Unannounced Guilty Gear Game Reportedly Cancelled

By Elijah Gonzalez | July 14, 2025 | 4:40pm

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Unannounced Guilty Gear Game Reportedly Cancelled

According to a report from Insider Gaming, an unannounced Guilty Gear game has been cancelled at Arc System Works. While the anonymous source didn’t specify the reason for the decision, this apparently took place within the last few weeks.

While it’s not unusual for games to be cancelled or restarted internally, considering the lengthy development periods of most modern titles, it may be quite a while until we see a new entry in the series. There was a six-year gap between the most recent title, Guilty Gear Strive, and its predecessor, Xrd -REVELATOR-. Four years after the release of Strive, it seems safe to guess that the gap between it and its follow-up will be quite a bit longer, assuming that the cancelled game was a mainline fighting game and not a spin-off.

Guilty Gear released in 2021 and is by far the highest-selling installment in the series, moving over 3 million copies as of last year. It has received steady support over that time, and is currently in its fourth season of DLC, with 16 characters added to the game’s base 15-fighter roster. Lucy from Cyberpunk Edgerunners is the next playable character coming to the game, and she’ll be the final addition to Season 4. Strive is also slated to receive a ranked mode in an upcoming patch.

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A few days ago, Guilty Gear Strive producer, Ken Miyauchi, said in an interview with Dexerto that there’s something “big” coming for Strive that would surprise players, implying that the game would be receiving a fifth season of DLC or something more. As for playable characters from previous mainline fighting games who haven’t returned yet (and are still alive), there’s Answer, Kum Haehyun, Jam Kuradoberi, Raven, and Zappa, making them all likely additions alongside potential newcomers.

Arc System Works is currently working on multiple games, including the recently announced 4v4 tag fighting game Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls, the interactive adventure title Dear me, I was… which features art by Taisuke Kanasaki (Hotel Dusk: Room 215), and the single-player experience Damon and Baby.

The studio has experimented with the Guilty Gear series in the past, like with the 2007 release Guilty Gear 2: Overture, which was a strategy game. It’s possible that this cancelled Guilty Gear could have been one such experiment, but there’s no way to confirm this. Due to Guilty Gear 2: Overture, there was a 12-year gap without a new mainline Guilty Gear fighting game (Guilty Gear X2 came out in 2002, and Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN- was in 2014). Let’s hope we’re not waiting that long for Strive’s successor.