Cloudheim, Multiplayer ARPG from AAA staffed Indie Studio Coming Q3 2025

Noodle Cat Games, a new indie studio led by former Epic founder and Fortnite lead designer David Hunt, have released a brief trailer announcing their debut title Cloudheim, releasing in Q3 2025 for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. Taking place in a Norse-inspired world, Cloudheim will feature an action RPG battle system which uses the worlds physics as its key modifier. Up to four players can engage in online co-op where, amongst other collaborative options, they can engage in dynamic combat inspired by juggling mechanics from fighting games, ping ponging foes between each other to deliver high damage combos. Cloudheim will also feature destructible environments, resource collection, crafting, and base building.

Cloudheim Key Features

• Mastering Chaos: Mayhem is unleashed in a fully breakable world. Players can chain powerful abilities together and coordinate devastating team combos to crush their enemies. This includes tearing down pillars onto monsters, lassoing enemies into tornadoes, shooting Greebles out of cannons, or kicking exploding barrels into the fray.
• Rising Together: Players can join forces with up to three friends in online co-op, sharing every weapon and ability unlocked as they grow stronger together and discover new playable characters.
• Forging Infinite Possibilities: With visual crafting, players will never have to wait for a friend in a menu as they can craft a massive array of weapons, gear, and powerful abilities usable in battle – or sell if they don’t need them. Perhaps someday they can even craft worlds…
• Cruising the Skies: Odin Shell, a massive, ancient turtle that carries a fragment of a dead god’s power, is players’ refuge and portal to the world. They can expand their workshop, customize their space, run a thriving shop, and uncover hidden secrets as their fortress takes flight.
• Exploring an Untamed World: Players can adventure across diverse islands and explore mysterious, changing dungeons filled with challenging enemies, puzzles, crafting resources, and valuable loot waiting to be discovered.
• Teaming up with Fantastic Creatures: The resourceful Blins, the ever-hungry Gnasher, and the spiky yet loyal Swordcupine are all here to help players on their adventures.

Alongside the aforementioned CEO of Noodle Cat, David Hunt, Cloudheim is being worked on by former developers from some of the biggest companies in gaming; EA, BioWare, Codemasters, and Disney, with specific game credits including Fortnite, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Infinity Blade. Although a definite departure in many ways from those titles, from the trailer I can perceive some influence from Hunt’s most successful title, Fortnite. Most notably, the resource gathering, environmental destruction, and floaty jumps are all very reminiscent of the blockbuster battle royale. The brief segments of gameplay certainly have an understandably early feel to them, so perhaps much of this perceived influence will come out in the wash, leaving Cloudheim feeling more unique.

Cloudheim Media

Whatever its influences, Cloudheim could very well be an engaging small-scale multiplayer game. As long as it feels fun to play with a tight knit group of friends, I predict it will find some fans amongst our reader base and RPGFan staff alike when it releases for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S sometime in Q3 2025.