Big budget RPGs in development tracker

[rusty_shackleford]

Inspired by @Val the Moofia Boss 's post, I thought it might be a good idea to create a list of these and track the progress. Start listing them and I'll edit the OP.

Game	Developer	ETA	Thread
Witcher 4	CD Projekt RED	2027+	Link
Mass Effect 4	BioWare	TBD	N/A
The Expanse: Osiris Reborn	Owlcat Games	2026	Link
The Elder Scrolls 6	Bethesda Game Studios	TBD	N/A
Exodus	Archetype Entertainment	2027	Link
The Blood of Dawnwalker	Rebel Wolves	Sep 2, 2026	Link
Fable	Playground Games	2026	Link
Clockwork Revolution	inXile Entertainment	2026	Link
Gothic Remake	Alkimia Interactive	Early 2026	Link

[Oyster Sauce]

Witcher 4
Gothic(?)
Mass Effect 4
Skyrim 2

[rusty_shackleford]

For when I'm at the pc:

Not-witcher game
Vtmb2

[Val the Moofia Boss]

• Final Fantasy VII Remake part 3 - Square Enix
• Kingdom Hearts IV - Square Enix
• Dragon Quest XII - Square Enix
• Honkai Nexus Anima - Mihoyo
• Yakuza Like a Dragon 3 - Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio
• Trails Calvard arc game #4 - Nihon Falcom, probably releasing in 2025 or 2026
• Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter (remake of First Chapter) - Nihon Falcom, releasing September 2025
• New Atelier game - Gust, probably releasing 2026

Long list of high production value Chinese open world 3D gacha games have been announced, not too sure people here are that interested in following them.

• ANANTA
• Arknights: Endfield
• Azur Promilia
• Ballad of Antara
• Chasing Kaleidorider
• Crystal of Atlan
• Duet Night Abyss
• Floatopia
• Honkai: Nexus Anima
• Light of Motiram
• MONGIL: STAR DIVE
• Neverness to Everness
• The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin
• Tianzi 76
• Unending Dawn
• Silver Palace
• Duet Night Abyss

[J1M]

Exodus

[Valter]

[methoxetamine]

[rusty_shackleford]

Outer worlds 2 is $80????? Lmao

[Valter]

Outer worlds 2 is $80????? Lmao

Welcome to 2025 gaming. Seen a couple others following this trend like Doom Dark Ages

[rusty_shackleford]

Outer worlds 2 is $80????? Lmao

Welcome to 2025 gaming. Seen a couple others following this trend like Doom Dark Ages

Outer worlds is a bottom rung AA brand.
If your rpg costs $20 more than BG3 & your company isn't named larian -- stop! You messed up.

I have to wonder if marketing departments even have people who studied economics in them anymore. There's no way thus results in more profit.

[Oyster Sauce]

Every week some $10 indie game comes out on Steam and sells 40 million copies. Who's wasting money on this ****?

[methoxetamine]

Outer worlds 2 is $80????? Lmao

Welcome to 2025 gaming. Seen a couple others following this trend like Doom Dark Ages

Outer worlds is a bottom rung AA brand.
If your rpg costs $20 more than BG3 & your company isn't named larian -- stop! You messed up.

I have to wonder if marketing departments even have people who studied economics in them anymore. There's no way thus results in more profit.

The game is Goypass bait. They already know nobody is going to buy it

[rusty_shackleford]

Is it a ploy to try to sell gamepass subscriptions? They recently stated that it's not doing anywhere near as well as they led the public to believe.

[rusty_shackleford]

Don't think this is an RPG?

[Oyster Sauce]

gotta do something about arthurslop

[rusty_shackleford]

OP updated

[Valter]

Don't think this is an RPG?

Looks like souls combat, dunno if there's stats but I assume so

Edit: It appears to be more like DMC's action combat.

[rusty_shackleford]

Don't think this is an RPG?

Crazy how bad this looks


unrealslop

[Roguey]

Outer worlds 2 is $80????? Lmao

Welcome to 2025 gaming. Seen a couple others following this trend like Doom Dark Ages

Outer worlds is a bottom rung AA brand.
If your rpg costs $20 more than BG3 & your company isn't named larian -- stop! You messed up.

I have to wonder if marketing departments even have people who studied economics in them anymore. There's no way thus results in more profit.

Microsoft knows for a fact that Gamepass cannibalizes sales, so they might as well squeeze the buypigs for all they're worth.

[rusty_shackleford]

so they might as well squeeze the buypigs for all they're worth.

But that's not how it works, the higher you price your product the less copies you're going to sell. Video games inherently have perfectly elastic supply, meaning you want to find the price that maximizes the amount of copies sold.
Bumping the price to $80 is something you might do if you're trying to get people to buy gamepass subs to boost the numbers for various reasons

[edit]
Modern video games have perfectly elastic supply. This was actually a major issue back during e.g., video game crash, when you had to actually manage physical units.

[Roguey]

But that's not how it works, the higher you price your product the less copies you're going to sell. Video games inherently have perfectly elastic supply, meaning you want to find the price that maximizes the amount of copies sold.
Bumping the price to $80 is something you might do if you're trying to get people to buy gamepass subs to boost the numbers for various reasons

It's very likely that the people who would even consider paying $70 for it instead of just renting gamepass for a month would also pay $80.

Additionally, they're following Big Tendy's lead. They started charging $80 for Switch 2 games, so now everyone else will too.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I think the company higherups are thinking that they have nothing to lose here, since if it's not selling then they can go for the discount strategy. They can put it on a "25% off discount" to bring it down to $60 (which is still a lot of money), with people seeing the "25% off" and being more inclined to buy it, even though at that point it's still a $60 purchase aka a fullpriced game. FF7 Rebirth's default price on Steam was set to $70, but they had a "30% off discount" for preordering aka $50, which is almost a fullpriced game, but again people see the discount and imagine that it's better than it actually is. Or you have a situation like Left Alive where six years later, the game is still listed as $60 year round but is often on sale for $5. People see that "90% off discount!" and imagine it's a great deal and splurge, when it's all just arbitrary numbers to manipulate people.

[psychic_dream]

I believe a third party studio is developing a remake for The Witcher 1. Has there been any solid confirmation that Mass Effect 4 is actually in the works?

But that's not how it works, the higher you price your product the less copies you're going to sell. Video games inherently have perfectly elastic supply, meaning you want to find the price that maximizes the amount of copies sold.
Bumping the price to $80 is something you might do if you're trying to get people to buy gamepass subs to boost the numbers for various reasons

It's very likely that the people who would even consider paying $70 for it instead of just renting gamepass for a month would also pay $80.

Additionally, they're following Big Tendy's lead. They started charging $80 for Switch 2 games, so now everyone else will too.

This might just be me, but I don’t think the latest Mario Kart game should cost $80. At best it looks like a $50 game considering the graphics fidelity. But tendies gonna tendie, I guess.

[Breathe]

Is it a ploy to try to sell gamepass subscriptions? They recently stated that it's not doing anywhere near as well as they led the public to believe.

Ah, funnel the masses to the only product you plan on maintaining. Smart.

[J1M]

I believe a third party studio is developing a remake for The Witcher 1. Has there been any solid confirmation that Mass Effect 4 is actually in the works?

But that's not how it works, the higher you price your product the less copies you're going to sell. Video games inherently have perfectly elastic supply, meaning you want to find the price that maximizes the amount of copies sold.
Bumping the price to $80 is something you might do if you're trying to get people to buy gamepass subs to boost the numbers for various reasons

It's very likely that the people who would even consider paying $70 for it instead of just renting gamepass for a month would also pay $80.

Additionally, they're following Big Tendy's lead. They started charging $80 for Switch 2 games, so now everyone else will too.

This might just be me, but I don’t think the latest Mario Kart game should cost $80. At best it looks like a $50 game considering the graphics fidelity. But tendies gonna tendie, I guess.

Their only competent team is working on Mass Effect 4. The massive delays are because that team gets parachuted in to 'save' other launches.

[gerey]

@rusty_shackleford

As mentioned in the previous thread, OwlCat has Dark Heresy and The Expanse: Osiris Reborn, Larian has announced they are planning to do another big RPG after two smaller projects.

CDPR has Project Hadar, whatever that is, as well as the Witcher 1 remake if that counts.

That's all I can think of. Pretty slim pickings all things considered, especially when you figure out how many of these will be woke trash made for no real audience.

[MrTwinkls]

SW:KOTOR remake if it's still alive.

[gerey]

SW:KOTOR remake if it's still alive.

Everyone hopes it died.

[Red7]

big budet? as no budget cuts and big tits?

[lucky-SVLLa]

Let's see how failed Bloodlines 2 will be. The fate of Bloodlines seems cursed, in another 20 years, we still might not get a proper sequel to Bloodlines.