The canceled Captain Blood game has been revived after 15 years

The international development team Seawolf Studio managed to bring the video game "The Adventures of Captain Blood" to release. The path of the long-suffering project about pirates on the shelves of stores took more than 22 years. Development began in 2003, in 2010 it was canceled, and Blood was canceled. In 2024, it became known about the revival. As a result, 15 years after the cancelation, the game was released with refinements and qualitative changes. "Izvestia" among the first to play the novelty before the release on May 6.

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The game "The Adventures of Captain Blood" was developed by a division of 1C - 1C-Seawolf studio. Its release was originally planned for late 2010, but it did not come out due to problems with overseas publishing agreements. In April 2021, a working version was leaked online, and in November 2022, the original developers released the source code under the GPLv3 license.

Since the leak, the build remained the only way to fully play the game until June 2024, when publisher SNEG announced that it would release it on modern platforms, including consoles and personal computers, in partnership with General Arcade. General Arcade was responsible for the porting, while the main developer is the international team Seawolf Studio, which also includes Russians.

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Call from the past: closed game about Captain Blood revived after 15 years