Video game development has seen quite a lot of delays ever since the pandemic. Release date delays are becoming a common occurrence, over 60 games was delayed in 2021, and the trend seems to spill over 2022 and forward.
Just today Ubisoft has announced that Skull and Bones, long waited pirate game, has been delayed for the fifth time since its announcement in E3, 2017. It was expected to be released in late 2018. Skull and Bones is not the only game that has seen many delays recently.
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IGN has made a list of every game that was announced to be released in 2022 but delayed to a further date. Here is the short summary of the list;
- STALKER 2: Hearts of Chernobyl
Announced release: April 28, 2022,
Delayed to: First Half 2023 - Dying Light 2 for Nintendo Switch
Announced release: February 4, 2022
Delayed to: later in 2022 - Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: Spring 2023 - The Settlers
Announced release: March 17, 2022,
Delayed to: an unannounced later date - OddBallers
Announced release: March 24
Delayed to: Early 2023 - Halo Infinite Co-op Campaign
Announced release: May 3, 2022
Delayed to: November 8 - Forspoken
Announced release: May 25, 2022
Delayed to: January 24, 2023 - Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp
Announced release: April 8, 2022
Delayed to: an unannounced later date - Exomecha
Announced release: Q1 2022
Delayed to: an unannounced later date - EA Sports PGA Tour
Announced release: Spring 2022
Delayed to: Spring 2023 - Sons of the Forest
Announced release: May 2022
Delayed to: February 23, 2023 - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: May 12, 2023 - The Witcher 3 Next-Gen
Announced release: Q2
Delayed to: Q4 2022 - The Day Before
Announced release: June 21, 2022
Delayed to: March 1, 2023 - Redfall
Announced release: Summer 2022
Delayed to: First Half 2023 - Starfield
Announced release: November 11, 2022
Delayed to: First Half of 2023 - Dying Light 2 Story DLC
Announced release: Early Summer
Delayed to: October 13, 2022 - Kerbal Space Program 2
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: Early 2023 - Replaced
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: 2023 - Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake
Announced release: Ubisoft’s FY23
Delayed to: unannounced later date - Homeworld 3
Announced release: Q4 2022
Delayed to: First Half of 2023 - Sea of Stars
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: 2023 - Star Wars: Hunters
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: 2023 - Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (and an Unannounced Ubisoft Game)
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: Ubisoft’s 2023-24 financial year (April 2023 – March 2024) - The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
Announced release: September 1, 2022
Delayed to: Late 2022 - Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
Announced release: September 13
Delayed to: November 30, 2022 - Season: A Letter to the Future
Announced release: Fall 2022
Delayed to: Q1 2023 - ARC Raiders
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: 2023 - Marvel’s Midnight Suns
Announced release: October 7, 2022
Delayed to: December 2, 2022 - Metal Slug Tactics
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: 2023 - Nightingale
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: First Half 2023 - Hogwarts Legacy
Announced release: Holiday 2022
Delayed to: February 10, 2023 - Deliver Us Mars
Announced release: September 27, 2022,
Delayed to: February 2, 2023 - Evil West
Announced release: September 20
Delayed to: November 22, 2022 - Planet of Lana
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: Spring 2023 - High on Life
Announced release: October 25
Delayed to: December 13, 2022 - Flashback 2
Announced release: Late 2022
Delayed to: 2023 - A Space for the Unbound
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: TBD - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: Summer 2023 - Halo Infinite Season 3
Announced release: November 8, 2022
Delayed to: March 7, 2023 - Atomic Heart
Announced release: Q4 2022
Delayed to: Winter 2023 - Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
Announced release: September 29
Delayed to: December 22, 2022 - Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals
Announced release: 2022
Delayed to: 2023 - Skull and Bones
Announced release: November 8, 2022
Delayed to: Mach 9, 2023
14 more games had been delayed in 2022 but have since been released including games like Two Point Campus, Battlefield 2042 Season One, and Rumbleverse.
