Enter The Gungeon's Paid Expansion Canceled, New Game Sorta Announced

In 2016, Enter the Gungeon was introduced to the world, the first game from the aptly named Dodge Roll. It was a critical success, and people really seemed to like it, but Dodge Roll wasn’t complacent with “success” and “praise”. They went crazy, and over the next two years, they released a number of free content updates to the game that added new bosses, new characters, and lots and lots and lots of new guns. The most recent update, Advanced Gungeons & Draguns, even added new mechanics that made the game even more exciting.

However, in an update over on Reddit, the studio has admitted that it’s tired. And that they’re ready to move on to new projects.

The short version is: we have been working on Gungeon for nearly five years now, and from both a technical and a creativity standpoint, we need to move on. We have learned so many things about making games that are just impossible to put into practice in Gungeon (without rebuilding the entire game), and honestly, we're just more excited about putting these ideas into practice in a new game.

…we have chosen to cease development of the planned paid expansion, and instead deliver a smaller, free and final update. Without this decision, we would be unable to do our best work, and the game and the players deserve better. We hope that you will understand, and we are deeply sorry for readying you for a larger expansion.

There was good news in the Reddit post, however: they revealed that they’re going to use all they learned making Enter the Gungeon to create a new game that will “have a more solid foundation”, and hopefully be better able to support itself in the future. And they also revealed that this next update might not be the last we see of the Gungeon, although they refused to comment further.

Either way: no one can say these guys aren’t the real deal. And I, for one, am very excited to see what they do next, and what new, weird puns are waiting in the future.