Rumor: Is ‘Gabriel Knight 4′ in the works? [Mystery Game X]

In her lat­est video update for Kick­Starter, adven­ture game designer Jane Jensen dropped a huge bomb­shell on her fans:

Her new community-supported game stu­dio, Pinker­ton Road (which recently achieved a $300K fundrais­ing goal on Kick­Starter to pro­duce its first game  Moe­bius ) will be pro­duc­ing a sec­ond game this year, code-named “Mys­tery Game X.”

Rumors are fly­ing among fans of Jensen’s Gabriel Knight series of games that Mys­tery Game X = Gabriel Knight 4, a much-anticipated and long-awaited sequel.

Of the announce­ment, Jensen said, “I’m really not try­ing to be coy or eek out the sus­pense. I would love to tell you what this game is. But, this deal is so new and really we want to wait until we have some fan­tas­tic assets to go along with the announce­ment of this game. So it’s not going to hap­pen before the end of our [Kick­Starter] cam­paign on May 18th.”

But Jane did give us a few other hints to go on.  Here’s what we know so far about Mys­tery Game X:

• It will be a 3rd per­son adven­ture game
• It’s a “dark mys­tery” of the type you’d nor­mally asso­ciate with Jane Jensen works
• Jane says “You’re going to be excited about it.”
• It will be cooler than “Mys­tery Game Y” (Haha!)

Sounds like a Gabriel Knight game to me! Actu­ally, it sounds like any of Jane’s games, but I’m thrilled with this news even if the announce­ment doesn’t turn out to be about Gabriel Knight 4. Why? Because Jane Jensen makes some seri­ously kick-ass games , that’s why.

For sup­port­ers of the Pinker­ton Road Kick­Starter who pledged at the $50 and up level, this news means that you will be get­ting not one but TWO Jane Jensen games this year! If you’re a fan of Jane Jensen’s games (or adven­ture games in gen­eral) who is still on the fence about pitch­ing in to her Kick­Starter, this lat­est announce­ment should give you all the rea­son you need.

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