Despite only launching about six months ago, it seems that Asobo Studio could already be hard at work on the sequel toA Plague Tale: Innocence.
This information comes by way of French publication Xbox Squad which states that publisher Focus Home Interactive has ordered a sequel to be made from Asobo. Xbox Squad claims that these details come from a source at Focus Home. It also further proclaims thatA Plague Tale 2, or whatever it may be called, will be announced next year in 2020 but likely won’t release until a few years later in 2022.
Eurogamer then reached out to Focus Home for a comment on this report, to which the publisher sent the following reply:
“Focus Home Interactive and Asobo are very proud of the critical and public reception ofA Plague Tale: Innocence, and the sales. We’re delighted to have received a solid number of awards and nominations, including for Best Narrative at the Game Awards next week. We want to pursue our efforts to make sure the game gets even more attention from players and we will thus keep promoting that title as it deserves.
Of course, we announced last year we are partnering with Asobo for a future project but never confirmed if it was a sequel toA Plague Taleor not - and will give more details on that title when the right time comes.”
As Focus Home flat out acknowledges, it is already working with Asobo again on another project, but whether or not that game ends up beingA Plague Tale 2still isn’t publicly known. That said, considering how successfulA Plague Talehas been both critically and commercially for Focus Home Interactive, it’d be shocking if this next Asobo game wasn’t related toA Plague Tale.
If this report is to be believed, we should hear more about thisA Plague Talesequel at some point next year. And if the game is real, we can surely expect it to arrive onPS5andXbox Scarlett.
