People Can Fly Cancels One Of The Projects It Had In Progress

The Polish studio People Can Fly has announced the definitive cancellation of Project Dagger, one of the projects it had in progress. The news was announced in early April through its investor portal; it started circulating on social media just yesterday.

Project Dagger A New ARPG Has Been Canceled

This cancellation is the result of “the reassessment of development plans” that was carried out for Project Dagger and other games the studio was working on at the end of last year; this operation was announced at that time as well: the corresponding report explains that the idea was to have ten people rethink the project in order to better evaluate its scope and commercial prospects.

The result of that exercise has been “unsatisfactory,” acknowledges People Can Fly. Project Dagger was the game that People Can Fly’s team in New York was working on in collaboration with Take-Two. Active since 2020, Take-Two withdrew from the project, and People Can Fly announced its intention to continue with this “new action and adventure intellectual property,” self-publishing it because the studio retained ownership.

What Other Projects Is People Can Fly Working On?

The scope of the project has been attempted to be recalculated since then, reducing it (which prompted layoffs in the team), but it seems that there has been no way to make its commercial prospects attractive enough to keep it active.

Project Dagger is not the only game People Can Fly had in the works. They are also working with Square Enix on a project they call Gemini, and there have also been recent layoffs on that team; this is not the first time they have collaborated with the Japanese company: they already released the somewhat troubled Outriders, a looter shooter that marked their first major release after gaining notoriety with Bulletstorm and Gears of War: Judgment. Precisely with Microsoft, they are working on something called Project Maverick, rumored to be related to Gears of War.

There are two more projects, Bifrost and Victoria, these two self-published and driven solely by the studio, towards which personnel seems to have been redirected for some time now: this was already discussed at the end of last year when that process of reassessment of Project Dagger was announced.

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