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Nodusfall may look like developer miHoYo has slapped an Elden Ring-colored paint job onto Monster Hunter, but there's some signature HoYo innovation to find in between all those beastly battles and dark fantasy landscapes in its reveal trailer.
While there aren't an awful lot of specifics about the game right now, I've scraped together every gameplay clip and interview available to help explain what HoYo's breakup with anime girls is all about. From betas, to gacha, to gameplay and story, here's everything we know about Nodusfall so far.
HoYo games are kind of my thing, so I've known for a while now that it's been cooking up a fantasy game using Unreal Engine 5. But it's still a little surreal to see the Genshin Impact developer pivot to a style outside their anime wheelhouse. Where are the mismatched trouser leg lengths? The 40 belts?? If I don't see a single fringe covering just the one eye this can't possibly be a HoYo game.
Nodusfall doesn't have a solid release date yet—it doesn't even have a release year. That's typical for a HoYo game, though. It doesn't tend to announce release dates until a game's final round of beta testing is coming up.
Even though there's no release window HoYo's ever-reliable pattern of three open betas before release lets us predict that Nodusfall will launch sometime in 2028. Especially as its next game, Petit Planet, is out this winter, and Honkai: Nexus Anima seems set for a 2027 release, having just finished its second open beta.
The only thing that might throw a spanner in the works is that Nodusfall isn't your typical character/critter collector that HoYo is known for. So it might not be so typical when it comes to beta testing either.
Speaking of betas, you can visit the official Nodusfall site and do a two-for-one combo by pre-registering and then answering a questionnaire for possible beta selection right after. The site mentions that this is for future betas, not for one ongoing right now. So you won't be fighting those Nodusfall bosses just yet no matter how furiously fast you refresh your inbox.
If you want a refresh on its gorgeous dark fantasy visuals and otherworldly boss designs that'd make Elden Ring and Diablo blush, here's the reveal trailer above. There's not much gameplay here, but what there is definitely throws up inevitable comparisons to co-op combat seen in the Monster Hunter series.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
The story of Nodusfall unfolds across a dark fantasy "mythic continent" teeming with corrupted legendary creatures, whose designs take inspiration from both Eastern and Western mythology. Like manticores, dragons, and giant bears. You take on the role of a "Weaver," a being "enlightened by the divine" and entrusted with sacred missions to restore order to the continent corrupted by the "Dreadnodi". So basically, you're a big important badass with divine magic powers and chunky weapons whose mission is to blast scary monsters to get new gear save the world.
On your way to annihilating ethereal beasts and untold horrors, you'll journey through distinct regions with landscapes and cultures that take equal inspiration from various real-life cultures and mythologies, with more regions set to launch post-release. My fellow Genshin Impact players will be familiar with this formula.
Thanks to its reveal trailer, we know that some of Nodusfall's landscapes include golden hills, fiery skies, dreary moors, misty forests, dusty deserts, and gargantuan canyons. So far so Elden Ring, but it sounds like there's more variety in the works.
What I'm most interested in seeing is just how dark Nodusfall ends up being. The reveal trailer suggested a mature story, which isn't a first for HoYo—Genshin has dropped its fair share of dark lore and ran—but not shifting to a wisecrack o...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
What do you think about this?
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
Nodusfall may look like developer miHoYo has slapped an Elden Ring-colored paint job onto Monster Hunter, but there's some signature HoYo innovation to find in between all those beastly battles and dark fantasy landscapes in its reveal trailer.
While there aren't an awful lot of specifics about the game right now, I've scraped together every gameplay clip and interview available to help explain what HoYo's breakup with anime girls is all about. From betas, to gacha, to gameplay and story, here's everything we know about Nodusfall so far.
HoYo games are kind of my thing, so I've known for a while now that it's been cooking up a fantasy game using Unreal Engine 5. But it's still a little surreal to see the Genshin Impact developer pivot to a style outside their anime wheelhouse. Where are the mismatched trouser leg lengths? The 40 belts?? If I don't see a single fringe covering just the one eye this can't possibly be a HoYo game.
Nodusfall doesn't have a solid release date yet—it doesn't even have a release year. That's typical for a HoYo game, though. It doesn't tend to announce release dates until a game's final round of beta testing is coming up.
Even though there's no release window HoYo's ever-reliable pattern of three open betas before release lets us predict that Nodusfall will launch sometime in 2028. Especially as its next game, Petit Planet, is out this winter, and Honkai: Nexus Anima seems set for a 2027 release, having just finished its second open beta.
The only thing that might throw a spanner in the works is that Nodusfall isn't your typical character/critter collector that HoYo is known for. So it might not be so typical when it comes to beta testing either.
Speaking of betas, you can visit the official Nodusfall site and do a two-for-one combo by pre-registering and then answering a questionnaire for possible beta selection right after. The site mentions that this is for future betas, not for one ongoing right now. So you won't be fighting those Nodusfall bosses just yet no matter how furiously fast you refresh your inbox.
If you want a refresh on its gorgeous dark fantasy visuals and otherworldly boss designs that'd make Elden Ring and Diablo blush, here's the reveal trailer above. There's not much gameplay here, but what there is definitely throws up inevitable comparisons to co-op combat seen in the Monster Hunter series.
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
The story of Nodusfall unfolds across a dark fantasy "mythic continent" teeming with corrupted legendary creatures, whose designs take inspiration from both Eastern and Western mythology. Like manticores, dragons, and giant bears. You take on the role of a "Weaver," a being "enlightened by the divine" and entrusted with sacred missions to restore order to the continent corrupted by the "Dreadnodi". So basically, you're a big important badass with divine magic powers and chunky weapons whose mission is to blast scary monsters to get new gear save the world.
On your way to annihilating ethereal beasts and untold horrors, you'll journey through distinct regions with landscapes and cultures that take equal inspiration from various real-life cultures and mythologies, with more regions set to launch post-release. My fellow Genshin Impact players will be familiar with this formula.
Thanks to its reveal trailer, we know that some of Nodusfall's landscapes include golden hills, fiery skies, dreary moors, misty forests, dusty deserts, and gargantuan canyons. So far so Elden Ring, but it sounds like there's more variety in the works.
What I'm most interested in seeing is just how dark Nodusfall ends up being. The reveal trailer suggested a mature story, which isn't a first for HoYo—Genshin has dropped its fair share of dark lore and ran—but not shifting to a wisecrack o...Read more: Full article on www.pcgamer.com
What do you think about this?