Xixo Games Studio, a two person operation centered in Spain, announced a Kickstarter campaign for its upcoming game titledEnchanted Portalsearlier this month. Now, in a post on the game’s official Facebook page, the studio has announced that it will be delaying the Kickstarter campaign indefinitely due to negotiations with a prospective publisher.
When the studio released the campaign reveal trailer, many users took to their favorite social media outlets to speak out about howEnchanted Portalsseems to resembleCuphead, causing thetwo year old game to trend on Twitteronce again. However, while the game is still processing the backfire coming from claims of being overly similar to it’s predecessor, Xixo may be also be turning their focus from crowdsourcing to a private publisher.
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The Facebook post details that Xixo is in the middle of negotiations with an unnamed publisher that might be able to fundEnchanted Portalswithout the need for a Kickstarter campaign. This could mean that Xixo can instead focus solely on development as opposed to splitting its attention between the game and the Kickstarter rewards that would have come with the campaign. As a result, theEnchanted Portalscampaign has been delayed indefinitely, pending negotiation results to determine if the crowdsourcing will even be necessary.
Clones and “like” games are common enough in gaming that Steam even has its own “Souls-like” category tag to describe games that are so similar to their inspiration that players easily recognize them within their own internal genre. SinceCupheadreleased two years ago, there haven’t been many boss-rush, shoot ‘em ups that have released since, and the game displayed that there is a healthy demand for more within the genre. So a game likeEnchanted Portalscould easily be a welcome addition for players looking for moreCuphead-like content while they wait forStudioMDHR to finally announce its next big project.
