Narrative-focused stealth strategy game Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream announced for PS5, Xbox Series, and PC
Due out in 2025.
Publisher Nordcurrent Labs and developer River End Games have announced Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream, a narrative-focused stealth strategy game coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store in 2025.
Here is an overview of the game, via Nordcurrent Labs:
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is a narrative-focused stealth strategy adventure game from River End Games—a Gothenburg-based studio comprised of fifteen veteran AAA developers whose industry credits include Battlefield, Little Nightmares, Mirror’s Edge, and Unravel.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is a character-driven single-player game set in the titular Eriksholm—a fictitious city in a fictitious world greatly influenced by a Nordic-inspired, early 1900s aesthetic. It tells the tale of three protagonists united by fire in their hearts to defy their oppressors. The reveal trailer introduces protagonist Hanna, an adolescent orphan on a quest to find her brother Herman. What follows is a sequence of events that transforms Hanna into a reluctant hero, inspiring her and her friends to rise from the gutters of Eriksholm to become symbols of change.
From a top-down 3D perspective, players will embody Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream’s three playable protagonists and navigate through the densely detailed streets and dreary underground of the city of Eriksholm, utilizing each character’s unique skills, tools, and weapons to overcome obstacles and solve puzzles. Players can freely move the in-game camera to survey the environment, plan their next step, and execute it with perfect timing. Even an overheard dialogue, such as context-sensitive guard chatter, could prove meaningful in finding the best strategic move to progress undetected, as challenges may have multiple solutions.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream cleverly marries the art of storytelling, stealth, and strategy-based gameplay mechanics to treat players to a riveting adventure with high-production-value visuals, motion-captured performances, and engaging real-time gameplay.
Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.
