Babylon's Fall

Babylon's Fall was an action role-playing hack and slash video game played from a third-person perspective. The player assumed control of a Sentinel, who must scale a massive tower known as the Ziggurat. Players started at a hub area known as Sentinel Force HQ where they could interact with other players, visit shops or blacksmiths to purchase gear and upgrades, and access quests. Each quest could be played solo, though the game also supported four-player cooperative multiplayer.

Players ascended three to four floors in each quest until they reached the summit of the tower. Along the way, players would unlock loot which could be used to enhance the strength of the characters.

Set in a fantasy world, the story of Babylon's Fall was split into three quests.

Prisoners are taken on board from a ship, where following a guard, become tested for the Gideon Coffin. Out of the many prisoners, only three of them managed to survive its installation and are then promoted as Sentinels. On their first battle, they fight blue forces known as Gallu, where upon facing their first large force, a character named Arwia appears and unlocks their Gideon Coffin, allowing them to fight. Their main goal is to stop the plague which is being caused by the Blue Sun (which is an alien deity named Nergal).

Babylon's Fall was developed by PlatinumGames. According to producer Junichi Ehara, the team wanted to expand on the combat system of Nier: Automata and experiment with multiplayer with Babylon's Fall. The game's brushstroke visual art-style was inspired by classic European oil paintings, and the graphics were created using canvas-like texture. The game also borrowed assets from Final Fantasy XIV, a massively multiplayer online video game created by publisher Square Enix.

The protagonist of the story was compared to a Roman gladiator by scenario writer Kenichi Iwao. The first closed beta was held in July 2021 in Japan and August 2021 in Europe and North America. The beta received a lukewarm reception, with players complaining about the game's illegible visual style. The development team evaluated players' feedback and adjusted the game's graphics to ensure that they were less blurry and pixelated.

Babylon's Fall received "generally unfavorable" reviews according to review aggregator website Metacritic, which listed Babylon's Fall as the third-worst game of 2022. Fellow review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received weak approval, being recommended by 3% of critics.

Destructoid liked the combat, praising the "coffin combos" and "slick" dodges, but felt the actual structure of the game was boring; "most of the challenges are the same hallways, remixed, and the same enemies, slightly tweaked". Rock Paper Shotgun disliked the progression of the game, writing that it was needlessly confusing; "You rush through corridors and into progressively harder arenas... Occasionally there are yellow orbs to collect on your way, although I haven't been told what these do. Beat an arena and the game will give you a rank, like Stone or Bronze or Pure Platinum, which also nets you... nothing?"