

No sooner had the game attached a new developer, Defiant Studios in New York, than we now hear the partnership. "We've gathered a kickass team of senior developers with a deep fascination for mature fantasy games. The sequel to action-RPG Lords of the Fallen is being developed by Defiant Studios, a New York City-based team founded by former Avalanche Studios leads, publisher CI Games announced today. Updated on Lords of the Fallen 2 appears to be back on the ropes again. In a press release from CI Games today, the company announced that the Hexworks development team will be based in Barcelona and Bucharest since opening in March and are now developing the sequel. Saul Gascon, executive producer at Hexworks, said that the entire studio is passionate about Lords of the Fallen 2.

The sequel will shift away from the power fantasy of the original game for a darker take and will also be a lot more challenging in terms of difficulty. A former developer on the series, Tomasz Gop, said last year that the game hadn't yet left. A release date wasn't attached to a press release, but the developer is said to have been working on the project for a long time. As for CI Games, Lords of the Fallen 2 was announced almost immediately after the first released in 2014. The team of roughly 25 people is said to include industry veterans, all of which are planning to put out the follow-up to one of the earliest titles to imitate Dark Souls on PlayStation 5.

The dedicated Hexworks team is working on a fully-featured Lords of the Fallen game that has a strong chance to not only make the franchise become more popular among Soulsborne/Souls-like communities and beyond, but establish it as a long-running franchise for CI alongside Sniper. New-York based Defiant Studios is starting over with Lords of the Fallen 2. Publisher CI Games has opened up a brand new studio based in both Barcelona and Bucharest to take over development of Lords of the Fallen 2. CI Games has said that Lords of the Fallen 2 is quickly becoming the developer’s largest project. The latest comes courtesy of Eurogamer as CI Games, the company effectively in charge of the release, has confirmed that they have scrapped a deal with a. Lords of the Fallen 2's new dev is starting from scratch after taking over development from The Surge's Deck 13.
