Nacon delays Terminator: Survivors to 2025 release window

Nacon announced today that it is pushing upcoming open-world game Terminator: Survivors out of its original planned fall release date this year. According to developer Nacon Studio Milan, this is to bring the game up to a certain level of quality. The game is now going to release sometime in 2025, and it’s not clear if Nacon still plans to launch it via Steam early access at that time. At present, it plans to launch Terminator: Survivors on console at a later date.

The publisher revealed the game’s title and details about gameplay at its Nacon Direct show in February. It’s an open-world survival game that can be played solo or with up to three co-op partners. It’s set in 2009 in the original Terminator timeline, as humanity attempts to survive the aftermath of Skynet before John Connor forms this resistance. The player characters have to piece together the truth of the apocalypse while attempting to fend off the threat of other people.

Marco Ponte, CEO of Nacon Studio Milan, said in a statement, “This deferral of the game’s release was a tough decision to make, however we believe that this additional time will enable us to ensure that our vision of the post-apocalyptic world of Terminator meets the expected level of quality … . We are extremely proud to have this opportunity to work on such an iconic franchise as Terminator and are eager to reveal more of it to you. Thank you all for support … . We’ll be back.”

Terminator: Survivors is not the only game that’s recently been delayed. Paradox announced a delay for Prison Architect 2 and refunded the game’s preorders to “raise the quality” before launch (it also canceled sim title Life by You at the same time). Xbox recently announced a delay for Obsidian RPG Avowed, citing less a need for extra cook time but rather the need to “give players’ backlogs some breathing room” in a crowded fall release slate. Terminator: Survivors original planned early access launch date, October 24, was one day before the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.