With Ember's Servant, players can spawn a companion to battle alongside them in Eternal Strands, but Ark of the Living Flame must be defeated first.

Read our complete review of the action-adventure game Eternal Strands, a fun debut game from an independent studio.

Eternal Strands will hit PC, PS5 and XSX/S players today, and industry media have already published the first reviews.

Eternal Strands is a light and breezy fantasy action RPG that's elevated by its innovative use of physics-based magic that makes even minor combat encounters feel novel. It's also thrilling to take on the larger foes, though this is more short-lived than the likes of Monster Hunter.

Zelda physics combine with Shadow of the Colossus bosses in this magic-fuelled action RPG. Eternal Strands might be a perfect Game Pass title

Few games have managed to capture the same sense of scale and spectacle as Shadow of the Colossus’s gargantuan boss fights, and none with the same kind of focus on improvisational combat as Eternal Strands.