Helmed by industry veteran Alexandre Amancio (Creative Director for Assassin’s Creed Revelations & Assassin’s Creed Unity), Lisbon-based studio Studio Ellipsis has announced their first horror title in Nightholme. Coming to PC via Steam and consoles, players will have a chance to check out Nightholme ahead of its Early Access launch by signing up for the closed and open betas at the official site.
Set in a corrupted fantasy world infested by Gloom, Nightholme sees rival three-player teams hunt, transform into deadly horrific creatures, and fight to prevail against other players and the environment. Players can look forward to a unique experience each session where they choose a Grimrunner to play as, level up their abilities, defeat nightmarish bosses, and outsmart competing teams “in an ever-changing, high-risk open world with unpredictable events and consequences.”
The game will feature deep lore that reveals the mysterious world of Nightholme by “carefully blending cosmic horror with classic horror tropes, then reinventing them in bold, unexpected ways.”
“The last thing anyone needs is another generic multiplayer game,” explains Amancio. “So with Nightholme we’ve made sure that we’re offering a fresh and exciting experience to fans of horror and extraction games.”
Nightholme aims to expand beyond the traditional PvPvE loop, adding more to the core experience by offering deeper, sustained, and immersive gameplay and progression. With stealth and survival as core pillars, players will make strategic and tactical choices that shape their experience.
“We’ve infused this multiplayer focused genre with a gripping long-term narrative and expanded to new territory by embracing the horror elements inherent to our dark fantasy world.”
As mentioned, players will immerse themselves in tactical gameplay, carefully planning each run as they select their Grimrunner and dive into tactical runs, choosing an archetype by drinking Nocturn, a mysterious transforming potion, and shaping their build through a flexible skill tree. The dynamic transformation feature offers drastically different gameplay from session to session, as players turn into contrasting archetypes with their own unique sets of skills and styles of play that synergize with equipment, agency, and collectible upgrades.
Players will also be faced with challenging, ever-changing encounters, fighting enemies and other players before squaring off in large-scale battles against a main boss. Victorious squads are rewarded with exclusive, powerful loot in the form of Terror Seeds, which add new permanent abilities to use in future sessions.
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