Project Dagger, a"new action-adventure IP" that had been in development at People Can Fly since 2020, has been officially cancelled. The studio said in areleased earlier this month that the decision to halt development was made following an"unsatisfactory" evaluation of the current state of the game.for the game and did not exercise its option to buy out the rights to the project.
Whatever happened between then and now, it clearly didn't go well. People Can Fly said in an April 5 report that work on Project Dagger has been discontinued following"unsatisfactory results of the evaluation of the scope and commercial potential of the project after redefining the direction of the game’s development." More simply put, they couldn't figure out how to make it work.
People Can Fly burst on the scene in 2004 with the cult classic FPS Painkiller, and then followed up with Bulletstorm, an underrated, hilariously profane shooter. But it's struggled to find its footing since then.