{"id":737218,"date":"2026-08-14T00:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737218\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T00:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T00:34:10","slug":"gritty-action-rpgs-will-soon-have-big-budget-competition-from-one-of-the-worlds-most-popular-devs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/737218\/","title":{"rendered":"Gritty Action RPGs Will Soon Have Big Budget Competition from One of the World’s Most Popular Devs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Action<\/a> Image: Push Square<\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of Soulslikes or just fantasy-themed action RPGs in general, then you might want to keep an eye out for ‘The Weavers’ (as it’s currently known).<\/p>\n

Based on numerous leaks up until this point \u2014 which have suddenly spiralled out of control \u2014 this is a gritty action RPG from HoYoverse, currently in development for consoles and PC.<\/p>\n

Yes, that HoYoverse, of Genshin Impact<\/a>, Zenless Zone Zero<\/a>, and Honkai: Star Rail<\/a> fame. The free-to-play juggernaut has ditched anime aesthetics entirely for this one, replacing its signature style with a much more grounded and realistic direction.<\/p>\n

That is to say, the leaked screenshots \u2014 many of which have ended up on Reddit<\/a> \u2014 are all very grey and brown. There’s some gameplay footage floating about as well, but it’s mostly just short clips that don’t give the full picture (yet).<\/p>\n

Still, going by the snippets that are out there, it seems to be open world \u2014 or at least open zone –and the combat is reminiscent of… well, a lot of things. There’s a bit of Souls<\/a> in there, with a dash of Monster Hunter<\/a>, and definitely some Dragon’s Dogma<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this one’s obviously got bags of potential given the company behind it. It’s unclear when we’ll get to see anything official, but the project does appear to be fairly far along.<\/p>\n

Do you like the sounds of this? Try not to get too carried away in the comments section below.<\/p>\n

\"Robert<\/p>\n

Robert (or Rob if you’re lazy) is an assistant editor of Push Square, and has been a fan of PlayStation since the 90s, when Tekken 2 introduced him to the incredible world of video games. He still takes his fighting games seriously, but RPGs are his true passion. The Witcher, Persona, Dragon Quest, Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Trails, Tales \u2014 he’s played ’em all. A little too much, some might say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Push Square If you’re a fan of Soulslikes or just fantasy-themed action RPGs in general, then you…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,93503,895,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-737218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-hoyoverse","tag-leaks","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}