Spelunky Creator Says He Isn't Working On A Sequel

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Spelunky creator and Mossmouth founder Derek Yu said at GDC in 2021 that there won't be a new game "any time soon", but to "never say never". Three years later, a sequel still looks unlikely.

As reported by Games Radar, Yu admitted that he's not working on Spelunky 3 right now--he's not even considering it. But if it were to happen (and that's a "big if"), it'd have to be a very different game to the last two.

There was a 12 year gap between the first and second Spelunky games, so fans are used to waiting.

"The structure would probably have to be pretty different in some way, to open up the possibilities again," Yu said in an interview with Edge Magazine. "[The] basic paradigm would need to be changed in some way."

Yu says that he wouldn't want the hypothetical sequel to retread the same ground of Spelunky 2 in which players "do runs through this arcade-style experience". Instead, he would have to "go back and think about how to reinvent Spelunky".

What that would actually look like, we don't know. Maybe one day we'll find out, but for the time being, Yu is working on a game called UFO 50. It's described as a "collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs".

The idea is that we're playing a collection of '80s games from an alternate universe, developed by a fictional video game company that was "obscure but ahead of its times". Some of the included titles in this anthology are even sequels to other games in the collection.

It doesn't have a release date just yet, but you can add it to your wishlist on Steam right now.

Spelunky 2 is the sequel to the hit indie roguelike platformer, launched in 2020 for multiple platforms. This time, you play as Guy's daughter, Ana, as she searches for her parents on the Moon.