Remedy Entertainment Announces That Kestrel Has Been Cancelled

Alan Wake 2, Control developer Remedy has announced that it has cancelled its multiplayer project, codenamed Kestrel. The studio has revealed that it will instead be focusing more on its existing franchises. According to the announcement, Kestrel had started development in November 2023, and was a reboot of previous project, Vanguard.

The cancellation of Kestrel is leading to developers working on the title getting reassigned to other projects in Remedy. This also means that the studio is reducing its overall recruitment efforts for the now-cancelled project.

In a statement, Remedy CEO Tero Virtala spoke about the project still being in its early conceptual stages, and said that the decision to cancel Kestrel was made despite the title showing early promise.

“Codename Kestrel showed early promise, but the project was still in its early concept stage,” said Virtala. “Our other projects have advanced well and are moving to the next stages of development, and increasing focus on them provides us with benefits. We can reallocate talented Kestrel developers to these other game projects, and many of our support functions get additional focus on their operations.”

When it was originally announced back in November, Kestrel was described by Remedy as featuring co-op multiplayer as a major component. The last major release by Remedy Entertainment was single-player horror title Alan Wake 2, which is available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.