Stellar Blade, the all-new story-driven action adventure from Shift Up that centers around a female warrior named Eve and her battle to reclaim a future Earth that has been taken over by alien invaders, will be getting a free and playable demo on PS5 this week, game director Kim Hyung Tae has announced. The full game, which was developed on Unreal Engine 4, will be available exclusively on Sony’s consoles on Friday, April 26.
Availability and launch time:
- Friday, March 29
- 7 a.m. PDT / 2 p.m. GMT
Language options for full game:
- Voice Over
- Korean,English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Latin Spanish
- Text
- Korean, English (US), French, Italian, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish, Thai, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese.
Tae on the upcoming demo:
The demo takes place from the very beginning of the game when Eve, a member of the 7th Airborne Squad is sent to Earth on a mission to reclaim the planet from the Naytiba, up to the first boss fight. This first stage will include the tutorial phase to help you familiarize yourself with basic combat features as you explore post-war Eidos 7, a human city now infested by the Naytiba, giving you an early grasp of gameplay mechanics that will serve you throughout the game’s story.
Game synopsis:
Ravaged by strange, powerful creatures, Earth has been abandoned, and what is left of the decimated human race has fled to a Colony in outer space.
After travelling from the Colony, 7th Airborne Squad member EVE arrives on the desolate remains of our planet with a clear-cut mission: to save humankind by reclaiming Earth from the Naytiba – the malevolent force that has devastated it.
But as EVE tackles the Naytiba one-by-one, piecing together the mysteries of the past in the ruins of human civilization, she realizes that her mission is far from straightforward. In fact, almost nothing is as it seems…