Tequila's lost projects include a possible Rime follow-up, a dungeon tourguide game and a procgen fighting sim

Studio present auctioning disconnected each their assets

Last year, Spanish developers Tequila Works cancelled a game, laid disconnected staff, and yet filed for insolvency successful the look of "prolonged marketplace conditions", aft losing backing from Tencent. Founders Raúl Rubio and Luz Sancho departed the workplace successful the process.

Now, what's near of Tequila are selling disconnected each their assets successful an unfastened auction, including some published games similar fearfulness platformer Deadlight, and a fig of projects that were either successful improvement oregon "ready for production". It each makes for a bittersweet anatomy of the workplace that gave america the fantastic Rime.

Going by the auction listings connected Escrapalia, Tequila Works had plentifulness connected the boil. The archetypal in-development task listed is The Ancient Mariner, "an open-world communicative enactment adventure, focused connected quality emotions arsenic the driving unit of the gameplay". Clunky elevator transportation notwithstanding, this sounds similar a follow-up to Rime, successful that some projects notation Coleridge's poem Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. If you've completed Rime you'll cognize that the poetic parallel present goes beyond the title.

The 2nd task listed is Dungeon Tour, which sounds a batch much lighthearted. It's described arsenic "a conceptual premix betwixt Overcooked and Dungeon Keeper" for up to 4 players. The premise is that you're guiding sightseers astir procedurally generated catacombs. What if Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli had to shepherd a clump of goofs wearing fanny packs with Goblin phrasebooks? What if Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, but with a radical of retirees successful palm-print shirts alternatively than a rolling shot of fire? Yeah, I could spot myself having amusive with that.

Lastly, there's Brawler Crawler, which was to beryllium astir processing a combat benignant successful a "chaotic municipality universe" of procedurally generated streets. This is the lone 1 of the 3 in-dev projects that's described arsenic having been cancelled successful the auction, truthful possibly this is the crippled Tequila Works shelved past November.

Four different "unreleased video crippled concepts" are mentioned successful the listing, each consisting of "creative, communicative and ocular documentation, and reserved rights". They are Frozen Outpost, Mr. Bones, Hungry Cities, and Under A Logger's Moon.

The auction people doesn't item the fates of Tequila Works unit pursuing past year's bankruptcy announcement - astatine the time, they were expected to "fulfil their responsibilities" according to Eurogamer.es sources, contempt absorption not needfully having the quality to wage them. Since then, respective Tequila members person posted that they're looking for caller enactment connected LinkedIn, amongst them elder dependable decorator Jose Luis Lara Romero and elder crippled decorator David Canela Lagunas.

Others person posted tributes astir their clip moving for oregon with Tequila. "They recovered maine astatine a clip erstwhile I was losing religion successful my ain career," writes Rob Yescombe, who was freelance communicative manager and writer connected Rime and VR crippled The Invisible Hours. "We made 2 fantastic games together, that person stood the trial of time."

Best of luck to each Tequila Workers who are inactive looking for a caller home.