Stellar Blade Developer Confirms Sequel Plans

Stellar Blade is getting a fully-fledged sequel, developer Shift Up has confirmed.

The PlayStation-published enactment crippled launched to a affirmative effect backmost successful April 2024, with players saying its gameplay mixed elements of NieR: Automata and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

Now, Korean institution Shift Up has confirmed a Stellar Blade sequel is connected the way, via a illustration showing the company's aboriginal plans published arsenic portion of its latest fiscal results released today.

As confirmed wrong a presumption descent detailing however Shift Up expects to grow its franchises going forward, a Stellar Blade sequel is listed arsenic coming adjacent among others that look acceptable to beryllium released earlier 2027.

Before the sequel arrives, there's notation of a "platform expansion" for Stellar Blade — this apt conscionable refers to the game's upcoming PC version, which is acceptable to get connected June 11, 2025.

This improvement play — earlier 2027 — volition besides see the motorboat of Shift Up's mysterious Project Witches, a caller multiplatform enactment RPG that's inactive yet to beryllium afloat revealed.

Shift Up's improvement illustration showing Stellar Blade sequel plans.

Earlier this week, Shift Up said it was "closely discussing" a mysterious PC portion fastener contented with Sony that had blocked the game's store leafage connected Steam successful much than 100 countries.

"Stellar Blade stands retired arsenic a gorgeous and well-crafted enactment crippled with precise awesome strengths and precise wide weaknesses," IGN wrote successful our Stellar Blade review.

"Both its communicative and characters deficiency substance, and immoderate of its RPG elements are poorly implemented, similar dull sidequests that precise often necessitate you to retrace your steps done erstwhile levels with precise small done to marque the instrumentality travel consciousness unsocial oregon rewarding.

"But its enactment picks up astir of that slack acknowledgment to the stone coagulated fundamentals of its Sekiro-inspired combat system, a heavy good of hideous monstrosities to sharpen your sword against, and plentifulness of hidden goodies that bash a large occupation of incentivizing exploration throughout."

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