Splash Damage has confirmed that the development of Transformers: Reactivate has been cancelled and the studio will be scaled down. It’s unknown why this decision was made and what the future of Splash Damage will look like going forward.
Transformers: Reactivate was first announced at The Game Awards 2022 with a reveal trailer. It was expected to be a one to four player online action game, where humans rely on Autobots to save Earth from an evil force that has taken over. A beta was supposed to give players some hands-on experience sometime in 2023, but that was delayed. Now with the game fully cancelled, Transformers: Reactivate will never see the light of day.
“This decision has not come lightly”
In a statement shared by Splash Damage on X, the studio informed players that “the decision has been made to end development of Transformers: Reactivate.” Due to the game being scrapped, Splash Damage will be “scaling down to refocus [their] efforts on other projects.” With that comes “roles across the studio now potentially at risk of redundacy.”
With Hasbro owning the Transformers brand, they were involved in Transformers: Reactivate, with Splash Damage acknowledging them as “an incredible and supportive partner throughout.”
The studio’s focus has now switched to supporting colleagues who are expected to be let go, as well as caring for the ones that will remain at Splash Damage.
Many Transformers games that were previously published by Activision were removed from digital storefronts in 2017 after the publisher’s license for the franchise expired. The cancellation of Transformers: Reactivate is yet another blow to fans of the series.
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