This Game Is PoE2 + Dark Souls | Asmongold

No Rest for the Wicked, an isometric action RPG from Moon Studios (the creators of Ori and the Blind Forest), is getting a massive content update called "The Breach." The game, which Asmongold describes as "a convergence of PoE2 and Dark Souls," has been in early access, and the developers used a period of unexpected silence to buy back their publishing rights from Take-Two Interactive, making Moon Studios fully independent. This legal process took months, but the result is a game that the team can now build exactly as they want, without external pressure. The Breach update is the first major fruit of that independence.

A World That Changes After You Beat It

The core of The Breach update is a dynamic "pestilence" system that fundamentally changes how players revisit areas. After the campaign's events, any zone in the game can be overtaken by a blight, introducing new, tougher enemies and a "pestilence spread meter." As you kill enemies, the meter depletes, and clearing it requires defeating a "plague boss" to fully cleanse the zone. This is designed to solve a classic ARPG problem: making retraversal feel fresh. The developers want "every return to feel as fresh and as exciting as it was the first time you played." This is paired with new factions that can take over areas, new vertical level layouts within familiar zones, and a massive expansion of the world—the update e