Cradle Games announced its "occult sci-fi horror" RPG Hellpoint will be postponed from April 16 to sometime before Q3 2020 due to strain from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Dark Souls-style game joins others like Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor Expansion in receiving delays.
The announcement, posted to Twitter on Thursday, acknowledges frustration at the short notice, but says the team hopes more time to polish Hellpoint based on player feedback will lead to a better game this summer. To make up for it, the developers also posted a 20-second teaser of the full release trailer that will presumably be uploaded soon.
Hellpoint began as a Kickstarter project in 2017, advertising the player character as a 3D-printed entity whose choices affect a story in deep space, which is already dealing with a "massive quantum cataclysm." The Kickstarter made more than 13,000 CAD above its 50,000 goal, then an official announcement trailer was released by tinyBuildGAMES on YouTube in 2018. The game appeared at PAX East 2019, offering attendees a better look at it.
A board game based on Resident Evil 3 was also recently announced on Kickstarter for fans of horror titles.
Hellpoint will be available on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One sometime this summer.
Sources: Kickstarter, tinyBuildGAMES, Cradle Games