Everwild canceled amid Microsoft Gaming layoffs

New IP shuttered after a decade of development.

Rare‘s November 2019-announced original intellectual property Everwild has been canceled amid mass layoffs at Microsoft Gaming, according to reports by VGC and Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier.

According to developers who worked on the project, via VGC, Everwild has been in development in some form for over 10 years, but struggled to nail down a clear direction, even after a recent reboot.

In a February 2025 interview, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer said that the Everwild development team was making “progress.”

Everwild would have been Rare’s first brand-new release since Sea of Thieves, which launched in 2018.