IDW was supposed letting go Metal Gear Solid: The Board Game later this year, but after a succession of delays, the company has decided to abandon the project.
Like Dicebreaker report, after delaying the game from ‘early 2019’ to ‘summer 2020’ and then ‘2021’, IDW felt they needed to make even more tweaks to the original design, and that ‘ultimately the amount of time it took to make these changes To take effect just got longer than expected and our game ship on time window closed. “
While IDW’s involvement in the game has now come to an end, they aren’t necessarily curtains for the game itself. Creator Emerson Matsuuchi offered to pay IDW to get the game over and on the shelves, and when they declined that offer, he began teaming up with publisher Nazca Games to bring the Metal Gear license from Konami itself.
W.hile Matsuuchi is “optimistic” about his chances given the complexities of international licensing, who knows how that will change.