Amnesia: The Bunker is Frictional Video games’ subsequent entry within the acclaimed horror sequence and was initially scheduled for March 2023. It slipped a couple of instances after that reveal, and now the crew has introduced one more Amnesia: The Bunker delay. The brand new Amnesia: The Bunker launch date is on June 6 on PlayStation 4 (no native PlayStation 5 model has been introduced).
Why Amnesia: The Bunker is being delayed
Frictional put out a brief assertion explaining the rationale behind the delay. The sport hit certification points, and the studio wants two further weeks to rectify the issues. A free demo is dropping on Could 22, but it surely was solely introduced for PC.
Inventive lead Fredrik Olsson took to Twitter to enter extra element. He extrapolated on what was mentioned within the tweet by stating that a number of uncommon, hard-to-replicate crashes have been found in the course of the certification course of. He additionally defined that the studio might repair the issues quicker by working weekends and lengthy hours, however he shortly added that that’s not how Frictional works.
Olsson acknowledged that the crew is “tremendous excited” to share the sport with gamers, because it has been “working actually, actually exhausting attempting to make The Bunker the very best recreation it might probably probably be.” He even mentioned every part was coming collectively properly.
There have already been a pair Amnesia: The Bunker delays since its announcement in December 2022. It slipped from March to Could 16 after which to Could 23 earlier than discovering its June 6 launch date. The delay to Could 16 was due to a “slew of sicknesses” that ripped by means of the corporate. The push to Could 23 was seemingly made (along with wanting so as to add extra polish) partially due to The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, because the studio cited that it needed to “strategically keep away from releasing throughout a busy week when a number of different video games are hitting the market.”