Details regarding Project Belfry were shared by GamesBeat reporter Jeff Grubb during his latest GrubbSnax podcast. Project Belfry isn’t a confirmed game, but Grubb has a source that leaked him some early information. The heart of the leak is that Project Belfry is a side-scrolling action-adventure game, described to be similar to Dragon’s Crown. In other words, this isn’t a Golden Axe brawler, but rather something more complex with layers of progression and a larger world to explore.
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The world of Project Belfry is said to be both large and interconnected, with a belfry hub base at its center. Players will be able to return to this belfry and upgrade it as they progress. Players will also be able to establish settlements further out on the map, which are used to bring in more resources for crafting. Obviously, there’re a lot of questions regarding how these systems will be presented, how the action-adventure stages will mesh with the overworld, belfry, and settlements, but it does present a compellingly large and complex experience.
The last bit of news Grubb has to share about the game is that it’s influenced in visual style by Studio Ghibli’s animated films, with Princess Mononoke specifically mentioned. While Grubb doesn’t elaborate on this, it seems to imply that Project Belfry will be a fantasy game with stylized art.
One glaring omission from Grubb’s leak is which studio is working on Project Belfry. That would obviously reveal a significant amount about the game and what kind of expectations Xbox fans should have for it, as they could look to the studio’s past work for reference. Without a studio, the scale and potential of Project Belfry remains mysterious.
Fans will have to speculate on their own for a while yet, it seems. There is no further information about Project Belfry, no word on the state of its ongoing development, and no tentative release window. At the very least, it can likely be assumed to be coming to PC and Xbox Series X/S. Hopefully, there’s more news to share soon.
Project Belfry is rumored to be in development.
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