Enter the Tower: Arkheron Closed Beta is Live for XBOX Insiders

Bonfire Studios has opened the closed beta for Arkheron to Xbox Insiders on Xbox Series X|S and Windows PC. The studio is treating this as a technical test, so active updates, bugs, and tuning passes are part of the plan rather than side effects.

For developers, the interesting bit is the game’s build system: Arkheron is a classless PvP game where items define abilities, playstyle, and team support on the fly. That puts a lot of pressure on combat readability, matchmaking, and balance, especially when players are assembling kits dynamically inside a match instead of locking in at character select.

Two modes are in play. Spires is the focused 3v3 arena for rapid iteration and core combat testing, while Ascension is the larger competitive mode with 15 teams of three pushing up the Tower toward a final 3v3 showdown. Ascension only appears in limited regional weekend windows, which suggests the team is pacing load and data collection around specific test periods.

The beta also includes the first pass at cosmetic progression. Players earn Pages by opening chests, defeating monsters, completing Challenge Rifts, and ascending the Tower, then spend them on playtest-exclusive Prestige items that remain on the account after the test ends. Feedback is being routed through the Arkheron forums, where the team is specifically looking at combat, controls, performance, onboarding, and matchmaking.