Double Fine’s Tim Schafer Rules Out More Sequels for Now, So You Can Forget About Brütal Legend 2 and Psychonauts 3

Double Fine is poised to merchandise a marque caller crippled called Keeper successful October, but what comes aft that? According to improvement main Tim Schafer, he’s moving connected aggregate projects astatine the Microsoft-owned studio, nary of which are sequels.

Keeper is an atmospheric puzzle escapade successful which a long-forgotten lighthouse is awakened and goes connected a journey. It’s led by Double Fine’s Lee Petty, which means Tim Schafer is hands-off and escaped to enactment connected different things.

What are those different things? Speaking to IGN astatine gamescom 2025, Schafer of people wouldn’t divulge Double Fine’s upcoming games, but did accidental the workplace has aggregate projects successful the works and they’re each archetypal IP.

"I'm moving connected different stuff,” helium confirmed. “The workplace is doing aggregate projects close present and they're each archetypal IPs, due to the fact that we did Psychonauts 2 and that volition clasp america for sequels for a while."

So, that rules retired Psychonauts 3 oregon — and this was ever an improbable 1 — Brütal Legend 2, astatine slightest successful the abbreviated to mid-term. As crippled developers are fond of saying, ne'er accidental never, but Schafer’s alternatively definitive remark gives america an thought of what to expect from Double Fine successful the coming years — and that is the unexpected.

Psychonauts 2 was Double Fine’s archetypal merchandise pursuing Microsoft’s acquisition of the institution successful 2019. Schafer has spoken earlier astir however Double Fine had to chopped brag fights from the crippled owed to fund concerns, but the Microsoft buyout meant it had the resources to adhd them backmost in. Schafer described Keeper arsenic smaller-scale compared to Psychonauts 2, but with an awesome level of quality.

Psychonauts 2 yet came retired successful 2021. Now, 4 years later, Double Fine is astir to merchandise its adjacent game. Keeper comes retired October 17, 2025, connected PC and Xbox Series X and S.

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