FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki has gone on the record to put fans’ fears to rest following the announcement of multiplayer Switch 2 exclusive The Duskbloods earlier this week.
In a new Creators’ Voice interview with Nintendo about the game, Miyazaki says that despite multiplayer experiments like The Duskbloods and the upcoming Elden Ring Nightreign, FromSoftware has no plans to abandon its usual fare.
According to Miyazaki, these games “[don’t] mean that we as a company have decided to shift to a more multiplayer-focused direction”, and that the company “still intend[s] to actively develop single-player focused games” like Elden Ring “that embrace our more traditional style”.
Miyazaki says that The Duskbloods was designed as a PvPvE multiplayer game because he’s “always found the PvPvE structure very interesting”. He goes on to say said structure allows FromSoftware to “leverage our experience of designing challenging enemy encounters” in new ways.
He also provides some more info about The Duskbloods itself; you’ll play as a vampire-like creature called a Bloodsworn, and you’ll be competing with other Bloodsworn for “First Blood” amidst an apocalyptic event known as the Twilight of Humanity.
That’s why you’ll see a range of different technologies and time periods in The Duskbloods; you can think of the game’s world as a sort of societal version of Dark Souls 3‘s The Dreg Heap, with various different times and places collapsing into one another.
Over the course of a match in The Duskbloods, you’ll fight both other players and enemies in the environment to accrue Victory Points, and the player with the most Victory Points at the end of the match wins.
Miyazaki says that because he’s “not much of a PvP person”, he wanted to design a multiplayer game that could be played by those who aren’t keen on PvP without depriving those players of a fair chance at winning.
We don’t yet have a release date for The Duskbloods, but the game will be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 sometime in 2026, and it won’t represent the end of FromSoftware’s single-player catalog either. Stay tuned for more.
