Nearly everything known about how this game works comes from a handful of conversations the developers gave in Korean in the week of the announcement. Below is what they said, by topic, in our words rather than theirs, with each claim marked for how firmly it is attested.
What kind of game they say it is
An isometric action RPG, and they are specific that "action RPG" is the description they want — they have pushed back on hack-and-slash as a label for it, which is a statement about the pacing they are aiming at rather than a feature anybody can check yet.
The world
East Asia, roughly the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, built from Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Mongolian material, and positioned deliberately against the gothic European register the genre defaults to. This is the thing they have said more often and more consistently than anything else. A system built around karma has been described once, in a single account, and not elaborated by anyone since.
The classes
Six, called Seekers. Each has a resource of its own; there is no shared mana pool. Three of the six were playable on the show floor and three have only been described.
Their names differ between accounts, and that is not a translation error to be corrected — there is no official English glossary, so the same class genuinely appears under more than one English name. This site stores the Korean name as the identity of a class and treats the English forms as aliases. See the class pages.
Combat
Stamina governs sprinting and dodging, and a well-timed dodge refunds stamina. The camera sits further back than the genre usually puts it. More than eighty bosses are planned, described as multi-phase fights.
Separately, and much more weakly attested: that there is no life leech and no health regeneration, and that flasks are limited and refilled from drops. That comes from recollections of playing the show build rather than from anything the developers published.
Building a character
A build is made of class skills, traits, support skills and gear. A mechanic called Mastery modifies special moves. There is a Yin-Yang system and there are Five Elements in the two traditional cycles, each generating one element and overcoming another. There is a tree of passive nodes, which one person who played the demo compared to the large passive trees this genre is known for.
Counts attached to any of this — skills per class, support modifiers, talisman slots, deities carrying combat modifiers, permanent stat bonuses from bosses — are recollections, not published figures.
Campaign and endgame
The campaign is solo, and after it the game is build-crafting and farming. Additional characters can skip the campaign. Loot is locked to your class during the campaign, and the endgame adds a toggle between your own class and any class. A campaign length of around forty hours across six acts of three to four chapters comes from one account only.
Playing with other people
Online co-op for four, at the endgame. Five has been described as under consideration. Trading between players is confirmed, with no detail of any kind. PvP is not planned, and they gave a reason: balancing it.
Money
Bought once rather than free-to-play. Nothing affecting character strength sold for money. Seasons planned, selling cosmetics. Additional content planned to be sold separately, including new classes and new episodes. A battle pass has been mentioned once and not confirmed.
Language
English and Korean, for interface, voice and subtitles. No other language has been announced.
The studio
Around a hundred and ten people. It was founded by people who led UNDECEMBER, and took early investment in 2023 from the publisher now shipping this game.
What they did not say
No engine has been stated officially — the engine you may have seen named for this game appears only on a listing that readers themselves edit. No date beyond the year. No price. No system requirements. No public demo or beta plan. No structure for the passive tree. No item rarity, affixes or crafting.
See also: builds and the skill tree , the classes and what is known about the game .
Frequently asked
- What do the developers call the genre?
- An isometric action RPG. They have specifically rejected hack-and-slash as a description of what they are building.
Verified - What engine does the game run on?
- None has been stated officially. The engine name attached to this game in some places comes from a listing readers edit themselves.
Rumour - Why do class names differ between articles?
- Because there is no official English glossary yet. Each writer renders the Korean name differently, so one class appears under several English spellings.
Verified - Did they say anything about a karma system?
- A system built around karma has been described once, in a single account, and nobody has elaborated on it since. Treat it as unsettled.
One source - Is this page a translation of their interviews?
- No. It is our own summary of the claims the developers made, sorted by topic and written in our words. No article text is reproduced here in any language.
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