Techland is currently hard at work on the upcoming action RPGDying Light 2: Stay Human, the sequel to 2015’s popular open-world survival horror game. The newDying Lightis scheduled for release in late 2021, leading many to ask whatTechlandmight be working on next. New job listings for the Polish game development studio offer up several hints at what that could be. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Techland job postings point toward the team working on yet another AAA open-world RPG.
The first notable job listing for Techland is for a Senior 3D Artist, which lists the position’s main responsibility as creating 3D assets for Techland’s “next big title.” A bullet point listed later then asks the applicant to have a significant amount of experience in creating 3D models specifically for AAA projects. Suffice to say, Techland plans to continue making large games likeDying Light 2, if not even larger AAA projects.
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A second job listing goes into more specifics about the nature of Techland’s current and upcoming projects. The listing for a Senior Quest Designer asks for an applicant with experience with “open-world action RPG games.” And the position itself is obviously telling, too, as they’d be developing narrative-driven quests within thisopen-world RPGexperience.Dying Light 2would fit into this description, of course, but it’s safe to assume that the vast majority ofDying Light 2’s narrative work is nearing completion at this point in time.
Another perhaps important detail from the second job listing is that it asks for experience withUnreal Engine’s Blueprints system. This is notable becauseDying Light 2isn’t being developed on Unreal, but rather a platform named C-Engine. If Techland is hiring developers with Unreal experience, that’s very indicative that it’s for a new project and that the new project will be built on Unreal.
It’s always possible that Techland will be working on multiple projects going forward, too. Perhaps the first project will be aAAA experienceunlike anything the team has worked on prior, while the second could be a new open-world game of a smaller scale. That’s unlikely, but it’s worth pointing out that job listings aren’t the best source for making assumptions regarding projects that may or may not even be in full development.
With that said, it seems obvious that Techland will continue to develop games in the vein ofDying Light. After all, theDying Lightfranchise has been Techland’s focus for the better part of a decade now, outside of theDead Island: Definitive Collectionbundle andFIM Speedway Grand Prix 15. Even without the job listings, Techland can be assumed to be working on another open-world action RPG, perhaps evenDying Light 3.
Dying Light 2releases December 7 on PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
