After a protracted silence and one small ultimate replace, Keen Software House have declared Medieval Engineers performed and shoved it out the door. First launched in 2015, the construct ‘n’ siege sandbox hadn’t seen a considerable replace prior to now 12 months 12 months of early entry whereas Keen centered on its sci-fi sibling, Space Engineers. Keen had insisted that Medieval Engineers wasn’t deserted however now with one ultimate spherical of bug fixes, they’ve known as it quits. Welp!
“We do not currently plan further major updates for Medieval Engineers,” Marek Rosa, Keen’s CEO, mentioned in at this time’s announcement. That makes at this time’s replace the ultimate one, a littl’un fixing “critical” bugs together with “a problem with grids disappearing from the world” and several other crashes. Rosa defined extra of why they’re binning it:
“We haven’t launched a serious replace since February 2019. The purpose for this choice was that we modified the main focus of the Keen Software House staff. We have restructured the staff, centered on shifting Space Engineers out of Early Access, then on the event of Space Engineers for Xbox One, and the continuous assist and upgrades for Space Engineers.
“We re-evaluated the Medieval Engineers project and, looking at the numbers, we have decided to end development on this title and release the game out of Early Access.”
Back in May 2019, not lengthy after that final massive replace and the shift in focus, Medieval Engineers lead Tim Toxopeus did say Keen would return to it (although he himself was leaving).
“Do not worry, Medieval Engineers is not abandoned; there are still plans for Medieval Engineers, and in the near future Keen Software House will continue to work on the game,” he mentioned on the time. That actually instructed substantial future additions, however evidently plans modified.
Rosa added at this time, “We were planning this update for quite a long time, but as we restructured our team, we simply did not find the right time to put it all together for the release.” Yep. About sums it up. This isn’t any shock.
Keen had absolutely hoped Medieval Engineers to search out a few of the identical success as Space Engineers, and it by no means did. When we played it in 2015, it had some good destruction tech however not a lot level to it. When Keen paused Medieval then fell silent on it for over a 12 months, it appeared probably that its days had been numbered, barring a miracle. And right here we’re. They ought to have been extra open about this, and sooner.
While Rosa didn’t use the phrase ‘refund’, he did say folks sad with improvement ending ought to “reach out to us at support@keenswh.com” so possibly you’ll get fortunate?
