Absolver is an upcoming martial arts-focused action role-playing video game developed by Sloclap, a Parisian indie game developer composed of former Ubisoft Paris employees. Players control warrior characters who fight other players and computer-controlled characters across the fictional land of Adal to prove their worthiness of joining the Absolver peacekeepers. The game’s story is focused on the human development of the characters as they fight to find their place in the collapsed empire. The character’s fighting moves are customized in a “combat deck” of cards, with each card assigned to a move. Players earn cards, equipment, and weapons by progressing through the game.

Absolver is an action role-playing game based on martial arts fighting, featuring an interconnected world with shortcuts and Free-roaming, and merging single, cooperative and competitive play in the same campaign. Players build custom combinations of strikes, parries, and feints to fight other players and computer-controlled characters. Players control warrior characters known as Prospect who travel the fictional land of Adal to fight other players and prove their worth to become one of the Absolver peacekeepers. Players progress through the game to unlock new armor and equipment, combat styles, and weapons, usually as “loot” dropped by defeated enemies. The game has minor massively multiplayer online game elements, including the feature of fighting alongside other players on quests and of directly fighting other players in player versus player match-ups. Players can also spar with others to teach their characters skills. Players customize their characters’ fighting moves—known as a move set—by adding and