On the back of Matsuno’s name, Unsung story raised $ 660,126 through Kickstarter with the help of nearly 16,000 backers. Although it was the first half of 2014, it looked like the development team was making good progress in the game. And then there were frequent and long periods when Playdek did not share updates. These were interrupted by mixed messages from the company.
Playdek’s dark behavior then all culminated in 2017. After eight months of radio silence, the company announced that it would stop the project. A new developer and publisher called Little Orbit, best known for creating licensed games based on properties like Barbie and Kung Fu Panda, stepped in to take over. Little Orbit claims it did not receive any Kickstarter money raised by Playdek and that it had to start the game from scratch.
The studio says it will be emailing a Steam Key to anyone who supported the project in the coming days. Little Orbit hopes to eventually port Unsung story to other platforms including Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. Whether the game will live up to anyone’s expectations at this point is hard to say, but the fact that it’s finally making its way to people is more than anyone could have foreseen in 2017.