Blade Runner has been expanding its universe in recent years even beyond the cinema. Although it has never really taken off, like the original film, all the works that have appeared have become cult works. And now, in an effort to expand its universe and perhaps break the curse of not being able to achieve a resounding commercial success, Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth has been announced. A Blade Runner videogame.
The game is being developed by Annapurna Interactive and is being developed by Chelsea Hash, who has previously worked on games such as Solar Ash or What Remains or Edith Finch, as well as the virtual art exhibition Kid A Mnesia Exhibition. The trailer shows a character manipulating a cylindrical memory orb, similar to the ones we saw in Blade Runner 2049, which are used to create artificial memories in the Replicants. Afterwards, this character flips between different spaces that are blurring into each other.
Clearly associated with Blade Runner and particularly Blade Runner 2049, this is the first Blade Runner game in 25 years. The previous one was a game called Blade Runner, released in 1997, which was a point-and-click adventure game that had a remastered version in 2022 that can only be described as disastrous.
With no release date announced at the moment, we only know that it will be released on PC and consoles and that the events of the game will take place between the original Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049 and the anime Blade Runner: Black Lotus, from 2021, which takes place just a year earlier, in 2032, and whose main event, the great blackout, is named in the synopsis of the game. Because thanks to the synopsis appearing on the game’s Steam page, we know a specific detail of what Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth will be about – what does a Blade Runner do when there are no Replicators left to hunt? And whatever the answer, at least the question, it intrigues us enough to want to know more.
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