Stellar Blade

Combat focuses on countering enemy attacks and proceeding to use combo skills and items to defeat enemies. The game also utilizes the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller's haptic feedback in order to deliver feedback on enemy attacks and weapon accuracy. Exploration around the game world features wall scaling and swinging on ropes in order to traverse the environment and find hidden secrets, such as extra costumes. In the near future, humanity is driven from the Earth after a losing a war against alien invaders called NA:tives. To reclaim the Earth, the protagonist Eve and her squad are deployed from the Colony to fight the NA:tives and take back Earth. Eve then makes contact with the elder Orcal and establishes relationships with the residents of Xion in order to further her mission to save Earth. The game was first revealed via a teaser trailer under the working title Project Eve on April 4, 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows to be developed on Unreal Engine 4 by Shift Up, a Korean studio founded by Blade & Soul illustrator Kim Hyung-tae. The game was later announced to be an exclusive for PlayStation 5 and would be published by Sony Interactive Entertainment during a September 2021 PlayStation showcase.