Your favourite thriller wrapped in a riddle that’s cloaked in secrecy is again with extra breadcrumbs, main our insatiable appetites towards nonetheless extra unanswered questions. Months after Severance’s second season ended with Innie Mark (Adam Scott) and Innie Helly (Britt Decrease) actually operating into an unsure future, government producer Ben Stiller fastidiously teased potential expansions to the Severance universe, and indicated that he’d wish to see an official online game based mostly on the present, too.
In his and Scott’s cowl story characteristic with Selection, the pair categorical their enthusiasm for the thought of a Severance sport, with Stiller saying it’d “be nice to have” one and Scott agreeing that the present “lends itself to 1.” There’s already a real-world proof of idea of the present’s online game potential. Final yr, a Severance superfan created a pc sport known as Lumon based mostly on the mundane and mysterious macrodata refinement work the Innies do within the present. A separate simulator was additionally launched on Steam earlier this yr.
Whereas we attempt to think about what a big-budget sport based mostly on Severance may be like, Stiller additionally confirmed that Severance spin-offs will not be off the desk. “There are two particular concepts — that I gained’t let you know — that we’ve talked about internally as potential spinoff concepts.” Spin-offs appear a bit extra seemingly than a online game ever occurring as a result of the Severance workforce has been very intentional about offering ancillary context to the Severance lore. In 2022, a prequel quick story named The Lexington Letter was launched detailing the story of Lumon Industries worker Margaret “Peg” Kincaid and her makes an attempt at exposing the corporate’s secrets and techniques.
A prequel sequence would make a lot sense provided that the present has been working its approach backwards in explaining the world we’re watching. Whether or not we get both the spinoffs or the online game is anybody’s guess, however I’m certain the Reddit boards are creating the code and writing the scripts as we communicate.