Beyond Good And Evil 20th Anniversary Edition Could Be On The Way

French gamemaker Michel Ancel doesn’t work for Ubisoft anymore, but he was once considered their most valuable employee, having created the Rayman series and its first few releases. His “magnum opus,” though, was Beyond Good And Evil, an action adventure title that got a lot of praise from critics, but was ignored by gamers.

Y’see, the game market of twenty years ago was driven by image-obsessed, edgelord bros who demanded GTA and GTA clones from their consoles and bristled at any product that could even remotely be considered family-friendly, calling it “kiddy.” BG&E was a very good game, but it had a talking pig, so it was for babies or something. For the record I bought the game on PS2 and enjoyed it, but I was an outcast freak, so I don’t count.

In the years since, people came to realize they had tossed aside a great game and Beyond Good And Evil started getting the attention it had lacked when sales mattered. That was enough to get Ubi interested in a sequel many years later….a sequel that they showed a concept for in 2017, that had almost nothing to do with the original game at all. No one wanted that, and development went back into silence. We may never get a second BG&E, but we’ll always have the original.

Or will we? An HD version of the game was released in 2011, but it isn’t available on modern consoles and the PC version bugs itself out on Steam Deck (I have tried; no soap). This game needs to be released again! And Ubi may be listening.

The website Gematsu caught an ESRB rating for Beyond Good And Evil 20th Anniversary Edition. This version of the game would be released for Playstation 5, Playstation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Ubi has not announced the rerelease yet, but the ESRB usually doesn’t make things up.

When more is revealed about Beyond Good And Evil 20th Anniversary Edition, like a trailer, we’ll pass on the news.