Lords of the Fallen II takes the dark fantasy action RPG sequel to new heights with UE5

CI Games is using Unreal Engine 5 to build Lords of the Fallen II, positioning the sequel as a larger, more ambitious dark fantasy action RPG. The article frames the game around high-energy soulslike combat and a vast, war-torn kingdom that’s literally falling apart, which suggests a heavy emphasis on atmosphere, traversal, and encounter design.

For developers, the main takeaway is how standard UE5 has become for premium third-person action games. When a project like this leans into UE5, it usually means the team is betting on the engine’s rendering, world-building, and production tooling to support scale without having to build everything from scratch. That matters for studios trying to ship visually dense games with limited engine R&D bandwidth.

The article doesn’t give hard production numbers or dates, but it does make clear that CI Games is treating this as a major sequel rather than a modest follow-up. That implies the usual UE5 tradeoffs are in play: stronger visual ambition and faster content iteration, balanced against the need to manage performance, streaming, and combat readability in a demanding action game.

If you’re working in rendering, environment art, or combat design, this is another example of how UE5 is shaping expectations for the genre. The practical question isn’t whether the engine can make a game look impressive; it’s how teams keep that fidelity from undermining responsiveness, clarity, and shipping stability.