Highly Anticipated Stealth Adventure Game Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream Makes Tradeshow Debut at gamescom 2024
Last week, international multiplatform games publisher Nordcurrent Labs and developer River End Games announced that the narrative-focused single-player stealth adventure game Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream will be at gamescom 2024 in Cologne, Germany, for its tradeshow debut following its announcement at the Future Game Show Summer Showcase in June 2024.
From August 21-23, 2024, attending media who schedule an appointment with Nordcurrent Labs and River End Games will have access to the world’s first gameplay preview of Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream — an all-original title from veteran AAA developers whose industry credits include Battlefield, Little Nightmares, Mirror’s Edge, and Unravel.
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Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is a character-driven single-player game set in the titular Eriksholm — a fictitious city in a world with a Nordic-inspired, early 1900s aesthetic. It tells the tale of three protagonists united by fire in their hearts to defy their oppressors. The reveal trailer introduces protagonist Hanna, an adolescent orphan on a quest to find her brother Herman. What follows is a sequence of events that transforms Hanna into a reluctant hero, inspiring her and her friends to rise from the gutters of Eriksholm to become symbols of change.
From a top-down 3D perspective, players will embody Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream’s three playable protagonists and navigate through the densely detailed streets and dreary underground of the city of Eriksholm, utilizing each character’s unique skills, tools, and weapons to overcome obstacles and solve puzzles. Players can freely move the in-game camera to survey the environment, plan their next step, and execute it with perfect timing. Even an overheard dialogue, such as context-sensitive guard chatter, could prove meaningful in finding the best strategic move to progress undetected, as challenges may have multiple solutions.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream cleverly marries the art of storytelling, stealth, and strategy-based gameplay mechanics to treat players to a riveting adventure with high-production-value visuals, motion-captured performances, and engaging real-time gameplay. It is the premier title from developer River End Games, which was acquired by Nordcurrent in 2023. The studio was founded by Anders Hejdenberg (Battlefield 2: Modern Combat), the creative director of Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream.
Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is set to release in 2025 on Windows PC (via Steam and the Epic Games Store), PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. Fans can wishlist Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream on all platforms now.
Nordcurrent Labs and River End Games’ official trade presence at gamescom will reside within ÜberStrategist’s Business Pavilion, a B2B meeting space established through a partnership between ÜberStrategist and the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), the largest nonprofit membership organization serving game developers worldwide. ÜberStrategist’s Business Pavilion will only be accessible by industry professionals and press for by-appointment meetings and walk-in greetings within Hall 3.2, Booth #D051g – C050g.
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About Nordcurrent Labs
Nordcurrent Labs is the PC and console publishing label of the Nordcurrent Group. Its mission is to empower talented video game developers and bring creative and ambitious multiplatform games to the worldwide gaming community.
Established in 2002 in Vilnius, Lithuania, the Norcurrent Group is an international publisher and developer of casual games for smartphones, tablets, and PC/Mac. With headquarters in Lithuania and development studios in Vilnius, Gothenburg, Dnipro, and Warsaw, the Nordcurrent Group employs over 300 game industry professionals and has developed over 50 games for various platforms, achieving over 500 million downloads worldwide.
About River End Games
River End Games is a new video game development company based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Founded by a group of industry veterans whose credits include Battlefield, Little Nightmares, Mirror’s Edge, and Unravel. River End Games’ mission is to create world-class original IPs that mix satisfying gameplay mechanics and deep storytelling in visually captivating worlds that players will remember long after they’ve put the controller away.
For more information about River End Games, please visit https://riverendgames.com.
