We're excited to announce Firefly Trials, a 3-player boss rush raidlike with fast-paced, MMO-inspired battles against mythological beasts. As a very small team of industry veterans, Firefly Trials began as a passion project between a husband-and-wife duo united by a shared love of raiding. We're also working closely with creative partners in Japan to bring our anime-inspired world and characters to life. We wanted to capture the mechanics, coordination, and fun without the long-term MMO commitment. So, Firefly Trials takes the parts of end-game MMO raiding we love most and makes it available for everyone to play in just 5 minutes with just 3 players. No trash mobs or dungeons to clear, just your team and epic boss battles.
Firefly Trials is in Pre-Alpha on Steam now, with new characters, bosses, and much more in active development - request Playtest Access here to get in early!
ABOUT FIREFLY TRIALS
The Trials are MMO-style battles where your team faces off against mythological beasts before roaring crowds. Choose from a growing roster of animal-inspired characters, queue up solo or with friends, and get straight into the fight. As you climb from E-Rank to S-Rank, fights evolve dramatically with new phases, attacks, modifiers, and layered encounter design built around coordination, adaptation, and mastery. Defeating bosses rewards powerful artifacts with traits you can mix-and-match to find the right combinations that tighten your rotation or change it entirely. Players can also flex their individual skill on the weekly competitive leaderboards, where your best clear times are tracked on every character. Climb the ranks, get stronger, and chase the title of world's best in Firefly Trials!
BUILDING TOGETHER
The game is still very early and so is the community we're building over on Discord. We’re developing the game alongside our playtesting community - so if that sounds like you, come join us! We’d love for you to play and hear what you think. Sign up via FirstLook for priority access to playtests.
There's so much more we can't wait to show and tell you in the coming months. If you love the character designs, we can't wait to share more about the artist in Japan who helped dream them up. Love lore? We've been hard at work developing the world of Valbara with concept art and original stories about the characters. Excited to see what new bosses we’re cooking up? We’ll be talking about new characters, new bosses, and more… Hear it all first and come chat with us on Discord!
GAME FEATURES
STRAIGHT TO THE END GAME: Jump straight into boss battles in 3-player MMO-style encounters with no dungeons, no trash mobs. Queue up solo or with friends and get right to the fight.
ANIMAL-INSPIRED CHARACTERS: Play a rhino bruiser who shields her allies, a hummingbird fencer who turns harvested flowers into burst damage, a sheep guardian who spins throwable wool shields, and so many more. Each character is built around a unique combat style and new characters join the roster every season. Whether you like tanks, healers, or DPS you're sure to find something you like!
E-RANK TO S-RANK: Every boss runs from E-Rank up to S-Rank, and the fight changes meaningfully at every step. Higher ranks aren't just bigger health bars; they introduce new ability mutations, new phases, and new mechanics to master. Boss mechanics are layered even further by environment modifiers, so no two fights play the same.
LOOT & THEORYCRAFTING: Defeating bosses rewards powerful artifacts with traits you can mix-and-match across gear sets to chase new builds. Stack the right combinations to tighten your rotation, push your meters, and find new ways to win.
PVE COMPETITION: A ranked circuit shifts every week, and your clear times are recorded from E-Rank to S-Rank to earn extra rewards. Climb the leaderboards and prove you're the best.
A FRESH START EVERY SEASON: Every season brings new bosses, new characters, and an all-new pool of traits to theorycraft. A fresh meta and clean leaderboard each season opens up new optimal builds, team comps, and strategies to discover.
Request Playtest Access on Steam and Wishlist Today! The Trials await.