New Vegas showed concept art of the role-playing game Wyrdsong on Unreal Engine 5

Something Wicked Games studio, founded by veterans of Bethesda Game Studios and Obsidian Entertainment, shared the concept art of its debut game called Wyrdsong. The project is an open-world RPG.

The action takes place in the dark fantasy world of medieval Portugal. Wyrdsong was announced during gamescom 2022.

Jeff Gardiner (Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 76) and Charles Staples (The Outer Worlds, Fallout: New Vegas) are in charge of development.

Over the past few months, Something Wicked Games has increased its staff from eight people to thirty.

At the moment, Wyrdsong is in the pre-production stage: the main story has been created and three factions have been invented, a tool for creating quests and plot branches has also been developed.

Now the team is engaged in the visual component of the game and gameplay. Development is carried out on Unreal Engine 5.

NetEase invested in the studio of Something Wicked Games — the amount of injections amounted to $ 13.2 million.

The release date of Wyrdsong and the platforms on which the game will be released are not called.