If there’s one thing Ready at Dawn co-founder Ru Weerasuriya wishes he could’ve done differently with The Order: 1886, it’s getting more development time for the PS4 exclusive. He revealed in a new interview that the studio cut roughly 30% of the game to hit the game’s release date in February 2015.
Speaking with The Game Business, Weerasuriya discussed how “we really hoped to make a sequel” to The Order: 1886 and ruminated on what happened with the game’s lackluster critical reception. “The game length [GameSpot’s reviewer said it took 6 hours to finish] … that’s something that a lot of people talked about at the time,” Weerasuriya said. “We cut … I want to say 30% of the game a few months before it was released. We decided it had to come out in the time allotted. Were we to do it again, I would’ve probably tried to figure out a way to extend the development.”
In the week leading up to the game’s launch on February 20, 2015, a leaked playthrough of The Order: 1886 appeared on YouTube and showed a person beating the game in five hours. This led to Ready at Dawn denying that claim days later, arguing the game’s length was roughly eight to 10 hours long.