Demonschool delays its release back again to Q1 2025
Ysbryd Games and Necrosoft Games announced that their upcoming turn-based tactics RPG Demonschool is getting delayed to Q1 2025. Its September 13 release was just around the corner, but the developers made the tough decision to delay their title for additional development time. The title first received a delay in November 2023 back to a Q2 2024 release window.
Necrosoft Games provided an extensive statement about the reason for the delay.
“You never want to delay a game, but Demonschool means a lot to us. We've really put everything we have into this project, and as we got closer to release we realized that meeting the Sept. 13th deadline would necessarily mean a game with less content than we originally envisioned.
After discussing with Ysbryd, we realized we have a couple of paths forward. We could:
- Ship the game in the state it’ll be in on Sept. 13. We’re proud of the game as it stands, but we want to make this world feel even livelier.
- Ship the game in early 2025, which would allow us to manifest our bigger dreams into reality.
We believe the second option would be better for everyone for everyone who has followed our work so far. So we are delaying the game to make sure it's as chock full of Things To Do as we had hoped. Realistically, the player would never have known. It still would've been a finished product. But we would have known that the game could have been more, and that's the game we want to share. Ysbryd gave us the flexibility to do this, which is very unusual for a publisher these days, and we’re thankful for the opportunity to do this right. Since we’ll be taking extra time, we plan to create short dev diaries up until launch to offer more insight into the work we have ahead. We hope you look forward to these deeper dives into our process.
We're sorry for those who are eagerly awaiting the game, but are very hopeful that all the extra content will be worth the wait. 2024 has been a very trying year for the team, so we appreciate your understanding.” - Necrosoft Games
Additionally, Necrosoft Games plans to begin providing regular development updates on Demonschool from here on out until its launch in the form of written and video devlogs. Their first one of these is now live talking about how Demonschool handles the Burn status ailment.
Demonschool will now be coming to PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC (Steam, Epic) some time in Q1 2025.