Evolve’s Development Comes to an End
Turtle Rock‘s first-person shooter Evolve was first out in 2015. Since that time, Turtle Rock always supported the game and the gamers who are enjoying Evolve (aside from terrible marketing strategies and monstrous in-game purchases, but these were not Turtle Rock’s mistakes; as we can all guess).
As Phil Robb and Chris Ashton stated on Turtle Rock Studio forums recently, development on Evolve now came to an end. There will be no further developments on 4v1 monster hunter game but don’t think that servers are shutting down. It is just no more updates, patches, improvements, fixes or any of that kind development will be out for Evolve. Other than that, everything is up to 2K Games.
“Seems like the greater things you aspire to, the more time it takes. We had huge aspirations for Evolve, and while we got to spend five and a half awesome years on planet Shear with a ragtag group of Planet Tamers and fearsome Monsters, it still doesn’t feel like enough – we were hungry for more but unfortunately today is the last day that Turtle Rock Studios can work on Evolve.
It’s always hard to leave one of our games behind. Left4Dead was no different and now it’s Evolve’s turn. There will always be a special place in our hearts for our past projects. No matter what happens with Evolve in the future, we’ll know it was born in this studio and developed by this team alongside this beautiful community.
This is the life of AAA game developers who aren’t self-funded and don’t own their own IP. We don’t get to make the call. We all know that going in but we still sign the dotted line because we love what we do. We are happy to have gotten the opportunity to do something risky, something new and innovative. We created a brand new Sci-Fi world. We got to go to planet Shear and interact with alien flora and fauna. We got to hunt down, trap and kill giant monsters together. We got to BE the monster. What an awesome experience.”
For one final Evolve-themed Livestream on Thursday, October 27 starting at 12 PM Pacific Time, you can visit here. For the farewell letter from Phil & Chris, you can visit here.
So long, Evolve.
