The developer Acquire tried to continue the series Way of the Samurai with a fifth installment, but unfortunately the previous one did not receive a very outstanding rating and the company could not get the financing.
In a recent interview with the media 4Gamer, the president of Acquire, Takuma Endo
These were Saito's words:
It was around 2015, at the launch of the Steam version of Way of the Samurai 4 for PC. The PC version, based on the console version and aimed at a foreign audience, only received ONE average score of 72, and I personally even felt that the moment of the series had come to an end. I thought it was time to leave the Way of the Samurai series, but Endo told me: “I will meet with [the president of Spike Chunsoft, Mitsutoshi] Sakurai, so go thinking about a sequel to the Way of the Samurai series.
Unfortunately, our efforts for a Way of the Samurai 5 were crushed, but later the issue of "a digital title that could be played casually" emerged.