Drinkbox Studios pushes Blighted to 2027

• Coverage of a studio update says the team wants extra time for polish and final tuning.
• Drinkbox Studios is the Canadian studio behind Guacamelee and Nobody Saves the World.

What happened

Multiple reports say Blighted has been pushed back from its previously mentioned fall 2026 window to 2027. A GamesPress item titled “Drinkbox Studios' Blighted Now Arriving in 2027” states the new timing directly. Its summary also says Drinkbox plans to share another developer update later in the winter, suggesting the studio will continue talking about the game as it moves through 2027.

Other summaries of the same update, including one from Nintendo Everything, also say the game has been delayed and that Drinkbox wants the extra time to further polish it. That coverage quotes Josh Davis, who says the team is working hard and needs more time. The available context does not give a new exact release date within 2027, only that the game is expected sometime that year.

The directly available source in this set is a Reddit post titled that Blighted has been delayed to 2027. It references Drinkbox Studios and identifies the studio as the maker of Guacamelee and Nobody Saves the World, but it does not include a full official announcement. As a result, the delay here is mainly supported by secondary reporting and a press release title rather than a full written statement in the source set.

External context points in the same direction. A Dork summary says DrinkBox Studios moved Blighted from autumn 2026 to 2027 for Switch 2 and PC. Another summary, from Techtroduce, likewise says the studio shifted the release from fall 2026 to 2027 and needs more time for polish and tuning. Within the provided sources, that is the clearest explanation for the delay.

Background

Drinkbox Studios is a Canadian developer based in Toronto. The studio is best known for the Guacamelee series and Nobody Saves the World, and describes Blighted as a Metroidvania action-RPG. In the provided context, the game is also linked to a release on Switch 2 and PC, although that platform information comes from an external summary rather than the Reddit post itself.

The available sources do not mention a final technical or content-related reason for the delay. The only concrete explanation in the provided context is that the studio wants more time for polish and to finish the game. That matches the wording in the Nintendo Everything summary and the Techtroduce summary, both of which point to extra time for refinement.

The source set also mentions a later developer update in the winter, but no date is given. That suggests Drinkbox is not ending communication about Blighted with this delay, but planning a follow-up update. No new gameplay details, trailer information, or changes to the project itself are included in the provided sources.