After a glitzy showing during the PlayStation 5 showcase earlier this week, Godfall made another appearance during PC Gamer’s PC Gaming Show, treating would-be fans to the first look at gameplay footage from the looter-slash RPG running on PC.
Because Godfall is famed for being the first officially announced PS5 game, it’s easy to forget that Counterplay’s latest effort is also heading to PC when it releases later this year. But, it is, and if the trailer stands as any measure of what we can expect, it looks just as good on PC as on PS5. Think Dark Souls meets Monster Hunter: World with a bit of Borderlands thrown in.
The trailer caused a bit of stir after PC Gamer blundered by announcing that Godfall runs on Epic Game’s newly unveiled Unreal Engine 5. That’s the very engine that caused gamers worldwide to drop their jaws in unison at the dazzling level of graphical fidelity and detail demonstrated in a tech demo running on PS5.
After what was presumably a friendly message from Counterplay and Gearbox, PC Gamer issued a correction and confirmed Godfall isn’t an Unreal Engine 5 project after all. It makes sense given Unreal Engine 5 won’t be widely available until the tail end of next year.
If you’ve missed all the excitement so far, Godfall is a ‘first-of-its-kind’ third-person melee-action RPG where combat and loot take center stage. Players don fantastically over-the-top armor and go about halting an imminent apocalypse in its tracks as they traipse across the multi-realm land of Aperion dishing out swift justice with oversized weaponry.
Here’s the official blurb from publisher Gearbox, ‘You are the last of the Valorian knights, god-like warriors able to equip Valorplates, legendary armor sets that transform wielders into unstoppable masters of melee combat. Tear through foes as you climb through each of the elemental realms and challenge the mad god, Macros, who awaits you at the top.’
Godfall is due for release by the end of 2020 on PC and PlayStation 5.