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MercurySteam announces 'difficult and painful' job cuts as its God of War-inspired hack 'n' slash arrives on Steam

The developer of Blades of Fire has initiated a "workforce adjustment process."

PC Gamer · May 16

Metroid, Castlevania dev hit with layoffs just 2 days before its latest game launches

Some more talented people are now looking for work.

Destructoid · May 12

Underrated hack 'n' slash Blades of Fire heads to Steam with a 2.0 update, bringing new game plus and 'expanded death and mutilation variations' for you sickos out there

It's me. I'm the sicko.

PC Gamer · Feb 14

How Blades of Fire flies in the face of modern video game aesthetics

MercurySteam's Enric Álvarez reveals how Frank Frazetta and Gustave Doré have influenced this new PS5 game.

Creative Bloq · Apr 29, 2025

After 3 hours, I'm impressed by how Blades of Fire smelts Dark Souls and Monster Hunter together to forge high-impact action into twisted new shapes

Hands-on | Three hours with MercurySteam's followup to the superb Metroid Dread – Blades of Fire is a soulslike strengthened in the fires of fun ideas

GamesRadar · Apr 27, 2025

Blades of Fire just showed off its first five minutes of gameplay, and I think it might be channelling God of War too heavily

Chaos Blades of Fire.

PC Gamer · Mar 30, 2025

MercurySteam CEO discusses upcoming new IP Blades of Fire: 'We love third person action adventure games and we wanted to revisit the genre'

We go hands-on with the upcoming third person action adventure game Blades of Fire from developer MercurySteam and discuss it with the studio’s co-founder.

TechRadar · Mar 7, 2025

Blades of Fire plays like a lost Xbox 360-era mashup between God of War and Soulslikes, and it's coming from the studio behind Metroid Dread

Preview | MercurySteam wants to put something "new on the table," and the result is a queen-killing adventure where you'll need to forge your own weapons

GamesRadar · Mar 7, 2025

Blades of Fire is a God of War-style action game coming to PC from the creators of Metroid Dread, and it's almost definitely a spiritual successor to Severance

Launches May 22.

PC Gamer · Mar 5, 2025

With Kojima Productions on board, 2010's Castlevania Lords of Shadow remains one of the action adventure dynasty's most intriguing installments

Opinion | 13 years on, it's safe to say Kojima Productions and MercurySteam vamped things up a few notches

GamesRadar · Nov 23, 2023