Former Dragon Age boss Mike Laidlaw’s action-RPG Eternal Strands gets early 2025 release date

Everlasting Strands, the fantasy action-RPG from former Dragon Age inventive director Mike Laidlaw’s Yellow Brick Video games studio, has a launch date – it is coming to Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 5, PC, and Recreation Cross on twenty eighth January subsequent 12 months.

Everlasting Strands follows the adventures of Brynn – a member of a dwindling group of magic customers generally known as the Weavers – who units out throughout a fantasy kingdom ravaged by a cataclysmic magical occasion to uncover its mysteries and get well her folks’s cultural dwelling.

In gameplay phrases, all this takes the type of an action-RPG impressed by the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Shadow of the Colossus, with a little bit of Monster Hunter thrown in. The latter two video games will be seen within the bosses roaming Everlasting Strands’ “open zone” world – 25-meter-high climbable creatures generally known as the Arks – and the best way defeating them offers assets used to create new weapons and armour again at a base camp.

As for the Zelda influences, they arrive within the interaction between Brynn’s magical talents and the atmosphere. Powers are constructed round flame, ice, and telekinetic drive, all of which will be additional enhanced together with the shifting temperatures brought on by the world’s unstable local weather. “Warmth spreads, chilly chills, and real-time destruction permits for unprecedented reactivity in fight,” explains the blurb over on Steam. “Create [ice] bridges, burn boundaries, or launch Brynn the world over. The subsequent-generation physics system encourages and rewards participant creativity in exploration as a lot as fight.” Oh, and each floor is climbable too.

When Everlasting Strands arrives on twenty eighth January subsequent 12 months, it will be accessible for Xbox Collection X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC by way of Steam and the Epic Video games Retailer. It is also confirmed to be a day one Recreation Cross launch for Final and PC Recreation Cross subscribers. Moreover, as per an FAQ on Steam, free post-launch content material is deliberate, and a demo’s additionally on the best way. Yellow Brick Video games says extra particulars on the latter will likely be shared at a “later date”.