Double Fine is making several "weird" games that "could never get accepted by a publisher," though some developers leave the door open for Psychonauts 3
The studio returns to smaller projects after Psychonauts 2 left some developers burned out
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Double Fine Productions recently dropped an epilogue episode to its sweeping 33-part documentary series PsychoOdyssey, whichbroke down the turbulent development of Psychonauts 2, and it left some hints about the studio’s next few projects.
To shoo out the elephant in the room, Double Fine is currently not making Psychonauts 3 or any other similarly massive projects since the studio is playing around with comparatively smaller stuff. Some developers didn’t totally close the door on a potential threequel, however. Senior VFX artist Tazio Coolidge said he wouldn’t mind returning to the trippy world “because we have all these lessons learned,” though doing so “would be f***ing hard, dude.” Another developer said, “Maybe we’ll make a third someday,” while one just groaned “No…” …