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GreedFall II: The Dying World RPG Enters Early Access

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Five years after releasing GreedFall, Spiders is releasing GreedFall II: The Dying World, a title that, instead of arriving complete from day one, is available through Steam Early Access. The first installment was published by Focus Entertainment while the sequel is published by Nacon, which in 2019 (and when it was still called Bigben Interactive) bought Spiders. The title will debut on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series in 2025.

GreedFall II: The Dying World is a role-playing game set three years before the events of GreedFall, following the adventure of a native of the island of Teer Fradeem who has been displaced to the Old Continent against his will. “You discover the world of the ‘renaigse’ (foreigners); a land full of mystery, whose beautiful façade hides its rotten core,” the synopsis reads. “Crowded into decaying cities plagued by disease and crime, the inhabitants of Gacane have long forgotten what it means to be truly free.”

As an outsider, players must take their destiny into their own hands, navigate the treacherous political waters of Gacane, deal with its factions, and forge a path to freedom and protect the village of Teer Fradeem. How they do so is up to them. GreedFall II: The Dying World is a role-playing game that offers the freedom to act with cunning, diplomacy, or force. Throughout their adventure in GreedFall II, players will discover the lands of the Old Continent and form alliances with companions who respond to their decisions, becoming friends, lovers, or rivals.

Why release GreedFall II: The Dying World in Early Access? Spiders says he wants to “develop the game with the community, balancing and adding features with the help of the players themselves.” The development team promises a bigger game than the first, with a new, more generous map, more regions, creatures, quests, characters, skills… It also claims that combat and exploration have been improved. The Early Access phase has no deadline and GreedFall 2 “will be released when both we and you are satisfied with the game’s content and the polishing phase.”

GreedFall 2 includes the beginning of the story, three regions to explore (Teer Fradee, Thynia, and Uxantis), six skill sets, and six companions. The current playable content represents “about 30 percent of the final game,” Spicers says. The roadmap calls for a story expansion, a new region, and two new skill sets to arrive in the fall. Another companion and a crafting system will be added in the winter, among other new features.

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