Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden gets a fresh trailer at The Game Awards 2023

The ghost hunt begins in February 2024

Marco Wutz | Dec 7, 2023

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden gets a fresh trailer at The Game Awards 2023 /

A brand-new trailer has been released for Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden at The Game Awards 2023, giving us another chance to get a feel for the action RPG developed by DON’T NOD and published by Focus Entertainment. Set for a February 13, 2024, launch, Banishers is coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.

You can watch the fresh trailer featuring all-new footage below:

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is a third-person action RPG focusing on the story of a pair of ghost hunters called Red mac Raith and Antea Duarte. A slight problem for the lovers develops during their travels in New Eden, though: Antea dies and becomes a ghost herself. Her spirit still anchored to the world, she accompanies Red on his hunts, helping him out with her new spirit abilities.

Players can switch between the two characters in combat as well as during exploration, using their unique abilities to defeat enemies and solve puzzles. Red wields a variety of melee and ranged weapons to deal physical damage to opponents, while Antea can assault enemies on a spiritual level, sapping away at their souls. Being a banisher, Red can finish foes off by exorcizing the evil possessing them.

Red and Antea are the protagonist duo of Banishers :: Don't Nod / Focus Entertainment

Having made Life is Strange and Vampyr in the past, DON’T NOD are experts when it comes to a strong narrative and consequential player choices, and these elements are present here, too. After all, Red has sworn to vanquish all spirits – so shouldn’t he do the same with Antea? Or will he sacrifice everything for an opportunity to bring her back instead?

Aside from the standard edition, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden is available in a physical Red Echoes Edition and Collector’s Edition via the publisher’s store in limited quantities.

You can find out more in our Banishers preview from gamescom 2023.

Published Dec 7, 2023

MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg