Redfall

Redfall is an open world first-person shooter video game that features both single-player and cooperative multiplayer modes. Players can choose among four playable characters – each with unique backgrounds and abilities – to fight against vampires as well as human enemies within the game.

The playable area is split into two in-game maps, District 1 and District 2. A large component of Redfall's gameplay loop is weapon/gear looting and rarity. Players are rewarded with better gear upon leveling up, exploring, and completing quest objectives.

The game is set within the fictional island town of Redfall, Massachusetts. After a failed scientific experiment, a legion of vampires occupied the isolated town and cut off communication to the outside world. Trapped inside Redfall, players must choose among four unique survivors – fame-seeking cryptozoologist inventor Devinder Crousley, telekinetic student Layla Ellison, combat engineer Remi de la Rosa, and former US military special forces sniper veteran turned supernatural private military company operator of Bellwether Security Jacob Boyer – and slay their enemies: vampires and human collaborators/cultists alike.

The island town of Redfall is secretly infiltrated by a group of vampires. It becomes a full-scale invasion as the vampires begin devouring the people of Redfall openly in the streets. Some of the townspeople, including four vampire hunters, attempt to escape the town by boat, but the vampires cast a spell that erects an impassable wall of water around the island, trapping Redfall's surviving population, along with creating a permanent eclipse to blot out the sun, so the vampires can move freely throughout the island. The vampire hunters return to the town and liberate the local fire station, turning it into their headquarters and a safe haven for survivors. They then venture out into the town to kill vampires, fight the human cultists who worship them, and discover the source of the vampirism.

Redfall was announced during the Xbox and Bethesda E3 2021 showcase on June 13, 2021. The game was developed by Arkane Studios at their Austin, Texas locations, with Roundhouse Studios providing additional assistance and support. Co-Creative Director Ricardo Bare stated that the game will continue Arkane's tradition of making each game different from the last, but will still focus on deep worldbuilding and inventive game mechanics. On May 12, 2022, it was announced that the release was delayed to the first half of 2023.

Redfall released on May 2, 2023. At launch, 60 FPS was not available on the console versions of the game, with it being added months later in October 2023.

Redfall received "mixed or average" reviews, according to the review aggregator website Metacritic.

PCGamesN disliked the story, writing that the game failed in "making me care about its characters. It's all just a bit basic." VG247 felt that only tying progress to the host was a mistake, "dooming their guests to play through the same missions again should they want to play in solo". While enjoying the gunplay, GamesRadar+ criticized the repetitiveness of the campaign: "There are always going to be vampires to be staked, something to be blown up, keys to be found, or items to be collected – it's just a case of which version of the mission structure it'll be."