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Lords of the Fallen (2023) Hands-On Preview – Same Name, Familiar Game
Few Soulslikes have had the tumultuous development cycle as Lords of the Fallen, a title that has changed hands just as often as crowned with a new title. First dubbed Lords of the Fallen 2, the follow-up to 2014’s masocore action RPG was supposed to be made internally at CI Games (whereas the original was developed by Deck 13) for a 2017 release. That effort failed, and CI Games passed the baton to Defiant Studios, which only lasted about a year on the project. Eventually, the newly established Hexworks studio (with offices in Barcelona and Bucharest) is carrying the game to completion, and any numbers or subtitles have been dropped, with the reboot finally known simply as Lords of the Fallen once again (to the bane of all those involved in SEO design).