

After emerging from the tutorial, you’ll be given a choice between four unique builds (five if you pre-ordered to unlock the Gunslinger from jump), each with different skills and initial loadouts. The first major decision you’ll make in Remnant 2 (unless you get really into customizing how your main character looks) concerns deciding on an archetype. Here are a few tips to get you ready to save reality with as few hurdles as possible.


If you’re a newcomer to the series like me, you may be coming into the game with a lot of preconceived notions about how it combines gunplay and dodge-rolling. Remnant 2, the follow-up to 2019 sleeper hit Remnant: From the Ashes, is a unique blend of third-person shooting and Dark Souls-like elements all wrapped up in a story about a dimension-spanning evil known as the Root.
