Just Cause developer Avalanche Studios had a Crimson Desert-like game in the works but "every publisher just shut the door"
Avalanche Studios, known for the Just Cause series, had a fantasy open-world game called AionGuard in development that shared similarities with Crimson Desert. Co-founder Christofer Sundberg revealed that the project was canceled after a publisher withdrew support, and subsequent attempts to announce it independently led other publishers to refuse involvement. The studio eventually moved on to other projects like Mad Max and Rage 2, with their co-op sandbox game Contraband also being canceled.
- Entities
- Company: Xbox Game Studios
- Company: Pearl Abyss
- Game: Crimson Desert
- Company: Disney Interactive Studios
- Game: Contraband
- Company: Avalanche Studios
- Person: Christofer Sundberg
- Game: Rage 2
- Topic: Open World Games
- Game: Mad Max
- Game: Just Cause
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