“I wonder if I’m ready for what we might discover...” Watch the new trailer for Aphelion, where astronaut Ariane records one of her first personal logs of the Hope-01 mission. Get another glimpse into a mission gone wrong and the human story at Aphelion’s core. Through Ariane's log, you'll see more of the beauty and danger of Persephone, and the desperate search for her missing crewmate, Thomas…
With Aphelion launching soon (April 28!), we’ve compiled a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the game. If you have a question that we haven’t answered here, feel free to go and ask on our social media channels. When will Aphelion launch? The game will officially release on April 28th, 2026, at 10AM CEST. Will there be a launch discount? Yes! You can get 10% off for two weeks. What age ra…
Name: Persephone Type: Icy Size: 11480 km Composition: Frozen water ice, unknown core composition Mass: 4.7723 × 1024 kg (80% that of Earth) Gravity: 0.8G Orbit: Very large and eccentric elliptical orbit ~12,000 years to make one revolution around the Sun Perihelion: 62 AU (9.3 billion km) Aphelion: 880 AU (132 billion km) Distance at launch: 82 AU (12.3 billion km) Atmosphere: Mostly nitrogen,…
Hi everyone! In this dev blog, we wanted to talk more about the planet Persephone. We released a trailer at the Future Games Show recently to showcase it too, so definitely check that out in case you missed it. How Persephone influences gameplay Persephone can be considered the main challenge to overcome in Aphelion. Having an uncharted alien planet as a playground gives a lot of opportunities…
Aphelion is blasting off on April 28 ! The date was announced at the Future Games Showcase, along with the new “Persephone” trailer. Discover Planet 9, AKA Persephone, and what awaits astronauts Ariane and Thomas: If you buy Aphelion on release day, you’ll get the Day One Edition as thanks from us for your support. It contains 2 spacesuit variants and 6 backpack accessories: 3 stickers and 3 ke…
Hey everyone! Following our gameplay trailer, we want to talk a little more about the tension in the game and what you can expect from Ariane and Thomas’s gameplay. Creating tension through gameplay We want Persephone to feel truly hostile and for players to feel that Ariane and Thomas could lose their lives at any moment on this dangerous and unknown planet. Game overs can happen abruptly whet…
First crewed mission to Persephone greenlit by European Space Agency The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it is preparing to launch Hope-01, the first ever crewed mission to the planet Persephone. This expedition will be among the most consequential and ambitious undertakings in human history. Scheduled for launch on 8th October 2060, the mission is the culmination of more than th…
Aphelion is gearing up for release this spring and we aired a brand-new gameplay trailer at the Convergence Showcase. It’s the deepest dive yet into the gameplay – 5 minutes of it! – showing what awaits Ariane and Thomas on Persephone: tense encounters with the terrifying Nemesis, strange electromagnetic anomalies, life-and-death traversal, and an unknown facility full of questions (and blood).…
We are excited to reveal Amine Bouhafa as the composer of Aphelion. Amine is a César award-winning movie composer whose work you may know from films such as Timbuktu (2015), The Summit of the Gods (2021), and The Little Sister (2025). We showed a behind-the-scenes look at Amine’s work and studio yesterday at the New Game+ showcase. The video shows the ways in which he uses instruments like the…
In spaceflight, mission patches have always been deeply symbolic – they serve as identifiers but also as emblems of identity and purpose. For Aphelion, our fictional Hope-01 mission patch has been designed in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and bridges the history of space exploration with the speculative future that our story explores. The patch features two defining element…
We’re excited to bring you more about Aphelion, our upcoming cinematic sci-fi action-adventure game. The new trailer, which was unveiled at the ID@Xbox Showcase, reveals Ariane’s fellow astronaut Thomas as the second playable character, and you get a glimpse of the game's stealth sequences, the never-before-seen alien antagonist, new environments, and the in-game spacesuit patch designed in col…
We’re thrilled to present Aphelion, DON’T NOD’s newly announced sci-fi action-adventure game! Set in a near-future where Earth faces collapse, Aphelion is an emotional journey to the edge of our Solar System to survey a planet that may be humanity’s last hope. Our latest tale follows two European Space Agency astronauts: Ariane Montclair and Thomas Cross. Following their crash landing on the un…
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