Everything you need to know about Forspoken: Trailer, release date, platforms and more

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(Pocket-lint) — When the PlayStation 5 was first unveiled in mid-2020, we got a glimpse of multiple big games coming down the pike for the new console, and one of the most intriguing was Project Athia.

Now, a good while later, we know the game's real title — Forspoken, and have seen a bit more about it thanks to its publisher Square Enix. We've got all the key details for you, right here. 

As we said, the first glimpse of Project Athia came in mid-2020, but Square Enix showed off a little more, and confirmed that the game is called Forspoken, in March 2021 as part of a livestream. 

That slightly longer trailer is embedded above and ends with confirmation that the game is headed for a release date in 2022, which is no surprise given how little we've seen of it so far. 

Now that window has been made more precise — Forspoken will release on 25 May 2022.

Forspoken was first unveiled as a PS5 exclusive on consoles, and that hasn't changed — this is a game that's apparently being built from the ground up for the PlayStation 5, which is exciting for anyone who owns one. 

That means that right now there's no prospect of an Xbox version coming, and it also signals that there won't be a version for the PS4, either. This is a truly next-gen title, after all.

However, it's also going to be coming to the PC, so it won't be fully exclusive to the PS5, which will please many fans with powerful gaming rigs. Needless to say, a Switch version is almost completely impossible for a host of reasons, not least the technical side of things. 

We haven't had a full explainer of the story and setting of Forspoken, but more recent trailers do give us some pretty firm hints. One of these opens with actor Ella Balinska talking about taking on the