Community25 Aug 2026Valor Mortis - New Story TrailerGreetings Soldiers, We approach our game launch and the final campaign for the Emperor on October 13! Last year, we revealed Valor Mortis at gamescom Opening Night Live. Today, we just debuted our latest reveal, a new Story Trailer. As Napoleon's conquests halts in Eastern Europe, a plague spreads across the continent in its wake. This same dark affliction courses through William Dowsett's vein…
Responding to your Demo Feedback Greetings soldiers! The Emperor cares for each and every one of you. That is why he has tasked us with addressing the biggest points of feedback from the Valor Mortis Demo. The Game Director and Lead Designer took time to discuss what you liked and what you didn't like about it. This is an important junction as we continue improving the game ahead of our launch…
The Valor Mortis Demo is back from July 20 - August 7! Greetings Soldiers, We have made the Valor Mortis Demo available again! Sharpen your blades and ready your muskets for another offensive. In the next weeks, we are bringing Valor Mortis to COREBLAZER , ChinaJoy and we are joining the Steam event, From Poland with Love . It's really exciting that we get to meet players around the world with…
Yesterday, Steam announced that Valor Mortis was one of the top Demos in Steam Next Fest. To celebrate, we will be extending the Demo for two more weeks! We really appreciate all of your help and feedback to improve the Demo. We will be doing a lot of fine-tuning and optimization before our launch on October 13. While the Demo is still available, we are running contests for speedrunning, screen…
We are giving away a several copies of the game! To celebrate Steam Next Fest and the first big Demo of Valor Mortis, we are hosting several contests where winners will receive copies of the game at launch and Discord roles! Contests run from June 18th - June 30th. These contests will be held in our Discord server where we share behind the scenes content from development like concept art, visua…
Greetings Soldiers! We'd like to welcome all players who are coming to our game from Steam Next Fest. With so many Demos available, we appreciate the time you've taken to try our game. We are making the first ever soulslike adventure in first-person perspective of this scale. You'll play as a former soldier of Napoleon who has risen from death with newfound strength. Wield swords, firearms and…
Greetings Soldiers! The response to our release date change has been incredible. It's going to be a crazy few months of gaming, but we believe we're creating something unique and distinct with our first-person soulslike. We appreciate that you want to join us on this journey! Our team has been continuing to work on notable issues in the Demo based on your reports. Here's a few more fixes that w…
Greetings Soldiers, September has become absolutely stacked with incredible looking games. We knew this was a possibility, but when you're in a Partner Showcase as we were, dates get locked weeks in advance. We want to give Valor Mortis (and your wallet) some room to breathe. Therefore, we’ve decided to move our release date to October 13th . In the meantime, you've already helped us fine-tune…
Greetings Soldiers! Your feedback continues to be super helpful in identifying issues and letting us fix bugs and crashes that you have experienced in the last few days. There's still more to do, but with your input, we've tackled some more of the most pertinent issues that you have brought up! · DLSS 4.5 and XeSS 3 and their accompanying technologies are now available for supported GPUs · Impl…
Greetings, Soldiers! First of all, thank you so much for jumping into the Valor Mortis Demo. You’ve given us loads of helpful feedback that we have been working all day to address! This first Hotfix targets a number of issues with the Demo’s stability and performance. These include crashes related to memory management, tutorial screens, and performance improvements at specific points in Chapter…
Charge to the Napoleonic front lines and vive l’Empereur! After months of preparation, now is the time to serve your Emperor. The Valor Mortis Demo is available right now. Watch our brand new trailer to see what we’ve been cooking. This is our first time going completely open and public with access to the game. We believe we have created a unique soulslike game, with a dash of FPS and even plat…
Greetings Soldiers! The preparation for the next great offensive is underway. Last month, we announced that we will be launching Valor Mortis this Autumn. Along with the new trailer, we wanted to share more details about new gameplay. You can watch this devlog where Game Director, Radosław Ratusznik details how our team is going from first-person movement-based parkour in Ghostrunner to deliber…
Valor Mortis is launching in Fall 2026! We’ve been hard at work to make Valor Mortis the best game it can be - an epic and tense adventure through a fantastical retelling of the Napoleonic era. For the first time since November, we have a big reveal. Valor Mortis will be launching in the Fall ! To celebrate, here is a brand new Gameplay Trailer! In it, you’ll see some of the features, enemies a…
Greetings Soldiers! Everyone knows it’s unwise to attempt an Eastern campaign in cold weather, that’s why we’ve been keeping a low profile over the winter months. But as the flowers bloom across the continent, so does new information about Valor Mortis. On the 9th of April, we will be sharing our first new trailer of the year in The Triple-i initiative. This is a big event which has revealed an…
Greetings Soldiers! The Triple-i Initiative returns on April 9th at 9:00 a.m. PT / 6:00 p.m. CET, and we march to meet it, inviting you to experience something long kept hidden in the world of Valor Mortis. Ahead lies 45 minutes of back-to-back trailers with world premieres, gameplay reveals, launch dates, demo drops, and more. No hosts, no ads, no sponsors and no betrayers of the Empire. Just…
Developer Update and Q&A Greetings soldiers! Here's the latest news from the front lines of the Grande Armée. We wanted to answer a bunch of questions from the playtest, The Crimson Plague trailer and more. It has been a crazy year for all of us at One More Level. We revealed Valor Mortis, had thousands of people join our playtest and had so much feedback and opinions to make the game better. W…
A new horrifying side of Valor Mortis This gameplay trailer, “ The Crimson Plague ”, shows a new level, several enemies and a different tone from what we’ve shown of Valor Mortis before. The tone of this level is truly dark. It takes place at night, so narrow streets, abandoned houses, and flickering torches create a constant sense of unease, while the villagers’ twisted behavior and sudden agg…
Thank you for joining our playtest! We've received so much great feedback and now, we have a lot of work to do. If you are interested in the game, please wishlist and follow us here on Steam. We also have a Discord server with our whole dev team. A few members have started speedrunning the playtest and Pengu was able to complete the playtest level in under 5 minutes! We'll be sharing more from…
Thanks for joining our playtest and sharing your feedback! We have been working on the biggest issues and bugs that were causing consistent crashes. The new build today should fix some of them and you can read the details below. · Fixed several crashes related to corrupted save files, · Fire transmutation should no longer disappear from player's equipment, · Added additional checks to prevent s…
The Empire needs more diligent and loyal soldiers to achieve our goals. Today, we are inviting everyone who has signed up on Steam to our ranks for the Valor Mortis playtest. The enemy has no chance. The game is still in pre-alpha but we want to get it in your hands early enough to act on your feedback. At this stage of development, we haven’t really prioritized performance or optimization, but…
Soldiers! It's time to march. You can enlist in the Valor Mortis playtest to get first access to the game right now. Sign-up at the Firstlook website and you’ll get a Steam key to play the pre-alpha build. If you have only signed up through Steam's playtest feature, you'll get access to the game on October 8. Updates from the gamescom build When we announced Valor Mortis, we also started bringi…
Soldiers! La Grande Armée is seeking brave and diligent individuals to join the conquest on the Eastern front. The coming weeks will be the final chance to join the global playtest of Valor Mortis so that you can be one of the first in the known world to take on this noble challenge. Whether you’re a veteran soulslike player or if you’re more interested in the Napoleonic setting, we’d love to h…
TLDR We will be running a playtest in late September! More details to come, but you will receive early access to the test by signing up at More details We just announced Valor Mortis a few days ago. Since then, we’ve seen so many impressions, reactions, and opinions to our new game. But if you want to play the game for yourself, you’ll get that chance very soon. Many of you are experts of this…
In our new game, Valor Mortis , you will take the role of William, a former soldier of Napoleon’s Grande Armée. While the Emperor seeks conquest in his campaign across Eastern Europe, you won’t just find the horrors of war, but the horrible abominations that were once loyal soldiers like yourself. The mysterious substance, Nephtogolobin , has corrupted your comrades but granted you supernatural…
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