Hellraid Development Put on Hold

The developers at Techland have put out an official statement to update us on the status of their first-person hack’n’slash title Hellraid, though the news is far from good for those of us who were looking forward to it. Unfortunately, the title’s development has been put on hold because the game wasn’t meeting the developers’ expectations, and the rest of Techland’s resources will be focused on the development of the Dying Light franchise.

Should development on the title ever resume, it would be for an essentially new game anyway, as the developers went as far as to claim that the only way to salvage the project was going back to the drawing board:

We would like to officially announce that our dark fantasy FPP game Hellraid will not be released this year as previously planned, and the development of the game has been put on hold.

In the recent months we conducted an internal analysis and came to the conclusion that Hellraid, in its current shape and form, is not meeting our own expectations for this project. Therefore, we decided the best course of action would be to send it back to the drawing board and invent our dark fantasy title anew.

In the meantime, we will consolidate our development resources and focus on further expansion of our Dying Light franchise.

Thanks, PC Gamer.