

The sequel was originally announced just over a year ago - publisher Microids announced via Twitter that the game was in production. Adding insult to injury, Conrad’s best friend Ian is being kidnapped in front of him. According to a release, after “defeating the Master Brain in the previous episode, Conrad and his allies are once again facing the Morphs species, threatening all civilizations. The sequel, developed by Microids Studio Lyon, comes 30 years after the launch of the original cult classic action-adventure game.


Announced during the 2022 Summer Game Fest livestream, the game will be released in winter 2022. What we do know, though, is that it's planned to release on PC and unspecified consoles some time next year, and that additional details will be shared in due course.Flashback 2 finally has a release window. Whether it'll see a return to the retro rotoscoped beauty of the original, or something more along the lines of its comparatively new-fangled successors, remains to be seen - as does pretty much everything else given the limited information in Microids' announcement tweet. Now, with Flashback's 30th anniversary looming, French publisher Microids has announced it's working on a new sequel, which, despite the existence of Fade to Black, it's calling Flashback 2. Flashback as it appeared for its 25th anniversary re-release in 2018.

Hart on the trail of shapeshifting aliens attempting to infiltrate human society - an investigation that, much like Delphine's earlier Another World, took the form of a platform-puzzler, complete with strikingly cinematic rotoscoped visuals.įlashback proved to be enough of a hit that, in 1995, it received a sequel titled Fade to Black, which took the series into full 3D for some third-person adventuring - and it even got the 2.5D remake treatment, albeit one that wasn't especially well-received, in 2013. The original Flashback, released by Delphine Software in 1992, followed the far-flung future adventures of agent Conrad B. Developer Microids has revealed it's working on a direct sequel to 16-bit sci-fi classic Flashback - something of a surprising announcement, given it already has one.
