Night In The Woods Follow-Up Revenant Hill Cancelled Due To Dev Health Issues

thegamer.com:

Night in the Woods co-creators and married couple Bethany Hockenberry and Scott Benson opened a studio in 2019 called The Glory Society. Its first project was to be a spiritual successor by the name of Revenant Hill. However, the game has now been cancelled due to Benson's "serious health issues".

Unfortunately, recent serious health issues have necessitated two key members stepping away from the project indefinitely. We are a small team and we each wear multiple hats. This is a loss of several hard-to-replace hats in an environment where all hats are needed.

Given the realities of schedules, budgets, and the fraught task of reworking the whole project within those parameters, the team has amicably decided to suspend operations. For all intents and purposes, this is the end of the development of Revenant Hill.

There's no word as of yet on whether this is the end of the studio, but the statement does mention that "Glory was a project in and of itself", using the past tense. There have been no further updates on social media or its website beyond this letter to clarify.

However, Benson penned his own tweet shortly after the statement went live. "Over the past 12 months or so, I got very sick and it didn't go away," Benson wrote. "Eventually I was diagnosed with severe heart failure, most likely from a virus. It will continue to greatly limit me for the foreseeable future and as such I've had to stop working in the manner I once did.

"And hey also shout out to my wife/creative partner for being a complete hero through all of this. Seriously I'm likely only alive right now because of her. Bethany is the best. Past few months are a blur of hospitals, doctors, tests, procedures, exciting new medications, and so, so much blood