Development

Lords of the Fallen II is developed by Hexworks, the studio behind the 2023 game, and published by its parent company CI Games. It is built on Unreal Engine 5 and targets current-generation hardware.

Reveal and Showings

The game was first revealed with a cinematic announcement trailer at Gamescom Opening Night Live on 19 August 2025. Its first gameplay trailer arrived at The Game Awards in December 2025, followed in early 2026 by an alpha gameplay showing and a developer roundtable focused on the reworked Umbral realm. A mid-2026 trailer, centered on the battle for Thorngar, narrowed the release to a Fall 2026 window and revealed the region of Yisugen.

The game has surfaced at four events so far. Its cinematic reveal opened Gamescom Opening Night Live on 19 August 2025, to an audience the studio put at more than 72 million. The first gameplay footage followed at The Game Awards on 12 December 2025. A Summer Game Fest showing on 5 June 2026 debuted the Battle for Thorngar trailer and confirmed a same-day launch across every storefront, and a Nintendo Direct on 9 June 2026 added the Nintendo Switch 2 version.

Alongside the Gamescom reveal the studio ran an on-site tattoo studio at Koelnmesse in Cologne, offering permanent and henna designs drawn from the game's artwork; it reported that 150 attendees took a mark. A one-off canvas painted in human blood by a guest artist, depicting a character from the game, was offered through a sweepstake at the same event.

Team and Direction

The sequel is led by game director James Lowe, with Nathan Richardsson serving as senior development director, and a new creative team, with several leads from the first game having moved on before the reveal. The developers have spoken about respecting the player's time and giving the sequel its own identity rather than simply echoing other soulslikes.

Other named leads include lead systems designer Daniel Regan, producer Alex Harkin, and creative strategist Ryan Hill, who front the studio's monthly developer roundtable series alongside the game director. The series began in April 2025 while the studio was still supporting the previous game, and turned to the sequel with its third episode in June 2025. It had reached a tenth episode by June 2026, covering combat, worldbuilding, enemy design, the reworked undead realm, and the katana weapon class.

Release and Platforms

Lords of the Fallen II is planned for Q1 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2. In June 2026 the studio delayed the game from its earlier Fall 2026 window into the first quarter of 2027, saying it had identified opportunities to refine the experience that would benefit from more integration, iteration and polish, and that the later window positions the game outside a particularly competitive holiday period; an exact date has not been set. The PlayStation 5 version supports the enhanced console. After an earlier plan to tie the PC release to a single storefront ended, the PC version launches simultaneously on Steam and Epic Games Store, the same day as the console versions. The game is available to wishlist on all platforms, with PLAION handling its global physical distribution and retail. The Nintendo Switch 2 version was confirmed during a Nintendo Direct in June 2026 and marks the franchise's first appearance on a Nintendo platform; it runs on Unreal Engine 5 in both handheld and docked modes, targeting a stable 30 frames per second with Nanite and Lumen and bespoke optimizations developed alongside Epic and Nintendo.

The PC version had originally been tied to a single storefront under an exclusivity arrangement. That arrangement ended in May 2026, and the following month the studio confirmed a simultaneous PC launch across both storefronts on the same day as the console versions.

Editions and Rating

Three edition tiers are published: Standard, Deluxe, and a Collector's Edition, offered in both digital and physical forms. Prices and storefront links have not gone live, and the game cannot be pre-ordered yet. The Deluxe Edition bundles the base game with a digital soundtrack, bronze, silver and gold armour tincts, early unlocks for three starting classes, and two pre-order exclusives: a Devil Horns emote and a scythe skin. Full contents are listed on Editions and Platform Features.

The game carries an ESRB rating of Mature 17+ with the content descriptors Intense Violence, Blood and Gore, and Language. Ratings boards elsewhere have graded it 18 in Germany and 16 in Brazil, and it is listed as banned in Indonesia. Some storefront listings still display a Rating Pending placeholder that predates the assigned rating.

PC System Requirements

The game's PC system requirements, published alongside its store listing, target current-generation hardware running Windows 11. Minimum and recommended specifications are below.

These figures are pre-launch targets and may be revised before release. Console versions run on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2.