Dotemu gained’t launch Metal Slug Tactics this 12 months in any case, the writer revealed by way of Twitter Thursday morning. Instead, the techniques sport will launch someday in 2023 to be able to make it “as explosive as possible.”

Originally revealed throughout final 12 months’s Summer Games Fest, Metal Slug Tactics takes the cartoony sidescroller into the XCOM-like world of technique video games for the primary time. Players will management a crew of characters — Marco, Eri, Fio, and Tarma — on their quest to take down troopers and blow up tanks. More than only a regular techniques sport, Leikir Studio says the sport will embrace “roguelike elements,” though it’s at present unclear how.

Tactics followers have seen plenty of delays in 2022. Take-Two introduced Marvel’s Midnight Suns’ delay on Monday afternoon, and didn’t supply a brand new launch date. And each of this week’s delays come after Nintendo eliminated the deliberate launch date for Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp this spring because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. None of those video games at present have a concrete launch date.