10 Video Games That Just Got Delayed
These anticipated games are going to cook for a little while longer.
Making even a modest video game is one hell of an undertaking, and on the other end of the spectrum AAA games are taking longer and longer to make with each passing year.
And so, it's little surprise that with so many moving parts, and potentially hundreds of team members working on a game, they can end up missing a planned release date.
Games are such gargantuan productions that often only fully come together in the final months of development, and so it's incredibly common for publishers to set over-optimistic expectations for when their developers will be done.
Game delays happen all the time and are rarely an indicator of quality one way or another, then. In fact, they're so common that it can be easy to miss the announcement altogether.
With that in mind, these are the most recent video game delay announcements you absolutely need to know, from promising indie projects to AAA behemoths and everything else in-between.
Whether they're pushed back by just a month or two or we're going to be waiting much, much longer to get our hands on them, it'll be later than expected...
10. Subnautica 2
Subnautica 2 was officially confirmed in 2022, and by the end of 2023 publisher Krafton revealed that the survival game sequel was intended to release in early access before 2025 came to a close.
However, Subnautica 2 was delayed amid considerable controversy back in July, when Krafton announced that it had been pushed back to an unspecified date in 2026.
A report from Bloomberg stated that the delay came mere months before developer Unknown Worlds was set to receive a hefty $250 million bonus from Krafton - a bonus based on revenue targets which Subnautica 2's planned 2025 release would've likely let them achieve.
As a result, there was much suspicion that the delay occurred less for the sake of the game's quality than for Kraton to avoid paying the bonus, which Unknown Worlds intended to share among its employees.
And to make matters worse, three key members of Unknown Worlds were fired by Krafton just a week before, including studio co-founder Charlie Cleveland, who claimed the game was indeed ready for an early access release when it was delayed.
The three team members have consequently filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Krafton, all while the publisher claims that Subnautica 2 was delayed for the purposes of "refinement."
Either way, players won't get their hands on it until January at the very earliest.