FromSoftware’s upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive The Duskbloods is drawing fresh attention after a data server update reportedly revealed 14 playable character classes. The information, first noted by Dark Soku and widely shared ahead of the game’s Closed Network Test, outlines a roster of Bloodsworn with distinct backstories and combat styles centered on blood, mutation, and the grotesque.
The Duskbloods, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, is a PvPvE multiplayer action RPG in which up to eight players compete as Bloodsworn for First Blood during the Twilight of Humanity. These characters gain superhuman abilities through special blood and fight across maps that blend Gothic, Victorian, and early modern settings. The Closed Network Test is the first major public opportunity for selected players to try the game, with pre-loads already available around mid-August 2026.
The leaked list pairs each class name with a character and a short description. These details remain unconfirmed by FromSoftware and may not all appear in the test, yet they offer a clear look at the variety planned for the title.
- Blood-Eater | Walter
The sole survivor of an extinct clan of rare-blood hunters. He uses his extraordinary sense of smell to track the blind spots in others’ pasts. He descended into madness after repeatedly licking the blood spatter from his sister, whom he himself had killed, and still walks the line between life and death in search of pure blood. - Guillotine | Gillian
An executioner of the Marisbel Inquisition. He carries a massive iron guillotine blade on his back. Having been exposed to too much blood over the years, he has begun to mutate himself, and now wanders in search of the “Blood of the Beginning” before his own head is severed. - Foul-Rot | Veronica
A blind nun abandoned in the basement of a ruined cathedral. She inflicts self-harm to spread the grotesque blood blisters multiplying inside her body. The footprints she leaves behind instantly cause anything they touch to rot. - Nail-Pierced | Sebastian
A fanatic saint who drives silver nails into various parts of his body, using the flowing blood as a catalyst for miracles. By inflicting wounds on himself, he temporarily gains overwhelming ferocity, but his mind and body are already completely broken. - Coffin-Bearer | Maurice
A man who continued to collect corpses on the streets of Temurat at dusk. A mud-like monstrosity that was once his family writhes inside the iron coffin he carries on his back. By slamming the coffin against enemies, he sucks up their blood and feeds it to the creature inside. - Thread-Torn | Oscar
A deranged taxidermist who sews the flesh of beasts from all eras and regions directly onto his own body. During battle, he seizes enemy tissue and uses it to eerily patch and reinforce himself. Through the accumulation of tainted power, he transforms his own body into that of an ancient, rare beast. - Mud-Treader | Ulan
A female warrior who gained superhuman leg strength through human experimentation. Filthy blood constantly gushes from her ankles, and a red, poisonous swamp forms wherever she runs. - Candle-Snuffer | Isabel
A former waitress at the Siltera Noble Mansion. She possesses the ability to materialise shadows and trap her enemies’ blood within them to drain it. All light vanishes from the places she passes through. - Gut-Rinner | Randolph
An assault trooper of the Sampere Weapons Corps. Equipped with a back-mounted mechanism that allows him to fly freely and a massive piercing spear, he rips through his opponents’ flesh and blood along with their armour. His abdomen is heavily mechanised, enabling him to unleash devastating, wide-area attacks using bloodlust as a catalyst. - Gazer-of-Flesh | Yuri
A heretical observer who cut off his own eyelids. He possesses the ability to intensify a target’s blood flow simply by fixing his gaze on them, causing their body to explode from within. - Ash-Crown | Camilla
A girl whose clan was burned to the ground. She wields “blood ash,” a mixture of the victims’ ashes and her own blood, to petrify and crystallise her enemies before shattering them. - Rust-Gospel | Baldur
A former priest of Kinmitsu who has stuffed his mouth with large amounts of scrap iron and needles. Every time he utters a prayer, his mouth is torn apart, and the mist of blood he spits out becomes a powerful attack. - Dusk-Silt | Elsa
A woman whose Dusk Disease has progressed to its final stage. When attacked, her body transforms into a blood-mud-like substance, allowing her to evade attacks and flow freely, then inject her own poisonous blood directly into her opponent’s body. - First-Shard | Nameless Shadow
An imperfect mass of flesh known as First Blood, incapable of understanding language and lacking any sense of its own origins. A cursed being that eerily mimics and unleashes the techniques of every bloodline.
The descriptions emphasize blood as both power source and curse. Many classes involve self-harm, mutation, or transformation, while others focus on mobility, area control, or mimicry. This range suggests matches will feel highly variable depending on the chosen Bloodsworn, with potential for unique synergies and rivalries in the eight-player format.
Fans have noted the roster exceeds the starting options in some prior FromSoftware titles and leans into the studio’s signature mix of gothic horror and inventive combat design. Whether every class reaches the Closed Network Test or the full 2026 launch remains to be seen, but the leak already fuels discussion about playstyles and lore connections to the First Blood.
The Duskbloods continues to stand apart as a Switch 2 exclusive multiplayer experiment. With the network test approaching, players will soon discover how these Bloodsworn perform in practice.