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Xbox and Focus Entertainment have confirmed that Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy will launch on August 27, 2026. Developed by Asobo Studio, the standalone prequel leads the second wave of Xbox Game Pass additions for August, arriving on day one for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass subscribers across Xbox Series X/S, PC, Cloud, and handheld devices.

Set 15 years before the events of A Plague Tale: Requiem, the story shifts focus away from series leads Amicia and Hugo de Rune. Players instead take control of a younger Sophia, the plunderer who previously helped the siblings survive in A Plague Tale: Requiem.

Raised within one of Venice's most feared criminal gangs, Sophia is forced to flee to the mythical Minotaur's Island near Crete after a heist against her own former crew goes badly wrong. With an army from her past on her heels and hunting a treasure tied to the island, she has to piece together fragmented visions linking her history to the ancient Minoan era and the long-buried Macula curse.

Where earlier A Plague Tale games leaned almost entirely on stealth, Resonance builds its combat around Sophia's background as a trained fighter rather than a frightened bystander. Expect close-quarters swordplay, tight parry timing, and agile dodging in place of the sling-throwing and light-management puzzles that defined Amicia's journeys.

That said, light hasn't disappeared from the formula entirely. Exploring the Minotaur's labyrinth means using a stolen Minoan sphere to bend light beams and crack environmental puzzles. The game also splits its structure between two eras, cutting between Sophia's medieval storyline and glimpses of ancient Minoan history, each with its own enemies and combat-driven trial chambers to work through.

Asobo has described the shift as a deliberate reset after years spent with the same characters, and early hands-on previews have generally praised the change in pace while noting it's a real departure from the series' survival-horror roots.

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