Conan Chop Chop Has Been Delayed Again For The Fifth Time In Two Years
Ever wondered what happened to Conan Chop Chop, that hack-and-slash April Fool’s game that turned out to be the real thing? Well, the good news is that the cartoony roguelite is still alive and in development. The bad news is that Funcom and developer Mighty Kingdom have once again decided to delay the game for more polishing.
Conan Chop Chop was initially scheduled to launch in September 2019 as a simple couch co-op game but was delayed to 2020 so Mighty Kingdom could add full online multiplayer. The new launch date was then set for February 2020, but was pushed back to Q2 2020, and then to “later in 2020.” As you might have guessed, the 2020 launch was delayed to early 2021 with the promise that they meant it “for real.”
But, as they say, promises are meant to be broken which is why we’re seeing another delay. The team, however, says that they won’t be announcing a release date this time around and won’t be doing so until the game is ready to be shipped out.
“As the more observant of you may have noticed, we are way past ‘early 2021’ now, and Conan Chop Chop has not yet been released. It has now come to a point where we find ourselves having to reassure people that the game is in fact real, in development, and not just a never-ending April Fools’ Day joke,” said Mighty Kingdom in the official press release.
“In fact, Conan Chop Chop had passed console certification earlier this year and was just a click of a button away from being uploaded to PC, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch stores. However, some traditions are not easily broken. Play-testing revealed the potential for further improvements to gameplay, leading developer Mighty Kingdom and publisher Funcom to deliberate postponing the game once again.”
“And while we are well-aware that some people will be disappointed by this news, perhaps even a bit bewildered, we assure you that the positives outweigh the negatives,” the team added. “Just like one of our previous delays was to add online multiplayer mode to Conan Chop Chop, all the other delays have been with the intent of further improving the game, whether it be by adding new features or tweaking existing ones. We also do not want further development of the game to cause unnecessary fatigue.”
“So, yeah. We failed on our promise, and for that we are sorry. This time, however, we can absolutely guarantee that there will be no more delay announcements. Why? Because this time we’ll not be announcing a new release date until the game is finished, tested, certified and ready for launch. And because our postponement announcer was promised that this would not be a full-time job.”
Of course, this might just be a very elaborate scheme where Funcom announces a few years down the road that it was an April Fool’s joke all along.
