Among Shadows is a Nightreign-style dark fantasy RPG with a touch of Among Us that makes me think wistfully of Dark Souls at its most treacherous

Among Shadows is the benignant of videogame genre arithmetic that often proves little than the sum of its parts, but I'm cautiously enthused by its speech of disease, betrayal and Elden Ring: Nightreign-flavoured swordwizarding. The gist: this is simply a phantasy action-RPG with an Among Us-style societal deduction element. You are a subordinate of the Order of the Secret Fire, sent into a supernaturally blighted portion to way down sources of corruption, portion looting cogwheel and levelling yourself up.

When the Blood Moon rises, you indispensable escort the section Lord and their radical to the representation perimeter, fending disconnected zombies, fanatics, wraiths, and different boglins spawned by the magical lurgy. The occupation is, 1 oregon much of your squad is simply a soiled rotten traitor, dispatched by the underworld to cultivate the plague, laic traps, and stealthily execution different players. Every night, players person the enactment of calling a gathering to comparison notes and weasel retired the incorrect 'uns. Here's a cinematic trailer - there's an in-game video connected the Steam page, though it's not localised successful English.

OK, truthful the Steam leafage video isn't precisely a show of FromSoft-level bladewanging, though I rather similar the posh costumes. As I said, Among Shadows is an evident specimen of the bandwagon-repainting mentality that has besides fixed america a cardinal themed variations connected Balatro and Vampire Survivors. (Have they done a sporty Survivorslike yet, by the way? Because "Umpire Survivors" is close there.) Still, I bash deliberation developers TMXN Games are onto thing absorbing with the societal deduction/backstabbing element.

Treachery abounds successful the Souls games and Elden Ring, whether you're talking astir definite slaphead trickster NPCs oregon the subordinate Mound Makers of Dark Souls 3, who airs arsenic affable summons successful bid to harvest bits of spine for their bonepiles. I similar that Among Shadows is benignant of trying to instrumentality that ambiance of mistrust adjacent further, adjacent if the implementation suggests a developer banging Hot Trends unneurotic similar Ken and Barbie. It's releasing aboriginal this year.