After spending the best part of a week in bed with a virus, it was always going to take an interesting news tidbit to get me back behind the keyboard, and the story that managed it was the completion of the Kickstarter campaign for Fallen Fates, which just wrapped up.
Fallen Fates is the next game from Hibernian Workshop, the studio that gave us the brilliant Astral Ascent (and before that, Dark Devotion). This latest fantasy adventure, another action-RPG with lovely pixels, has been on Kickstarter since mid-September.
While the campaign was actually funded pretty quickly – within the first couple of days – since then we’ve been working through the stretch goals. On that front, I’m pleased to report that the last one came good at the final moment: the game’s roguelike mode!
Correction: it’s the pixel art cinematics in the boss battles that unlocked at the last minute. I got my pounds and euros mixed up and thought that the roguelike mode had just been funded, but that was a couple of days ago…
There’s a whole bunch of contextual detail about the game over on Kickstarter, including loads about the link between hero and wolf, the core gameplay pillars, the studio’s signature pixel-art, and much more.
I suggest you dig in if you’d like to find out more about Fallen Fates, which is due to land at some point in early 2028 on PC and consoles. In the meantime, you should check out Astral Ascent if you haven’t already – it’s excellent.
