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Dungeon Crawler RPG Operencia: The Stolen Sun Coming Soon Exclusively to Xbox One and with Xbox Game Pass

In just a few months, we at Zen Studios will release Operencia: The Stolen Sun – nothing less than the single biggest production in our 16-year history. If your first thought upon reading that title is, “I wonder what kind of a pinball table that is?” I don’t blame you – after all, Zen has had an amazing relationship with Xbox players for more than a decade, continually releasing world-class digital pinball tables through the Pinball FX series (picked up any Williams tables yet?…).

Much of Pinball FX’s success stems from modernizing a classic gaming concept that we just don’t see much of any more, adapting it to appeal to gamers of today – and Operencia does that exact same thing. Except this time, rather than making you look at flippers and bumpers in a whole new way, we’re updating the classic first-person party-based dungeon-crawling RPG to a very 2019 gaming experience.

“Blobbers” like Operencia are perhaps most commonly thought of as PC releases, but we’ve recognized the importance of making this very specific style of RPG equally rewarding to console players – very specifically, Xbox One players – from the very start. That’s right…Xbox One is the only console where you’ll be able to play Operencia once the game releases this Spring. Better yet, it’s enhanced for Xbox One X – and yes, those of you with Xbox Game Pass can check it out in its entirety from day one.

I think my colleague Olivér Sándor put it best when summarizing why we decided to create Operencia: “We wanted to make something that we want to play.” Much of our development team grew up on classic RPG series like Wizardry, The Bard’s Tale, and Eye of the Beholder – and we’re just not seeing many games like those these days, especially on console. So not only would creating a CRPG for Xbox One be something we want to play – it would also fill a void. We know there are millions of others like us out there…and if you’ve read this far, there’s a very good chance you’re already one of them or you’re completely open to it.

And as always have a chilled day from the viking.