Tomorrow Children Ditching Free to Play for Relaunch
The Tomorrow Children was, unfortunately, a blip for many PlayStation gamers in 2016. The free-to-play adventure game mixed a variety of unique mechanics together in an odd USSR-inspired dystopia. The Tomorrow Children reviewed poorly at launch and ultimately struggled with monetization, leading to PlayStation shutting down its servers just a year after launch. Developer Q-Games has since regained the IP, however, and is now planning to relaunchThe Tomorrow Children as a premium experience.
Speaking with GamesIndustry.biz, Q-Games founder Dylan Cuthbert delved into the process of regaining The Tomorrow Children IP and his plans to re-release the game. Since The Tomorrow Children was funded and published by Sony as a second-party title, it also owned the IP. It took years of waiting and an opportune message to Hermen Hulst the day he was promoted to head of PlayStation Studios to start the process, followed by another extended period for negotiations and the contract to be signed.
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The result is that Cuthbert is now working on a standalone, premium version of The Tomorrow Children that Q-Games plans to release on its own. Unlike the original release of The Tomorrow Children, the game will feature peer-to-peer multiplayer rather than dedicated servers. It will also have its monetization stripped out so that all content is gained through in-game actions. Cuthbert believesThe Tomorrow Children will be stronger as a result, balanced in a healthy way that doesn't require a system trying to «squeeze a bit of money out of the player at every opportunity.»
Cuthbert also sees this as a new beginning for The Tomorrow Children beyond what Q-Games has already created. Now that the company
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