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Lost Soul Aside release set for 2025 on PC and PS5

Another ambitious action adventure from China

Marco Wutz

Ultizero Games / Sony

It’s been quiet around Lost Soul Aside for a long time, but a new trailer has broken the silence, revealing that the action adventure inspired by Final Fantasy and Devil May Cry is targeting PC and PS5 with a 2025 release window.

Lost Soul Aside is being developed by Shanghai-based Ultizero Games, which naturally hopes to build on the momentum that Black Myth: Wukong has created for single-player titles from China. It’s certainly easy to see why the two titles might speak to a similar audience – great visuals and action-packed gameplay are coming together in this neat package.

Shown in the trailer is what appears to be a boss fight against a massive ice creature. Keeping mobile, the player circles the beast as they execute quick attacks with lightning effects – in fact, the protagonist is so fast that he leaves afterimages of himself around the enemy. 

Also visible is some sort of floating companion, which is at the player’s side in and outside of combat. In another fight, the protagonist teams up with a female companion, who has similar powers.

The official description states that the game will about embarking “on a hero’s journey” – classic stuff.

Lost Soul Aside is part of Sony’s China Hero Project, a regional initiative to support small studios in their endeavors.

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Marco Wutz
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

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