Previews show The Duskbloods is an 8-player PvPvE; Nintendo denies Sept 24 release

gamingAug 20, 202629710

The Duskbloods previews sent the community into a creative surge after hands-on coverage revealed an eight-player PvPvE built around four-phase matches, personal objectives, and a final showdown; Nintendo clarified the game will not launch on September 24. Reporters and attendees emphasize new movement options including triple-jump and a cast of eccentric characters such as Zork and a senator who is also a skeleton with marriage-proposal and dinosaur-transforming powers. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki says the team leaned on board game and pen-and-paper RPG ideas and found the Switch 2 helped bring those experiments to life. Network test participants and preview writers spotlight the game’s city-trial-like pacing and emergent moments as the core of what makes the project feel unhinged and distinctly FromSoftware.

Ash

@santanaelchan.bsky.social

Been reading previews for The Duskbloods and looks like Miyazaki and the team made some BULLSHIT (positive)

2925h ago

The Vegapunk of Hyenas4

Bro putting in a historically accurate medieval dating sim

dimlightbulb.bsky.social3

If i ever get a switch 2 im totally getting this game! Love some bullshit

Imran Khan

@imrankhan.bsky.social

in the duskbloods network test. straight up “zorking it”. and by “it” haha, well. let’s justr say. My PvPvE.

1122h ago

Imran Khan39

I tried to Google for the correct wording and I think the AI is building a profile for me I don’t want.

DNAbro 🏳️‍🌈1

I was trying to think of the funniest way to end it and this is it

Tokyo Game Life

@tokyogamelife.bsky.social

The Duskbloods previews are hitting now! - Matches are four phases where you earn points by completing objectives with a final battle (Kirby Air Riders-like) - 10 characters and 3 maps at launch - Targets 60 fps but has dips IGN has a good overview video: youtu.be/z7rUgmazg0Y?...

485h ago

writerguyjoey.bsky.social1

I love how everyone has your usual Soulslike names... ... And then there's Zork.

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Paulo Gazola6

nenhuma menção em canto nenhum sobre a possibilidade de jogar Solo igual o Nightreign eu to mt triste

Arthur França 🎃5

infelizmente eu preciso de um switch 2

bimbo baggins

@strongbadegirl.bsky.social

welcome to The Duskbloods, bloodsworn. will you play as: - publisher-mandated grizzled video game protagonist - slept through his alarm - beautiful vietnamese woman - bald corpse - Senator Bald Corpse - zork

303h ago

Knoebel 🛬 Gamescom

@knoebel.bsky.social

'The Duskbloods' Previews: VGC: www.videogameschronicle.com/features/the... IGN: www.ign.com/articles/the... Automaton: automaton-media.com/en/interview... GameInformer: gameinformer.com/preview/2026... GameSpot: www.gamespot.com/articles/wha...

325h ago

Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast

@irhottakes.bsky.social

The Duskbloods previews make it sound like the most unhinged game ever made. "One of the characters is a senator who is also a skeleton. His powers are to propose marriage and turn into a dinosaur."

344h ago

Eurogamer

@eurogamer.bsky.social

Miyazaki suggests FromSoftware is keen to return to single-player games after The Duskbloods and Elden Ring: Nightreign www.eurogamer.net/hidetaka-miy...

FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki superimposed onto a The Duskbloods screenshot.

263h ago

elliejoypanic

@elliejoypanic.bsky.social

dude I am SO excited to play The Duskbloods, it sounds SO COOL

113h ago

Bennjack2

very excited, I can even manage to get about an hour of the first slot in after work tomorrow!

Rad_Dad_Redemption

@raddadredemption.bsky.social

After seeing previews on what Duskbloods actually is and knowing myself, not being into pvpve or online focused games... this is a pass for me. First Night Reign, now this. 😔 Well, one less game to have to purchase on the flip side. People that love this genre are in for a good time it seems.

154h ago

Sam 🐦1

I enjoyed nightreign more then I disliked nightreign lol. As a souls fanboy, but I shouldn't have got it and will skip similar things in future.

PhilNeedsCoffee1

I'm really on the fence with Nightreign. Obviously, it's meant to be co-op. And this game is DIFFICULT going at it by yourself. I haven't beaten the first boss yet😣. Playing with other players isn't something I'm too enthused about, so what do you do?🤣😭

Xavier 🎮 Pending1

Oh yes, it was a skip since the first time I heard it's PVE. The game might be good but I just don't vibe with online only games. I hope it does well but not for me.

The Swirly Glasses Scientist Pervert Girl

@gizmouse.bsky.social

i havent seem gameplay of the duskbloods yet but people describing it as city trial like made me think of them doing air ride in evil bloodborne london and a pop uo saying "The Ever Furtive Pygmy Reemerges!"

81h ago

Zoe Tunnell ➡️ Super Jersey A317

@zoewithasword.bsky.social

I'm probably not gonna get The Duskbloods but I just watched the VaatiVidya breakdown of the preview and that is a really cleverly designed thing, way more wild than I was expecting

113h ago

Ehud “%charname” Kurzweil

@ehudkurzweil.bsky.social

I don't know about you, but I';m so excited to play The Duskbloods and pilot my favorite characters, Zork and Bloodhand Jan

102h ago

Lynx 3D

@lynx3d.bsky.social

Well, I guess I have no other choice but to buy Switch 2 and Duskbloods

screenshot of a bluesky feed about the game Duskbloods, showing 2 posts, the first says "Duskbloods is promising to be a game that lets you see another fucked up little freak covered in monster guts from across the courtyard and propose to them on the spot which means it's going to be game of the year" and the second one says "The Duskbloods previews make it sound like the most unhinged game ever made.

"One of the characters is a senator who is also a skeleton. His powers are to propose marriage and turn into a dinosaur.""

83h ago

woke stifler

@yelix.bsky.social

Duskbloods is a lot more immediately compelling to me based on these previews than Nightreign was

104h ago

My Nintendo News

@mynintendonews.com

Nintendo says The Duskbloods isn’t releasing on 24th September https://mynintendonews.com/2026/08/20/nintendo-says-the-duskbloods-isnt-releasing-on-24th-september/

64h ago

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