With Demon’s Souls out in less than three weeks, you might be wondering when developers Bluepoint Games will be making the announcement that development on the game has wrapped up. Well, it seems it happened quite a while back. According popular modder and known Souls fanatic Lance McDonald, Demon’s Souls went gold over a month ago, on September 24.

Of course, this isn’t confirmed yet, but it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch. For instance, fellow first party PS5 launch title Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales went gold in early October. If Demon’s Souls has gone gold, that means that even though the developers will continue to work on fixes and polishing, principal development on the game is complete. There should be no delays, and any work done by Bluepoint following the game going gold will come in the form of a day one patch.

Meanwhile, McDonald also stated in subsequent tweets that he’s seen some small sections of gameplay from Demon’s Souls and also been given lots of new information, some of which he proceeded to share. He suggests that gameplay is going to be largely similar to what was shown off in its gameplay debut trailer.

McDonald says that the game still looks like Demon’s Souls, but “incredibly beautiful and some bosses are far more disgusting than ever.” The camera’s positioning has supposedly changed slightly from the gameplay trailer, with the camera being more zoomed out and the player now being in the middle of the screen, similar to the PS3 game. McDonald also adds that based on everything he’s seen so far, it doesn’t look like the game has any difficulty options.

Demon’s Souls is out exclusively for the PS5 on November 12. The game will have different modes prioritizing visuals and performance.

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As next-gen approaches, many will be hoping that 4K and 60 FPS both become the standard that developers across the industry will follow, empowered by more powerful hardware. And as one of the only next-gen-only games coming out in the next few months, expectations are quite high from Demon’s Souls on that front.

What we’ve seen of the game so far looks visually stunning, and impressive in other ways as well, but as revealed in a recent analysis by Digital Foundry (which you can view below), Demon’s Souls’ recent gameplay trailer shown at the PS5 Showcase was not running at 4K. The game was instead running at 1440p and 60 FPS.

Of course, there’s a case to be made that performance is what matters more, especially in a game like Demon’s Souls, so it’s good to know that the game is up to expectations on that front. There’s also the fact that there’s a while left before the game launches, so further optimization could always improve things for its resolution. Meanwhile, Digital Foundry speculations that the game might have a performance mode and a visuals mode, with the latter focusing on 4K visuals at lower frame rates, but that isn’t something that the developers or Sony have officially talked about yet.

Demon’s Souls launches exclusively for the PS5 on November 12. The game will require 66 GB of free storage space in the console’s storage.