10 Video Game Sequels You Didn't Know Were Coming

You may not remember Lords of the Fallen, because it was an action RPG originally released in 2014. Published by Polish studio CI Games, it was developed by Deck13 - who would later make a spiritual successor in 2017’s The Surge.

A versatile action game with difficult, highly technical combat and an interesting ‘risk vs. reward’ character progression system. In Soulsborne fashion each hub world is scattered with checkpoints where the player can save, replenish consumable items, and spend experience to upgrade the player character, Harkyn.

But if you use the checkpoint it resets an experience multiplier, so skipping checkpoints grants you more experience. Of course, if you die all the non-boss enemies reset and you have a set time to get back to where you died, or else any unspent experience is lost.

You know what else got lost? This game - in development hell. CI Games announced the sequel in late 2014, but ultimately dumped the original developer Deck13. In 2018 they partnered with Defiant Studios, only to also dump them in 2020.

Finally just opening their own subsidiary developer, Hexworks, the game looks to finally be getting done with a scheduled 2023 release - almost a decade after the first.