Sci-fi Soulslike Dolmen Release Date Leaked [UPDATE]

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UPDATE: Dolmen's release date has been officially confirmed to be May 20, 2022.

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FromSoftware’s acclaimed collection of action RPGs have been more influential to gaming than perhaps any other lineage of titles released over the past decade. Dark Souls was heralded as the Ultimate Game of All-Time at the 2021 Golden Joystick Awards, and the recently-released Elden Ring attained instant success, standing as one of the highest-rated video games of all time on Metacritic. The Soulsborne games have spawned a genre of their own, and a new offering from up-and-coming developer Massive Work Studio may look to draw in souls fans when it releases in May.

Dolmen, a sci-fi souls-like, was first announced via a Kickstarter campaign in 2018. Unfortunately, the crowdfunding project failed to meet its minimum goal, but the developer quietly continued to work on the game, and it resurfaced again in 2021, now attached to Koch Media’s gaming label Prime Matter. The reveal trailer posits a projected release date within the year, but its listing on the Xbox Store now affirms an official launch date of May 19, 2022.

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This isn’t the first time an Xbox Store listing preemptively revealed the release date of an upcoming game. In 2020, a Microsoft Store listing for the then-upcoming Ubisoft title Far Cry 6 mentioned a release date of May 25, 2021. While this prediction ultimately missed the mark by about five months, the publisher announced in March of 2021 that the game would be delayed, indicating that the listing may have, at one point, been correct.

Dolmen looks to unite the meticulous melee combat typical of the genre with a sci-fi Lovecraftian feel