State of Decay 3 is still actively being worked on, and “The Coalition”, the Gears of War development team, is using Unreal Engine 5 to do it
This news comes to us via Xbox Games Studio Head Matt Booty who was a recent guest on the Xbox Major Nelson podcast. During this episode, Booty goes over the studios under the Xbox name with the host Larry Hryb when the topic of Undead Labs (The developer behind State Of Decay) came up.
Regarding the studio’s upcoming projects Booty stated:
”[Undead Labs is] working with The Coalition up in Vancouver, our Gears of War studio. Using some of the technology around Unreal Engine 5 and some of the stuff that’s been in Gears of War before to bring that into State of Decay.”
Booty goes on to say:
“The week before last, we spent all day at Undead Labs in Seattle, which was great, getting the update on State of Decay 3, which has really got some cool stuff.”
The Xbox head then goes on to talk about State of Decay 2 which, in his words, “just continues to grow its user base” before going on to say: “The things they are doing there [on State of Decay 2], are really the testbed, the proving grounds, for all the stuff that’s going in State of Decay 3.”
State of Decay 3 is still currently under development and though we don’t have a set release date as of yet we do know that the game is being developed for Xbox Series X/S and PC.
Undead Labs stated the project was in early pre-production when it was unveiled in 2020, but there haven’t been any updates since then, so this is the first major news we have gotten in two years from the developers.
You can watch the full podcast below:
Booty also cited the upcoming inXile project as something very fascinating in a conversation with Major Nelson. He even said that Phil Spencer had to play the game for a while during a recent visit. According to rumors, the next title from inXile will be a steampunk role-playing game made by former Arcanum developers.
Stay tuned as we keep up with the latest developments on this topic and watch out for any news regarding this popular upcoming title in the State Of Decay franchise.