Duet Night Abyss

What Happened to Duet Night Abyss?

Flaccid Stix — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 14:20:38 +0000

Duet Night Abyss is arguably one of the most anticipated Gacha games in the world right now. And for good reason.
It was announced back in October 2023, and since their reveal, they’ve released 2 trailers, and a Technical test – which both Mrs Stix and I got to play, thanks to the devs reaching out to and providing me with access.

Their first trailer – UNTIL THE DAWN – is sitting at 1.5 million views. This was uploaded 9 months ago. Their Technical Test Trailer – Kaleidoscopic Glances at Atlasia – is sitting at 1.8 million views.

For comparison, Project Mugen has 2 video trailers at 730,000 and 440,000 views. Neverness to Everness has 2 video trailers at 650,000 and 400,000 views. Arknights Endfield’s trailers have 730,000, 780,000, 1.1 million and 595,000 views respectively.

As anticipated as it is, they’ve been relatively silent since their Technical Test. When it comes to real information, anyway. I played dozens of hours of the test phase and finished it entirely. Did every game mode, acquired every character, completed all story and scenarios available.
And while I had a lot of fun, it definitely needed some work. Not due to it feeling bad – clunky, rather, they only had 2 zones implemented, which equated to roughly 10, maybe 20 hours worth of gameplay.

So, what’s going on with Duet Night Abyss? Is it canceled? Delayed? Do we have a release date, or even a date for a follow-up test phase? That’s what we’re here today to try and find out.

Let’s start this off by looking at their website. They’ve made 4 posts in 2024 – on the 15th of March, they opened recruitment for the Technical Test. On the 26th, they confirmed distribution of test keys had ended. And finally, on the 27th, they released the official trailer for it.
That… is everything available via their website. Which paints a pretty depressing picture, honestly.

Navigating on over to their Discord channel, they are at the very least marginally more communicative. But no official announcements have been made since their confirmation of the Technical Test.

The developer website – herogame.com have had no updates made since June 2023. Over a year now. They both develop and publish several games around Asia.
Even with that in mind, they’re dedicated to bringing their games to a Global audience. We’re well aware Duet Night Abyss is targeting a Global release.

Their Facebook page echoes what is available via their Twitter page.

Investigating the description of the their latest video leaves us with no additional information at all. Outside of a pre-registration link. Which is probably the closest gauge we have to any real date.
Typically, and this isn’t to say this is the case here, pre-registration is enabled after enough progress has been made on a game.

While we know very little in terms of the release date – and my contacts in the studio don’t want to disclose any concrete information, likely to avoid any potential disappointment if they’re required to delay future tests or the release date itself, we do know they’re hard at work.

The lack of communication – at least pertaining to development updates is unfortunate, but is also expected.
However, given we’ve already had a test phase, pre-registrations are open and available, and the studio isn’t silent – unlike Mugen’s, it’s a safe bet to assume the game isn’t too far off. Much like Arknights Endfield and Azur Promilia.
I would’ve loved to have given you guys more information, truly. But I’m just here to let you know – they haven’t given up. They haven’t stopped communicating.

The game is very much still coming – definitely not in 2024. Perhaps in 2025, but by no means any later than 2026. So we can take solace in that, at least.

Duet Night Abyss Global Release Date

Flaccid Stix — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:52:07 +0000

Duet Night Abyss is a highly anticipated Anime Gacha RPG that has the Gacha community excited. It offers an enormous open-world for players to explore, some of the fastest third-person action combat available in the genre, both female and male characters to recruit via Gacha, and the ability to engage enemies – and explore, both on land or via air, in impressive aerial combat.

Duet Night Abyss has all of us excited, but this ultimately means nothing if we’re unable to play it, right? Which is why a Global release is so important. But is Duet Night Abyss releasing Globally, and if so, when is the release date specifically?

Thankfully, it was confirmed that the studio behind Duet Night Abyss are already looking to release the game Globally, and across various platforms in the near future. When specifically is unconfirmed. We’re unsure whether the game will be releasing simultaneously worldwide, or if it will release in China first then overseas at a later date. One thing we do know is that we should be receiving it Globally, which should at the very least lessen the stress of whether we’ll ever get to play it or not.

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Duet Night Abyss Pre-Registration

Flaccid Stix — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 21:44:11 +0000

Duet Night Abyss is a brand new upcoming open-world Anime Gacha RPG. It features a deep, complex dual-narrative focusing on the story of 2 separate protagonists. Players are able to select between the male and female, which each possess distinct backstories unrelated to one another.

You can explore an enormous world, both on foot, or by air. You’ll notice that not only can you traverse the world by air, but also engage enemies while airborne, adding additional layers to an already fast, fluid action combat system.

It provides fast action combat, a full cast of both male and female characters, each with their own distinct playstyle and weapons.

Pre-registration for Duet Night Abyss is currently open via the official website, with a Closed Beta scheduled for some time in the near future.

Duet Night Abyss is releasing fully cross-platform on both PC and Mobile (Android/iOS.)

A Global release is confirmed.

PRE-REGISTER