Eternal Strands, the new game from Dragon Age creative director Mike Laidlaw's Yellow Brick Games, is set to launch on January 28—and today Laidlaw announced that a week before that happens, a playable demo will be released to give curious gamers a taste of what it's all about. «It's January, so I’m pleased we can say we're going to release a playable demo of Eternal Strands on Jan.
21st on Steam,» Laidlaw wrote on Bluesky. «Lots of folks have been asking about one, and it's a game that benefits from 'feeling' it, I think.» That's probably valid.
Eternal Strands has leaned heavily into its physics-based interactions so far—«The world is your weapon» and all that—but what it's actually about is harder to pin down.
Even the description of the game world on Steam focuses more on how you'll be doing things than why: «Explore the wilds, the capital city of Dynevron, and the secrets beneath as every surface is climbable.
Magical abilities can create bridges, burn barriers, or launch Brynn across the world. The next-generation physics system encourages and rewards player creativity in exploration as much as combat.