Yellow Brick Games Reveals Eternal Strands As A Game Pass Title

Written by Brandon Hofer on October 17, 2024

News: A new action-adventure fantasy game is headed to Game Pass when it arrives in early 2025.

Today during the Xbox Partner event, Yellow Brick Games revealed that their game, Eternal Strands, a third-person action-adventure fantasy game, will be available in Game Pass on day one when it launches in the first quarter of 2025.

The Cast & Combine gameplay trailer unveiled today reveals the Highland Iceclaw—a formidable, flying Epic that will challenge players to rethink their approach in combat as they dodge its chilling ice attacks or climb onto its back mid-flight with a kinetic launch.

The trailer also showcases how gameplay mechanics are meant to synergize, encouraging players to cast magic powers and combine them strategically for maximum effect. With this versatile magic system, players can shape their own combat style in countless ways combining frost, flame, and kinetic force to overcome the formidable Arks and Epic creatures within the Enclave. Once defeated, these enemies will respawn, providing an opportunity to challenge them in different areas with new strategies to harvest their threads or collect rare resources using new elemental combinations.

“We’re very happy to share the news with Game Pass subscribers today, and we’re convinced they will enjoy the ‘’cast & combine’’ freedom and the epic battles our game has to offer. The team is very excited for this partnership with Xbox and the opportunity this will bring to allow more players to experience Eternal Strands when it releases early next year. We can’t wait to see the players’ reactions.” -Thomas Giroux, CEO at Yellow Brick Games

The studio recently revealed that the game will also be available on the Epic Games Store at launch. This announcement was made during Unreal Fest in Seattle in early October, where the studio’s CTO, Louis Tremblay, delivered a talk on the complex physics systems the programming team developed on Unreal Engine 5 to achieve a high level of interactivity between the world, the Epics, and the main character, Brynn.

Some of the key features for Eternal Strands include:

Challenge your creativity: combine your growing array of magical powers and enchanted weapons on the battlefield

Highly interactive and breakable environments where the world is your weapon: burn, freeze, throw everything

Climb every surface – even colossal enemies!

A beautiful world to explore, rich with secrets to uncover, with a warm supporting cast

Check out the aforementioned trailer and then tell us what you think. Will you play Eternal Strands when it arrives in 2025?