Weapons of Eschaton simply dropped its announcement trailer, and what a approach to seize some consideration! A wild-west recreation set in a post-apocolyptic world of monsters, revolvers and flames. It’s going to launch on Xbox, PlayStation and PC, and the trailer says it’s “coming quickly.”
An enormous promoting level is that that is the ultimate recreation from Viktor Antanove, who sadly handed away in 2025. Antanov is answerable for a few of the coolest worlds in videogame, from the whalepunk weirdness of Dishonored to Half-Life 2’s Metropolis 17.
The pitch is a “first-person Soulslike shooter” set in a cursed model of Nineteenth-century America, which is already the type of sentence that makes me grin. As a substitute of blasting by arenas at 400mph, Weapons of Eschaton is promising slower, extra deliberate fight the place each bullet issues, enemies have to be studied and loss of life might be going to be a frequent travelling companion.
Eschatology Leisure itself is a brand new studio, so Weapons of Eschaton seems to be its debut recreation. That mentioned, the group isn’t made up of people that by accident wandered into recreation improvement after dropping a wager. The studio contains former Wargaming builders and folks related to Lesser Evil Video games, the group behind the grim and divisive RPG The Executioner. It has additionally raised critical funding, together with funding led by Krafton, so this isn’t only a spooky trailer being held along with hope, a cursed revolver and three unpaid interns.
On the gameplay facet, the announcement mentions greater than 20 weapons, particular ammunition, parries, dashes, occult talents, talismans, armour and consumables. There’s additionally a hand-drawn Cherokee Codex that may reveal enemy behaviour and weaknesses, which feels like a neat method of turning monster-hunting homework into an precise mechanic. Solo and co-op play are each deliberate, and there’s additionally point out of player-versus-player, so sure, somebody might finally invade your cowboy pilgrimage and wreck your total afternoon.
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