Romanian folklore, David Lynch, and heavy metal come together in a dark fantasy hack-and-slash action game ‘with an even darker sense of humor’

If you’ve ever thought to yourself that what you really want from life is a videogame inspired by Romanian folkore, David Lynch, and heavy metal, then wow, this is your lucky day. Because the “dark fantasy hack-and-slash adventure” called Moroi, set to launch in early 2025, claims to be exactly that.

Moroi takes place within the Cosmic Engine, “a personalized hellscape” to which you’ve apparently been exiled in order to serve eternal penance for unspecified (but presumably really bad) misdeeds. Escape is the priority, naturally, and with it the discovery of “the truth” and an opportunity to set things right. But that will require dealing with the Cosmic Engine’s “disturbing and grotesque inhabitants,” using an array of mix-and-match weaponry supporting both ranged and melee playstyles.