Summary
- Eternal Strands, the debut game by Yellow Brick Games, stars Brynn and offers features like gear customization and day/night cycles.
- Yellow Brick Games revealed the minimum and recommended PC requirements.
- A demo of Eternal Strands is already available, allowing players to explore the game's areas and features before its official release.
Eternal Strands, the upcoming action-adventure game from former Dragon Age director Mike Laidlaw, has unveiled its minimum and recommended PC requirements. Eternal Strands is scheduled to launch on January 28, 2025, and players now have the necessary information to determine if their systems can run it.
Eternal Strands is the first game developed by Yellow Brick Games, a studio founded in 2020 by veterans from BioWare and Ubisoft, among many others. Eternal Strands is an action-adventure game starring Brynn, a warrior trying to unveil the secrets of a long-lost civilization known as the Enclave. To fulfill his mission, Brynn has the ability to manipulate elements, being able to freeze his opponents or burn them to death. Yellow Brick Games confirmed various features for Eternal Strands, such as gear customization, day and night cycles, a crafting system, and the ability to climb almost everything.
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Yellow Brick Games revealed the minimum PC requirements to run Eternal Strands. Those who would like to try out Yellow Brick Games' upcoming title will need at least Windows 10 64-bit, an Intel Core i5-9400 or AMD Ryzen 5 3350G processor, 8 GB of RAM, and 24 GB of storage space available. For graphics, a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6 GB, AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB, or Intel Arc A580 is necessary. These specs target 60fps gameplay at the lowest graphics settings, upscaled from 50% of 1080p resolution. The recommended specifications include an Intel Core i5-11600 or AMD Ryzen 5 5600X processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a more powerful GPU like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB, AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB, or Intel Arc A770. This setup is intended for 60fps performance at epic graphics settings, upscaled from 50% of 1440p resolution.
A demo of Eternal Strands is already available for players to try out this upcoming action-adventure game ahead of its official release on January 28, 2025. This demo allows those interested to explore two of the game’s areas, with a sneak peek at Eternal Strands’ crafting system, three weapon types, and a limited set of magic spells. Completing this demo should take between 1-4 hours, and any progress made in the demo will carry over to the full game.
In a recent interview with The Best War Games, Eternal Strands’ directors Mike Laidlaw and Frederic St-Laurent shared additional information about what players can expect from the game. They shared some insight into the game’s development, explaining how the experience of Yellow Brick Games team helped shape Eternal Strands into an ambitious project. With team members who worked on games like Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, Dragon Age, Watch Dogs, and The Crew, among many others, Yellow Brick Games has experience working on large projects, raising players’ expectations for Eternal Strands.
Eternal Strands PC Requirements
Minimum requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i5-9400 / AMD Ryzen 5 3350G
- RAM: 8 GB RAM
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6 GB / AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 6 GB / Intel Arc A580
- DX: Version 12
- OS: Windows 10 / Windows 11 (64-bit)
- Storage: 24 GB
- Additional notes: The hardware above reflects game performance at 60fps at the lowest graphics setting upscaled from 50% of 1080p resolution (without frame generation)
Recommended requirements
- CPU: Intel Core i5-11600 / AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
- RAM: 16 GB RAM
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB / AMD Radeon RX 6800 16 GB / Intel Arc A770
- DX: Version 12
- OS: Windows 10 / Windows 11 (64-bit)
- Storage: 24 GB
- Additional notes: The hardware above reflects game performance at 60fps at epic graphics setting upscaled from 50% of 1440p resolution (without frame generation)
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 74 /100 Critics Rec: 61%
- Released
- January 28, 2025
- ESRB
- T For Teen // Violence, Sexual Themes, Drug Reference
- Developer(s)
- Yellow Brick Games
- Publisher(s)
- Yellow Brick Games
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- PC Release Date
- January 28, 2025
- Xbox Series X|S Release Date
- January 28, 2025
WHERE TO PLAY
Play as Brynn, a young but fearless Weaver, determined to recover her people’s cultural home in the debut fantasy action-adventure title from Yellow Brick Games, a new independent studio founded by industry veterans.
Armed with powerful magical abilities and an arsenal of magical weapons, face enemies that range from humanoid constructs to towering beasts. Use the environment and temperature to your advantage in battles against a diverse roster of fantastical creatures, like turning a dragon’s fiery breath against ice-covered minions. Climb every surface and use arcane skills to create new paths. Explore the world in pursuit of the Enclave’s lost mysteries and challenge giant titans on your journey.
The World is Your Weapon: At the heart of Eternal Strands beats a revolutionary new system for gameplay interactions: heat spreads, cold chills, and real-time destruction allows for unprecedented reactivity in combat. Hurl burning tree trunks at enemies with telekinetic powers, snap nearby trees to block opposing fire, or channel raw telekinetic force to rip boulders from the ground.
- PS5 Release Date
- January 28, 2025
- Platform(s)
- PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S
