Loot goblins and Remnant players should check out new fantasy RPG Empyreal, which launches in May

Silent Games and Secret Mode have announced that their acrobatic, pensive action-RPG Empyreal will launch on 8th May, with a demo still available on Steam. I hadn't come across Empyreal before, but I already have Opinions, mostly positive. Firstly, the fonts for damage number pop-ups are... weirdly stringy, given the heft and colour of the character models and environments. There's barely any meat on them. It makes me feel like I'm beating up a checkout machine, not thwacking golems. Secondly, I quite like the looks of the game's four biomes, which "reflect certain philosophical principles", in the words of game director James Rogers. Going by fleeting glimpses from the below seven minute overview video, there's a Nature world and a Technology world and a dessicated biome that reminds me of Rime, with a scalding blue sky that consists of tumbledown hexagonal plates. Read more

Mar 17, 2025 - 19:08

Loot goblins and Remnant players should check out new fantasy RPG Empyreal, which launches in May

Silent Games and Secret Mode have announced that their acrobatic, pensive action-RPG Empyreal will launch on 8th May, with a demo still available on Steam. I hadn't come across Empyreal before, but I already have Opinions, mostly positive. Firstly, the fonts for damage number pop-ups are... weirdly stringy, given the heft and colour of the character models and environments. There's barely any meat on them. It makes me feel like I'm beating up a checkout machine, not thwacking golems.

Secondly, I quite like the looks of the game's four biomes, which "reflect certain philosophical principles", in the words of game director James Rogers. Going by fleeting glimpses from the below seven minute overview video, there's a Nature world and a Technology world and a dessicated biome that reminds me of Rime, with a scalding blue sky that consists of tumbledown hexagonal plates.