Happy 4th anniversary to Everwild! Well, it's kind of an anniversary anyway, as this month marks exactly four years since Rare's new IP was first announced back at X019 in London during November of 2019.
We haven't heard much about the project in 2023 aside from a couple of social media posts, but Rare is clearly still working on it! The company is hiring for multiple positions that mention work on Sea Of Thieves and Everwild.
For example, here's what a job advert for an Engine Programmer says about the role:
"Our cutting-edge Engine team are seeking an aspiring Engine Programmer to join us. You would be working across both Sea of Thieves and Everwild, collaborating with game teams to identify scalable approaches to new problems, optimising and hardening new and existing systems, tracking down tricky bugs and developing new runtime and workflow capabilities to enable us to continue delivering experiences the world doesn’t have."
For those who haven't been in the loop, we've seen all sorts of stories about Everwild over the past few years suggesting it's undergone some major changes internally at Rare, and for now we still don't really know what it is.
Xbox Game Studios seems keen to keep this project in the background and remain quiet until there's something significant to say, and ultimately that's probably for the best. We're certainly hoping it'll end up being worth the wait, but there are plenty of skeptics who question whether it'll ever hit the market at all. Only time will tell!