Lords of the Fallen Could Be Releasing on October 13th
Lords of the Fallen, a spiritual successor of the 2014 Soulslike game, may be targeting an October 13th release date. The information comes from Twitter user Aggiornamenti Lumia, who has a solid track record for uncovering release dates and other product information from the Microsoft Store.
The second installment in the series has been a long time coming. A sequel was announced almost immediately after the original game launched, with CI Games targeting a 2017 release window.
The game's development had been brought internally after the split from Deck13 (which developed the first game), but later in 2017, former producer and creative director Tomasz Gop revealed that the project never really left the concept stage.
The following year, CI Games announced it had handed the development reins to Defiant Studios, an independent developer based in New York City. In August 2018, Defiant Studios co-founder and creative director Roland Lesterlin even briefly discussed plans to evolve the Soulslike genre in Lords of the Fallen 2 in a way that would expand the fanbase.
Fast forward to May 2019, though, and CI Games changed developer once again, clearly unsatisfied with Defiant's work. We only learned of the new studio's identity in September 2020, when the brand new Barcelona and Bucharest based Hexworks was confirmed to be working on Lords of the Fallen 2.
More information trickled in 2021, when we learned the sequel would be CI Games' biggest project ever. The developers also said the game's setting would shift from the original's fantasy to dark fantasy, and combat would be more hardcore.
In April 2022, CI Games said the game was being developed with Unreal Engine 5 for a 2023 release. The twist came at last year's Gamescom when it
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