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The sequel for Stellar Blade might be coming to your Xbox Collection or PC
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Shift Up, the bombastic character motion sport Stellar Blade’s developer, has posted a job itemizing that factors to the doable multiplatform way forward for the sequel.
The corporate has quietly confirmed what many followers had been clamoring for: the sequel is formally in growth, and the studio is aiming for a wider attain this time round.
A brand new recruitment name, posted on the corporate’s web site, describes the subsequent installment as a “AAA multiplatform motion sport” that “goals for launch on numerous platforms, together with consoles and PC,” whereas increasing the world of the primary sport. The itemizing additionally explicitly talks about “consoles” within the plural, which is a shift from the unique, which launched as a PlayStation 5 unique in April 2024 earlier than ultimately discovering its technique to PC in June 2025.
The identical itemizing mentions the success of the PC port, which garnered over 200,000 concurrent gamers at launch. So, Stellar Blade 2 being a multiplatform launch is equally doable because it being a PlayStation 5 timed unique once more.
It’s value mentioning that Stellar Blade was one of many first PlayStation-published PC ports that was accessible for buy in international locations with out PlayStation Community entry. And it’s nonetheless unclear if PlayStation would be the writer for the sequel within the first place.
What we truly learn about Stellar Blade 2
Shift Up has been somewhat open and clear in its communication concerning the doable follow-up to Stellar Blade. CEO and Recreation Director Kim Hyung-tae has acknowledged that the unique sport had points with its story and narrative, and that is one thing they aimed to handle within the sequel. He named cutscene prices and a scarcity of in-house expertise with AAA and narrative-driven video games as the primary culprits of this.
Many character-focused scenes and world-building moments had been lower to ship on time and price range, together with explanations for issues so simple as Eve’s infinite wardrobe and deeper side-character arcs. This, together with every part that was initially deliberate for a giant DLC, is being rolled into the sequel that guarantees to be “narratively richer.”
On the identical time, Shift Up did make some post-release adjustments to the sport’s narrative, specifically including three new epilogues that increase the aftermath for Eve and the folks of Xion after one of many sport’s three endings. This might very properly be the groundwork being laid down for the inevitable sequel.
The place the story might go subsequent
(Minor spoilers for the primary sport under.)
Stellar Blade ends in a really “select your personal future” method, with three totally different endings depending on Eve’s decisions round Adam, Mom Sphere, and the destiny of Xion. A direct sequel should resolve what’s truly canon: these endings are too totally different of their outcomes to probably construct on in equal measure.
Given Kim Hyung-tae’s feedback about together with lower lore and canceled DLC developments into this new, extra cohesive narrative, the most secure wager is that Stellar Blade 2 will:
Select one of many authentic endings as canon, whereas utilizing the epilogues as a bridge. Maintain Eve because the lead, however develop her as a personality as a substitute of getting her as considerably of a clean slate tremendous soldier that dodges properly. Truly push Xion and its politics to the forefront, exploring the opportunity of Mom Sphere’s retaliation after the occasions of the unique sport. Dive deeper into Mom Sphere, Adam/Raphael Marks, and pose the query of who’s going to inherit humanity’s future.
Contemplating that the Nier collection is among the main inspirations for the studio, and provided that we have already got established a post-apocalyptic Earth, a free-for-all of former people, androids, failed “new people,” and rogue AI, Stellar Blade 2 might very properly go into the existentialist drama with philosophical undertones whereas nonetheless being as flashy and fan-servicy as the primary one.
We anticipate time within the comparatively peaceable hubs to be extra significant, and never only a location to seize the subsequent mission. Cutscenes which have the characters truly digest and sit with penalties. A battle system that expands on the state Eve reached on the finish of Stellar Blade: please, no extra zeroing of the character’s energy within the sequel. It’s tiring and narratively incoherent.
However a very powerful reply we’re on the lookout for is the one Stellar Blade consciously dodged: what sort of future is Eve truly preventing for?
Proper now, all we all know is that Shift Up is actively hiring competent folks to deliver their enhanced imaginative and prescient of the sequel to life. Whether or not which means we’ll get Stellar Blade 2 on PS5, Xbox Collection, PC, and probably even Change 2 on launch, will come all the way down to how assured the studio is, having bought greater than 3 million copies, and the way persuasive Sony is with their console exclusivity.
