One of the head-turners of 2024, the third person action adventure title Stellar Blade’s sequel is already in development as confirmed by a recent financial update (as translated by Genki_JPN) from developer Shift Up.
“We are actively pursuing the franchise development of the ‘Stellar Blade’ IP and are currently developing a sequel to ‘Stellar Blade’.
This sequel will inherit the action-packed nature of the original ‘Stellar Blade’ while incorporating an expanded worldview and enhanced gameplay, further solidifying its position as a franchise IP. We anticipate that this will result in even greater success than the original.”
The PC version of Stellar Blade has been quite a hit since it came out with the game selling over 1 million copies in just three days, making it’s overall sales a total of 3 million units across both PS5 and the PC. The post-apocalyptic single player title had also enjoyed high concurrent player counts on Steam along with a “Very Positive” rating on Valve’s platform.
In an interview with a Korean publication back in June, Shift Up CEO Kim Hyung-tae had spoke about their aim to deliver a sequel to Stellar Blade which may release as early as 2027 with far more focus on narrative and characters, which were some of the weakest aspects of the first game.
“In the early stages of development, we planned to include detailed settings such as the reason the main character changes clothes in the story. However, as production progressed, the cost of producing cutscenes became too much, and eventually, for the sake of efficiency, we had no choice but to reduce cutscenes that supplemented the world view or character narratives outside of the main plot. That’s how we were barely able to complete the game. It’s also because the development manpower pool or system for narrative-centered games has not yet been fully established in Korea.”
In the meantime, Shift Up is also considering a Switch 2 port of Stellar Blade.
