Sovereign Call: Origins Press Kit
Everything you need to cover Sovereign Call: Origins. For keys, interviews or questions, email fallensignalstudios@gmail.com.
Factsheet
- Title
- Sovereign Call: Origins
- Developer
- Fallen Signal Studios (independent, founder-led)
- Founder / solo developer
- Matthew Snodgrass
- Novel author
- Michael Vaylin Keyes (pen name of Matthew Snodgrass)
- Genre
- Cinematic single-player third-person sci-fi action RPG
- Engine
- Unreal Engine 5
- Platform
- PC (Steam)
- Release date
- Coming soon
- Price
- $49.99 USD
- Based in
- Spokane, Washington
- Languages
- English
- Website
- https://sovereigncall.com
- Press contact
- fallensignalstudios@gmail.com
- Legal entity
- Fallen Signal Studios LLC
Short description
Two soldiers. Two competing visions of order. One galaxy approaching collapse. Sovereign Call: Origins is a cinematic single-player sci-fi action RPG of conquest, faith, loyalty and betrayal, with companions whose bonds carry consequences and skill-driven Echo combat.
Description
Sovereign Call: Origins is a cinematic, single-player, third-person sci-fi action RPG in development in Unreal Engine 5: a story of political conflict, conquest, faith, loyalty and betrayal, and of the moral cost of power.
Tarrik Walcur fights for the imperial Dominion, an empire of bronze, oxblood and amber. Selene Veyne fights for the technologically advanced Reformation, a world of navy, slate and blue-white precision. Players control both of them, one at a time, as their stories cross on opposite sides of the same conflict.
Each protagonist fights their own way: Tarrik guards and counters; Selene relies on precision and deflection. Combat is built around Echo, the game's signature resource, with classes, specializations and progression without grind. Lyessa fights alongside Tarrik; Tharne and Lyric fight alongside Selene. Relationships carry consequences, and decisions change who stands with you. Beneath the war, an organic horror called the Eclipse spreads its violet corruption, threatening Dominion and Reformation alike.
Sovereign Call is an original IP adapted from the novels of Michael Vaylin Keyes, the pen name of developer Matthew Snodgrass. Four novels have been developed, and Origins alone runs to roughly 196,000 words.
The game is in active development. Current work focuses on the Aurelion mission. The demo released in April 2026 is an early prototype from an earlier iteration and is not representative of the current game.
Development history
Sovereign Call began as a novel. Matthew Snodgrass, writing as Michael Vaylin Keyes, developed the universe across four novels before adapting the first, Origins, into a game. He is building it as a solo, founder-led project in Unreal Engine 5, using his own Unreal tools: Cinemafy (cinematography), Holofy (hologram shader), Icify (procedural ice), Grungify (procedural grunge) and an Unreal MCP toolset.
Assets
Please don't use footage or screenshots from the April 2026 demo; it's an early prototype and not representative of the current game.
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Emblem and wordmark on grey -
Emblem and wordmark with shadowed text on grey -
Larger emblem and wordmark on grey -
Emblem and wordmark on charcoal -
Emblem on charcoal
The zip also includes the emblem PNG and SVG linked above.
- Key art (no text, plus a version with the logo). TODO(copy): [LINK: TBD]
- Screenshots (current Aurelion build only, 1920×1080+). TODO(copy): [LINK: TBD. Available once captured]
- Steam capsule art, PNG, 1232×706
- Trailer (downloadable MP4). TODO(copy): [LINK: TBD. Once a current-build trailer exists]
- Novel cover. TODO(copy): [LINK: TBD]
- Developer photo. TODO(copy): [LINK: TBD. Only if Matthew wants one public]
Contact
Press, creators, festivals and publishers: fallensignalstudios@gmail.com
Boilerplate
Fallen Signal Studios LLC is the independent, founder-led studio of Matthew Snodgrass, who writes the Sovereign Call novels as Michael Vaylin Keyes. Its first game, Sovereign Call: Origins, is a cinematic single-player sci-fi action RPG in development in Unreal Engine 5 for PC (Steam). Learn more at sovereigncall.com. © 2026 Fallen Signal Studios LLC.