Beyond Good an Evil 2 surpasses Duke Nukem Forever as the game with the longest development time

Ubisoft’s Beyond Good & Evil 2 set a new record that literally didn’t take much to achieve.

The project, which has been in development for a long time, has now replaced Duke Nukem Forever as the game with the longest development time.

How long has this been going on now?

Duke Nukem Forever, released in 2011, even held a Guinness World Record for longest development time – at just over 14 years.

And that’s exactly what Beyond Good & Evil 2 surpassed: “Duke Nukem Forever took 5,156 days from announcement in 1997 to release in 2011,” notes GamesIndustry’s Brendan Sinclair on Twitter.

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“It’s 5,234 days [seit dem Tweet] It’s just that the first trailer for Beyond Good & Evil 2 has been released.”

There are similarities in both games. Development was paused, teams changed, and new hardware was released.

Ubisoft released a first CGI trailer for Beyond Good & Evil 2 in 2008, after which it remained silent for many years. In 2016, the game returned to the spotlight during E3, but even there, there was little more than a sneak peek at the current vision for the project.

Michel Ancel, creator of the first part, left Ubisoft in 2020, but the studio is still working on it. When it will appear remains unclear.