GR: What can fans expect from Wyrdsong's gameplay? But there will definitely be elements of Lovecraftian horror, for sure. I'm a big believer in contrast, so it won't be so dark and overwhelming. Gardiner: That's absolutely the vibe we want to go for. GR: Those fantasy elements look very horror-esque, almost Lovecraftian in the trailer. And we're going to go in with just enough fantasy so when the weirder elements come in, as you saw in the back half of that trailer, it makes sense and fits in with the world we've envisioned. But we want to leave ourselves enough room to allow players, for instance, to play whatever gender identity or race they want – to come in and experience this world as a reflection of themselves. We want to ground it in some kind of understandable reality like 12th or 13th century Portugal.

We don't want to be pinned down too much by events at the time. Gardiner: We're blurring it a little bit. GR: Does Wyrdsong take place in a specific time period of history? You're sucked into an idea that there's more to this world than meets the eye. You come in and you experience a world that is both grounded in some kind of reality but the more and more you explore, you realize that things are not as they seem. We're setting it in a very historical fantasy and using those two polar opposite terms together. We're calling it a dark, preternatural – or maybe occult – big open-world RPG where we want to invite the player to come in, in a familiar landscape. Will Wyrdsong be an RPG, similar to what we've come to expect from those studios? GamesRadar+: Something Wicked Games has an impressive pedigree that the Wyrdsong reveal trailer seems to be leaning on, with veteran talent from Bethesda and Obsidian.

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