Video Games
Turtle Rock Studios Ending Post-launch Content for ‘Back 4 Blood’
Despite only being released back in 2021 and after three expansions, Turtle Rock Studios has announced that they are ending post-launch content support for Back 4 Blood. The developer is now shifting its focus to its next project.
Per the message posted on Turtle Rock Studios’ website, the team explains that the developer “is actually pretty small for a studio making AAA games.” As a result, the team doesn’t have enough people to continue working on Back 4 Blood content while they work on their next game. “Given this, it’s time for us to put our heads down, get back in the lab, and get to work on the next big thing.”
“Back 4 Blood will continue to operate, of course. In fact, Back 4 Blood is currently offered on PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium tiers and available as part of Xbox Game Pass. You’ll also still find us hanging out in the subreddit and on Discord, as well as our official Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and website because we love interacting with you and talking about our games.”
Turtle Rock Studios ends their message with a promise that they will be back “bigger, bolder and better than ever”.
Despite being an overall solid shooter, Back 4 Blood launched in a rough state, and never could get away from the shadow that was Turtle Rock Studios’ acclaimed Left 4 Dead series. The third and final expansion, “River of Blood”, was just released back in December.
Back 4 Blood is available for the Xbox Series, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store.
While not quite Snakes on a Plane or Red Eye, co-developers Liquid Static Studio and Snapping Turtle have something darker in mind with their upcoming job-sim horror game, Night Plane. Coming to Steam later this year, the game has you doing the expected work as a flight attendant, but with the added bonus of trying to find demons hiding amongst the passengers.
It’s 1999, and it’s your first day on the job. You must do the usual things as a flight attendant: welcoming passengers aboard, check tickets, and attend to their needs. However, shape-shifting entities may attempt to come aboard disguised as humans. So, your additional job in Night Plane is to question passengers, and find a way to remove any unauthorized non-human visitors from the plane.
That also leads to assisting passengers in unorthodox ways inside the plane, outside the plane, and in places not listed in your training manual. To make things even more complicated, you’ll need to make tough decisions with irreversible consequences. Naturally, the company will not be held accountable for any mistakes you make. You live with them.
Oh, and seeing as this is a plane, you may encounter some turbulence while in flight, along with power failures, lightning strikes and more. All of which, including your decisions, will lead to one of the multiple endings in Night Plane.
If you wish to get in on the fun prior to the game’s release, you can sign up for the playtest via the Steam page.