Development

When publisher THQ declared bancrupcy in 2012 — only months after the release of Darksiders II — another entry in the series seemed unlikely to happen. Fortunately, the Darksiders property was eventually bought by Nordic Games, nowadays known as THQ Nordic. The development of the next game was given into the hands of Gunfire Games, a company founded by core members of the defunct Vigil Games, which developed the first two titles.

When Darksiders III was finally announced in May 2017, almost five years after the previous title, I was thrilled! Not just because that meant I would get a new ridiculously badass video game horse (right?), but also because by that time, I had just about finished playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and was hoping Darksiders III would bring back the classical item-based progression that the two franchises used to share — but which was absent from Breath of the Wild.

Hell Hath No Fury

With War and Death having had their turn, the remaining siblings are not the biblical Famine and Pestilence, but a female Horseman named Fury and a male Horseman called Strife.

Darksiders III will thus be the first (and likely only) entry in the series to feature a female protagonist. With the artistic liberty taken in name and gender, what about the “horse” part of Horseman of the Apocalypse though?

Unlike her brothers before her, Fury is not depicted with a mount on the cover art of her game.