IDW was suppose to release Metal Gear Solid: The board game later this year, but after successive delays, the company decided to walk away from the project instead.
As Dicebreaker reportAfter IDW delayed the game from “early 2019” to “summer 2020” and then “2021”, IDW felt they had to make even more adjustments to the original design, and that “Finally the amount of time it took to implementing these changes has only taken longer than expected and our window to send the game on time is closed. ”
While IDW’s involvement in the game now ends, it’s not necessarily curtains for the game itself. Creator Emerson Matsuuchi offered to pay IDW to get the game on the shelves, and when they turned down the offer, he started with publisher Nazca Games to get his hands on the M.etal Equipment license from Konami itself.
Wwhile Matsuuchi is ‘optimistic’ about his chances, given the complicated international licensing that knows how it will eliminate.