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Artisan Studios Reveals New Action JRPG: Lost Hellden

New teaser trailer release provides first look at the stylized, hand-drawn, action JRPG Lost Hellden coming to PC and Console in 2025

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February 8, 2024

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Artisan Studios :

QUEBEC CITY, CANADA – Feb. 8, 2024 – Artisan Studios revealed today the development of its latest IP Lost Hellden, an action JRPG that is being developed with Takeshi Oga (famed illustrator of the Siren Series, Gravity Rush 1 & 2) and renowned composer and audio director Hitoshi Sakimoto (Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Unicorn Overlord to name a few). In addition to the announcement, Artisan Studios released Lost Hellden’s first trailer introducing the world of Era and the adventure that awaits players when is launches in 2025 on console and PC!

Lost Hellden brings players into a world of Era, where though its traditions, all citizens are forced to bond at birth with one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Citizens must live out their lives resisting their temptation or succumb and end up as monsters in a fate worse than death. The story follows twin brothers Cyphel and Leht, whose ill-fated bonding ceremony leads each other on a dangerous journey of self-discovery. With a blend of beautifully hand-drawn 2D and 3D animation, a highly strategic action battle system, deep storytelling and characters, and advanced customization, Lost Hellden is sure to excite fans of the genre.

Check out the reveal trailer of Lost Hellden here: https://youtu.be/TfnounYv-dE

The studio also plans to release a demo of players to check out later this year, those interested can sign up at the official Lost Hellden website here: https://www.losthellden.com/en/

For more information, please visit the Artisan Studios website (https://www.artisangamestudios.com) or join our Discord (https://discord.gg/62AAy2Y3), follow us on X (https://twitter.com/StudiosArtisan) and Bluesky: (https://bsky.app/profile/artisan-studios.bsky.social).


About Lost Hellden


Lost Hellden is an action JRPG created by Artisan Studios in collaboration with Takeshi Oga (famed illustrator of the Siren Series, Gravity Rush 1 & 2) and renowned composer and sound director Hitoshi Sakimoto (Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tactics Ogre, Unicorn Overlord). This new action JRPG combines a strong hand painted art style, using Artisan’s in-house “Deep 2D” technology, with a strategic action battle system, deep story and characters, advanced customization and more to create an adventure sure to excite fans of the genre. Lost Hellden is set to launch on PC and console in 2025.


About Artisan Studios
Artisan Studios was founded in 2016 by a small team in Paris, France. The team relocated to Quebec City, Canada in August 2016 with the support of the city of Quebec and the federal government of Canada.  Artisan has grown and has now established studios in Québec (Canada), Montpellier (France), London (UK) and Riyadh (KSA).


Artisan is a specialist in the creation of JRPG games whose mission is to create the highest quality 2D game studio in the world and become the top western studio developing original IPs in Japan.  Artisan is known for the development of Super Neptunia RPG (2018) and Astria Ascending (2021) on PC and Console.
Artisan primarily works in partnership with Japanese developers and publishers to release titles for the Japanese market and then bring those IPs to the west. The multicultural team at Artisan works in fluent Japanese, French, and English (and soon in Arabic).


More information on Artisan Studios can be found at: https://www.artisangamestudios.com/

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