Developer brlka and publisher Ysbryd Games (WORLD OF HORROR, VA-11 Hall-A) have announced LOVE ETERNAL, an unconventional horror platformer about escaping the domain of a selfish god. First announced during PC Gaming Show, the game will launch on PlayStation 5|4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam in Q4 2025.
You play as Maya, a young girl who leaves her family dinner table to answer a phone call – only to return to find her family missing, her home destroyed, and her surroundings transmuted into an unfamiliar, eerie landscape reminiscent of the Iron Age. Seek a way out of this strange predicament by navigating the unpredictable liminal spaces to confront the powerful god responsible for your abduction.
Now able to ignore Earthly laws of physics, you’ll dash through the crumbling chambers of a labyrinthine castle, leaping, flipping, and strategically landing on the floors and ceilings of each puzzle-like room. Plan jump arcs carefully to make use of environmental boons that trigger Maya’s ability to flip gravity in midair, and avoid razor-sharp spikes, shifting lasers, and other deadly obstacles in precision platforming challenges.
The game will feature vast, desolate landscapes, with imposing, yet lonely, statues scattered throughout the realm’s many environments, from undersea caverns to uncanny copies of Maya’s suburban home. Brave encounters with monstrous doppelgängers of Maya’s family and friends, and meet other victims of the deity’s abductions, all as disquieting ambient tones haunt the god’s domain.
“During development we put a lot of time and care into the castle’s atmosphere, creating music and ambience whose interplay expressed a sense of forlornness, and using a painterly style of pixel art to give a sense of a world much larger than the small corners you see as the player,” said Toby Alden, designer at brlka. “We’re looking forward to sharing the secrets of this time-worn realm later this year.”
LOVE ETERNAL will launch onPlayStation 5|4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam in Q4 2025. The game will feature English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, and Russian language support.
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