Development of Rocksteady\u2019s 2024 Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League made one of its directors want to stop making games entirely.<\/p>\n
Axel Rydby<\/a> is one of four directors who worked on Rocksteady<\/a>\u2019s Suicide Squad game, and he\u2019s shared his experience with its troubled development.<\/p>\n Rydby joined the acclaimed studio in 2018, shortly after the studio released its last Batman: Arkham game. \u201cThere was definitely a sense when we first moved on to it \u2014 arrogance is the wrong word, but a confidence,\u201d Armstrong told Bloomberg<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019re coming back off hit after hit. Of course we\u2019ll be able to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n Executives from publisher Warner Bros.<\/a> were eager to make a tidy profit from the live-service game, but Rydby didn\u2019t want players to feel they needed to \u201cbuy a bunch of crap to enjoy the game.\u201d Over time, and after being delayed from 2022 to 2024, the priorities of the executives shifted toward recouping their investment.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s when I started feeling like I wasn\u2019t making games anymore,\u201d Rydby shared. \u201cI was following a spreadsheet, some elusive marketing-analysis spreadsheet that no one could present clearly. I kind of felt like this isn\u2019t the gaming industry I wanted to work in.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, Rydby has teamed up with fellow former Rocksteady developer, Johnny Armstrong, and has launched a Kickstarter for the indie title Secret of Circadia<\/a>.<\/p>\n In February 2025, it was reported that Rocksteady was working on a new single-player Batman game<\/a>. Later that year in July 2025, it was reported that Rocksteady was hiring for a new live-service game<\/a>.<\/p>\n