Skyrim and Fallout veterans' new open-world RPG is now a roguelike that's not open-world, after funding issues brought the team "down to a skeleton crew"

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So it’s been a terrible time in this industry."

“We decided to add a rogue-lite element to it,” Gardiner explains.

So we took everything we made and repurposed it."

Scrapping the game entirely and starting over “would just set us too far back,” Gardiner says.

“And we knew the clock was ticking.”

Fortunately, working on DLC for Oblivion and Fallout helped to prepare the team for this.

That was for the next big game," Gardiner says.

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