After initially suggesting that Demonschool was not going to move in the face of Hollow Knight: Silksong’s impending release date, publisher Ysbryd Games has now announced the game has been delayed from the 3rd of September to the 19th of November.
In a statement, Brian Twek of Ysbryd Games said, “With 11 years under our belt as an indie publisher, we at Ysbryd Games are reasonably qualified to say that any point of 2025, on balance, has been or will be as brutal as market conditions can get when it comes to releasing a game. Crueler still, that we should find out with such short notice that Hollow Knight: Silksong will launch just one day after our planned release from Demonschool.”
This is not Demonschool’s first delay, but Twek assures that it will be its last. Indeed, the publisher had already distributed Steam keys to reviewers. Studio Necrosoft Games plans to use the additional time to polish up the game experience and add new endings and minigames that were originally planned to be patched in post-release.
Demonschool is a turn-based tactics game inspired by the Persona series and classic Italian horror films like the work of Dario Argento. You can still wishlist Demonschool on Steam, and in November, it will also release on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X.
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Cass Barkman
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Cass is a lecturer in Media and Communications at The University of Melbourne with a personal/academic love for experimental narrative videogames, complex cinema and having a little nap.
