Chasing another Genshin Impact-sized hit, Sony lands a promising 3D strategy RPG for PS5 as technical test signups open for Arknights: Endfield

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The "strategic" open-world RPG is following Genshin's footsteps almost exactly

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January 22, 2026: The game has now launched globally, so check out these Arknights: Endfield codes to give yourself a solid start.

If you want to sign up for the Arknights: Endfield technical test, you'll need to fill out this survey by December 24 and pray you get in. The PC-only test will start on January 12, 2024 and run for an unannounced period of time. You can also pre-register for the game in general, though it's sure to be quite a while until it's actually out.

We've seen a lot of Genshin Impact imitators since its explosive success – as a reminder, Hoyoverse has previously made more money than all of PlayStation in some fiscal quarters – and Endfield might have the best shot out of them all. Arknights is already a good, well-liked game, and Endfield's jump in genre and scale could excite existing players while entreating a new audience – namely people like me who don't like mobile gaming.

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Endfield is also sitting in a very similar space gameplay-wise. "Take up the role of the Protocol Field Recovery Department Endministrator, clear your assignments, and explore the frontiers," the official blurb reads.

Earlier showcases confirm that, like Genshin, you assemble a team of four characters and use them to battle around an open world. Unlike Genshin, however, your whole party stays on-field at once, not unlike the Tales games or even the recent action-based Final Fantasies. Hypergryph has also stressed strategic elements of combat, which I'm interpreting as cooldown management and AoE spacing, among other things. It looks solid so far, and the overall aesthetic is a sharp reinterpretation of Arknights, so as a long-time Genshin enthusiast, you can put me down as interested.

Also shown at The Game Awards: this open-world game from GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 vet's new studio looks like a slick Tokyo dystopia.

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