{"id":2103282,"date":"2026-08-20T16:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2103282"},"modified":"2026-08-20T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:44:12","slug":"miyazaki-suggests-fromsoftware-is-keen-to-return-to-single-player-games-after-the-duskbloods-and-elden-ring-nightreign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2103282","title":{"rendered":"Miyazaki suggests FromSoftware is keen to return to single-player games after The Duskbloods and Elden Ring: Nightreign"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article \" data-ads=\"true\" data-article-type=\"news\" data-article-group=\"news\" data-paywalled=\"false\" data-premium=\"false\" data-sponsored=\"false\" data-type=\"article\">\n<header class=\"article_header\" data-component=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"breadcrumbs\">\n<nav class=\"nav_breadcrumbs\" data-component=\"nav-breadcrumbs\" aria-label=\"Breadcrumb\">\n<ul 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href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/hidetaka-miyazaki\">Hidetaka Miyazaki<\/a>, the president of FromSoftware and director of so many revered Soulsian games, has suggested the studio is keen to return to making single-player games after The Duskbloods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/hidetaka-miyazaki-interview-fromsoftware-duskbloods-dark-souls-future-nintendo\">Speaking to IGN<\/a>, Miyazaki explained it was a coincidence that 2025&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/elden-ring-nightreign\">Elden Ring: Nightreign<\/a> and The Duskbloods were both multiplayer games. &#8220;It&#8217;s funny because there was never really any big plan that these two games [Nightreign and The Duskbloods] would both release next to each other,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"The Duskbloods (FromSoftware Exclusive) - Official Reveal Trailer | Nintendo Switch 2 Direct\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iwVajTZNQmE?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/iwVajTZNQmE\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">The Duskbloods (FromSoftware Exclusive) &#8211; Official Reveal Trailer | Nintendo Switch 2 Direct<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a trailer for The Duskbloods.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iwVajTZNQmE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, that&#8217;s a different director,&#8221; he added, referring to Junya Ishizaki who helmed Nightreign, &#8220;but both of those ideas just coincided with being multiplayer games. It&#8217;s not necessarily some big reveal saying that this is the direction we plan to go moving forward. We still have a heavy focus on single-player content as well. This is just something that happened to work out the way it did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was while continuing this thought, and saying it had been fun to make a multiplayer game, that Miyazaki said: &#8220;But it&#8217;s like, the more you work on something multiplayer for a long time, if anything, it scratches that itch only to want to make something single-player again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FromSoftware&#8217;s last big single-player game was 2022&#8217;s barnstorming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elden-ring-walkthrough-8042\">Elden Ring<\/a>, which included a more traditional form of multiplayer for the studio &#8211; including co-op and invasions. But Elden Ring didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elden-ring-nightreign-review\">showcase multiplayer in the way Nightreign<\/a> did or that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/platforms\/switch-2\">Switch 2<\/a> exclusive The Duskbloods will &#8211; with a much more actively competitive multiplayer PvPvE experience.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it seems as though it&#8217;s The Duskbloods that&#8217;s the anomaly for FromSoftware, with Miyazaki describing it as an outlet for ideas that &#8220;didn&#8217;t really fit in the context of a single-player game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over time,&#8221; he said, &#8220;a lot of those ideas piled up, things that you wish you could have done here and there. Having an outlet for them, somewhere we can find a place where they all fit, or can be made to fit specifically in that multiplayer context, is something that was always at the forefront of my mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Duskbloods is a Switch 2 exclusive made in partnership with Nintendo. Miyazaki said this relationship came about from a mixture of Nintendo being &#8220;very excited and very receptive to the idea&#8221; of The Duskbloods, and &#8220;very forward thinking in terms of how to do it&#8221;. Nintendo&#8217;s input can be felt in the game, as well, particularly in how it helps ease players in..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The onboarding tutorials and making sure players understand how the game works and how to succeed in the game is something we&#8217;ve historically not been super great at conveying instantly,&#8221; Miyazaki said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve definitely just dropped players in and hoped they would figure it out. In this case, Nintendo is definitely the right partner for better conveying that information in a way that is understandable to the player; it definitely suits their strengths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-duskbloods-check-network-test-access\">This weekend&#8217;s The Duskbloods network test runs in five phases<\/a>, one each day from 21st August (Friday) through to 24th August (Monday). The full game has no release date yet, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-duskbloods-release-date-nintendo-denied\">a 24th September date appearing briefly today<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/from-software-the-duskbloods-playtest\">FromSoftware has previously committed to it coming out this year<\/a>. The pertinent question this autumn is: how close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/gta-6-everything-we-know-so-far-9357\">GTA 6<\/a>&#8216;s 19th November release dare it go?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"preferred-source\" data-component=\"preferred-source\">\nLove Eurogamer.net? Make us a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\">Preferred Source on Google<\/a> and catch more of our coverage in your feeds.  <\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"article_body\" data-component=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article_body_content article-styling\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/personas\/hidetaka-miyazaki\">Hidetaka Miyazaki<\/a>, the president of FromSoftware and director of so many revered Soulsian games, has suggested the studio is keen to return to making single-player games after The Duskbloods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/hidetaka-miyazaki-interview-fromsoftware-duskbloods-dark-souls-future-nintendo\">Speaking to IGN<\/a>, Miyazaki explained it was a coincidence that 2025&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/games\/elden-ring-nightreign\">Elden Ring: Nightreign<\/a> and The Duskbloods were both multiplayer games. &#8220;It&#8217;s funny because there was never really any big plan that these two games [Nightreign and The Duskbloods] would both release next to each other,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"video_wrapper youtube\">\n<a aria-label=\"The Duskbloods (FromSoftware Exclusive) - Official Reveal Trailer | Nintendo Switch 2 Direct\" class=\"video-facade full-size\" data-platform=\"youtube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iwVajTZNQmE?autoplay=1\" title=\"Click to play video from YouTube\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cover image for YouTube video\" class=\"video-facade__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/iwVajTZNQmE\/hqdefault.jpg\"><span class=\"video-facade__title\">The Duskbloods (FromSoftware Exclusive) &#8211; Official Reveal Trailer | Nintendo Switch 2 Direct<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption>Here&#8217;s a trailer for The Duskbloods.<a class=\"video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iwVajTZNQmE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, that&#8217;s a different director,&#8221; he added, referring to Junya Ishizaki who helmed Nightreign, &#8220;but both of those ideas just coincided with being multiplayer games. It&#8217;s not necessarily some big reveal saying that this is the direction we plan to go moving forward. We still have a heavy focus on single-player content as well. This is just something that happened to work out the way it did.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was while continuing this thought, and saying it had been fun to make a multiplayer game, that Miyazaki said: &#8220;But it&#8217;s like, the more you work on something multiplayer for a long time, if anything, it scratches that itch only to want to make something single-player again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FromSoftware&#8217;s last big single-player game was 2022&#8217;s barnstorming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elden-ring-walkthrough-8042\">Elden Ring<\/a>, which included a more traditional form of multiplayer for the studio &#8211; including co-op and invasions. But Elden Ring didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/elden-ring-nightreign-review\">showcase multiplayer in the way Nightreign<\/a> did or that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/platforms\/switch-2\">Switch 2<\/a> exclusive The Duskbloods will &#8211; with a much more actively competitive multiplayer PvPvE experience.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it seems as though it&#8217;s The Duskbloods that&#8217;s the anomaly for FromSoftware, with Miyazaki describing it as an outlet for ideas that &#8220;didn&#8217;t really fit in the context of a single-player game&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over time,&#8221; he said, &#8220;a lot of those ideas piled up, things that you wish you could have done here and there. Having an outlet for them, somewhere we can find a place where they all fit, or can be made to fit specifically in that multiplayer context, is something that was always at the forefront of my mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"injection_placeholder\" data-position=\"2\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Duskbloods is a Switch 2 exclusive made in partnership with Nintendo. Miyazaki said this relationship came about from a mixture of Nintendo being &#8220;very excited and very receptive to the idea&#8221; of The Duskbloods, and &#8220;very forward thinking in terms of how to do it&#8221;. Nintendo&#8217;s input can be felt in the game, as well, particularly in how it helps ease players in..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The onboarding tutorials and making sure players understand how the game works and how to succeed in the game is something we&#8217;ve historically not been super great at conveying instantly,&#8221; Miyazaki said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve definitely just dropped players in and hoped they would figure it out. In this case, Nintendo is definitely the right partner for better conveying that information in a way that is understandable to the player; it definitely suits their strengths.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-duskbloods-check-network-test-access\">This weekend&#8217;s The Duskbloods network test runs in five phases<\/a>, one each day from 21st August (Friday) through to 24th August (Monday). The full game has no release date yet, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-duskbloods-release-date-nintendo-denied\">a 24th September date appearing briefly today<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/from-software-the-duskbloods-playtest\">FromSoftware has previously committed to it coming out this year<\/a>. The pertinent question this autumn is: how close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/gta-6-everything-we-know-so-far-9357\">GTA 6<\/a>&#8216;s 19th November release dare it go?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News The Duskbloods Miyazaki suggests FromSoftware is keen to return to single-player games after The Duskbloods and Elden Ring: Nightreign Fangs mate. 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