Hidetaka Miyazaki directs this Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive. Eight Bloodsworn contest First Blood in the Twilight of Humanity. The grail culls by Virtue until three fight Moon Blood Bestowal.
PvPvE · NSO required · no cloud saves · Network Test Ver. 21–24 August 2026
The Duskbloods is FromSoftware’s Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive PvPvE action game, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki and listed with FromSoftware as publisher on Nintendo storefronts. Player characters are Bloodsworn — people given superhuman ability through special blood — and the title is the collective name for those fighters. They are summoned across times and places at the Twilight of Humanity to contest First Blood as human society ends. Matches take up to eight players. US and UK listings date the product to 2026 without a day-exact calendar date, require Nintendo Switch Online plus a Nintendo Account for online play, and state that Nintendo Switch Online Save Data Cloud backup is not supported.
A Dusk Battle is not a deathmatch timer. Phase I drops eight Bloodsworn into a Land of Dusk to explore, fight, and start earning Virtue; the grail does not cull. Phase II and Phase III both cull. Ritual sites open; Flame, Sword, Pledge, and Commendation Virtue decide who the grail keeps; the three highest-Virtue Bloodsworn are beckoned at the end of Phase III. Moon Blood Bestowal then leaves those three, grants two lives plus HP from Virtue, and disbands alliances so moontears flow for one. Network Test Ver. offered only Casual Match, with Standard, No Alliances, or Bloodbound Alliances as the rule set.
Miyazaki describes Victory Points as the match outcome measure and says direct combat is not the only way to score. That maps onto the official Virtue sheet: you can light Flame on lantern corpses, collect for Collector Commendation, and take Repulsion from great foes and trespassers without turning every minute into a Bloodsworn hunt. Sword and Pledge still concentrate at ritual sites if you choose PvP. The getting-started path on this site is the Dusk Battles guide, then the six-kit Network Test roster.
Official stills
Nintendo’s Switch 2 product gallery for NSUID 70010000098071 is the still set on this page: the hall-gate wordmark, the square eShop cut, a clock-tower street fight, a rifle pair against pink dusk, and three official YouTube thumbnails from FromSoftware’s debut, the network-test film, and Nintendo of America’s April 2025 Direct. Campaign Bloodsworn portraits hosted on media. fromsoftware. jp are catalogued in research and not bound to the Nintendo product API, so they are not used as exclusive kit art. Click a still in the index to letterbox it; the same seven files never repeat on this route.
The hall-gate still is exclusive to this home route. The square cut also appears on Virtue and Kin. The clock-tower street also appears on the Bloodsworn roster. The rifle dusk also appears on FAQ and Switch 2. YouTube thumbs are bound to at most three routes each. That is the media receipt’s reuse cap, not a gallery gimmick. Press Square key art to replace the hall gate in the featured well; the hall-gate control then sits unpressed in the index.
The Duskbloods wordmark beside a cloaked Bloodsworn walking toward a tall iron gate and red stained-glass window in a gothic hall.
Official films
Two first-party films sit here as chapters. FromSoftware’s debut trailer (020HBXwwFeo) announced The Duskbloods in the 2 April 2025 Nintendo Direct window. Nintendo of America’s 6. 9. 2026 Direct chapter (d0ij2uQ87nc) is the later storefront film; it loads only after you press Play on a youtube-nocookie facade. A separate FromSoftware network-test announcement film lives on the Network Test operations page so this hub stays on current Switch 2 2026 product identity unless you open that chapter.
Facades never preload a youtube-nocookie iframe. One click mounts one player beside the Play control, not inside the button. Pick FromSoftware debut to restore the April 2025 film; pick Nintendo Direct 6. 9. 2026 to swap the chapter. The still index above is not the film list. Use Switch 2 if you want the same two chapters next to the three-version timeline. Watch both chapters here before opening that platform page.
Bloodsworn on Switch 2
Miyazaki says the full game lets players choose from over a dozen Bloodsworn, each with identity, appearance, unique weapons, and some customization. Network Test Ver. shipped six named kits: Albert, Bloodhand Jan, Trang Lanh, Sniper Layla, Senator Samir Patres, and Zork. Skills and aspects are customizable in the release version; the test locked those fields per kit. US listings support American English, TV, tabletop, and handheld modes, and SKU 7100098071 / NSUID 70010000098071. The UK listing shows PEGI 16 Provisional. The US listing is rating pending, with Blood and Gore and Violence descriptors on Nintendo news modules.
Open Dusk Battles for the four-phase cull, Virtue for the six scoring rows, Kin and Sigils for the compact and objective layers, Lands of Dusk for Lowanro, and Switch 2 for NSO and the 2026 window. The Network Test page keeps dated session blocks off the index. Japanese readings for Bloodsworn, First Blood, and Twilight of Humanity sit in the glossary beside the English terms used in Nintendo’s US blurb.
The Duskbloods