The open beta opens the roda
Four days, eight fighters and four rodas: Fortress Plaza, Tide Flats, the Rooftops and the Old Ship. Your progress carries into launch.
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Three fighters share the roda in the fortress plaza of Recanto Branco. Two of you play while the berimbau sets the pace, and whoever wins stays in.
Open beta 20 to 23 November 2026
PC
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X|S
Change the toque
The berimbau runs the roda. Its toque (the rhythm it plays) sets how fast both of you can move. Press 1, 2 or 3, or pick a gourd, and watch the game change.
Slow toque: Luzia and Beto sway low and wait.
Quem canta a roda, segura a rodaWhoever sings the roda holds the roda.
Mestre Zé Baiano
At seventy-four and half blind, Zé is still the first voice you hear in the roda. He plays the berimbau that opens the game, then walks in and fights with it, gourd first.
In the story chapters he calls the toque. When he switches it in the middle of your game, your moves switch with it, and he sings about it while you adjust.
One stays
Beto Cardoso never walks into a roda. He cartwheels in, and from above you can see why the circle leaves him room.
Every match puts three fighters in the circle. Two play in the middle while the third waits at the edge and claps. Take the exchange and you stay in. Lose it and you trade places with whoever waited.
Luzia and Beto play. Iara waits at the edge.
Axéthe charge a good game builds
Play without hitting. Each clean dodge, each spin that rolls into the next one, fills your Axé ring. Fill it and the roda gives you one acrobatic move, once per game.
Luzia Marques starts quiet and heavy. By the third exchange her heel comes in low and round, and Beto has to decide fast whether to block or roll under.
Contra-Mestra Iara Sá
She waits. You run out of ideas. Then one kick.
Iara spends most of a game standing on the deck of the old ship with her taped hands loose, reading you. Her Last Word is a single straight kick off a pivot, and it only comes once you have shown her everything.
The bench
Twelve fighters sit at the edge of the roda waiting for their turn. Pick one and they get up and step in.
Luzia Marques
Quiet for two exchanges, then her low spinning heel catches you late.
In the open beta
Six rodas
Recanto Branco forms a circle wherever there is flat ground and somebody with a berimbau. Turn the wheel to pick where you play.
Fortress Plaza
The home roda, under the old fort wall. Smooth stone, the whole town watching, and the sea at your back if you get pushed.
Chalked at the gate
Story chapter one joins the beta
A Toque for Recanto Branco puts you in Luzia's corner for one long afternoon, with Mestre Zé changing the toque on you whenever he likes.
Cross-play stays on
PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S share one queue, so the circle fills fast.
