Stranger things have happened before
Telltale Games is nearly defunct after last week’ssudden layoffof approximately 90 percent of its studio. A skeleton crew is staying aboard for a while to produceMinecraft: Story Mode. After that obligation is fulfilled, it’s expected that Telltale will close its doors for good.
This has left a lot of Telltale’s projects in precarious positions. The final season ofThe Walking Deadwill likely end incomplete after tomorrow’s release of itssecond episode.The Wolf Among Us 2was canceled. As for the recently-announcedStranger Thingsgame, that one might have a sunnier future.
Netflix tellsPolygonthat it still intends to find a home forStranger Things. “We are in the process of evaluating other options for bringing theStranger Thingsuniverse to life in an interactive medium,” Netflix says. That’s vague, sure, but Netflix has only had a weekend or so to evaluate potential new partners.
The third season ofStranger Thingswill release on Netflix in the summer of 2019. It makes sense that Netflix would want a tangential video game adaption around the time everyone’s talking about Mike and Eleven and Barb again. (Do people still talk about Barb?) Strike while the iron’s hot and all that.
A guilty-feeling silver lining to all of this is that we probably knew exactly how a Telltale take onStranger Thingswould’ve turned out. Now we’ll get to see how another developer envisions it. There’s a lot of material to draw from, asStranger Thingsis bursting with potential storylines. My guess: This game is the official continuation of the weird offshoot Scooby Doo gang episode from season two.
Netflix still intends to produce Stranger Things game despite Telltale collapse[Polygon]
