Redfall ranks as one of the biggest disappointments of the year so far. So disappointing, in fact, that PCG's Tyler Colp scored it 44% and deployed the potent phrase "I'm having a miserable time" fewer than 20 words into his Redfall review. But bad games don't fall from the sky; more often than not, they're the culmination of a long chain of wrong decisions, limited resources, and plain old bad luck.
Between playtests, mock reviews, and simple experience, devs often know when their games are falling short of expectations, and a new report from Bloomberg has revealed that Arkane Austin was no different. In fact, according to the article, many of the studio's devs nursed a sly hope that Microsoft would straight-up cancel the project after it bought ZeniMax in 2020.
