Blade Runner 2099 soon hits Prime Video. The franchise gets new entries every couple of years, and one medium it hasn’t explored much is video games.
Ironically, it seems like that’ll be changing. In an interview with IGN, 2099 EPs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson said franchise owners Alcon Entertainment are interested in a game. He reportedly said Alcon wanted a triple-A title—think Cyberpunk 2077 (which spawned the discussion to begin with) or games of similar stature.
On its own, that isn’t surprising; other franchises like Star Wars and Terminator get games consistently, and sci-fi is having a resurgence in the medium. If there’s a time for Blade Runner to get playable, this would be it, minus the larger industry instability. (And if there’s any studio who’d be up for it, it’s Saber Interactive, which loves adapting popular IP into games.)
As for the irony part, there’ve actually been pair of Blade Runner games that’ve existed in the past couple years. The first, Labyrinth, was set in 2033 and developed by Annapurna Interactive as an adventure game that would’ve been the franchise’s first since 1997. But the 2024 mass resignations from Annapurna’s internal team leaves Labyrinth’s status into question, so we’re currently left to assume it’s dead.
