Anyone who’s played a classic Final Fantasy game knows that one of the formative moments of those games was getting your airship — when your whole world opens up. It’s an entrancing feeling of freedom that almost no other game can match. But despite how memorable those airship moments are, it’s bizarre to think that no one's ever made a game that revolves around that idea — a game all about the freedom of airships. Echoes of Elysium hopes to change that, translating the emergent, and delightfully fun, chaos of Sea of Thieves into the sky.
Echoes of Elysium is the first title from Loric Games, a studio founded by veterans from Mythic Entertainment, the studio best known for the Dark Age of Camelot MMORPG franchise. While Echoes of Elysium isn’t an MMO, it does have a lot of the genre’s DNA, like a lot of survival games. Lead producer Ray Soto tells Inverse that Final Fantasy was a key inspiration in forming the idea of exploration with airships, while survival games like Sea of Thieves were the core inspiration for gameplay.
