Nexon said on the 12th that it began accepting applications to join the March global Closed Alpha Test for the new zombie survival title NAKWON: LAST PARADISE (hereafter "NAKWON").
NAKWON is a PvPvE zombie survival genre game set in Seoul after a zombie apocalypse, where survivors struggle to stay alive, and it was first unveiled through a pre-alpha test at the end of 2023. Survivors use the Yeouido district as a base, continuing their daily lives by day and scouring a city teeming with infected by night to secure resources. Depending on the situation, players carry out a range of strategic choices, such as sneaking past the infected or attacking other survivors.
To validate gameplay across various regions and gather feedback to improve completeness, this test will be conducted in March on the Steam PC version in parts of East Asia, including Korea, and in North America. The exact test schedule will be announced later, and players can apply for pre-registration on the Steam store page. Participants from the previous pre-alpha test can join automatically without a separate application. The newly released teaser video intercuts tense scenes of a zombie attack set against a red-lit exit with moments of stillness.
This alpha test will introduce expanded survival action compared with the pre-alpha. The melee combat system has been redesigned to allow more precise aiming, blocking and dodging, and a variety of new firearms and melee weapons have been added to deliver tense back-and-forth combat. In addition, among several active skills, players can strategically choose combinations that match their preferences, allowing them to experience different survival patterns each time.
Life-content within the post-apocalypse setting has also been greatly reinforced. A personal lodging space has been added where players can place various furniture themselves and engage in activities using them, and the game is structured so players perform different activities according to the passage of morning and afternoon and experience new events every day. Across Yeouido's downtown, new NPCs and various shops and other service systems have been added to heighten immersion in survival and daily life within the world of NAKWON.