FromSoftware’s Miyazaki assures fans the studio will still make single-player games

In a multi-part interview with Nintendo astir newly-announced Switch 2 exclusive The Duskbloods, manager Hidetaka Miyazaki tried to dispel worries that developer FromSoftware is shifting absorption distant from single-player games. The workplace known for single-player acheronian phantasy epics similar Elden Ring and the Dark Souls series is present moving connected 2 multiplayer games.

As a broadside note, delight let maine to code 1 thing. As antecedently mentioned, this is an online multiplayer rubric astatine its core, but this doesn’t mean that we arsenic a institution person decided to displacement to a much multiplayer-focused absorption with titles going forward.

The Nintendo Switch 2 mentation of Elden Ring was besides announced, and we inactive mean to actively make azygous subordinate focused games specified arsenic this that clasp our much accepted style.

The three–part interview besides goes into overmuch further item connected The Duskbloods than we saw successful the Nintendo Switch 2 nonstop teaser. The caller crippled surely looks Bloodborne-adjacent, but its multiplayer format is simply a important departure. It besides differs rather a spot from the different upcoming FromSoft multiplayer game, Elden Ring Nightreign — which is directed by Junya Ishizaki and owed retired successful late-May. Where Nightreign is a afloat co-operative players vs enemies (PvE) battle royale experience, Duskbloods supports up to 8 players successful a PvPvE format.

Players volition beryllium capable to take from implicit a twelve characters, called “Bloodsworn.” They’re vampiric protagonists with superhuman abilities similar super-jumps and double-jumps acknowledgment to their depletion of peculiar blood. Miyazaki noted, “As a wide concept, they’re akin to vampires, but they are not portrayed arsenic the horrifying monsters you mightiness subordinate with accepted vampirism.” It sounds akin to the class-based strategy of Elden Ring Nightreign, but Miyazaki mentions the characters “can beryllium customized to a definite extent.” (Fashion Souls fans, rejoice.)

Bloodsworn volition vie for “first blood” crossed assorted maps with gothic and Victorian settings and vibes. Rounds volition person varying objectives, with the de facto past subordinate lasting format sometimes tasking players to alternatively enactment unneurotic to instrumentality down a notable boss. But the accent isn’t solely connected challenging combat, arsenic players tin gain “victory points” based from non-combat objectives arsenic well. That whitethorn assistance those for whom PvP isn’t precisely their benignant — arsenic Miyazaki confesses, “That was the intention. I personally americium not overmuch of a PvP person, and I wanted to marque thing that’s satisfying adjacent for players similar me.”

What whitethorn besides entreaty to the single-player assemblage emblematic of FromSoftware’s fanbase is The Duskbloods volition person its ain dashes of deep-seeded lore that successful immoderate ways whitethorn link to different Souls titles. For example, the winged rat astatine the extremity of the trailer is really an “elderly gentleman” who “shares a akin relation with the occurrence keepers from the Dark Souls series” and volition beryllium an NPC players tin question proposal from successful the hub world.

The Duskbloods whitethorn person swerved immoderate of america by looking the portion of Bloodborne but turning retired to beryllium Switch 2-exclusive multiplayer battler, but personally I’m each for FromSoftware experimenting with antithetic ideas. We’ll get a sampling of the studio’s multiplayer ambitions adjacent month, erstwhile Elden Ring Nightreign launches May 30th, portion Miyazaki has overmuch much clip to navigator with The Duskbloods until it comes retired successful 2026.