CI Games shares this in its financial report
Hexworks He was responsible for resurrecting Lords of the Fallenwith support from CI Games, is releasing a “sequel” to the same 2014 title with events taking place 1,000 years later. The 2023 soulslike won over critics and audiences despite initial performance issues (our analysis here).
Now, CI Games has confirmed in its financial reportthat the sequel to Lords of the Fallen is in full development and will appear on consoles, with the same graphics engine (UE5) and on PC exclusively with Epic Games, which has made a large investment here. The sequel, according to this report, will be more ambitious, with more game modes and with a “more commercial” art design and higher production values.
On the other hand, it is confirmed that it will have shared progression online if playing with friends, which will further improve one of its strong points, the cooperative from start to finish. The game is expected to launch in 2026 and more details will be shared soon, but CI Games has 2 other titles in development:
- A new Sniper Ghost Warrior game, which aims to be launched in 2027 and will be aimed at a wider audience than the most loyal.
- The second is Underdog Studio’s Project H, a new action-RPG with systems and development architecture shared with Lords of the Fallen and its sequel. It is aiming for a launch in 2028.
Benefits and good feelings
Lords of the Fallen has been a success for CI Games, with 72% of the company’s revenue in the first half of 2024 generated by this game. By the end of 2023 (game released in October), it had sold over 1.3 million of copies. Despite the low technical level, Hexworks made an effort with a roadmap with a lot of free content that excited players.
We hope that the sequel to Lords of the Fallen will refine the technical errors of opus 2023 and that it will bring even more freshness to a genre that “saturates” the industry, for the good of some like yours.
