In 2021, Extremely OK Games, notable developers behind the indie hit Celeste, announced that they were working on a new project, Earthblade. The team set a launch window of 2023, then pushed it back to 2024, further delaying the game to sometime after 2024. However, in a blog post, lead designer Maddy Thorson announced that there will be no more delays, as they have decided to cancel the game entirely. One of the reasons behind Earthblade's troubled cycle came from internal disagreements over who held the IP rights to Celeste, with Extremely OK Games' art director leaving the company as a result. This led to the team looking back at the slow progress they'd made, and decide to end development. While Earthblade won't come to be, the remaining team has decided to work on smaller projects for now,

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[VincentBeasley]

Yeah That sucks, I was looking forward to this. Especially the OST:

 

[Tur7L3]

Fucking sucks I hope the team isn't too torn over about this and can still do great stuff as they do

 

[CMDreamer]

They followed the same route as all those immature and greedy devs out there, too bad.

 

[grayscattered]

That's disappointing. Hope they make Celeste 2 though.

 

[Viri]

Oh no, not the 2D indy difficult pixel game! What ever will we do without it? At least we still have Indy pixel Metroidvania farming simulators! Maybe we'll get something new, like an indy "Earthbound like" RPG!

 

[SecureBoot]

I still want them to make a full version of that Celeste 2 demo they made. The movement in that was sick

 

[DKB]

Huh. Lots of hate for pixel games in here. I really liked Celeste. But, I am sort of getting burnt out with all of the pixel games coming out lately. So damn commonplace.

 

[Shubshub]

You'd have thought that the copyright would just lie with the company in general, If they're the ones that developed it

Rookie Mistake

 

[SecureBoot]

Play Pseudoregalia. I don't have a graceful way to segue to it but it's a little like celeste

 

[KingVamp]

I guess we prefer the next live service game instead.

Yeah That sucks, I was looking forward to this. Especially the OST:

Kind of reminds me of Phoenix Wright.

 

[Darth Meteos]

They followed the same route as all those immature and greedy devs out there, too bad.

no, a core member of their team left and they decided to shelve the project because it was too ambitious for them at this time
not sure where you got this take from

 

[Maximumbeans]

Huh. Lots of hate for pixel games in here. I really liked Celeste. But, I am sort of getting burnt out with all of the pixel games coming out lately. So damn commonplace.

GBATemp just has a lot of troubled, bitter people. They revel in seeing things they feel somehow opposed to getting cancelled or set back in some way.

 

[console]

I looking at Earthblade look great to us. It means like big improve of Zelda 2 from on NES to new level toward in the future of 2D gaming look stunning. It's like mix Zelda and Metroid games in one together look epic. It make me want to play Earthblade game but sad for this game is canceled by developer. RIP

 

[Ondrashek06]

If you enjoy super niche indie games that most people don't like, may I recommend Stardew Valley?

Why am I getting flashbacks to r/tomorrow here

 

[Bladexdsl]

Huh. Lots of hate for pixel games in here. I really liked Celeste. But, I am sort of getting burnt out with all of the pixel games coming out lately. So damn commonplace.

because they are over saturating the market. most end up being some cheap pos made in rpgmaker cash grab made by some noob. plus it's 2025 the nes era is over! that's all you see these days these pixel crap and them fucking deck builder games I'm tired of seeing them.

 

[SDA]

Huh. Lots of hate for pixel games in here. I really liked Celeste. But, I am sort of getting burnt out with all of the pixel games coming out lately. So damn commonplace.

I am terribly sure that those people who hate pixel games don't even know what retro gaming is. Pixels were the norm for video games back in the day and no one complained about that.

Now we live in a world where the norm for video games are 3D models and environments. And the difference between pixels and 3D is HUGE, let me tell ya.

 

[gnmmarechal]

If you enjoy super niche indie games that most people don't like, may I recommend Stardew Valley?

or even Minecraft? Kind of a small indie game, I think most haven't heard of it

 

[Joe88]

Tbf theres so many indie metroidvanias coming out these days it wont really be missed.
An ender lilies sequel was just released last week, go play that instead.

 

[ZeroFX]

Of course the studio of weirdos aren't even able to agree with themselves... Maybe it's a good thing they spared the world from yet another mediocre game.

 

[Bunjolio]

Of course the studio of weirdos aren't even able to agree with themselves... Maybe it's a good thing they spared the world from yet another mediocre game.

not sure how EXOK is a "studio of weirdos" but this is real life, people have conflict, like what happened in this instance. Also i'm sure the game would have been good.