Annapurna Interactive postpones 12 Minutes and more, is aiming for 2021

Annapurna Interactive, publisher of games of the caliber of Outer Wilds e Sayonara Wild Hearts, recently confirmed that three of its scheduled titles for the 2020 have been postponed to 2021. The Artful Escape, 12 Minutes e Last stop they will therefore be launched in 2021 instead of the "broad 2020 release window" originally planned. The publisher revealed the news about via their official account of Twitter, explaining that the developers are refining the titles in question:

Some news: You may have seen a very large 2020 release window for The Artful Escape, 12 Minutes, and Last Stop in trailers or shop pages in the past, but it's almost December and the end of the year is near so we're watching to 2021 right now as everyone gets closer to preparing!

some news: you may have seen a very broad 2020 release window for The Artful Escape, 12 Minutes,
and Last Stop in trailers or on store pages in the past

so it's almost December and the end of the year

we're looking at 2021 now as they all get closer to getting ready! ?

- Annapurna Interactive (@A_i) November 18, 2020

Revealed during the briefing Xbox at E3 2019, 12 Minutes is a top-down murder mystery involving the likes of James McAvoy, Daisy Ridley e Willem Dafoe. Last Stop was also revealed atX019 and is a new game from the creators of Virginia set in modern London. The Artful Escape was first announced during theE3 2017, and later we saw some gameplay videos during E3 2019. Surely these titles have suffered these delays due to, as you can certainly imagine, the pandemic of COVID-19 which has upset 2020 in all its forms. To find out more about the Annapurna Interactive games in question we will therefore necessarily have to wait for the new year.