Of from the success of last year’s Enotria: The Last Song, Milan-based indie developers Jyamma Games has announced their next game at Opening Night Live 2025, and it’s another soulslike action-RPG that embraces the development team’s Italian heritage.
Called La Divina Commedia, Italian for The Divine Comedy, this new soulslike is inspired by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s poem of the same name. We’ve seen this art adapted into a big-budget video game before with Dante’s Inferno in 2010 by now-defunct Visceral Games, as a pre-2018 God Of War-style hack-and-slash action game.
Jyamma Games will bring their own spin in their interpretation of the same poem, with “dark fantasy touches” and “hack and slash gameplay.” The latter an interesting thing to hear from what looks to be a soulslike action-RPG, implying faster pacing and action compared to the baseline of this subgenre which usually goes for a slow, but deliberate combat pace.
Check out the trailer. It shows the style of combat one would expect from the game.
In La Divina Comedia, the world’s old faith has been supplanted by The Divine Comedy, bringing a golden age to humanity. But dark forces that “subvert the promises of the poem” is plunging the world into chaos. And as the player character, a warrior-poet, must now descend through the circles of hell.
A few other tidbits revealed from the press release includes:
- Unique gameplay mechanics for each weapon class
- Procedurally generated “extraction dungeons” (!)
- Narrative-driven alignment system tied to the Seven Deadly Sins
- Customisable weapons and armour, in stats and aesthetics
- Motion capture system “developed with a leading international studio, already author of acclaimed productions such as Phantom Blade Zero”
While Enotria is more of a soulslike with very Italian flavours, La Divina Commedia is doing more than just following that same formula. What’s constant is the studio’s vision in incorporating Italian art and culture, bringing them to the forefront in video games. The game’s name being in Italian, and the opening quote in the trailer all written in Italian as well as the choice of music in the trailer, are some of the signs of that vision, which is cool to see.
La Divina Commedia is coming to PC (Steam) and later to other platforms, but there’s no release date yet.