If you’re holding out hope for another Ori and the Blind Forest sequel after Will of the Wisps, bad news: it’s probably going to be a while. Developers Moon Studios have said they’re all-in on Soulslike action-RPG No Rest for the Wicked, suggesting that their “magnum opus” will be their focus for up to a decade.
That’s the belief of studio CEO Thomas Mahler, anyway, who took to X to declare that the game’s current early access release was “just the beginning for us” and promise that the team’s plans extend far beyond its 1.0 release.
Mahler, typically not one for a hyperbolic statement, compared the Dark Souls-Diablo hybrid to being the studio’s Lord of the Rings, with the early access release to date being a “test screening”, while “1.0 will be our 'Fellowship of the Ring’”.
“And as you all know, there's lots to come after that,” Mahler said, which I’d personally like to interpret as confirming that Grond will show up at some point and there’ll finally be a lore explanation as to why fantasy orcs understand the concept of a menu (maybe in 2.3).
Judging by the questions I'm getting, it looks like some people think that we'll release 1.0 and then we're done?
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