{"id":47980,"date":"2025-05-14T16:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T07:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=47980"},"modified":"2025-05-14T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T07:23:00","slug":"square-enix-cancels-kingdom-hearts-missing-links-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/square-enix-cancels-kingdom-hearts-missing-links-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix cancels Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link&#8217;s development\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sqare Enix has cancelled the development of <strong>Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link<\/strong>. According to an update posted on May 14, the company determined that it would be \u201cdifficult to provide a service that would satisfy players in the long term.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An important announcement regarding KINGDOM HEARTS Missing-Link. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pXL2ULBV8k\">pic.twitter.com\/pXL2ULBV8k<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Official KINGDOM HEARTS Missing-Link (@KHMLink_NA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KHMLink_NA\/status\/1922540374167364055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link was a&nbsp;GPS-based action RPG meant to depict the \u201cblank periods\u201d of the Kingdom Heart series. It was originally announced back in April 2022 along with Kingdom Hearts IV, and was initially planned for release in 2024 across mobile platforms. Although this was delayed, there were some small-scale prototype tests and multiple closed beta tests conducted for the game in the meantime, and development seemed to be progressing. Unfortunately, it seems the project has since fallen through.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1055\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kh-20250514-338882-001-1980x1055-1.webp\" alt=\"Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link\" class=\"wp-image-47983\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kh-20250514-338882-001-1980x1055-1.webp 1980w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kh-20250514-338882-001-1980x1055-1-380x202.webp 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kh-20250514-338882-001-1980x1055-1-768x409.webp 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/kh-20250514-338882-001-1980x1055-1-1536x818.webp 1536w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the announcement, it appears Square Enix judged that Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link would not be able to retain long-term user satisfaction, and thus decided to cut its losses without releasing the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the other hand, Square Enix assures Kingdom Hearts fans that work on Kingdom Hearts IV is still fully in progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix&#8217;s free-to-play GPS-based RPG Kingdom Hearts Missing-Link has been cancelled after multiple closed beta tests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":47982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-47980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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