{"id":30632,"date":"2026-02-02T11:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30632"},"modified":"2026-02-02T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T11:18:48","slug":"darkhaven-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/games\/darkhaven-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro ARPG Darkhaven Announced By Original Diablo Creators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Darkhaven<\/strong> is a new ARPG from developer <\/span><b>Moon Beast Productions<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an independent studio founded by <\/span><b>Diablo <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">veterans <\/span><b>Philip Shenk<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>Peter Hu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>Erich Schaefer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The team has described the game as going back to the genre\u2019s roots \u201cwith a fully dynamic, persistent world\u201d. The game will be crowdfunded first, before being released on <\/span><b>Steam <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at a later date. Players can follow <\/span><b>Darkhaven<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/moonbeastproductions\/darkhaven-an-action-rpg-with-dynamic-worlds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Kickstarter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> now and wishlist the game on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3571870\/Darkhaven\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Steam<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. There will also be a playable demo available alongside the <\/span><b>Kickstarter <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when it goes live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a press statement, <\/span><b>Moon Beast Productions <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said. \u201c<\/span><b>Darkhaven<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a dark fantasy isometric ARPG set in the aftermath of a great and final collapse of civilization. Ancient empires have fallen, their ruins reclaimed by wilderness, monsters, and predatory supernatural forces. Players are heirs to a legacy of power that is the last hope for this dying world. As eldritch evil worms its way into the world to feed on its remains, it falls to these few to bring the land back from the brink of death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom the very beginning, we wanted <\/span><b>Darkhaven <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to feel good to play,\u201d said <\/span><b>Erich Schaefer<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer. \u201cMovement is fun. Being able to jump over attacks, climb cliffs, dash out of danger, or swim across a lake that may or may not be infested with riverfangs changes how combat feels in this kind of game. It\u2019s not just about numbers fighting numbers anymore. It\u2019s much more engaging. For me, it becomes more about skill, finding flow, and making smart decisions in the moment. I\u2019ve never had more fun making and playing an ARPG.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Darkhaven Gameplay Announce Trailer\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GA4_EeckArA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darkhaven is a new ARPG from developer Moon Beast Productions, an independent studio founded by Diablo veterans Philip Shenk, Peter Hu, and Erich Schaefer. The team has described the game as going back to the genre\u2019s roots \u201cwith a fully dynamic, persistent world\u201d. The game will be crowdfunded first, before being released on Steam at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[139,205,206,24],"class_list":["post-30632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-crowdfunding","tag-darkhaven","tag-moon-beast-productions","tag-steam"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}