Fortuneās Run is a sci-fi immersive sim about surviving the industrial wreckage of Earth after humanity has escaped to the stars. The shooter RPG blew some critics away when they tried the demo back in 2023. Now the early access gameās future has been plunged into uncertainty after its developer revealed sheās going to prison.
The creator of Fortuneās Run, who goes by Dizzie on Steam, announced Tuesday night that her past had caught up with her. āIāve been sentenced to prison for the next 3 years,ā she wrote on the gameās Steam page. āItās a long story, but Iāve lived a very different life before I was a game developer, and I wasnāt living very well. My case is about 5 years old now, I have been going through the legal process the whole time Iāve been working on this. I have finally been found guilty and sentenced, and Iām going away next month.ā
Fortuneās Run has been in early access for over a year at a price of $20. It currently has just over one hundred user reviews with a Steam rating of 90 percent. Itās due to receive more updates and content, but thereās no telling when, if ever, the game will actually be completed at this point. āItās a shame, but itās the consequences of my actions,ā the developer continued. āI was a very violent person and I hurt a lot of people in my life. Unfortunately, the sentence isnāt going to help with that at all, but I guess we all know that. So the game isnāt TOTALLY dead, but unfortunately due to even further bad things happening, itās unclear what will happen.ā
The development of Fortune's Run has stopped because… THE DEVELOPER IS GOING TO PRISON?! pic.twitter.com/VPkOE4vMiZ
— Dave NewBlood (@DaveOshry) January 15, 2025
The game is a boomer shooter take on PC classics like Deus Ex and Thief,Ā with the grimy post-apocalyptic punk visual style of the early Fallout games. Itās mission-based instead of an open-ended sandbox, making it a unique blend of old-school PC gaming sensibilities. Fortuneās Run is the kind of game about which people constantly write things like, āHow is nobody talking about Fortuneās Run?ā It was already a cult hit with the potential to be a lowkey GOTY-contender whenever it came out of early access.
āI know many of you will be upset and disappointed but please understand that thereās absolutely nothing I can do, these wheels were in motion long before I started making this game and itās just been slowly unraveling in my face the whole time,ā Dizzie wrote. āI want to underline that Iām no longer in financial dire straits since our game actually sold OK, so I should be able to afford rent once I get out, so thereās a chance that if you wait a few years Iāll be able to cap off the release. In fact, thereās not very much content left to work on, Iāve been making stubs and prototypes of the missing levels in my spare time.ā
Before going to prison, the developer left players with one last update. It includes new missions, story sequences, puzzles, objects in the environments to interact with, and āhundreds upon hundreds of bug fixes.ā However, itāll break playersā existing saves and thereās no one to QA it. Itās unclear if Dizzie will be communicating with fans again before development goes on hiatus or if this is the last communication for some time. The game remains available to buy on Steam.
