Blue Prince Creator Tonda Ros: 'I Will Never Make a Sequel'

Sorry, puzzle geeks. Don't expect a Blue Prince 2 immoderate clip soon. Or, ever, really.

That's what we learned from speaking with Blue Prince creator Tonda Ros past month. We asked him loads of questions and you tin work our afloat interrogation close here, but 1 large enigma we wanted to wide up was if he'd ever marque a sequel to Blue Prince. And, no, helium won't. No sequel to Blue Prince, nor to immoderate different crippled helium makes successful the future.

But helium is going to marque something else.

"I tin accidental I volition ne'er marque a sequel to my enactment due to the fact that I emotion creating thing standalone and past going connected to thing wholly different," helium said. "It volition apt not adjacent beryllium successful the aforesaid nonstop genres. I volition astir apt beryllium mixing it up. You'll commencement to spot overlap. You'll commencement to spot overlaps with immoderate of my interests. So it volition beryllium familiar, and hopefully I'll inadvertently person things that truly worked with Blue Prince that I'll transportation connected successful presumption of astatine slightest technicals. But yeah, we'll see. I'm hesitant to bash different 3D crippled due to the fact that for my archetypal game, 3D was truthful difficult. I truly privation I did a 2D game. I astir apt could person done it successful 5 years alternatively of eight. But yeah, I deliberation it'll beryllium thing wholly different."

This mightiness beryllium disappointing to perceive for Blue Prince fans, particularly for those inactive mulling implicit the game's remaining unsolved mysteries and wishing determination was immoderate benignant of reply to them. It besides sounds like, from our interview, helium won't beryllium doing immoderate much large contented updates to Blue Prince aft the upcoming alleged "final update." "I bash emotion implicit games," helium said. "And I bash emotion erstwhile thing is definitively done. So I had tried my champion to get everything into the crippled astatine motorboat due to the fact that that was thing I conscionable truly wanted. I didn't privation to eternally beryllium updating this."

Whatever it is Ros is moving connected next, it volition beryllium a portion earlier we spot it. He says helium inactive expects to beryllium moving connected Blue Prince successful tiny ways for the adjacent year, finishing the last update, bug fixes, and such. And fixed that Blue Prince took astir 8 years to create, he'll request a batch much clip connected apical of that to make thing marque new. At slightest Blue Prince fans person already completed a superior workout successful patience by finishing the crippled astatine all.

You tin work our afloat interrogation with Ros here, and cheque retired our reappraisal wherever we gave Blue Prince a 9/10. As our reviewer wrote: "If The Witness, Portal, and Myst are already emblazoned connected the Mount Rushmore of first-person puzzle games, I wouldn’t beryllium amazed to spot Blue Prince carved alongside them soon enough."

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].