Phantom Blade Zero launches today at 7pm PT on Steam and Epic Games Store with DLSS 4.5, ray tracing, and path tracing on GeForce RTX and RTX Spark devices. You play as Soul, a swordsman framed for murder with 66 days to live, exploring the Wulin to uncover a conspiracy.
NVIDIA partnered with S-GAME to bring PC-exclusive path tracing using ReSTIR GI, replacing Unreal Engine's Lumen for more accurate bounced lighting, color bleeding, and indirect shadows. Ray-traced reflections, contact-hardening shadows, and water caustics further elevate visual fidelity.
Reviews praise the implementation: "On my PC, equipped with an RTX 5090…the game ran like a dream" (The Outer Haven); "With Path Tracing on, Phantom Blade Zero is one of the best-looking games on PC" (DSOGaming); "A GOTY contender" (Games Radar).
Additional updates: Blood of Dawnwalker gains DLSS 4.5 Super Resolution and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation; RTX Remix 1.6 adds DLSS 3D-Guided Neural Rendering to Half-Life 2 RTX and Portal with RTX; Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux receive free DLSS upgrades; The Boss Gangster: Criminal Empire and Killing Floor 3: Halloween Horrors also launch with DLSS support.
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