The Useless by Daylight universe lately dipped its toes within the single-player waters with the Supermassive-developed The Casting of Frank Stone, nevertheless it looks as if its plans to have one other multiplayer outing have ended prematurely.
In Could final 12 months, developer Behaviour Interactive introduced that it Midwinter Leisure – a studio that it had beforehand acquired – was engaged on a brand new PvE co-op shooter spinoff set within the Useless by Daylight universe, earlier than asserting the sport as Venture T earlier this 12 months and kicking off an insiders playtest program.
Mere months later, nevertheless, the developer has introduced that primarily based on the suggestions it obtained from mentioned playtests and “an intensive inner threat evaluation from a industrial and product perspective”, it has determined to cancel the challenge.
“Once we conceptualized Venture T, we needed to have gamers concerned in it as early as potential, which led to the creation of the Insiders Program,” the developer wrote in an announcement revealed on Twitter. “This strategy has allowed us to get very early validation on the challenge’s core design and gameplay, which is one thing that always comes a lot additional into the manufacturing of a recreation. Following the playtest in July, we ran an intensive inner threat evaluation from a product and industrial perspective. Whereas a lot of gamers expressed appreciation for what they performed, unfortuantely, the end result of this deep evaluation yielded unsatisfactory general outcomes.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that we announce that Venture T has been cancelled. We need to thanks in your help all through this journey.”