickly approaching its last section.
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Unique Article (July thirteenth, 2020): Firmament’s launch window appeared a bit tight from the onset, nevertheless from an skilled studio that had beforehand created its newest VR-compatible puzzle journey recreation Obduction to each PC VR and PSVR, it appeared not all collectively unimaginable.
The fact of making a recreation nevertheless is admittedly “usually fairly a bit messier,” the studio says in a latest Kickstarter replace.
Right here’s a little bit of Cyan’s reasoning behind the delay, which is claimed to push the sport’s launch date probably to 2022.
With that in thoughts, Firmament’s Estimated Supply date of July 2020 was- because it turns out- a wildly optimistic one. We all know a few of you had your coronary heart’s set on taking part in Firmament this summer season, and we’re genuinely sorry that you simply’re not going to have the ability to play it but! We’re actually bummed about that too!
Though there isn’t any Launch Date to announce right now, we are able to inform you a pair issues with some stage of certainty: Firmament is just not coming in 2020. And until the celebrities align (which everyone knows occurs not often in recreation improvement), it’s unlikely that Firmament might be coming in 2021.
Within the studio’s personal protection, Cyan says it has “at all times been about transport issues once they’re able to be shipped, not selecting a date after which making an attempt to shoehorn the sport into the field in an artificially restricted period of time.”
Firmament is claimed to be “one thing larger than a studio [of Cyan’s] measurement would ordinarily have the ability to produce,” and that it’ll embrace a “richer and extra substantial story” than was beforehand deliberate.
No matter you considered Obduction (and its initially uneasy technical efficiency on each PC VR headsets and PSVR) Cyan has a very good monitor document of delivering, leaving the one actual concern to when Firmament will arrive, and never if.
Meals for thought: a potential 2022 launch of Firmament is slated to occur nicely inside the lifecycle of next-gen consoles and PC {hardware}—and probably VR {hardware} as nicely—so there’s no telling what technical advances the studio might want to undertake alongside the best way if it’s seeking to considerably lengthen the event roadmap. I assume we’ll see in a number of years. As it’s, Firmament is focusing on PC, SteamVR headsets, macOS, and PS4 & PSVR.