Writer Coatsink and developer Unhappy Cat Studios have introduced that the upcoming motion platformer REPLACED has been delayed once more from its beforehand deliberate 2024 launch window to 2025 to “guarantee we meet the excessive requirements.” It’ll launch for Xbox Collection, Xbox One, and PC by way of Steam and Epic Video games Retailer. It’ll even be obtainable on Xbox Recreation Go. REPLACED is a “2.5D sci-fi retro-futuristic motion platformer the place you play as R.E.A.C.H.—a synthetic intelligence trapped in a human physique in opposition to its personal will.”
— REPLACED (@REPLACEDGame) August 13, 2024
The complete message concerning the delay:
Hey everybody.
We’ll maintain it quick: REPLACED will now be launched in 2025. Our preliminary launch date was optimistic, and we apologize for that. Creating REPLACED is kind of a novel problem, and we’re proud to be creating one thing that particular.
We’d like extra time to make sure we meet the excessive requirements we’ve set for ourselves and to satisfy the expectations of our followers. Be at liberty to hitch our Discord we put up plenty of devlogs there to share the progress and are open for a chat.
REPLACED was featured at Summer time Recreation Fest earlier this summer time, and now it’s going to additionally lastly be obtainable at Gamescom for everyone to play! Come say “hello”!
For these not attending we’ve ready one thing particular for later this week.
Now again to work. We wish you to like REPLACED when it launches, so we now have to go the additional mile right here!
The sport’s particulars:
REPLACED is a 2.5D sci-fi retro-futuristic motion platformer the place you play as R.E.A.C.H.—a synthetic intelligence trapped in a human physique in opposition to its personal will.
REPLACED combines cinematic platformer, pixel artwork, and free-flow motion fight with a deep participating dystopian story set in an alternate 1980’s.
Discover and uncover the mysteries in and round Phoenix-Metropolis from the angle of R.E.A.C.H. who’s studying be human in a society that has taken a flip for the worst.
All the things is dominated by corruption and greed. Those in energy see people and their organs as nothing extra than simply forex.
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