Two years after the hit indie RPG Chained Echoes released, developer Matthias Linda — now having formed Umami Tiger, his new development studio — has announced Ashes of Elrant, an expansive new DLC package that launches in Q2 2025.
This story DLC will take place right before the final boss of the base game and sees The Clan of the Crimson Wings travel to the land of Elrant, "a land where nothing is as it seems."
In Elrant, you'll be able to experience a brand new world with new maps, dungeons, and towns, fight over 40 new monsters and enemies, and go fishing. But you'll also get a brand new playable character, simply called The White Wolf.

It sounds huge, and given the trailer shows off tons of new locations, minigames, and characters, we're sure there's even more we haven't been told about yet.
Chained Echoes is a must if you're a fan of turn-based RPGs, with excellent combat, music, and world design. It's one of the best indie titles on the Switch, so if you haven't seen the game before now, or want to know more, go read our glowing review.
Are you excited for the Ashes of Elrant DLC? Let us know in the comments.
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Loved the heck out of this game when I played it on GamePass.
I might have to buy it proper and play the DLC next year!
Chained echoes was great, played ff12 right after though and was kind of funny seeing the beats of the plot
Haven't played this, but loved Sea of Stars (mostly). Great time for SNES style RPG fans!
This is on my Wishlist. It's been on sale a few times, and I'll get it next time it is.
Nice, looking forward to this DLC... after finally playing the base game of Chained Echoes, that is!
My body is ready!
The DLC will come out before they send the physical copies...
Gods, I hope this also means a cart release with the DLC that isn’t tied to First Press Games.
I really enjoyed this game, but I beat it a loooooooong time ago. At this late point I probably won't play the DLC, but I do highly recommend this game for turn based fiends like myself. Was a very fun game. The very beginning of the game has hands down one of my favorite introductions of all time.
I was about to play this a second time around next year so this kinda fits perfectly^^
I still need to get to this, might wait for the DLC then; got a ton of RPGs on my plate already between Mario & Luigi and Dragon Quest 3 and maybe Fantasian and-
a shame the developer picked who it did for a physical release what a scam that has been this game needed a wide open release in stores like best buy and amazon
New DLC makes me feel better I haven't played this yet 😅
I definitely will, though
As others have hinted at, it's about 2 years since I pre-ordered Chained Echoes from First Press Games and there's still no sign of it showing up (similar to my order with them of Crimzon Clover World EXplosion, which will be 3 years on 22nd December).
What a disgraceful scam of a company they are, worthy of an investigation from Nintendo Life I think!
This is one of the five indie greatness of RPGs I enjoy, the other four being CrossCode, Sea of Stars, Astlibra Revision, and Eastward.
Still no physical version in my country 😡
I'm beyond excited for this game! I loved the main game so much. Was probably among my goty contenders for 2022
I'll be damned. This is probably why this game has yet to have a steep sale in the time it's been out... They've been working on a DLC for it. Maybe now this will complete this game and it can start to actually have some real sales or possibly a physical release.
@Astropez Weird, in the JRPG subreddit where I'm, this game is often brought up as an example of how to make a hood Indie Retro JRPG-inspired game. It's seen as Sea of Stars but good.
Never heard of this game! Pfff this is like one of those hidden gems i was looking for.
I didn't know this game existed. Weird since Im always looking for cool indie games. Seems I missed my chance for a physical edition long ago. Hopefully this dlc could give me another opportunity.
My favorite game of 2022. I’ve been looking for an excuse to replay it, and this seems like a good one.
That said, gotta wonder why they didn’t just work on a sequel this far out. DLC for a 3 year-old game…
@fenlix sea of stars is great too. That whole backwards anti-praise attitude toward sea of stars is so weird.
@Astropez I couldn’t disagree more. It was my favorite game that year. People sure get some skewed perspectives online.
@fenlix a hood RPG? I’d love to take out gang bangers in turn based battle, all while my protagonist is out to fight the system as well as kill God.
@Astropez Idk, CT is my ultimate favorite but I loved CE and beat it.
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