Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem

Released Feb 2020

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?

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Evaluation

The developer, WOLCEN Studio, has formally ended all development and support for Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem. In a post on May 30, 2024, the studio announced that starting September 3, 2024, the game would no longer support multiplayer functionality, and that they would cease all further development and support. They cited insurmountable foundational technical challenges as the reason, and stated the decision would allow them to focus on new projects. The game itself received its final story content — Chapter IV — on March 14, 2023, which the developer described as the "final story chapter." Online servers were shut down on September 17, 2024, with a patch to allow players to convert their online characters to offline play. That September 17, 2024 patch is the last known developer action on the game. The game remains available for single-player purchase at a permanently reduced price. Both DLC items (the original soundtrack and its extended version) are released. There is no announced future content of any kind.
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Servers were shut down and a final patch was released allowing online characters to be converted for offline play. This is the last known communication and action from the developer.
news post · Sep 17, 2024 source development ending
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Developer announced the end of all multiplayer support (effective September 3, 2024) and the cessation of all further development and support for the game, citing insurmountable foundational technical challenges.
news post · May 30, 2024 source development ending
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Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

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Details

Developer
Publisher
WOLCEN Studio
Achievements
64
Platform
Windows
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

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.

Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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