Neva will break your coronary heart on October 15

We referred to as Neva a “grand achievement in emotional sport design” in our June preview, and the most recent trailer makes that clearer than ever. And now, because of the most recent Nintendo Direct stream, we all know it’s going to arrive on October fifteenth on the Swap, alongside the PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X and S. Developed by Nomada Studio, the creators of the acclaimed Gris, Neva seems to be prefer it’ll ship loads of motion alongside potential heartbreak.

“Neva chronicles the story of Alba, a younger lady sure to a curious wolf cub following a traumatic encounter with darkish forces,” the trailer’s description reads. “Collectively they embark on a dangerous journey by a once-beautiful world because it slowly decays round them.”

“I’m satisfied that each preview of Neva (together with this one) will point out how rapidly and simply the sport will make gamers cry, and I need to take a second to acknowledge the magnitude of this achievement,” Engadget’s Jessica Conditt wrote in her hands-on preview. “The bond that Nomada Studio have constructed between Neva and Alba is extremely highly effective, and one of these emotional connection doesn’t simply occur if you put an animal and a human in the identical scene.”