In 2022, Crytek announced the next part of its Crysis series (which, at least for now, we’ll be calling “Crysis 4”). However, this new Crysis game is no longer in active development. In fact, as Crytek itself revealed, it put its development on hold in Q3 2024.
After facing major financial issues, Crytek decided to shift developers over to Hunt: Showdown 1896. As such, Crysis 4 is no longer in active development.
This is disappointing news, but the news was on the wall. Back in April 2023, I told you not to expect Crysis 4 anytime soon. And, from the looks of it, this new Crysis game may never actually see the light of day.
It sucks but it is what it is. At this point, Crytek is in life support, and Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the only thing that keeps it alive. To develop Crysis 4, the team will need a huge financial boost. And, from the looks of it, this is not going to happen.
Let’s also not forget that Crytek that before the announcement of C4, Crytek canceled a multiplayer game based on this franchise, called Crysis Next. In my opinion, that was the right move. Business-wise, though, this must have hurt the team.
So there you have it. Sadly, we won’t get our hands on Crysis 4 anytime soon (if at all). Then again, Crysis 4 is not the only game that was announced prematurely. Remember the remake of Star Wars: KOTOR? Or Capcom’s Deep Down? Or how about In The Valley Of Gods?
Anyway, I hope to share more positive news later this year or in 2026. Until then, though, consider Crysis 4 a dead game. Man, what a bummer.
Stay tuned for more!
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Cant they just make something new. Like a brand new IP and idea, not another first person game, we got enough of those already.
we got enough souls likes if you ask me.
Aside from Call of Duty, Cyberpunk, Titanfall 2 and the Doom franchise, I can't think of any other FPS game in the AAA space that have come out in the last decade which were decent or above average. All the other FPS games you're thinking of are either AA, indies or those F2P/battle royale/extraction shooters, which is nothing like what Crysis and the other games mentioned above offers.
As durka mentioned, there is an abundance of souls-like games and other genres, but there are not many story-rich AAA FPS games.
thank you. linear AAA FPS was killed by CoD
I honestly believe it's the customers who are to blame. They're the ones who are throwing away their money to these corporations.
I just remembered that there were a handful of games, all of which were made by EA, like Immortals of Aveum and Battlefront 2's single-player mode, but nobody cared about those and rightfully so. Also Mirror's Edge Catalyst but most gamers felt that it paled compared to the first game.
Only Titanfall 2 was the biggest exception from the publisher's catalog that actually turned out great. Forgot to add that game to my previous post but I've corrected it now.
but sequel to 2008 version , not the broken garbage that came after.
nice
Only one can dream am i right?
Crytek is one of the teams where they excel in technology but falter in business strategy.
These days? They don't excel in either!
How do they excel in technology really, they use experimental unoptimised methods in their games, other developers don't, cause they actually want their games to run properly on current hardware.
They were for sure, dunno nowadays thoo. Crysis and the Cryengine were really good. Shame stutter engine 5 is easier to develop with as we get that unreal stutter in 95% of the titles nowadays, not that most are enjoyable when the soon to be fired dev's think politics is more important than actually make a good game… 🙂
Probably too many gender at one office
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Maximum Woke
Could you imagine the amount of on the clock time that these development groups must spend just trying to decide on what gender? From what I hear they're already up to like 99 plus different genders. And since they're so worried about offending any one of them how do you even make a decision? It's just paralyzing having that kind of ideology and insane way of thinking.
And every one beside the two natural can be labeled as it's. Its the best pronoun and perfectly describe the state of that individual.
I mean… when your company is paying activists from within for this BS, you're set for financial ruin.
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Surely (((Crysis 4))) would've been a woke Jewish dogs**t.
Glad it was cancelled to not ruin yet another series with JuDIEst subversion.
speaking of which i just saw a video by archcast in which the lead designer of magic the gathering says he wants to make the game less about magic and fantasy and more about dei and representation because he is Jewish, he said himself.
every single time brother.
Yep, the very first thing that comes to mind of how they would've subverted Crysis would have been a female MC that wears a Nanosuit.
#StunningAndBrave
The patterns…..Everytime….thats why gaming was GREAT the (((elites))) hadnt noticed/targeted it…Then TLoU ( juice driven studio)opened the doors.
it's time for nvidia to come up with some money to crytek, I see they've already done it for cyberpunk it can also do it with crysis 4 which could become the first game with dx13 neureal rendering
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Why would they fund Crytek?
The owners are awful managing money and their talent pool is xlose to 0.
Crytek is no longer the 2007 Crytek, no money, no competence, they won't receive any support especially from NVIDIA
Did Crytek have money when they made the original Crysis? My understanding is that they have always struggled with an inability to sell their tech.
They used to borrow money from the German government easily, now Germany has has stricter laws for that very topic and Crytek lost its credibility over the years, same goes for publishers, EA, Ubi, Microsoft everyone was dreaming of Crytek, well not anymore
crysis 1 era was so cool. pc had one special game that was years ahead of consoles .this gen we have so many games like that .alan wake 2 cyberpunk indaiana jones ….all path traced games are just future of gaming .pc is already next gen .wow
"It sucks but it is what it is. At this point, Crytek is in life support, and Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the only thing that keeps it alive. "
It amazes me how they spent so many years on this game and did not make anything else, they deserve to go bankrupt. Meanwhile project ferocious exists.
That's the new thing for the last decade. Find a cash cow and milk it to death. That's what epic has been doing with Fortnite. When was the last time Epic made a game? They had 4 titles in development and then Fortnite hits and they abandoned everything else. That's what they truly want, ONE MAIN CASH COW. These people don't care about making games.
Everyone expected this except people still living in 2007 and still viewing Crytek as a competent studio, they're not anymore and i don't think they will ever be, they destroyed themselves first by going the mainstream/console way and ditching their personality, then by taking cheap projects and trying to live out of their engine which has been surpassed by UE4 in every aspect possible.
this pretty much
Pretty much and it's a damn shame how mismanaged Crytek was. They had a bright future after the first Crysis and they p*ssed it all away making stupid decisions. Most PC gamers could see they were messing up at the time but Crytek stubbornly pressed on with their bad ideas.
I said years ago that it's a wonder they are still around but somehow they have managed to linger on and on like some half dead zombie.
Crysis 2 should have been a warning for them, they managed to disappoint their main audience with this game and the new audience they wanted just didn't gave a F because they already have COD and Halo. It's sad because it's a big loss, the OG Crytek was extremely competent and was capable of making great looking game with good overall game design, you can tell by the time they made Ryse that they completely lost focus on anything other than graphics, and now that their engine is outdated they can't even do that.
They just needed more time, Crysis was still profitable, whatever they did to get money after that wasn’t the right thing to do, they could’ve gone to multiplatform but without changing their game design personality for example, what do you expect when you’re new to a market where Halo and COD had already several years of domination ?
Easy, just get the money from Nvidia as everyone is doing, and make a game at a fake 1 fps (with the same graphics of old games) to force people to buy new hardware. Profit.
this is what you get when you're trying to compete with the mainstream and appease everyone, they've lost their upper hand in technology, their PC fan base and most of all their identity, they could have gone the immersive sim route and expand their IP yet they didn't, a shame ofc but nothing can be done at this point.
They probably couldn't figure out a way to factor in a female hero protagonist. And even if they did wearing a suit they would have a big bulge problem between the legs….
I still think they are good at masking tech demos as games…the Crysis series has only one notable game (the first one) so i don't think we are missing much with a Crysis 4 that would obviously target consoles too.
Yeah, its probably for the best.
Probably for the best, since it'd be a woke fest in the minimum.
So far, you "drove your strategy" to the ground my dear managers of Crytek.
Suing the money printers at RSI over engine licensing probably didn't help their financial issues either.
Heh, who cares about Crysis 4.
I can still use the old CryMod launcher stuff and play tons of custom maps on the very first game.
Still the very best Predator-like gameplay ever in a game, imho.
Too bad the community kinda died, I dunno why…
Classic Crytek!
Can't blame potential investors for leaving them hanging. Crysis 4 was a good idea but as such it was completely out of character for Crytek. How do you have 400 (!) employees running a "live service" game? Firing only 15% of them suggests that a small team was working on Crysis 4, so most of these people really are tasked with contributing to one stale multiplayer game that was effectively finished many years ago. Seems like a big scam, it's not just clear who is scamming whom. Is it all middle management? Is it diversity hiring for BS jobs to fill quotas and collect government subsidies?
Crytek should have died after Crysis 3. They only produce garbage ever since.