Enshrouded Is A New Upcoming Survival RPG That Takes Inspiration From Valheim And Zelda
The makers of Portal Knights are back with their latest project, a survival RPG named Enshrouded . A co-op survival action RPG that supports up to 16 players on a server, the developers at Keen Games liken the design of Enshrouded to a blend of Valheim meets The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Players will take the form of a Flameborn, which Keen describes as the “last hope of an ancient civilization.” From there you’ll hunt creatures, get materials, and build up a kingdom — you know, typically survival game fare. The world of Enshrouded is described as a “vast open world,” for players to explore either with friends or in a solo server.
The world itself has an intriguing premise as well. While definitely inspired by typical fantasy fare, the world of Enshrouded is, well, shrouded in a dense deadly fog where only islands of land sticking up above safely. During a press briefing last week, Creative Director Antony Christoulakis, described the deadly fog as a sea hiding old and lost kingdoms and more for players to brave and explore.
“ Enshrouded is set in a decaying world of magic and beauty ruined by that force of nature unleashed from the depths of the earth. It has drowned the world in a layer of deadly fog and only islands of land stick out of the vast sea of clouds.”
It’s a world backstory that feels like an immediate hook for me if I’m honest. I want to learn more about those lost and ancient kingdoms and peoples stuck under the deadly haze that separates those two worlds. The world of Embervale is full of deadly, mutated creatures to overcome, all thanks to the Shroud, that blight that has affected the land so thoroughly.
Like survival games that have come before Enshrouded , much of the
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