#Stellar Blade developer is planning for a PC port in 2025 – Destructoid
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Throughout a latest investor name, the developer of Stellar Blade confirmed that it’s aiming to port the sport to PC in 2025. Extra particularly, it plans to ship the sport to Steam following the explosive success of Black Fantasy: Wukong on PC.
The plan was revealed after Shift Up, the South Korean developer behind Stellar Blade, answered a query a few potential PC port. Not solely does the crew anticipate to launch the sport on PC subsequent 12 months, but it surely believes Stellar Blade will excel by being on storefronts resembling Steam. Shift Up acknowledged Wukong, which was launched on PlayStation 5 and PC to, nicely, stellar outcomes. The sport peaked at 2.4 million gamers on Steam, eclipsing long-time titans resembling Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and (uh) Banana.
“Contemplating latest traits resembling Steam’s enhance in [the] share of the AAA recreation market and the worldwide success of ‘Black Fantasy: Wukong‘, we anticipate the efficiency on PC to be higher than that on consoles,” the studio wrote (through Google Translate).
Stellar Blade coming to PC shall be good for everybody
Stellar Blade launched as a PS5 unique in April 2024. The thrilling hack-and-slash recreation was nicely acquired by critics and followers, incomes an 81 at Metacritic. In June, Shift Up reported that the sport was at greater than 1 million copies bought. It is smart that the studio needs to bump these numbers up with a PC port. The CFO Jaewoo Ahn mentioned the crew was “taking a look at” a PC port of Stellar Blade, however nothing was set in stone — particularly because it appeared there was an exclusivity settlement between Shift Up and Sony.
A PC port felt like an eventuality, although. Stellar Blade is a clean-looking and rattling good motion recreation, one that may have made much more people comfortable if it wasn’t locked to Sony’s field at launch. Having the sport on PC will definitely deliver it again into the limelight.
As for when the port will arrive, that’s unknown. I think about we gained’t know till April 2025, a 12 months after its PS5 launch — assuming a contract is protecting it to the console for a 12 months.
