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Kaan Serin

After dealing with backend bugs for 14 months, acclaimed Metroidvania dev scraps Xbox port that could've taken "less than two weeks"

Xbox Gamescom 2023 logo featuring a stylized city skyline in green.

One indie developer has scrapped an Xbox port of its acclaimed Metroidvania platformer, claiming that certification bugs have extended a two week port job into a 14-month wait. 

HAAK is the side-scrolling action-platformer set in a magical "cyber-wasteland" that came out in the summer of 2022 and steadily climbed to a 'Very Positive' Steam rating based on over 2,000 user reviews thanks to some acrobatic movement and nail-biting bosses. The game has since come to Nintendo Switch and mobile, but the in-development Xbox version is now canned.

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