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Rick Lane

Celeste developer starts 2025 with a 'huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure' as creative difficulties and internal conflict lead to the cancellation of Earthblade

Celeste developer Extremely Ok Games has announced the "difficult decision" to cancel its follow-up project Earthblade, citing long term creative difficulties compounded by a conflict within the studio regarding the rights to Celeste.

In a blog post published on the Extremely Ok Games website, studio director Maddy Thorson wrote, "We are opening the year with a huge, heartbreaking and yet relieving failure", as she and programmer Noel Berry " made the difficult decision to cancel Earthblade."

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