Beyond Good And Evil 2 Reportedly Still In Pre-Production

After 18 Years, Beyond Good And Evil 2 Hasn't Even Left Pre-Production Ubisoft Published Oct 21, 2026, 8:19 AM EDT Josh Coulson is an editor at TheGamer covering breaking news on everything from colorful platformers to the latest Lego sets. Primarily a news writer since 2018, Josh has covered just about every major game from the past decade. Now an editor, their focus has shifted to being the leading affiliate expert at the site, building relationships between TheGamer and global brands including Mattel, Funko, and The Pokemon Company. Sign in to your TheGamer account There have been several games that have become trapped in infamously long development cycles, only to eventually be released or canceled. Beyond Good And Evil 2 has become perhaps the most infamous as even though it was announced in 2008, it still doesn’t fall into either of those categories, and somehow, development continues. Since development has been going on in some form or fashion for 18 years, and Beyond Good And Evil 2 has miraculously managed to avoid Ubisoft’s very active axe, you’d assume that its long-awaited launch must now be right around the corner. You’d assume wrong. According to a new report from Origami, not only is the Beyond Good And Evil sequel far from finished, but it hasn’t even left pre-production. The report cites several sources close to the project who naturally have to remain anonymous and provides updates not only on where the game is at right now, but insight into why it’s taking so long and how it has managed to survive amid widespread Ubisoft cuts. There are currently 250 people working on Beyond Good And Evil 2 at Ubisoft Montpellier, with the next goal being to get the game out of pre-production and into alpha, finally, after 18 years. Single-Player And Story-Driven The hope that the game might finally leave pre-production is fueled by its shift to a single-player focus. Until recently, the goal was for Beyond Good And Evil 2 to be a largely online multiplayer game. Apparently its developers pulled inspiration from Fortnite and Destiny, which is amusing as neither of those games existed when the Ubisoft sequel was originally announced. Now the plan is for Beyond Good And Evil 2 to be a single-player, story-focused game, something I imagine fans of the original game, which released in 2003, will be relieved to hear. There will still be a co-op option, but you won’t be forced to play online. Previously described as “Zelda in space”, the idea is now closer to something that might feel like Insomniac’s Spider-Man games, at least when it comes to combat. Hopefully, the team working on the sequel, which has naturally changed a lot over the course of the last two decades, now has a firm enough grasp on what it wants Beyond Good And Evil 2 to be that it can actually start making it. Again, it’s a minor miracle that Ubisoft has allowed development to continue this long considering some of the other projects that have been canceled. There’s also no guarantee that the Ubisoft grim reaper won’t come for Beyond Good And Evil 2 at any given moment, even if it does finally leave pre-production. The Prince of Persia: Sands of Time remake was seemingly all but finished, with a rumored release date potentially days away, only for the next thing we heard about it to be the news that it had been canceled. Systems Released November 11, 2003 ESRB t Developer(s) Ubisoft Publisher(s) Ubisoft Engine Voyager