Quite surprisingly, we now have confirmation that Greedfall will have a follow-up and get a release date for Greedfall 2: The Dying World.

The future of Greedfall 2 wasn't ensured especially on how publishers nowadays lose a lot of faith in IPs that fall short of blockbuster expectations. The original Greedfall, while innovative and entertaining, didn't perform exceedingly well critically. It did perform well commercially, selling a million copies in its first year and then another million since. Hence, while it's surprising to hear about a follow-up game getting announced, it's not hard to understand why publishers Nacon would be keen on supporting this second try on the Greedfall IP by Spiders.

The game will be released on “consoles” and on Steam. It will retain the first game's Action RPG gameplay but will feature a prequel story, set three years before the story of the original. Developer Spiders is also promising a more tactical combat this time around. Spiders is also working on Steelrising right now, which is due for a release later this year.

The original Greedfall came out on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and the Xbox Series X in September 2019, receiving mostly positive scores from critics, calling the game “decent” and “on the cusp of greatness”. Hopefully, this prequel by Spiders will finally fully realize the potential of Greedfall. And if they still don't manage to get there, well, third time's the charm, I guess?