I think a sequel is called Phantom Fury but it ain't as good as this one. I dunno I heard it's very mediocre and never looked into it much https://store.steampowered.com/app/1733240/Phantom_Fury/

phanton fury is more of a spin off but yeah i didnt buy it at launch cuz of the bugs

i think its somewhat canon to ion fury tho

Many people don't hate Phantom Fury, they are rather sad that Phantom Fury is released in such a bad state, while it has a lot of potential. That's not all, it seems they also drop the support of their products kinda fast after release.

Many of their games do receive "mixed" reviews and afterwards they drop the support quickly. It can potential hurt Slipgate Ironworks reputation, which can influence future projects like Tempest Rising, Core Decay and even their unnounced project.

People also do have a feeling that they dropped the support of Phantom Fury (last patch was the 7th of may), which isn't a good sign aswell. Slipgate Ironworks need to get their ♥♥♥♥ together and show more support for already released titles.

They have a lot of potential IP's that can become very big but the executing is just poorly done, such a shame.

I would suggest them to start bringing out patches for each games in their catalog and hold discounts at the same time. I bet they will start selling games like Phantom Fury a lot.

It feels like they aim for quantity over quality instead of quality over quantity, which is such a shame since they have a few good IP's.

As for Voidpoint, they don't need to come with a Ion Fury 2. They can keep updating Ion Fury 1 and keep releasing new campaigns and story's. I think if they release more often DLC's, they will generate a decent income with Ion Fury.

Voidpoint said they didnt want to do another expansion for ion fury 1. but they do have some updates planned

Voidpoint likely couldn't make a new DLC even if they wanted to as they don't own the IP to the Bombshell universe. That would require all new contracts which is quite unlikely. As stated above, they've already indicated that they don't want to keep making new IF chapters anyway...

While it isn't official or anything, a friend and I are currently working on a fan made mini-campaign of our own called "Ion Jungle". Back when we first started working on this we had intended on having no more than 3 maps, but this has since been expanded upon, a few times, and we're currently expecting there to be 9 maps in our campaign (We're currently working on map 8).

If you're interested in finding out more about our project, you can find WIP trailer videos of our first 6 maps here: https://www.youtube.com/@SPYmaps