Ready At Dawn’s Co-Founder Talks About What Happened With The Order: 1886 Never Getting A Sequel

Ready At Dawn is a team that many PlayStation fans would recognize, for its work on Daxter, both God of War games that were made for the PSP, and then on the PS4, its late 19th century third-person, cinematic shooter, The Order: 1886.

While the studio worked with PlayStation quite a bit, it was Meta who would end up acquiring the team in 2020, and then shutting them down four years later in 2024.

Though the studio’s God of War titles and Daxter are all much loved, The Order: 1886 cut its way into the hearts of many a PlayStation fan who gave it a shot. It wasn’t a perfect game, but there are those who loved it, and would have loved to see it given a second chance.

In a recent interview, the studio’s co-founder Andrea Pessino finally spoke about why that never happened. Some of the things that went wrong with the first game’s development, how that contributed to its reception, and then where the chips fell about why a sequel wasn’t in the cards.

Speaking to MinnMax, Pessino said “I don’t think it was the sales, I think it was the critical reception, that’s the thing. Sony is a very proud group and rightfully so, and the critical reception, it it had even been just in the 70s, we would have had the sequel, I’m convinced. Just a few points more and it would have been ok.”