To celebrate the upcoming release, the game’s publisher is telling us to call in sick – a bold suggestion, but we get it.
New Blood announced that Fraud, the next major expansion for Ultrakill, will land next week in the early access FPS. Originally slated for the end of 2025, Fraud suffered a small, last-minute delay. We still don’t know the exact release date, but New Blood is advising fans to skip school and call out sick from work because the update is finally happening, and they’re not lying. One of the coolest things about Ultrakill is how every layer of hell comes with its own distinct art direction: Lust is a dreamlike metropolis, while Greed is a strange golden desert packed with monuments of humanity, and so on.
Fraud looks genuinely exciting. Its through-line is illusion, amusement-park trickery, and physics-defying spaces you can only explore in videogames. New Blood‘s early access slate (Gloomwood, Fallen Aces, and Ultrakill) still feels like an appealing trio, and we think the long wait will pay off: all three projects have surprised us with their scale and ambition. Every new update peels back more layers – figuratively, on top of Ultrakill‘s literal layers of hell – in depth and complexity, and that genuinely has us fired up. Gloomwood‘s serum system that enables monster transformations is a great example. The vibe is reminiscent of that moment many of us hit in Elden Ring back in 2022, when we realized the game was still unfolding and quietly asked ourselves “What is this game anyway?”
Ultrakill seems closest to 1.0, since only one layer remains after Fraud: Treachery. On the smaller-project side, New Blood is also set to release its Dusk Grimrock-style, grid-based spin-off, Dungeons of Dusk, sometime this year. Ultrakill is already a great buy at $25, but if you haven’t picked it up yet, it might be worth waiting: Fraud‘s release lines up with New Blood‘s usual anniversary sale, which runs for a week starting February 23.
Forrás: PCGamer
