Do you bear in mind Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem? It’s a Diablo-like ARPG from a small indie staff that got here out within the D3-to-D4 drought. It spent years in Steam early entry improvement, following a really profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign. It took so lengthy, in actual fact, that many merely misplaced hope that it might truly come out resembling the preliminary promise.
Wolcen Studio, the staff behind it, stunned everybody with a 1.0 launch that took it out of limbo and into the highlight, instantly making it one among Steam’s greatest launches in 2020. Although opinion has since turned on the sport considerably, primarily as a result of a collection of post-launch updates, anybody who loved Wolcen’s gameplay by no means stopped questioning if there’s extra to that studio than simply that sport.
It’s now 2025, and we now have a solution.
This week, Wolcen Studio unveiled Mission Pantheon, a brand new ARPG with an fascinating twist. The developer calls it ExtrAction RPG, as a result of a core part of the sport is extracting, much like shooters like Escape from Tarkov.
What this implies in follow is that Pantheon’s gameplay will retain the identical hack n’ slash motion fight , however throw it into PvEvP conditions, as you battle AI enemies whereas keeping off different gamers.
The setting takes inspiration from a number of established fantasy worlds and historic mythologies. There’s no gameplay to look at proper now (simply the under teaser), however the Steam web page does have a couple of very handsome screenshots.
Mission Pantheon is a free-to-play sport that’s designed as a stay service mission. Should you haven’t already clicked off the web page, Wolcen Studio says it’s going to function massive, numerous maps and a few precious loot for gamers to battle over. It’s not clear whether or not you’ll be combating over commonplace ARPG loot that different video games give out naturally, or one thing a bit of extra fascinating.
Outdoors of the primary extraction and motion parts, you’ll additionally be capable of use a few of these assets to improve your base, and even commerce what you haven’t any use for on the participant market. The press launch does reference Tarkov by title, so it’s clear what a lot of that’s primarily based on.
If any of that sounds intriguing, Mission Pantheon is internet hosting two alpha exams very quickly. The primary takes place January 25-26, accessible solely to gamers in Europe. Then, the weekend after that – February 1-2 – the second, North American leg of the check opens up. You’ll be able to join on the official website proper now for an opportunity to be chosen.
Mission Pantheon doesn’t have a launch goal but, however extra exams can be held this yr, so hold an eye fixed out.
