Sometimes, the best way forward is to let go and be water. That’s exactly the spirit behind Fading Echo, a new action-adventure game announced during the Future Games Show that lets you literally shift between liquid forms to navigate a crumbling world. Developed by Emeteria and published by New Tales, Fading Echo is making its splashy debut and is currently set to launch in 2026 for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.
Move Like Water, Fight Like a Storm
In Fading Echo, you play as One, a young warrior in a fractured multiverse who can shift between human, water, and vapor forms. It’s not just a visual gimmick — this fluidity drives the core gameplay. Whether you’re flowing through tiny gaps as a droplet, exploding into enemies as a pressure bomb, or gliding across landscapes in pure vapor form, every transformation opens up new paths in exploration, combat, and puzzle-solving.
The team at Emeteria is going all-in on systemic gameplay. Elements interact dynamically — steam, ice, force, and even the occasional colossal flying whale (seriously, there’s a flying whale) — pushing players to stay reactive and creative in how they approach the game’s ever-shifting challenges.
A Universe on the Brink
The world (or worlds) of Fading Echo are part of the “Echoverse,” a collapsing multiverse made up of broken realms. Your starting point is Corel, a planet of lost ruins, corrupted portals, and secrets buried in the bloodline of your protagonist. It’s a world where reality bends — literally. Each zone plays by its own rules, and you’ll need to learn how to adapt fast. One moment you’re solving a puzzle in ancient ruins, the next you’re dodging through time-warped enemies on unstable terrain.
Driven by a comic book-inspired art style and built in a reactive engine where no two areas behave quite the same, Fading Echo looks like it’s aiming for that rare balance between style, substance, and sheer imaginative force.
Top-Tier Talent, Indie Soul
For a first internal project, Emeteria and New Tales are pulling no punches. The voice cast includes some heavy hitters — Samantha Béart, Jasmine Bhullar, Laura Bailey, and Matt Mercer are all lending their voices to breathe life into this fluid world. And the soundtrack? Original score by a composer who (according to the devs) “just vibed with the game’s weird energy and never looked back.”
Sylvain Sechi, Head of Studio at Emeteria, put it best:
“We didn’t want to make a backdrop — we wanted to make a world you can mess with. Creativity, curiosity, and a little recklessness are always rewarded.”
And that’s exactly what Fading Echo seems to promise: not just an action-adventure, but a living system where you get to play with the rules, not just follow them.
Fading Echo is set to release in 2026. You can wishlist the game now on Steam, Epic Games Store, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S.