New Free To-Play Fantasy RPG ‘Ballads Of Antara’ Announced
by Sage Ashford
At the recent PlayStation State of Play, TipsWorks and Infold Games announced their fantasy RPG, Ballad of Antara. A free to play game, Ballad of Antara takes place across two different worlds, a normal world, and a world called “Para”, where all the fun supernatural stuff happens.
At this point they’re still unclear about how a free to play action-RPG can work, but the PlayStation blog offers a bit more detail:
Ballad of Antara is an action-RPG with multiple playable characters. These characters possess the power to traverse the two worlds of normalcy and unimaginable. We call them “Emissaries”. Each Emissary has their own unique class, gameplay capabilities, and their own enticing, mysterious stories we want to tell.
Finding and rallying these Emissaries across the world, strengthening your forces, and discovering the truth behind the calamity of this land, are your primary goals in Ballad of Antara. The young girl shown at the end of our reveal trailer is the key to this endeavor. You will help her undo the devastation done to this desolate world through trials, twists, and confrontation, and witness her growth along the way.
Besides an engrossing single-player narrative, Ballad of Antara will also offer multiplayer support up to 3 players, so you can venture with your friends, or find other players to face this challenging land head on, including story quests, exploration, and intricately crafted dungeons.
Reading into it a bit, it sounds similar to the Genshin Impact model, where the player will acquire multiple “Emissaries” potentially through gacha mechanics, to help them in the story. Presumably, the young girl is the key character that will connect each part of the story, in the same way the Traveler does for Genshin Impact.
Ballad of Antara launches for PlayStation 5 and other unspecified platforms in 2025.
