Controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah will be released in early access on June 22

The controversial shooter Six Days in Fallujah will be released in early access on June 22 via Steam and should be released sometime in 2024 ‘for PC and consoles’. The game was originally announced in 2009, but was quickly canceled due to its controversial setting.

Six Days in Fallujah is made by developer Highwire Games and published by Victura. The companies promise for the early access version, initially four co-op missions with procedurally generated environments. Further in the development of the shooter, other armed forces, including Iraqi soldiers and coalition forces, should be added in addition to the US Marines. Additional co-op missions and narrative missions should also be added to the game eventually. It is not yet clear when Highwire plans to add the extra content to the game.

Future narrative campaign missions will focus on the experiences of veterans and Iraqi civilians involved in the actual fighting in Fallujah. This is also the reason why publisher Konami canceled the game in 2009. Six Days in Fallujah, which is based on the real-life Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004, would be too insensitive to the real events. Also would be the game according to the British anti-war group Stop The War Coalition depicts ‘a war crime’ and ‘profits from the death and injury of thousands of people’.

Atomic Games initially developed the game, but the studio was shut down following critical acclaim and the game’s subsequent cancellation by Konami. Former CEO Peter Tamte founded the publisher Victura in 2016, after which Six Days in Fallujah was put back into development. The game was originally supposed to be released in 2021 under Victura, but was postponed to the end of 2022 and will now be released in early access in mid-2023.