After its pre-rendered trailer caused a stir last year, this Dark Messiah-inspired RPG now has a gameplay teaser—but the internet is debating if it's real or not

The player character kicks a goblin in the chest on the edge of a cliff in Alkahest.

As the self-appointed Fox Mulder of games about kicking goblins down flights of stairs, I want to believe that fantasy hack 'n' slash Alkahest can revive the underappreciated swashbuckling brilliance of Dark Messiah: Might and Magic. The game debuted last year with a flashy announcement trailer that really sold me on the concept.

But as reported by Andy last year, the trailer also attracted scepticism because it used a mixture of in-game assets and prerendered animations, with the developer acknowledging that "some of the camera angles and animations have been crafted specifically for the trailer, for the sake of spectacle".