According to GraczPospolita's latest report,
Hellraid, a first-person hack’n’slash game set in a dark fantasy universe based on medieval European folklore has been ultimately cancelled. The game was featuring three distinct game modes that could be played in both single player and 2-4 player co-op developed by Techland, the company behind
Dying Light, the
Dead Island and the
Call of Juarez series.
The first rumors regarding the brutal game’s cancellation emerged three years ago when Techland announced that the development of
Hellraid has been put on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time. Back then, the studio said that they conducted an internal analysis and came to the conclusion that it simply wasn’t very good. A quote from their official statement read, “[…]
we decided the best course of action would be to send it back to the drawing board and invent our dark fantasy title anew.”
GraczPospolita's Michał Król has finally confirmed these reports (which were immediately debunked by Techland in 2015). Techland and
Hellraid fans should not fall into despair, as the developer is already working on a new big-budget RPG which shares the 300 million zloty (roughly $100 million) budget with
Dying Light 2, which will most definitely be unveiled during the upcoming E3 2018.