It’s been revealed that multiple LEGO video game projects have fallen victim to inner turmoil at TT Games in recent months and years, including a dungeon-crawling adventure bringing together multiple Disney properties.
As reported by NintendoLife, the game would have brought together the likes of Toy Story, The Muppets, Jungle Book, Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean, Maleficent, Frozen and Winnie the Pooh among others, with a story about a spreading corruption that would take players to multiple dungeon-like areas spread across a large overworld. The report acknowledges how similar this premise is to Disney Dreamlight Valley, Gameloft’s life sim-esque game that launched in early access last year, going so far as to cite that game’s launch as one of the final killing blows to TT’s project.
TT Games was the subject of scrutiny early last year with a number of employees speaking out against mismanagement, planned crunch, harassment amid ongoing struggles related to the switch from the company’s in-house NT engine to Unreal Engine 5 and the scope of the LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga project.
Other LEGO titles in development that have apparently been axed along with Disney include a Guardians of the Galaxy game, a Warner Bros. mashup game featuring Stranger Things, Rick and Morty, Looney Tunes and DC and a mobile version of LEGO Worlds.
Despite the huge success of last year’s Skywalker Saga, an in-development Mandalorian expansion for that game is seemingly also in trouble as well as a new LEGO Batman entry, due to other Saga-sized projects taking priority.
We gave LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga an 8.5/10 in our review, saying “I’ve been around the block(s) with TT’s games for some 15 years now, and this is without a doubt the best thing they’ve ever snapped together. If you’re a gamer who’s young or young-at-heart-container, I’d be very surprised if this didn’t instantly click with you.”
