After 11 years in limbo, acclaimed indie Cart Life isn't making a return as the award winning game's remake is "dead" and not "suitable for selling and buying"
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Cart Life’s re-release, the melancholy retail simulation of a life spent running a food carts, seems to be cancelled.
Developer Richard Hofmeier subsequently pulled the game from Steam, instead opting to release the source code for free since he no longer wanted to update and upkeep the game while still charging people. Unresolved bugs in the source code largely meant that the game was nearly unplayable, though, prompting Hofmeier to begin work on a remake/remaster that would pull the classic out of limbo in collaboration with AdHoc Studio, an indie outfit made up of former Telltale leads.
In Steam forumcomments, Hofmeier now simply states that “the project is dead” and “nobody is going to ‘play’ it because what we made isn’t suitable for selling and buying.” Apparently the remake’s fate had been decided last October as “other contributors understandably moved onto more promising titles,” though Hofmeier is still working on the game “in private.” He adds: “It is better now to focus on hopeful outcomes elsewhere in projects that look to the uncertain future with a spirit of possibility.”
Cart Life is still the only game listed on AdHoc Studio’s officialwebsite, but we’ve reached out to the company for clarification on the project’s status.
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