Lost PlayStation exclusive The Tomorrow Children will return, after its developer regained the rights in a rare deal with Sony.
The Tomorrow Children is going to be a one-time purchase game now after the decision of Q-Games goes through.
I enjoyed this game and was sad to see it go. It’s strange and satisfying all at once. I look forward to playing it again.
From GI.biz: "Towards the tail end of 2021, Q-Games accomplished something very rare in this industry: it had reclaimed its intellectual property, specifically for PS4 exclusive The Tomorrow Children.
In the announcement tweet, the Japan-based company described it as "a historical move by Sony Interactive Entertainment" and it's hard to argue with that. The game was originally published as a second-party title, funded by PlayStation, and it's typical for the platform holder to retain the IP rights in such a partnership."
The Tomorrow Children was shut down not long after its release in 2016 but, five years later, director Dylan Cuthbert is trying to regain the rights to the lost PlayStation exclusive.
To give it some credit, it was the first game that I'm aware of with real-time Global Illumination with bounces, two I think but it could have been more than that. Global Illumination in this case means that you could be in a cave and even though there's no light source directly lighting the inside it would be lit by the light bounces from the lighting outside.
That's impressive on the PS4, and the reflections were really good as well. I don't think they were raytraced but, I could be wrong, they didn't rely on screen-space or reflection capture.
Wow just talked about this game recently too. Literally a game where you just....work.
The online was ass and the whole system was very disjointed in what the purpose of it was. You also couldn't keep players out of your lobby and the bigger lobbies always lagged like crazy. It was also very repetitive and players would just keep generating electricity when other things were dried out. They didn't even pay attention or care to organize.
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW HAPPY I AMMMMMMM!!!! We are a small group, but we fans of TTC were so heartbroken when the game shut down. We always talk with them on Twitter about how much the game meant to us and how much we missed it. It really is a dream come true to have it come back, I absolutely cannot wait to be in the world again. I hope lots of new people join in on the weirdness and enjoy the incredible atmosphere of the game. Also praying for a PC version where I think it will really shine.
I knew this was happening in the background but never thought it would actually happen. This is great news for the fans of the game.
It was a neat little game/experience.
Very cool of Sony to relinquish the rights to the dev.
This was an extremely unique game. Please make this on next gen with RT it will shine with that plastic pladough look
Cool I always wanted to play this but by the time end checked it out it was getting shut down . I’ll give it a fo this time around