From Software is engaged on a multiplatform title that’s in “superior phases of manufacturing,” in keeping with a brand new report, and it’s so far alongside it might be launched subsequent yr.
That is in keeping with MP1st, which reportedly discovered the sport’s inside codename and states that, except the sport is delayed, it’s on monitor for 2026.
No different particulars in regards to the sport are recognized other than its reported codename: FMC. Whereas that does not appear to be a lot, as famous by mp1st, the codename could give followers an thought of what might be coming subsequent. The codenames for earlier Darkish Souls video games and the more moderen Armored Core 6 each featured the letter “F” as a part of their inside codenames, whereas video games like Elden Ring used the codename GR. From Software’s newest sport, the standalone multiplayer spin-off Elden Ring: Nightreign, used the inner codename CL.
It is not rather a lot to go on. Nevertheless, based mostly on the codenames, the report speculates that the venture does not appear to be DLC for any present From Software sport, because the developer sometimes makes use of the identical codenames within the information for DLC as within the base sport. Since it is also reportedly multiplatform in nature, the codename additionally is not believed to be referring to The Duskbloods, From Software’s multiplayer-focused Nintendo Change 2 unique slated for subsequent yr.
Based mostly on the codenames for earlier video games, that leaves the Darkish Souls and Armored Core franchises as sturdy contenders for the venture. Whereas it might doubtlessly be a brand new entry in both sequence, there’s additionally a powerful likelihood, as famous by mp1st, that it might be a remake or remaster of Darkish Souls 3.
From Software is definitely retaining busy, having launched Armored Core 6 in 2023, Elden Ring’s Shadow of the Erdtree enlargement final yr, and Elden Ring: Nightreign again in Could. It introduced it was engaged on The Duskbloods in April as a part of a Nintendo Change 2-focused Nintendo Direct.
Information that one other From Software sport is coming quickly could put some followers comfy given the studio’s current pivot into multiplayer-focused video games. Nevertheless, From Software boss and Duskbloods director Hidetaka Miyazaki mentioned the studio will not be abandoning single-player video games, and that it’ll proceed to make video games that “embrace our extra conventional type.”