But if it's with Embracer, there's a very real chance that a sequel could be on the cards one day, although you would have to imagine that those bigger IPs will be top of Embracer's priorities list right now, and the deal is still young.Īnother question arises, though. If the IP remains with Square, it's safe to say it's as good as dead. Embracer has been specifically asked about Sleeping Dogs, but has not confirmed whether it was among the Square IPs included in the bulk deal. Back in May, Square Enix sold off a bunch of its western studios and IPs to Embracer for just $300 million - a deal that apparently included "more than 50 back-catalogue games" on top of the big ones that were actually name-checked, such as Tomb Raider and Deus Ex (and Legacy of Kain, be still my beating heart). It is believed that Square Enix retained the rights, so the developer's closure shouldn't cause any issues, although recent developments further muddy the water. That question, as it turns out, is actually quite difficult to answer, as it isn't even entirely clear where the rights to the Sleeping Dogs IP currently lie. The question is, where does that leave any hopes for a sequel today? United Front spent the next few years effectively running odd jobs (like helping out with development of Halo: The Master Chief Collection) before it closed its doors for good in 2016. Shortly after, the team's attention turned to a free-to-play Sleeping Dogs spin-off called Triad Wars, but that too was axed before it even left beta. Patrick Klepek did an excellent deep dive into the sequel we never got over on Vice back in 2016, including insight from the original team and design documents - it's well worth a read and discusses lots of planned features, including co-op play, procedurally generated side missions a la Skyrim, a companion app that lets a second player run the police force (Watch Dogs later did something similar), and more.
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United Front quickly started pre-production work on a sequel, but Sleeping Dogs 2 was cancelled in 2013 before it even went into full production.
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Despite selling several million copies in just a few months, a Square Enix report in 2013 called out Sleeping Dogs - along with the Tomb Raider reboot and Hitman: Absolution - as failures, stating that the three games "failed to reach their respective targets, and resulted in financially unsatisfactory consequences." The game did get an upgrade for the then-new Xbox One in 2014, with Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition delivering an even better version of an already excellent game, but criminally, that's where Wei Shen's story ends.
So how come we've managed to go a decade without a sequel?United Front's Sleeping Dogs launched in August 2012 as a spiritual successor to the True Crime series, with the game actually starting life as a new True Crime title before it was cancelled by Activision then picked up and rebranded by Square Enix.
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Xbox Series X|S Opinion Luke Albigés Sleeping Dogs launched ten years ago today, and the open-world action game proved a hit with players and critics alike.
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