Miyazaki says single-player is not going anywhere, after The Duskbloods

August 22, 2026, Source: DualShockers

In an interview with IGN, FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki pushed back on the idea that Nightreign and The Duskbloods signal a shift toward multiplayer, saying the work only made him want to make a single-player game again.

FromSoftware’s two biggest releases of the past two years have both been multiplayer: Elden Ring: Nightreign in 2025, and The Duskbloods, coming to Switch 2 in 2026. Asked by IGN whether that pattern marks a change in direction, president Hidetaka Miyazaki said it does not. Multiple outlets picked up the remarks as of August 22, 2026.

“Not some big reveal”

His answer, quoted directly: “It’s not necessarily some big reveal saying this is the direction we plan to go in moving forward. We still have a heavy focus on single-player content as well.” He also said the timing of Nightreign and The Duskbloods landing close together was never a deliberate plan, just a coincidence of production schedules.

The more interesting part came next. Miyazaki said working on multiplayer for an extended stretch had the opposite effect people might expect: it made him want to go back to single-player, not away from it. “The more you work on something multiplayer for a long time, it scratches that itch, only to want to make something single-player again,” he said. Asked whether the studio was chasing the live-service trend, he said the motivation was simpler: “our motivation is always to just make a game that we want to play… it’s not really something that I look at too much, if at all.”

What Nightreign and The Duskbloods leave open

Elden Ring: Nightreign borrows the Lands Between for a three-day roguelike survival mode built around co-op runs, though it does ship with an offline solo option. The Duskbloods is a vampire-themed action game headed exclusively to Switch 2, built around eight-player sessions that mix PvP and PvE. Both drew the same reaction from fans when announced: worry that the next FromSoftware game would lean further into online and cooperative play. This interview reads as the closest thing to an official answer to that worry.

Miyazaki did not give a timeline for the next single-player project. Whether the studio’s next announcement backs up his words, or turns out to be another multiplayer experiment, is still an open question.