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The Follow-Up to One of 2024’s Best Games May Never Happen

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The games industry is in free fall, with massive layoffs hitting on a near weekly basis.

For smaller developers, like Surgent Studios , the situation is even more grim.

The studio is pitching a new game, Project Uso , an Afro -gothic, choice-driven RPG inspired by Planescape : Torment.

Surgent's attempts to bring diversity to games is the reason for the studio’s financial troubles.

Content creators have honed in on its involvement with consultancy Sweet Baby Inc. , which has been the target of an ongoing harassment campaign for advising studios on the representations of minority groups in their games.

“You can't reason with these people,” says Wendy Via , cofounder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.

“There's a part of me that looks at her and then sees what's going on in the world, with Palestine , with Ukraine , with everywhere,” he says. “I don't want her to see that, but at the same time, this is the truth.”.