Edge

NO REST FOR THE WICKED

Developer Publisher Format Origin Release

Moon Studios Private Division

PC, PS5, Xbox Series

Austria

2024 (early access)

A round this time last year, Moon Studios co-founder and CEO Thomas Mahler hinted via Twitter that not only was the studio’s next project “make or break”, but it was setting out to “revolutionise the action RPG genre”. A bold claim, given that broad umbrella could cover Diablo and Dark Souls, not to mention the latest iterations of Zelda and Final Fantasy.

As shipwrecked protagonist picks themself up off a stormlashed shore in the dead of night and the camera settles on a familiar isometric perspective, it’s only natural to assume that Blizzard’s series is the closest touchstone – not least since Mahler was working at that studio before going indie a decade ago. There are no starting classes

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