{
  "id": 5599001,
  "title": "\"Top-down Zelda meets Bloodborne\": action RPG Withering Realms is out now in early access, should you fancy riding the shoulders of a horrible doll",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/04/top-down-zelda-meets-bloodborne-action-rpg-withering-realms-is-out",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-04T16:39:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/top-down-zelda-meets-bloodborne-action-rpg-withering-realms-is-out-now-in-early-access-should-you-fancy-riding-the-shoulders-of-a-horrible-doll"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Withering Rooms was an unexpectedly devious and absorbing slice of dollhouse action-RPG horror. As such, I've been looking forward to Withering Realms, the standalone sort-of-sequel, which launches in early access today. The new game takes place in the 1920s, following the 'premature' end of World War 1 thanks to an occult catastrophe. You play a ghost child, clinging to the shoulders of a living…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}