Some games, you can just look at and immediately say to yourself, "Yeah, I want to play that." The Axis Unseen is one such game: It's a "heavy metal horror game" about hunting horrific monsters from ancient folklore being made by Bethesda veteran Nate Purkeypile, whose previous credits include Fallout 3 and 4, Skyrim, and Starfield. Yeah, I want to play that—and in October, I will.
The October launch window is not a full-on release date, which I find ever-so-slightly annoying, but at least it's semi-specific target—and mostly we're here just to look at the trailer anyway. It is, as promised, very metal. Associate editor Ted Litchfield got excited about The Axis Unseen last year, saying it struck him as something of a cross between Skyrim-style stealth and a Witcher-esque world, albeit one that seemingly hasn't seen the services of a competent monster hunter for a very long time.
