Lords of the Fallen 2023

Lords of the Fallen is an action role-playing video game developed by Hexworks and published by CI Games. A successor to the 2014 video game of the same name, the game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 13 October 2023. Upon release, it received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and sold over one million units in the first ten days since release.

Lords of the Fallen is an action role-playing video game played from a third-person perspective. Like its predecessor, players can use both melee weapons and magic to defeat enemies, and the gameplay adapts elements from soulsborne games. The game's campaign can also be completed cooperatively with another player. The game also features a player-versus-player multiplayer mode.

At the beginning of the game, players can create and customize their own player avatar, and choose from one of nine character classes. The game is set in an interconnected world, one that is several times bigger than that from the 2014 game. In this game, two worlds are layered on top of each other. The world of Axiom is the realm of the living, but players can use a magical lantern to access Umbral, the realm of the dead. Despite sharing the same physical space, an inaccessible area in one realm may be reached by visiting the other realm. When the player is killed, they will be transported to Umbral in which they must return to Axiom and retrieve lost experience points, called Vigor in the game. When the player is killed in the Umbral realm, they will respawn in their last save point and lose their unspent XPs. Savepoints are far and few in each region, though players can craft their own savepoints using materials collected from Umbral monsters.

After eons under the rule of Adyr, dark god of the demonic Rhogar, the followers of Orius the radiance god rose against him; unable to kill him, they sealed him away. One of Orius' finest warriors, Judge Cleric, established the order of the Hallowed Sentinels to watch over five magic beacons in the land of Mournstead to prevent Adyr from reviving. Over the ages, however, the once-righteous Sentinels become corrupted and tyrannical themselves.

Over a thousand years after Adyr's defeat, his return looms nearer as the beacons become tainted by his influence, and the Rhogar begin to infest the land. A sect of the Sentinels, the Dark Crusaders, acquires a powerful artifact to prevent this: the Umbral Lamp, which has the power to resurrect its user, allow them to travel between the realms of the living (Axiom) and the dead (Umbral), pull the souls out of enemies, and activate Stigmas, fragments of past events. However, when its previous bearer is killed, it comes into the possession of the main character: the Lamp Bearer. Exacter Dunmire, head of the Crusaders, recruits them to travel across Mournstead and cleanse the beacons with the Lamp, using it to absorb Adyr's essence at each one.

Each beacon is guarded by formidable enemies; each must be defeated to progress to the respective beacon, but the Bearer does not need to immediately interact with them. The wide world is fraught with dangerous animals, monsters, demons, cults, and even the corrupted forces of the Sentinels. Enemies and allies can be made throughout the journey, with some of the latter potentially turning against the Bearer. The beacon in the Empyrean, the Sentinel's headquarters, is guarded by none other than Judge Cleric herself; partway through the battle, she is revealed to be entirely corrupted, just like the rest of the order. Once known as Iselle, she had been a warrior priestess of Adyr before betraying him to side with Orius.

There are three endings one can achieve depending on choices made throughout the game:

• "Radiant": If the Bearer has used the Lamp to cleanse at least one of the beacons, they can storm Bramis Castle and enter the Rhogar realm and face Adyr. The dark god attempts to reason that humanity needs a god to guide them; however, unlike Orius and the Sentinels, he at least offers humanity a choice and the truth. Nevertheless, the Bearer subdues Adyr and uses the Lamp to absorb his essence; they are themselves obliterated in the process while Orius rains beams of radiance to purge all who have transgressed in his eyes, with no sin going unpunished.

• "Inferno": instead of cleansing the beacons, the Bearer can use an item called the Rune of Adyr to break them. After defeating Cleric, the Bearer can enter her dream as Iselle and allow Adyr to possess her body, granting him a vessel and vengeance on her for betraying him. Ruling the world once more, the dark god makes the Bearer one of his Rhogar lords.

• "Umbral": rather than side with either god, the Bearer can enter Umbral and locate a dark priest named Molhu, who created the Lamp, and gain access to a strange area called Mother's Lull. From there, the Bearer sacrifices a number of important persons to meet the Putrid Mother, an unspeaking, god-like eldritch being. The creature devours the Bearer's essence, using it to shatter the veil between Axiom and Umbral so it can eventually consume all of creation, sparing nothing.

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