Reptillia (franchise)

Reptillia is a media and video games franchise, published and produced by Outsource Games. The game follows a similar concept to Pokémon, where you, a reptile trainer, can catch and train reptile-like creatures to fight against other reptile for sport. However, in several games, you yourself play as a reptile in a world of other reptiles. With over 500 million units sold in the past 23 years, Reptillia is the second best-selling video game franchise of all time, second to the Mario franchise.

Outsource Studios has faced criticism for only spending development resources on the Reptillia franchise, with their only other title games being Rebble and Rebble Run. However, Outsource has recently reportedly invested major development recourses in expanding the Rebble franchise, including working on a crossover Reptillia-Rebble game.

There is reportedly a feature film in the works based on the Reptillia franchise

History
Outsource Games was founded in 1995 by Jens Wals and Alexander Dixon for development and financing on their video game project called Reptillia. The game was initially announced in early 1997, with a public beta being released in September 1997. The game was fully released on March 11, 1998, and initially only available for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation and Nintendo 64. It was later released for the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Wii U. All editions of the game were fully discontinued and removed from stores in 2013, with the exception of the PlayStation 3 and Wii U editions, which continued being sold until 2015. The PlayStation 3 edition received its last update in January 2018, nearly 20 years after the game's initial launch. The sequel, Reptillia II, was launched in 2000 and available for the same platforms.

Cancelled
There have been few scrapped Reptillia projects, with the only known ones being Reptillia Racing II and an early Reptillia Battlegrounds III pitch. Reptillia Racing II is the only one to have entered development, with production ultimately being halted after Outsource reportedly shifted development resources to Reptillia Battlegrounds III, for which a previous pitch had been rejected, with production resurfacing around 2019.