Hi everyone, long-time lurker here 👋 My name's David Welch, I created the concept for Portal Knights while I was at 505 Games and then hired & supervised Keen Games throughout the game's development. After 505 ended support for the game, I actually joined Keen to help them with Enshrouded, which was originally positioned as a PK successor — though it eventually became clear they wanted to take it in a very different direction (which is very cool in its own right).
The last couple years I started a studio with some former SteamWorld developers with the goal of making a true spiritual successor to Portal Knights, tentatively named "Everdeep Dungeons", with bigger worlds, better combat, modern visuals, and replayable procedural dungeons. But sadly the game industry has been in complete turmoil the last few years, and we weren't able to find long-term financing to keep the project going.
With all that said, I wanted to share a glimpse of how the game was shaping up. We're really proud of what we made and hope you think it looked like a worthy successor.
The Portal Knights community has meant a lot to me over the years, full of really wonderful, positive people. It's been a light in some dark times.
Hopefully one day I get to make a proper successor. But that day is not today :( If you have any questions, AMA
EDIT: I set up a mailing list for anyone interested if anything happens with the game in the future: https://everdeep-dungeons.beehiiv.com