Don't Nod delays second half of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage for 'optimisation and refinement'

Life is Strange creator Don’t Nod is delaying the second half of its upcoming narrative adventure Lost Records: Bloom & Rage by a month, with Tape 2 now set to release on 15th April.

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage marks the first time since 2020’s Twin Mirror that Don’t Nod has revisited the narrative adventure genre that put it on the map, and it follows the story of four high-school friends across two timelines. One half recounts the group’s hazily nostalgic “magical summer” of 1995, while the second timeline picks up 27 years later, when the friends reunite to “confront the long-buried secret that made them promise to never speak again.”

It’s a tale that’ll also be split across two releases, with Tape 1 (“Bloom”) launching for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on 18th February. Part 2 (“Rage”) was previously scheduled to launch a month later on 18th March, but Don’t Nod has now announced it’s pushing Tape 2’s release back an additional four weeks, to 15th April.

In a statement detailing the delay, the studio said it had made the decision in order to “allow for additional optimisation and to give the team the necessary time to refine the experience for players and enhance the storytelling for a truly immersive continuation of the journey.”