Wolcen Studio reveals new Extraction ARPG Project Pantheon

Wolcen Studio, developer of the 2020 action RPG Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem unveiled a new title today codenamed Project Pantheon. According to Wolcen Studio the team plans to merge the recently popular extr🌳action genre with the always popular action RPG genre.

Project Panethon will launch as a free-to-play live service game where players are tasked with journeying into the afterlife to restore a shattered reality at the behest of Death itself. Along the way, players will traverse a variety of maps while battling enemies in PvPvE combat, and then must successfully extract from the map ♏to hang on to any valuable loot they acquired along the way. According to Wolcen Studio, players will have their own hidden fortress that acts as an upgradeable base and offers a nice reprieve from battle where players can customize loadouts and interact with a player-driven economy via an open market.

“Project Pantheon delivers a unique experience by merging the fast-paced combat of ARPGs with the tension and risk-reward gameplay mechanics of extraction shooters. Project Pantheon is what would happen if Diablo and Escape From Tarkov had a baby”

– Andrei Chirculete, Game Director of Project Pantheon at Wolcen Studio

Those interested in checking out Project Pantheon can starting later this month on January 25-26, 2025 for European players and early next month on February 1-2 for Nor✱th American players.

I enjoyed my time with Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem when it released back in 2020. It had a solid and lengthy campaign with high build variety—an important feature of the ARPG genre—and working multiplayer. However, after completing the campaign, the post-game content required a lot of work and some rather game-breaking bugs with certain builds really eliminated true build variety. Wolcen Studio continued to update and add content to Wolcen over th🌠e next few years before shutting down the game—and its online servers—just a few months ago on Septem🌺ber 17, 2024.

I’m always down for a good ARPG, and while I’m not the biggest fan of the extraction genre, I’m certainly willing to give it a shot when mixed with the genre I love. Hopefully Wolcen Studio learned a lot from the development process of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem and incorporate that knowledge into Project Pantheon.