FromSoftware has set a closed playtest for Duskbloods on Nintendo Switch 2 this summer, giving the multiplayer adventure its first concrete near-term step after more than a year without a public showing. The game still has no release date.
That is the update players have been waiting for since Duskbloods was first announced during Nintendo's Switch 2 unveiling last April. For anyone following FromSoftware, the studio behind Elden Ring, the playtest is now the closest chance to see how the new project actually plays before a launch is even on the calendar.
Hidetaka Miyazaki has said the game casts players as vampire-like creatures known as Bloodsworn, competing for the mysterious First Blood in an event called the Twilight of Humanity. He also said the game has no fixed era or location, with maps that move from Gothic- and Victorian-style settings to locations drawn from the closing years of the early modern period. In the trailer, a train cuts through one of those maps, underscoring how openly the game mixes periods and tones.
That mix has already made Duskbloods one of the stranger new projects tied to Switch 2. It was described after the reveal as something like Bloodborne, Sekiro and Dark Souls spliced together with jetpacks and dinosaurs, a pitch that sounds intentionally chaotic and is still missing the one thing players usually want most: a date. The targeted summer playtest is the first clear sign the game is moving, but it does not settle when the full release will arrive.
That gap is what gives the update its weight. Publisher assurances had suggested the game was still coming this year, but the new playtest is the only concrete event now on the horizon. FromSoftware mantiene para 2026 Elden Ring y The Duskbloods en Switch 2 remains the practical picture for the studio's near-term slate, even as the wider question of when Duskbloods reaches stores is still unanswered.
For now, the next milestone is simple: a closed summer test on Switch 2, and then another wait. What players still do not have is the date that turns Duskbloods from a trailer and a playtest into a release.
