Children of Morta Nintendo Switch Version Receives One Month Delay

Written by Brandon Hofer on October 07, 2019

News: If you were wanting to play Children of Morta on Nintendo’s portable platform, the wait just got a little bit longer.

Children of Morta is slated to arrive on October 15th for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. If you are looking forward to playing it on your Nintendo Switch though, you will have to wait a little while longer. Earlier today developer Dead Mage and publisher 11 bit studios revealed that they have had to delay Children of Morta for the Switch. As it turns out it isn’t a really long delay with the new release date for the Switch version being on November 20, 2019, but you will have to wait a little over an extra month. While delays always suck, many times it is worth the extended wait so that the game can arrive in the condition the development team envisioned, instead of a potentially broken mess.

Dead Mage wrote an open letter to their fans which you can see in its entirety below:

”To the players and our fans,

Spending 5 years creating a game is exhausting. Spending 5 years creating a game and then having to delay it -- that’s just brutal -- but when you’re aiming for excellence and you know it’s within your grasp, you just do it. Such is the case with Children of Morta on the Nintendo Switch. We still have a couple of kinks to work out and are pushing for quality over anything else. The community may forgive us for the delay, but forgiveness won’t come so easily if we release a game that’s not working perfectly. As delivering the best performance is our highest priority, we are simply delaying the game to November 20th to allow ourselves the time we need. Xbox One and PlayStation 4 releases are going as planned on the 15th of October.

At 11 bit studios, there is no space for compromise when it comes to quality. For players, it means a bit more of a wait. For us, a bit more hard work which we’re glad to do because, in the end, we all have the same goal -- a fantastic game.

Kind regards,
Dead Mage & 11 bit studios”

For those who might not have been following Children of Morta’s development, Children of Morta is an action RPG with a rogue-lite approach to character development, where you don’t play a single character - but a whole, extraordinary family of heroes. You will have to hack’n’ slash through hordes of enemies in procedurally generated dungeons, caves, and lands and lead the family of Bergson's, with all their flaws and virtues, against the forthcoming Corruption.

Take a look at the trailer below and then tell us what you think. Will you be picking up Children of Morta on Xbox One or PlayStation 4? If you were planning on picking up the Nintendo Switch version, will you still get it on November 20th?