You might be all trailered out after one of the most exciting Game Awards lineups in the show's 10-year history, but one of the coolest game announcements of the past week actually happened outside Geoff Keighley's gameapalooza: Covenant, a dark fantasy, first person FPS-RPG whose devs boast some impressive shooter bona fides, as well as an aggressive, ambitious vision of how extensive the game can be.
Developer Legion Studios describes it as an FPS-Soulslike, and the FromSoft inspiration is immediately apparent in Covenant's first trailer, with some truly striking dark fantasy environments that carry the "looks like the cover of a fantasy novel" energy I really love about Elden Ring. The voiceovers really scream Souls too: One of them sounds like Gurranq from Elden Ring, most of them make reference to impenetrable fantasy lore and proper nouns, while the first even straight up goes through the vaunted "Ahh,, fucked up little man" routine. I can dig it.
