Monolith Soft’s Next Big RPG on the Horizon

A small update from a composer who has worked on the Xenoblade series for a long time has quietly led to new rumors about what Monolith Soft might be working on next. According to sources, the composer just revealed that a long recording session for music that began in the summer of 2024 and lasted for months is now over.

Fans who pay close attention to how the studio's projects are made are interested in the time, even though the project hasn't been named yet. A lot of people know Monolith Soft for making big role-playing games that push Nintendo hardware in fun ways. The company is best known for the Xenoblade Chronicles series, which has grown steadily over the last 10 years thanks to its expansive worlds, complex stories, and environments meant to be explored.

In 2022, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the most recent major entry, came out. It was praised for its expansive world and emotional story.

When it comes to announcing brand-new RPG projects, the studio has been pretty quiet since that game came out. There have been updates and re-releases for older games, but rumors say that not the whole Monolith Soft development team worked on those projects. A lot of the core RPG group may have been working on something completely different behind the scenes.

Previous company hiring campaigns gave that idea a hint. People who knew about the job postings say that Monolith Soft was looking for writers for a new role-playing game project that was "not like the Xenoblade series." Fans were immediately interested in that wording because it suggested the studio might be trying out a new world rather than just continuing an existing plot.

If that project really has been in the works for a few years, the latest update on the music recording could be a small but useful sign of how things are going. A lot of the time, big orchestral recording sessions happen late in the development process, when the main scenes, settings, and game systems are already starting to take shape.

Monolith Soft's games have always had great music.

The Xenoblade series is known for its epic tunes that mix orchestral pieces with electronic sounds, giving each area its own unique sound. Fans often say that the music is one of the most important parts of the experience because it helps bring the vast scenery and emotional story moments to life.

Because of this, hearing that a recording session is over naturally makes people wonder what project the music could be for.

The longer time frame of Nintendo's development cycle is another reason why rumors are growing. A lot of people think that the company will soon start making its next version of hardware, which fans and analysts often call the Nintendo Switch 2. When a new system comes out, big games are often made by studios with ties to Nintendo to help show off the new hardware.

In the past, Monolith Soft has done that a lot. Some of Nintendo's biggest projects have been worked on by this studio, which is known for making huge worlds even with gear that isn't very powerful. Games like Xenoblade Chronicles X and later Xenoblade games were known for having huge settings and landscapes that were hard to fit into other RPGs on the same systems.

Many fans think that Monolith Soft could go even further with their goal since more powerful gear might be on the way.

As of right now, though, nothing is official. The composer's talk about a recording session could have something to do with a lot of different projects, and the studio hasn't said anything about its next RPG.

Still, when a coder known for big projects works on something new for years without telling anyone, even small hints can get people talking. There are hints that a new generation of Nintendo gear is coming out soon, so the big question is now easy to answer.

What has Monolith Soft been working on all this time, and when will they finally show it to the public?