It is raining blood, hallelujah.
Amongst a slew of bulletins at Summer season Video games Fest 2026, Shift Up revealed the sequel to its breakout hit, Stellar Blade. The sequel, which we now know is named Stellar Blade: Blood Rain, is claimed to be in the identical universe as the primary recreation within the sequence. Shift Up says it should take that world in a “daring new course.” Blood Rain will even characteristic a brand new protagonist named Evie, a transparent homage to Eve from the unique title.
The unique Stellar Blade was typically effectively obtained, incomes an 81 on Metacritic for its mixture of trendy visuals and slick fight. Blood Rain seems to be to construct on these strengths, and the prolonged trailer proven through the reveal options a mixture of extraordinarily shiny-looking cutscenes and flashy fight sequences punctuated with earth-shattering hero landings that Deadpool would balk at (very arduous on the knees). As befitting its title, Blood Rain‘s enemy designs look fittingly body-horror themed. They’re appreciably totally different from the seemingly Souls-inspired baddies of the primary title, and the trailer exhibits their transformation from human to online game monsters in gory element. Not a speck of that blood will be seen on our extremely shiny and uncomfortably shapely, pores and skin suit-clad protagonist, although.
Shift Up will self-publish the title, a pointy flip from its earlier launch by means of Sony Interactive Leisure for the primary Stellar Blade. The transfer comes after some gamers balked at a PlayStation exclusivity window for that recreation earlier than its PC launch, and amid a renewed deal with exclusives at Sony that may see titles withheld from PC.
