{"id":59656,"date":"2026-06-10T19:49:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59656"},"modified":"2026-06-10T19:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:49:45","slug":"a-ps5-reveal-game-no-shows-summer-game-fest-again-11-years-after-its-kickstarter-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=59656","title":{"rendered":"A PS5 reveal game no-shows Summer Game Fest again, 11 years after its Kickstarter reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Though the tumultuous summer of 2020 was only six years ago, it feels more like six decades have passed. While the world was falling apart and we were all stuck inside due to the COVID-19 pandemic, gamers at least had some form of an escape with a new console generation on the horizon. Both Microsoft and Sony revealed their new hardware, and the internet immediately made countless jokes comparing the PlayStation 5 to Wi-Fi routers. Everyone\u2019s a comedian.<\/p>\n

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Sony\u2019s \u201cFuture of Gaming\u201d 2020 event included plenty of exciting announcements, like the exclusives Returnal<\/em> and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart<\/em> being shown off for the first time. Third-party studios also revealed plenty of games, and now that Pragmata<\/em> has finally been released, all the games from that PlayStation 5 reveal stream are out in the wild. Except for one, that is.<\/p>\n

Stylish indie Little Devil Inside<\/em> was featured alongside those heavy hitters during the PS5 reveal stream. I was immediately taken with its art style, humor, and sense of adventure. Its setting is inspired by the Victorian era, but full of monsters and mysterious creatures. You play as a mercenary who sets out to help study those creatures, venturing through forests, riding across deserts, and diving underwater along the way.<\/p>\n

My first exposure to Little Devil Inside<\/em> was during that PS5 reveal stream, and I\u2019m sure plenty of viewers saw the game for the first time then, too. However, that stream wasn\u2019t Little Devil Inside<\/em>\u2019s debut. Turns out Little Devil Inside<\/em> had already been in development for at least five years before that 2020 event.<\/p>\n

Little Devil Inside<\/em> was announced in April 2015, which was approximately 11,000 years ago. A Kotaku article covering its announcement compared it to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker<\/em> and Dark Souls<\/em>. The game\u2019s Kickstarter said developer Neostream Interactive was \u201caiming for a fall 2016 release.\u201d (Y\u2019all, I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to hit a fall 2026<\/em> release at this point.) That Kickstarter page is such a relic from another time that it even has Wii U support as a stretch goal.<\/p>\n

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The game popped up again at Sony\u2019s October 2021 State of Play, with a long gameplay trailer that ended with good news, or at least that\u2019s how it seemed at the time: Little Devil Inside<\/em> received a 2022 release window. An Instagram post in December 2021 narrowed that window to winter 2022. Nice! Except, ya know, it didn\u2019t come out in winter 2022.<\/p>\n

Neostream and Sony were both quiet about Little Devil Inside<\/em> for some time until a February 2024 update to the game\u2019s Kickstarter. Titled \u201cDespite all,\u201d the update included an apology for the delays and hinted at conflict behind the scenes at Neostream. The update ended with a new six-minute-long look at Little Devil Inside<\/em> in Unreal Engine 5 and, gosh darnit, the game still looked amazing.<\/p>\n

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The team posted another Kickstarter update two months later, in April 2024. \u201cWith development cycling on \u2018despite all\u2019 that\u2019s happened, we plan to provide you with periodic updates on what we have worked on,\u201d it begins. It\u2019s the last update posted to the game\u2019s Kickstarter.<\/p>\n

\u201cDid we all get scammed or what? How is this game not finished yet?\u201d one backer commented earlier in 2026. Another replied that projects like Little Devil Inside<\/em> are why they stopped backing projects on Kickstarter. Other commenters on the Kickstarter shared similar sentiments. \u201cHoly shit…over 10 years with no tangible game delivered,\u201d one wrote.<\/p>\n

(The bottom of the Kickstarter has a message reading, \u201cSorry you missed out on this project.\u201d Yeah, I\u2026 I don\u2019t think I\u2019m regretting not backing it. In 2015.)<\/p>\n

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Posts on Little Devil Inside<\/em>\u2019s subreddit are a little more optimistic. \u201cAnother Playstation State of Play announced for June 2nd…we’re so back!\u201d one post reads. (Little Devil Inside<\/em> did not show at June\u2019s State of Play. We are, in fact, not so back.) \u201cLet\u2019s all pray that little devil inside show up tomorrow,\u201d another said. A post from earlier in 2026 asked for recommendations of similar games after the user said they had \u201cbeen waiting for [Little Devil Inside<\/em>] ever since it was announced for ps5 (was the main reason I bought one).\u201d Oh, no<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sony\u2019s June State of Play and the main Summer Game Fest showcase both came and went without an appearance from Little Devil Inside<\/em>, as did Microsoft\u2019s Xbox Games Showcase and Nintendo\u2019s latest Direct. The summer whirlwind of announcements is winding down without a word from Neostream about Little Devil Inside<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I, the 1,100 members of the subreddit, and anyone else looking forward to the game shouldn\u2019t be surprised by its absence, though we can be a wee disappointed. Doubly so for the Kickstarter backers who paid for it 11 years ago. Somewhere out there, someone still wants to play Little Devil Inside<\/em> on their Wii U.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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