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A classless dark-fantasy action RPG where weapons shape your skills as you battle corruption, gather loot, and build your hero.
Released 13 Feb 2020
Build Without Classes
Customize Combat Skills
Rotate Your Skill Tree
Carve your path in this Hack’n’Slash free from class boundaries. Purify a world shattered by corruption, and uncover the grim secrets and forgotten horrors lurking in the shadows of this forsaken land as you rise in Power. Your Inner aspect beckons—will you answer?
Developed by WOLCEN Studio · Published by WOLCEN Studio








You play as one of three survivors of the slaughter of Castagath, trained to fight supernatural threats in the Republic’s army. When the Brotherhood of Dawn is targeted for a military operation, you and your childhood friends are drawn into the conflict.
Fight through isometric environments, using weapon-based skills and a dodge-roll to avoid enemy attacks. Rage and Willpower interact as you use combat and magic abilities, while stamina fuels your dodges. Find equipment with different offensive and defensive properties, or craft gear to improve your character.
Shape your character without choosing a fixed class: weapons determine which skills you can use, while skill modifiers and a rotating passive tree let you customize abilities and development. Later activities offer further challenges and rewards, and four celestial forms provide alternate skills and a powerful ultimate.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its combat feel, visual style, and the freedom to experiment with weapons, skills, and passive builds. Some also find the campaign engaging. Across the supplied reviews, however, recurring criticisms include the endgame becoming repetitive, the loss of multiplayer, and development support ending.
You are one of the three survivors of the slaughter of Castagath. Rescued by Grand Inquisitor Heimlock, you were drafted into the Republic’s Army of the Purifiers at a very young age to be trained in the military academy and become perfect soldiers against the supernatural. You also had the chance to benefit from Heimlock’s occasional advice and training, which led you and your childhood friends, Valeria and Edric, to be called the “Children of Heimlock”.
Recently, the Brotherhood of Dawn has infiltrated the Crimson Keep, a mysterious republican fortress lost among the northern deserts known as the Red wastes. While the purpose of the attack was unclear, the republican Senate voted a retaliation act against all known locations of the Brotherhood.
Led by Grand Inquisitor Heimlock himself, troops are soon deployed on the Coast of wrecks, near the city state of Stormfall, to terminate a camp of Brothers. You are, with your two childhood friends, part of operation Dawnbane, under the supervision of Justicar Maëlys.
Key features:
Free character development
Wield a great variety of weapons and find your own playstyle thanks to their unique stances and combos. In Wolcen, there is no class, only your weapons set the rules for your skills types.
Three types of resources
Rage and Willpower interact with each other, using the Resource Opposition System. Stamina allows you to use a dodge-roll to avoid danger or travel faster.
Item diversity
Gear up according to your offensive and defensive choices with common, magical, rare and legendary items. Break the rules and unlock new possibilities with Unique items and rare affixes.
Rotative Passive Skill Tree
Make your own path throughout the 21 sub-class sections available in the Gate of Fates to customize your passives and make them fit to your play style.
Skill customization
Level up your skills with your character or alternative resources to gain modifier points and create your own unique combination of skill modifiers. Change your damage type, add new functionalities, grant buffs or debuffs, change the skill’s mechanics completely. The options are limitless.
Strategic fights
Wolcen’s creatures have complex patterns including deadly skills. Pay attention to various markers and to animation anticipation to avoid lethal attacks using your dodge roll ability.
Aspects of Apocalypse
All characters can shapeshift into one of the 4 Celestial incarnations available, each of them offering 4 different skills, and one devastating ultimate.
Endless replayability
Improve your gear by looting or crafting, gather resources to unlock rare missions, face advanced challenges for special rewards, experiment new builds, become the greatest achiever. There is always something to do in Wolcen: LoM.
A taste for beauty
Using the Cryengine technology makes Wolcen an immersive and beautiful game with highly detailed armors and weapons. In addition, 8 hours of epic orchestral music will accompany you during your journey.
Unleash your fashion sense
Customize your appearance by switching the visuals of your armors and weapons. Loot more than 100 different dyes and tune up your armor to have your very own unique style. The asymmetric armor system will also allow you to change your appearance for left and right shoulder and glove.
Difficulty modes
Choose how you want to make the campaign with 2 different difficulty settings: the Story mode and the Normal mode. The endgame is shaped to allow a progressive increase in difficulty.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 64 |
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| Players | From 1 (maximum not specified) |
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| Multiplayer | The provided information indicates online multiplayer co-op support. Steam tags list Multiplayer, Co-op, and Online Co-Op, while multiple reviews confirm online co-op play with friends and online/private games. No provided source states a player cap. Reviews also state multiplayer servers were scheduled to close on September 3, 2024, which would end multiplayer functionality. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mod support is mentioned in the provided information. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 60/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |