Square Enix postpones fantasy game Forspoken to autumn – Gaming – News

Square Enix and Luminous Productions have decided to postpone Forspoken to October 11. The fantasy game with freerun elements was initially set to release at the end of May on PlayStation 5 and for PC via Steam.

The studio responsible for the new ip needs more time to finish Forspoken, but gives in its statement on Twitter no further underlying reason for the delay. “Our vision is to release an exciting new IP (…) so it’s very important to us that the end result is good. That’s why we’re concentrating on polishing the game in the coming months.”

In Forspoken, players take control of Frey, an African-American woman from New York who enters the fantasy world of Athia through a portal. There the apparently normal New Yorker appears to have magical powers. The game combines freerunning with magical combat and an adventure story Tweakers in 2021 in a preview.

Forspoken is the second game from the Japanese Luminous Productions, a subsidiary of publisher Square Enix. The studio was established as a branch of Square Enix’s own developers to create Final Fantasy XV. Forspoken runs on the Luminous Engine, an engine originally developed for FFXV.

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