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Devolver Digital Divulges a Deluge of Delays
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Devolver Digital Divulges a Deluge of Delays

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Baby Steps, Stick it to the Stickman, and more celebrate the future in the Devolver Delayed Awards.

Posted 12 days ago

Publisher Devolver Digital has revealed a raft of games that are being delayed into 2025.

In what is becoming typically atypical fashion, Devolver chose not to announce these delays in the industry standard apologetic, white-texted social media post. Instead, it ran its own awards show. For delays. More specifically, all games under the Devolver publishing banner which will be pushed back into the next financial year.

Here’s the full list of delayed game announcements from the show:

  • Baby Steps
  • Stick it to the Stickman
  • Skate Story
  • Volvy’s Adventure DX

Sadly there are no new release dates for the games included. In fact, it’s not even clear if Volvy’s Adventure DX is a real game, but we wouldn’t put it past Devolver to announce its existence in this manner. Even if you’re just here for the game names, we’d highly recommend giving the five-minute presentation a watch. If only because it’ll prove a brief and balmy contrast to the lengthy genuine awards shows ahead.

The 15th Annual Devolver Delayed Awards, clearly riffing on the current awards shows and likes of The Golden Joysticks and The Game Awards, presented the “heroic developers with the courage and determination to delay their game into the next fiscal year.”

For those whose calendars follow the typical 12 months, the fiscal year often ends with April. Meaning the games covered in the Devolver Delayed Awards 2024 probably won’t be arriving until March 2025 at the earliest.

The show includes awards reception videos from the development teams, including some very normal human readings and behavior from the developers of Baby Steps, a game about very normal human walking. There’s also a memoriam to Devolver games which “sadly” couldn’t be delayed and had to be released on time, including the excellent Pepper Grinder and stupendous The Plucky Squire, which Restart reviewed and thoroughly Recommended. If only we still had that to look forward to in 2025!