A new trailer for Dragonkin: The Banished was released today, and this one focuses on Montescail — the city that serves as your home base throughout the game. It’s worth a closer look because it’s not just a fast travel menu with an NPC or two.
Montescail starts at level one and scales all the way to 50. As you play, you earn improvement points to spend on passive bonuses or upgrading specific shops. What makes this more than a stat screen is that the city visually changes as it grows; buildings expand, neighborhoods develop, and it genuinely looks different at higher levels and offers more options.
A couple of the shops shown are worth noting. The Enchanter lets you modify fragments to tweak and customize your skills, while the Draconic Atlas functions as a bestiary that also gives you combat bonuses against specific enemy types — so it’s actually useful rather than just flavor text. Any characters you make within the same city share the upgrades you’ve already unlocked, which should take some of the sting out of starting a new build.
Montescail supports up to 32 players online, and you can invite friends to your city so everyone contributes to and benefits from its development together. Actual hunting is done in groups of four for both story and endgame content.
Early Access on PC is already live and has been about a year. Console players who buy the Blood Scales Edition can start playing on March 16, 2026. The general release on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC is on March 19, 2026.
The Blood Scales Edition is $49.99, and it includes 3 days early access and a bunch of cosmetic items. The standard edition is only $39.99 and includes some pre-order cosmetic items too.
Patriot’s Position: I’m quite excited for this one, and did pre-order the Blood Scales Edition just to play it before Crimson Desert. I thought Eko Software did a fantastic job with Warhammer: Chaosbane, so I can’t wait to dive into this one. Chaosbane was more of a Diablo 3 type clone for lack of a better word (I mean look and UI wise), and Dragonkin looks more like Diablo 4. I’ve avoided seeing too much of the PC early access, much like I’ve done for Titan Quest II, because I play on PS5 and want to experience the game for myself without having already seen most of the stuff.
