Summary
- Rare recently shared a holiday greetings card featuring new artwork from its next game, Everwild.
- Everwild fans have been eager for updates since the game was last shown off in 2020, but rumors of a turbulent development cycle since then have put a damper on hopes.
- The sudden acknowledgment of Everwild has fans optimistic that Rare is gearing up to reveal new details about the game in 2025, although the studio has made no such suggestions.
A new holiday greetings card from Rare has fans hopeful that the studio will share more information about its next game, Everwild, in 2025. As it stands, development on Everwild has been underway for over six years and Rare hasn’t provided any updates on the game since 2020, but the studio might just be ready to open up about it next year.
Everwild was first revealed in November 2019 as Rare’s next game after the highly-successful Sea of Thieves. The studio then showed up at the Xbox Games Showcase in June 2020 with another stunning trailer for Everwild. Following this instance, though, something reportedly went awry with Everwild‘s development. Back in 2021, it was claimed that Everwild was a “mess” behind the scenes, and that Rare supposedly “rebooted” development on the game. Over four years after its last trailer, Everwild‘s release window remains uncertain, but it seems Rare could finally break its silence surrounding the game in 2025.
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2024 brought a couple of encouraging updates about Everwild‘s development, and with the year coming to an end, an unexpected yet welcome acknowledgment from Rare has fans excited about potentially seeing more of the game in 2025. Rare’s official Twitter account recently posted a holiday greetings card featuring some new artwork from Everwild. The image shows off some human characters in cloaks and a pair of fantastical deer-like creatures looking toward a large, purple-leaved tree, all rendered in Everwild‘s beautiful art style.
Rare Holiday Greetings Card Fuels Fan Hopes for Everwild News in 2025
Rare’s acknowledgments of Everwild have been few and far between since the game’s 2020 trailer, so it’s no surprise that the comments underneath the holiday greetings card post are brimming with optimism about more Everwild news in 2025. Given that Everwild has been missing in action for over four years, the prospect of a new gameplay trailer alongside a release window doesn’t seem too far-fetched for next year. However, Rare has not made any suggestions of the sort, so Everwild fans should keep their expectations in check.
Even if Rare doesn’t have any plans to show off Everwild next year, though, the new artwork is at least a positive indicator of the game being actively worked on. Only time will tell whether Everwild fans will receive more clarity about the game next year, but with Xbox’s 2025 release schedule teeming with high-profile first-party releases like Avowed, South of Midnight, Fable, The Outer Worlds 2, Doom: The Dark Ages, and more, it seems likely that Rare may target 2026 for Everwild instead to give the game some breathing room.
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