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Press Kit
Everything here may be used to cover Wanebound. Please keep facts accurate to this page — the game is in development and many details are not yet decided.
Fact sheet
- Title
- Wanebound: A Vigil Beneath the Hollow Moon
- Genre
- 2.5D gothic action-exploration Metroidvania (action-RPG)
- Developer
- To be announced
- Publisher
- To be announced
- Platforms
- PC (Windows)
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Development status
- In development · Vertical slice
- Release date
- Not announced
- Price
- Not announced
Fields marked “To be announced” are genuinely undecided — please don’t infer a studio name, contact, price, or date that isn’t stated here.
Short description
Wanebound: A Vigil Beneath the Hollow Moon is an original 2.5D gothic action-exploration Metroidvania about a cursed monster-hunter descending into a doomed alpine valley.
Description
Wanebound: A Vigil Beneath the Hollow Moon is a single-player 2.5D gothic action-exploration Metroidvania — fully 3D characters and environments rendered through a perspective side-view camera, with gameplay locked to a precise 2D side-scrolling plane. It plays like a deliberate 2D action game and is rendered in 3D.
You play Seraphine “Sera” Vael, the last blade of the Argent Vigil, a fading order of monster-hunters. Bitten in the game’s opening and now carrying a lycanthropic curse in her own blood, Sera descends into the valley of Velmoor — beneath a corrupted “Hollow Moon” — to reach its source while fighting to keep the beast inside her from taking the reins.
The game centres on weighty, readable melee combat, a single interconnected world that unfolds as you earn traversal powers, and the signature Beastblood system: channel the curse for greater power at a meaningful cost to your humanity.
Key features
- Original 2.5D gothic world: 3D characters and environments on a precise side-scrolling plane
- Weighty, commitment-based melee combat with clear tells and punish windows
- The Beastblood system — a risk/reward transformation woven through combat and story
- One large, interconnected Metroidvania map gated by traversal abilities
- A tragic, lycanthropy-centred story of power versus humanity
- Atmospheric dynamic lighting and layered environmental depth
Media
The images below are concept art, labelled as such. A downloadable media pack — including real in-engine captures — will be provided as the game matures.
Usage guidance
- You may use the text and media on this page to cover or create content about Wanebound.
- Please label concept art as “concept art”, and don’t present pre-production images as final gameplay.
- Don’t alter logos or wordmarks beyond scaling; keep the title as Wanebound: A Vigil Beneath the Hollow Moon.
- Coverage, reviews, videos, and streams are welcome and encouraged.
- Please don’t state a release date, price, or platform that isn’t confirmed on this page.
Contact
A public press contact will be published here soon. In the meantime, please follow the mailing list on the home page for news.