When your trailer opens with “from the creators of Darkish Age of Camelot, Warhammer On-line, Star Wars: The Previous Republic, and Fallout 4,” you recognize you’ve bought a workforce with some actual pedigree behind it. That’s how we’ve been launched to Echoes of Elysium, an airship survival RPG that serves as the primary effort from Loric Video games. 

Echoes of Elysium is an open-world sport that invitations each solo and cooperative exploration. Gamers might be tasked with constructing a fleet of airships, taking up enemies within the sky, and primarily simply attempting their finest to outlive with an airship as the primary base of operations. These survival efforts prolong past the deck of the ship. There are areas to go to all through the procedurally-generated world, sources to collect and craft, and enemies alongside the way in which which have the souls of misplaced Elysians as their energy supply.

The teaser beneath is simply that, delivering a really temporary style of the adventurous vibe behind it. 

After buying BioWare in 2007, EA merged the studio with Mythic in 2009 and promoted BioWare co-founder Ray Muzyka to Senior Vice President/Group Basic Supervisor. Flash ahead by way of just a few usually tumultuous online game trade cycles to the formation of a newly impartial group of devs who, having since splintered off in varied instructions, are coming collectively to “convey wealthy storytelling to on-line survival RPGs.”

The Arlington, Virginia-based Loric Video games was established in 2022, with Mythic Leisure veterans Brian Johnson, Ray Soto, and Rob Denton—who was additionally Mythic’s co-founder—as its founding members. In January 2024, Loric managed to boost an extra $4 million in its newest funding spherical due to assist from Hiro Capital. On the similar time, the studio additionally introduced the addition of Jeff Hickman, one other trade veteran and former Mythic worker, as Chief Manufacturing Officer.

There are nonetheless numerous questions within the air about Echoes of Elysium. It’s simply listed for PC in the intervening time — a Steam web page is stay — and there’s no date in place. We additionally haven’t seen a lot past screenshots and that brief teaser. Hopefully, we’ll see extra quickly for a greater thought of what Loric Video games is placing forth as its inaugural calling card.