Loric Games has been on our radar for a few years now, being a studio founded by Mythic Entertainment vets, and last month, the studio took the wraps off the game it’s working on: Echoes of Elysium, a multiplayer survival sandbox that edges right up to the MMO line without crossing it and offers a realm replete with customizable airships and clockwork baddies in an open-world fantasy setting.
This week, the studio has opened up a bit more about the game courtesy of a producer’s letter from Loric head of production Jeff Hickman, whose name is going to be familiar to MMORPG players as he helmed Dark Age of Camelot, Warhammer Online, and Star Wars The Old Republic. Hickman characterizes Loric as a small (19 people) remote indie team before diving into lore.
“Echoes of Elysium takes place in the Greek afterlife upper realm of Elysium, home to the greatest of Greek heroes who have reached the afterlife and been deemed worthy of ascending to Elysium,” he writes. “But in our version of this realm, Elysium has fallen. Cronos is nowhere to be seen, and the realm has been shattered. What remains is a splintered assortment of floating islands, dotted with the ruins of an Elysium that was.”
Naturally, players enter the game as heroes tasked with exploring and restoring these broken lands. Hickman also discusses how players will depend on building a “fleet” of the aforementioned airships in a “world designed with verticality in mind,” all while taking part in typical survivalbox gameplay, like gathering, crafting, and hunting.
“I will be writing an update every 5-6 weeks to ensure you all know what is going on with the game and to get some feedback and your thoughts about what we are doing,” Hickman concludes. “We are currently working on Internal Milestone 9, which has a focus on Airship crafting, functionality and overall progression, as well as a bunch of improvements for monsters, hordes and flying monster behavior.”
Our legendary CPO Jeff Hickman has got a couple words. Y'all check it out😎https://t.co/pd3g899Dez
— LoricGames (@LoricGames) May 9, 2024
