Valor Mortis will see Ghostrunner's creators give Napoleonic era Europe the soulslike treatment in 2026

We anticipation you weren't successful the Waterloo during Opening Night Live's preshow

Valor Mortis, a soulslike acceptable during Napoleon's 19th period conquest of Eastern Europe, has been revealed by Ghostrunner devs One More Level during Gamescom Opening Night Live's preshow. It's acceptable for merchandise successful 2026.

Yep, if you're a instrumentality of games that drip with Frenchness and besides revolve astir beating up gaudily-health barred baddies earlier they bash the aforesaid to you, this 1 mightiness person you reaching for your musket and bicorne. That's assuming the mounting offers capable of a unsocial consciousness that Valor Mortis doesn't lucifer being trapped connected a Fromsoft-imitation Elba.

"“With Valor Mortis, we wanted to effort thing caller and archetypal - a darker experience, portion inactive offering players a existent challenge,” One More Level CEO Szymon Bryla said. “After Ghostrunner, we knew we had the instauration to make a [first-person] title, but this clip successful a soulslike genre. At the aforesaid time, we wanted to enactment existent to what we bash champion - making demanding games for hardcore players, acceptable successful an engaging, expansive world, portion showing that the workplace has grown since our erstwhile projects.”

The game'll spot you play arsenic William, a Grande Armée worker ressurected and fixed supernatural powers by the Nephtoglobin, a mysterious goop. Sadly, due to the fact that video game, this goop has turned the satellite astir him and his erstwhile comrades successful arms into a plague-ridden hellscape prowled by mutants with other limbs and bloated bodies.

The combat looks to adhd a BioShock-esque twist to the accustomed soulslike parry and dodge swordplay. You tin dual-wield with guns similar a flintlock pistol and abilities dubbed transmutations. The second are William's magic powers, and punctual maine a batch of plasmids. This time, it looks similar you'll beryllium gaining the quality to sprout the likes of occurrence from your mitt by interacting with not rather dormant bodies connected the battlefield.

If there's 1 happening the trailer emphasises, it's that this crippled volition not deficiency for battlefields afloat of dormant bodies, with an full montage dedicated to antithetic locations successful which the corpses are piled high. You'll beryllium capable to get a look astatine those corpse piles if you motion up for a closed Valor Mortis playtest that's acceptable to footwear disconnected pursuing Gamescom. Head to ValorMortis.com if you're keen.

Or, hold until the afloat release, which maths tells maine is sadly much than a 100 days away.

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