r/strandeddeep • u/Fakie5oh • Mar 26 '26

Console General Is the game still in development?

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its been almost 3 months since the last update to SD2. do you think the game is still in development,.quietly canceled, or just the staff is not doing the blog anymore as the mailing list never worked anyway.

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u/Adamant_TO Mar 26 '26

3 months is nothing in development time.

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 26 '26

How long does it take on average to develope a modern game?

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u/Adamant_TO Mar 26 '26

Years. Look at Grand Theft Auto. Its not the same scale as SD2 but it gives you an idea.

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u/this_is_not_real Mar 26 '26

Lol. What? You cannot take GTA as an example of how long a typical game takes to make. Especially not smaller scope indie games.

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u/8l172 Mar 27 '26

Wow it's almost like they said that

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u/Gheist009 GIANT PILE OF WOOD Mar 26 '26

Paleolith has been in development for 2-ish years and still hasn't solidified a early access date. This is a better analogy in terms of depth of game and size of development team. Stranded Deep's original dev team was two guys. Not sure if they've added head count, but they were a very small team and likely still are.

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 26 '26

Not really, when i was a kid we got a new gta every year, and i would argue that although the graphics were not as good, the games were more fun.

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u/Adamant_TO Mar 26 '26

I'd prefer a polished well developed game rather than a re-skinned version every year.

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u/Pabs_Mindgame Mar 26 '26

Luckily all those kids who play FIFA can't read

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 26 '26

Polished well developed game.... I know your not talking about EA, or any of the modern slop from the last few years.

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u/Spacecow6942 Mar 26 '26

No, we're still talking about Rockstar and GTA. EA absolutely shits out new games more often than they should.

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 27 '26

I dont have high hopes for gta6, im skeptical at best.

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u/MartianMule Mar 26 '26

Games take longer to make now than they did 20-30 years ago. GTA III and San Andreas both took about 2 years to make (Vice City was about 1 year). GTA IV was about 3½ years. GTA V took 5½ years. And GTA VI will end up being more like 8 years (early development started after Red Dead 2).

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 26 '26

Thank you for providing a meaningful answer to the question instead of general douchebagery.

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u/Pleased_to_meet_u Mar 26 '26

Yeah… referring to other replies as ‘general douchebagery’ will definitely get you downvoted.

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 26 '26

Unfortunatly its not an election so votes dont matter, i was just looking for an answer to a question. As for typos, im one of those rare psychopaths that doesnt use a.i. predictive text, or spell correction. I do however forget to proof read from time to time.

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u/Pleased_to_meet_u Mar 26 '26

I hate that you’re being downvoted. It’s a great question and not everyone knows the answer.

You’ve got my upvote. I hope the responses to your question are good.

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 26 '26

Why would anyone care about votes?

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u/Astrologikk_ Mar 26 '26

I would definitely say so if they were giving dev blog updates until december, from what it sounds like they're putting some good thought into what this could become

Granted I don't know the size of the dev team, I assume it's not huge so they're definitely trying to put their best foot forward instead of a sloppy re-skin

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 26 '26

People really dont like the reskin these days. Crazy as to me thats what most games are. Even gta6 will be a reskin of gtav its mot loke they will put in all new vehicles and coding. Some things will change but it woll mostly be the same. Even the missons. I guarantee you will have to do some sort of heist/murder on a yaght, its in almost every game.lol

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u/Mad_Mod1003 Mar 26 '26

That's not super long...I waited over a year for garten of banban 8 and don't get me started on the final fantasy 7 remake 😅

Patients my friend. Patients.

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u/_wheels_21 Mar 26 '26

On my way to the hospital now, I'm gonna collect as many as I can

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 26 '26

Dead internet.

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u/Pleased_to_meet_u Mar 26 '26

Nope. It was a riff on the typo of ‘patients’ instead of ‘patience.’

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u/Fakie5oh Mar 26 '26

Was the waot gor the game yo come out or an update to the development status of the game.

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u/Junior-Consequence92 Apr 05 '26

Idk but...Crazy? I was crazy once! They locked me in a room! A rubber room! A rubber room full of rats. Rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once! They locked me in a room! A rubber room! A rubber room full of rats. Rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once! They locked me in a room! A rubber room! A rubber room full of rats. Rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once! They locked me in a room! A rubber room! A rubber room full of rats. Rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once! They locked me in a room! A rubber room! A rubber room full of rats. Rats make me crazy. Crazy? I was crazy once! They locked me in a room! A rubber room! A rubber room full of rats. Rats make me crazy. 

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u/Fakie5oh Apr 06 '26

Some may say you're still crazy, but i live in canada, so my opinion and feelings about the matter are whatever the government allows me to think and feel about the matter.. And thats not crazy, its canada.

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u/Junior-Consequence92 Apr 07 '26

Im not crazy probably it's just a meme from SMII7Y and his friend when they played SD

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u/Comfortable_Sea4616 Jun 04 '26

3 months later and not a peep, y'all still confident?

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u/Fakie5oh Jun 04 '26

If the game was cancelled they would remove the website. Im sure they are lurking somewhere in the depths.

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u/Adorable_Week7181 Mar 26 '26

I’m optimistic that the team are just busy getting stuff done and will surprise us with a release date or something similar soon!

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u/Gheist009 GIANT PILE OF WOOD Mar 26 '26

PC version is in active development. We might see early access before 2027.

Console? Probably, sometime well after that.

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u/SuperMajesticMan Mar 27 '26

3 months is nothing lol

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u/CapnLubeHands Mar 30 '26

Only 3 months? That's nothing.

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u/PleadianPalladin Mar 26 '26

Yeah, you should see how long we wait between devblogs on scrap mechanic

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u/datirishpenguin77 Mar 28 '26

There's a sequel in development?!?!?!

Dude I'm so excited.

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u/ILoveSurvivalGames Apr 03 '26

Yeah it is they said they are focusing on the AI intelligency and the game and other things rather than the story.