Travelers,
Today I’ve some very thrilling information to share about the way forward for Eleventh Hour Games and Last Epoch.
As a lot of you recognize, I began Last Epoch as an after hours ardour undertaking in 2017 the place I took to Reddit to kind a bunch of ARPG obsessed lovers within the pursuit of constructing “The Next Great ARPG”. We have been excited to come back residence from our day jobs and talk about, debate, and construct the early phases of Last Epoch late into the evenings over Discord, ultimately resulting in our title “Eleventh Hour”. From there we introduced our concepts and keenness for what we needed to develop via a profitable Kickstarter, adopted by Early Access, and years later launched Last Epoch 1.0 in early 2024. It’s been an journey of fixed studying, struggles, pleasure, grit, and timeless enthusiasm. Starting a gaming firm with no funds or sport growth expertise is kind of the journey.
Although we’ve created one thing now loved by hundreds of thousands, we’re removed from completed with our mission. While we’ve completed nicely punching above our weight, we all know that to actually execute on creating the best possible ARPG expertise accessible it would require persevering with our aggressive progress of the final 7 years. We are not any strangers to progress as EHG has gone from me, with zero funding understanding of my kitchen (easy accessibility to late night time snacks) to a staff of over 100 superb folks engaged on the sport. We’ve been vetting potential companions over the past 12 months, and we’ve lastly discovered the precise one to empower our studio and assist us full our mission.
Today I’m excited to announce that Eleventh Hour Games is becoming a member of Krafton, the powerhouse behind PUBG, who shares our ardour for the motion ARPG style and is able to assist gas our efforts in elevating Last Epoch to new heights. With this partnership we could have the chance and assets to execute on our objective of making the perfect ARPG within the style.
After talking with dozens of strategics and potential companions, Krafton clearly demonstrated that they’re aligned in serving to us obtain our targets and might each allow and information us via among the largest upcoming challenges we’ll face as a studio. This partnership will enable us to ship issues we’ve solely dreamed of beforehand and I’m excited to share particulars on these at a later date.
I not often replicate on the journey as we’re nonetheless very a lot within the thick of it, however it’s practically unbelievable that with solely a dream and unyielding pursuit that we’ve reached this new epoch and now know that the way forward for the franchise is secured for greater and higher issues. All whereas getting to provide nice distant jobs for these passionate, superb people who share within the pleasure and imaginative and prescient for what we’re conducting.
With this information I’m excited to say that EHG can be hiring many roles within the close to future. If you’re nonetheless studying this it’s possible that you are interested on this style of sport which implies we’ve an curiosity in you. If you suppose you might have the skillset to assist construct The Next Great ARPG you possibly can test our hiring page that we’ll be appending new open roles to over the approaching weeks and months.
We know there are going to be questions on what this implies for upcoming content material/roadmap. We’re not able to share something there but, however only a reminder that Season 3: Beneath Ancient Skies launches August twenty first, and our Season 4 launch can be roughly 4 months after that.
Thank you to our followers and the ARPG neighborhood that we come from. EHG will proceed to be what it all the time has been – the studio of ARPG lovers that rose up from the neighborhood with one objective in thoughts – to make the ARPG we’ve all the time dreamed of enjoying. We’ll proceed to hear, have interaction, and craft the perfect experiencers we are able to for all of us – now with extra wind beneath our wings.
Cheers,
- Judd Cobler, Founder of Eleventh Hour Games.