Announced at Summer Game Fest this afternoon, developer Lunar Software alongside publisher Raw Fury offered a ‘Re-Reveal’ for upcoming project ROUTINE. For those unfamiliar, the project was originally announced more than a decade prior, but is now slated for 2023 next year. More interesting is that legendary composer Mick Gordon (Doom 2016, Wolfenstein: The New Order) is also working on the soundtrack for this undergoing title.
In a press release from the team at Lunar Software, the firm gives an update on the state of development and presses on the hiatus from the game studio with little word on where the game has been since its inceptions nearly a dozen years prior.
In short, we’ve essentially restarted production of the game. What we’re sharing here today is in-game footage of Routine. So why did we make the tough decision to start over? As we were approaching what we believed to be the end of development, we were finding more and more things that we weren’t happy with that negatively impacted the experience. We had worked on the project for 5 years at that point and simply couldn’t release it as it was.
We were surviving on an extremely tight budget. The financial stress began taking a toll on us, especially as we realised we needed to work on things for longer. Routine at this point became a part-time project as we had to work on other jobs/projects to stay afloat. We went from having a release date, to not even knowing when we might be able to release. It was a massive strain on us as we had let ourselves, our friends & family, as well as all of our supporters & fans down.
It continues, “We struggled and didn’t know how to deal with that or how to fix it. At the time we just wanted to say sorry. But didn’t know how we could even begin to do that without giving some sort of development time window. We weren’t expecting it to take as long as it did – and for those of you who have been waiting patiently, we’re truly sorry.
“It took us a while to figure out how to finish the project and deliver it as the experience we intended, but when a line of communication opened with Raw Fury, we knew we had found a partner who would be able to support us in all the areas we previously struggled with.” Even more, the game is also slated to ship with a release on Xbox Game Pass as well.
What are you most intrigued by ROUTINE from its re-reveal?
ROUTINE is set to launch sometime in 2023 for Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
Source: Lunar Software
