PlayStation 6's first game has already been cancelled, apparently

According to a new report, we now know that one of the PlayStation 6’s first titles has already been cancelled… and it sounds so cool that I kind of wish I had never heard about this in the first place.

Said leaked report comes by way of Insider Gaming’s Mike Straw (per Eurogamer), and it details the unannounced title Blade Runner: Time To Leave.

Yup, that Blade Runner. It sounds like it would have been a sort of modern take on the 1997 point-and-click adaptation of Blade Runner by Westwood Studios, except it would instead feature “kinetic action-adventure gameplay” in place of… clicking.

Blade Runner: Time To Leave was supposedly in development by Supermassive Games, the team behind titles such as Until Dawn and The Quarry.

Insider Gaming’s report states that it would have supposedly seen release in 2027, on PC, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PlayStation 5 and the next generation of PlayStation and Xbox consoles.

It seems that Insider Gaming also managed to get their hands on some leaked design documents for the title too, which stated that players would “journey from the teeming undercity of New Zurich 2065 to the eerie remnants of the forgotten world beyond…

“Under orders to retire Rev, the mysterious and ruthless leader of an underground replicant network, you are betrayed and left for dead in a brutally hostile environment."

It sounds like nobody is quite sure as to why the title was cancelled, but it has been theorised that the game ran into some kind of rights issues with Alcon Entertainment, who owns the Blade Runner intellectual property.

I don’t know if that means that they started developing the title before they secured the rights, but it could mean that it’s actually temporarily shelved rather than outright cancelled.

Hopefully, that is the case, because I would love to get my hands on this game somewhere down the line. I’ll play anything if you slap the Blade Runner IP on it.