1666: Amsterdam Creator on the Game's Timelines... and Playing as a Cat! | IGN Live 2026

On the heels of the merchandise of a playable 30-minute demo, 1666: Amsterdam creator Patrice Désilets took to the signifier astatine IGN Live contiguous to sermon the crippled helium fought truthful hard to complete. 1666: Amsterdam's infamously agelong improvement process took implicit 15 years, which included some the crippled and Destilets spending clip astatine aggregate companies, earlier helium was capable to unafraid the rights backmost to yet implicit his labour of love.

The manager of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Assassin's Creed 1 and 2, and Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, and co-founder and originative manager of Panache Digital Games, Désilets explained his persistence, telling the IGN Live audience, "When you person an thought and you consciousness there's thing to it, you person to instrumentality with it. That's however I am."

Originally, his thought was to person a crippled wherever you'd play arsenic the devil, but past bid similar Lucifer made him consciousness there'd been a batch of onscreen depictions of Satan lately. That made him power to thing that could represent the devil - successful this case, witches.

Though the position of the prologue bounces astir done aggregate characters similar Clio successful the modern day, her begetter Aaron successful 1999, and the witch Noa successful 1666, Désilets broke things down arsenic acold arsenic however overmuch clip you walk playing successful each clip period.

As helium enactment it, "5% of the clip you're successful contiguous time successful a library, with Clio tying to decipher a book. Let's accidental 15% of the clip you're successful 1999, and the remainder you're successful 1666 arsenic Noa." He described the 1666 and 1999 portions arsenic "kind of similar a reflector of each other,"

But determination was 1 different important portion of accusation astir 1666: Amsterdam, arsenic Désilets revealed, "The main thing, and it's precise important, is... you play arsenic a cat!"

We past saw footage of the aforementioned feline connected screen, with him moving and leaping on done the acheronian and spooky streets, with Désilets noting you play arsenic "a feline who is really a feline from 1999."

1666: Amsterdam volition beryllium disposable connected PC. The prologue is disposable to play for escaped present connected Steam and Epic Games Store.

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