Blade Runner 2099 – an upcoming TV miniseries coming to Amazon Prime Video, acting as a sequel to Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017) – might be getting a video game. And a ‘triple-A’ video game, at that. At least that’s according to Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, executive producers for Blade Runner 2099 and co-CEOs of Alcon Entertainment (which owns the Blade Runner IP).
In a new interview with IGN, the duo reveal that they had thought about adapting the Blade Runner fracnhise into a game, and that – should it come to fruition – it would target “triple-A” in scope. Other than that, the duo seemed to want to keep any potential information to themselves. Given they appear to be in talks about the title, rather than in any active development, if something did come of this ideation, it would no doubt be a long, long way off. Kosove and Johnson’s aim seems to be getting players to “interact” more with the world of Blade Runner, which has recently been fleshed out by the 2017 movie and is set to be developed more in the upcoming series.
Of course, we’ve seen Blade Runner games before. There was 1997’s simply-titled Blade Runner – developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive – which was a point-and-click adventure that really seemed to pick up the vibes the original Ridley Scott was putting down. An Enhanced Edition of the game was released in 2022, which is actually more of a remake than a simple enhancement.
Then, in 2023, Annapurna Interactive unveiled its very first internally-developed game, in the form of Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth. The game, which promised to riff on the dystopian universe established in Ridley Scott’s cult classic movie, would have been sandwiched squarely between that film and its sequel, Blade Runner 2049. It was going to be set in LA after the Blackout hits, but beyond that – and the fact it’s coming to PC and consoles at some point – few details ever managed to break through the PR barrier before the game went dark: it’s been removed from Annapurna’s website and delisted from Steam. Curious.
If you want to see something more from the cyberpunk world sooner, Blade Runner 2099 releases on Prime Video on 25th November.
