Extremely OK Games has cancelled its follow-up to Celeste<p>Extremely OK Games has cancelled its upcoming game
Earthblade. The followup to the team's beloved indie sensation
Celeste was <a data-i13n="cpos:1;pos:1" href="
https://www.engadget.com/earthblade-is-the-next-game-from-the-team-behind-celeste-024059859.html">
announced[/url] in 2022 and expected to release last year. Maddy Thorson announced the news on the studio's website today.</p>
<p>"Noel and I…began to reflect on how the game has felt for us to work on day-to-day, and realized that it has been a struggle for a long time," she <a data-i13n="elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1" class="no-affiliate-link" href="
https://exok.com/posts/2025-01-22-earthblade-final-update/" data-original-link="
https://exok.com/posts/2025-01-22-earthblade-final-update/">wrote[/url]. "Sure, working on one project for so long is bound to become a slog, but this feels like a deeper problem.
Celeste's success applied pressure on us to deliver something bigger and better with
Earthblade, and that pressure is a large part of why working on it has become so exhausting."</p>
<span id="end-legacy-contents"></span><p>The studio, led by Thorson and Noel Berry, parted ways with EXOK co-founder Pedro Medeiros in November. However, Thorson was clear in her message that the rift between team members was not the reason for cancelling
Earthblade. In fact, all of the public conversation between the former colleagues thus far has remained amicable. Thorson offered firm support for Medeiros and his new game project
Neverway in her post: "If you were excited about
Earthblade and angry about its cancelling, Pedro and the
Neverway team aren't the enemy and anyone who treats them as such isn't welcome in any EXOK community."</p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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Extremely OK Games has cancelled its follow-up to Celeste
