Girls Frontline 2: Exilium global release promotion begins with new trailers and info

Developers Sunborn and MICA Team appear to be readying for a global release announcement for its tactical RPG Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium, the sequel to Girls' Frontline. Official Girls' Frontline 2 social media accounts have begun promoting the game more aggressively in recent days, releasing info about the characters and setting and uploading trailers to official channels.

One such trailer is a roughly five-minute cinematic preview teasing the game's setting and some key characters. The trailer first appeared on Chinese video platforms in 2022.

Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium Announcement Trailer

The trailer shows off action from characters in a variety of intense firefights against soldiers, tanks, and sci-fi beasts. The characters remain unnamed, but based on their appearances and the Chinese release, include the game's poster character, Groza and several other familiar faces from the original Girls' Frontline.

Exilium is a direct, but temporally separated, sequel to the original Girls' Frontline, taking place over a decade after the first game. In the years since the first game, the player Commander and their T-Dolls - android fighters known best for being named after the firearms they carried - have parted ways with their former factions, becoming bounty hunters in the post-World War 3 wasteland, until a strange mission leads them to reunite with old allies and discover new friends.

On social media, the official Exilium Twitter accounts began detailing characters like Groza and Nemesis:

The official English website for Exilium also scrolls a version of the game's animated opening (seen below via YouTuber Ceia), which focuses on many more characters and life in the mobile base.

Girls' Frontline 2 Animated Opening

Unlike the original Girls' Frontline, Exilium is a 3D game that uses a turn-based, grid-formatted tactical battle system that accounts for cover and other gunfighting mechanics. Also unlike the original, Exilium's characters all have personal names, even the alumni from the original game, who were named after the weapon they carried.

The global edition of Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium will launch sometime in 2024 for PC and mobile devices. A spin-off, Project Neural Cloud, is available for mobile devices, while a single-player remake of the original game in the setting, Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery, is available on PC.