Europa, the absolutely lovely looking Ghibli-inspired exploration adventure from developer Helder Pinto, has been delayed – and will now likely launch for PC this “summer”.
Europa – a “peaceful game of adventure, exploration, and meditation” set on a terraformed moon in Jupiter’s shadow – has been in the works since 2017 (Pinto, a former principle art lead at Blizzard has described it as a “passion project”), but it finally got a release date at the end of last year, with the team aiming to launch on 16th April 2024.
However, with that date just weeks away now, Pinto has made the decision to push Europa’s release back by a couple of months, “probably until summer”.
“Europa began as a side project I created alone,” Pinto wrote in a message shared on Steam, “and in the years since it has grown more than I ever could have dreamed, though we are still working in the evenings and weekends around our day jobs. I’m very proud of what we’ve done together – which is why I can’t stand the thought of releasing the game before it’s in the condition we want it to be.”