Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Sequel Announced With Creator Back on Board, After Reports That Its Development Team Had Disbanded

Soulslike occurrence Wuchang: Fallen Feathers volition get a sequel, it's been announced, contempt erstwhile reports that the game's archetypal improvement squad had disbanded.

Indeed, the task appears to person been greenlit astatine a caller workplace founded by Wuchang: Fallen Feathers originative manager Xia Siyuan, with the assistance of steadfast 505 Games, which announced it had acquired the afloat rights to the franchise backmost successful April.

Despite a affirmative captious and commercialized response, a follow-up to Wuchang antecedently appeared unlikely. Numerous reports stated that Siyuan had departed developer Leenzee, followed by assorted different colleagues, aft workplace bosses reportedly told unit to pivot distant from post-launch enactment and onto different projects.

Exactly what occurred remains unclear, though the crippled has not been updated since past November. In the meantime, Siyuan — and, it's assumed, different members of the improvement squad — person been mounting up a caller workplace to propulsion up connected a sequel.

"We are delighted to erstwhile again participate into a heavy concern with 505 Games nether our caller workplace brand, Chengdu Indolphinity," Siyuan said, confirming his caller developer's name. "As a improvement squad made up of Chinese creators, we firmly judge that profound taste practice is our top competitory strength.

"505 Games respects the originative process and understands developers' needs. Our philosophies are highly aligned, giving america large assurance successful the semipermanent aboriginal of the series. We instrumentality subordinate and assemblage feedback earnestly portion remaining committed to our archetypal imaginativeness and taste roots. We volition strive to present higher prime and a much implicit acquisition successful effect to players' long-standing expectations.

"The communicative of Wuchang is not over. Chengdu Indolphinity and 505 Games volition embark connected a caller travel together, opening a brand-new section for this communicative rooted successful Eastern soil."

There's nary connection yet connected erstwhile this sequel mightiness spot the airy of day, but this announcement does astatine slightest corroborate it is connected the way.

"Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is yet different large Soulslike to adhd to the ever-increasing pile, featuring fantabulous combat, fantastic level design, an unthinkable accomplishment tree, and fearsome bosses," we wrote successful IGN's Wuchang: Fallen Feathers review, which returned an 8/10 score. "Just ticker retired for immoderate steep trouble dips and spikes, and a reliance connected cheap-feeling 'gotcha!' ambushes."

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