Reviews
Game reviews written after playing: what the game is, where the money goes, and who it is for.
Cyberpunk 20774.5
Cyberpunk 2077 falls to 19,800 KRW the week Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 arrives
As mercenary V, uncover the secrets of the chip in your head in Cyberpunk 2077, a solo open-world RPG. On October 20, Edgerunners 2 hit Netflix and Steam Korea had the game at 19,800 KRW, 70% off; Phantom Liberty is sold separately.
eFootball3.5
eFootball tops Japan's App Store revenue chart five years after the PES rebrand
eFootball is a free soccer game with real clubs and players on consoles, PC and mobile. In-game purchases include loot boxes opened with eFootball Coins, while about 52% of Steam user reviews recommend it.
Castlevania: Belmont's Curse3.5
Tarot meets Castlevania: Belmont's Curse
Rose Belmont takes a whip and a cursed arm into 1499 Paris. A one-time purchase with tarot-powered abilities makes an appealing proposition, but launch-day PC issues, demanding minimum specs and a 30fps Switch version complicate it.
Gossip Harbor3.0
A weekly serial sits at Gossip Harbor's heart
Gossip Harbor pairs food merging and restaurant restoration with a mystery that gets new episodes every Friday. Strong chart positions explain the attention, but ads and poorly detailed purchases complicate its free start.
Battlefield 64.0
Season 5, Game Pass and a free trial in one week: is it time to buy Battlefield 6?
EA's military shooter Battlefield 6 turns one. Season 5 brings Las Vegas and Area 51 maps on October 13, when it joins Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass. A full-game trial runs October 15 to 19. The base game costs $69.99 on US Steam; battle royale REDSEC is free.
Royal Match3.5
Five years on and No. 2 in US App Store game revenue: what kind of puzzle is Royal Match?
Dream Games' match-3 puzzle Royal Match ranks No. 2 in US App Store game revenue, No. 6 in Korea and No. 7 in Japan on October 11. Clearing levels restores King Robert's castle, with new levels every 2 weeks. Featured US App Store purchases cost $0.99 to $19.99.
ARC Raiders4.0
Four free days and a snowy new mountain region: is ARC Raiders worth buying?
Embark Studios' ARC Raiders is free on Steam, Xbox and PlayStation until 5 p.m. KST on October 12. Frozen Trail, its biggest update since launch, arrived this week. Its Steam concurrent-player ranking rose from 57th to 16th in a week. The base game is 50% off at $19.99.
Dokkebi-ui Segye3.5
What Yeongseok buys in Dokkebi-ui Segye, No. 4 in App Store revenue on its third day
Launched October 8 by Kakao Games, SUPERCAT's 2.5D MMORPG Dokkebi-ui Segye is No. 4 for game revenue and No. 1 among free games on Korea's App Store on October 10. It has classless skill builds, a market using earned Geumjeon, and Yeongseok outfits and mounts with no progression stats.
Apex Legends3.5
Premade trios win 17% more often in Apex Legends ranked
Season 30: Marked runs through November 3 in Respawn's free battle royale Apex Legends. Ranked data shows premade trios win 17% more often than solo squads; neither test to narrow the gap became permanent. Purchases span Battle Passes, Apex Coins and randomized packs.
Pokémon GO3.5
Is Pokémon GO still worth a walk after its 2016 debut?
Pokémon GO is 19th in Korea's App Store game revenue chart on Oct. 7. Korea has Hangul Day (Oct. 6-9), Zorua Community Day (Oct. 10, 2-5 p.m.) and a hanbok Pikachu event in parts of Seoul ending Oct. 11. Spending spans PokéCoins, event tickets and monthly GO Passes.
Roblox3.5
Chat after an age check, discounts after a $4.99 subscription: how Roblox works in 2026
Roblox is a free platform of games made by its users, ranked fifth among free games and seventh by revenue on the Korean App Store on October 6. Chat now requires an age check, and Roblox Plus at $4.99 a month replaced Premium for new subscribers.
Valheim4.5
Five years and seven months on, Valheim 1.0 still fits ten friends in one world
Iron Gate's Viking survival game reached 1.0 on September 9 with the Deep North biome and costs KRW 32,000 on Korean Steam. Five fix patches followed in four weeks, one for a rare bug that could erase objects in a world.
ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE3.5
Pay once for ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE's campaign; online passes change every two months
Bandai Namco's flight shooter launched October 2 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Steam. It was No. 2 on Korea's Steam top sellers on October 5, and 79% of 9,699 buyer reviews are positive. No paid random draws; the online pass changes every two months. Stick settings drew an apology.
Whiteout Survival3.0
In Whiteout Survival, even a broken login streak can be restored with gems
Century Games' snowy survival strategy game ranked 2nd on Korea's App Store game top-grossing chart on October 5. Grow a city from one furnace and fight with an alliance. Items cost KRW 1,500 to KRW 149,000 each. Both app stores label it as containing random items.
Brawl Stars4.0
The last target standing in a shooting gallery is your next Brawler, after Brawl Stars' September update
On October 4, Brawl Stars ranks 24th for App Store game revenue in Korea. September's update replaces Brawler unlocks with the Brawler Blast shooting gallery and adds Hide & Seek and two Mythic Brawlers. Official support pages list Starr Drop rarity odds.
Counter-Strike 24.0
Free competitive play, skill groups from $14.99: Counter-Strike 2 leads Steam in concurrent players
Valve's team shooter Counter-Strike 2 led Steam on October 3, peaking at 1,184,260 concurrent players. Free accounts can play every mode except Premier; XP, skill groups and weekly care packages require the $14.99 Prime Status Upgrade.
AION 23.0
Buying on the marketplace still requires a membership as AION 2 launches globally on October 5
AION 2 opens advanced access on September 30 and launches free on October 5. Buying through its marketplace requires membership: $15 a month globally, KRW 25,000 in Korea. At the Korean launch, NC pulled Quna boxes containing combat items and apologized.
Minecraft Dungeons II3.5
Minecraft Dungeons II brings couch and remote friends together, but keeps online and offline apart
Mojang Studios' action RPG sequel launched September 29 with mixed couch and online co-op and server-stored online heroes. Online and offline modes are split to curb cheating, but complaints that heroes cannot move between them appear in top-voted negative Steam reviews.
PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS3.5
Third on Steam in its ninth year, free-to-play PUBG charges 200 G-Coin per crate pull
PUBG ranked third on Steam's most-played chart for September 28. September's update reined in LMGs and added kicks, the Ranked-unlocking PLUS now also sells for 20,000 BP earned in play, and Contraband crates cost 200 G-Coin a pull.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt4.5
On the night of its free remaster, 64% of new Steam reviews recommended The Witcher 3
The 2015 RPG returned as a free remaster on September 29, with both expansions included. But only 64% of the 2,052 Steam reviews posted in its first seven hours were positive, as complaints piled up over performance, AMD cards and saves.
Aniimo3.5
152,259 players at once, and Aniimo still makes you craft its legendary instead of rolling for it
A free open-world creature catcher where you merge with what you catch. PC and consoles launched September 16, mobile September 23, and Steam's weekly chart has it eleventh. It sells Lumin Crystals, a Monthly Pass and two Handbooks, and its odds page covers catching and cosmetics.
CONTROL Resonant4.0
A launch-day hotfix cut enemy health first, and CONTROL Resonant still asks for 120 GB on an SSD
Remedy's sequel to Control arrived on September 24 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Steam counted 5,430 reviews with 4,800 positive as of September 27. You pay $59.99 once, but the $10 Deluxe upgrade bundles combat items, and the install wants 120 GB on an SSD.
EA SPORTS FC 273.0
What $69.99 buys in EA SPORTS FC 27, and what FC Points buy after that
EA's yearly football game launched on September 25 with a new street mode, The Grounds, and a rebuilt Career transfer market. The box is $69.99, FC Points run from $4.99 to $149.99, and the pack odds sit one button away in the store.
Lucky Defense!3.0
"Luck is fair," say the store screenshots, and the drop rates for Lucky Defense! are published in Korean
A two-player co-op tower defense from Korea's 111 Percent, third on the Korean App Store game grossing chart on September 27. The studio admitted a probability error in February and compensated in gems, not cash. Its odds page is in Korean.
MapleStory: Idle RPG3.0
Eight months after a full-refund offer, Korea's top-grossing iPhone game is MapleStory: Idle RPG
Nexon's idle spin-off of MapleStory refunded purchases in full after a coding error in a paid item surfaced in January. On September 27 it tops Korea's App Store game grossing chart, though not the US one.
Marvel's Wolverine4.0
Why does a $69.99 single-player game like Marvel's Wolverine carry an in-game purchases label?
Insomniac's PS5-exclusive action adventure launched on September 15 at $69.99, or $79.99 for the Digital Deluxe Edition. The ESRB box flags in-game purchases, yet the US store lists one $10 upgrade. The game is linear by design, and 35 accessibility features cover difficulty and game speed.
WARDOGS3.5
The studio posted eleven reasons not to buy WARDOGS, and it sold three million copies in just over two weeks anyway
A hundred players, three teams, one zone, still in Early Access. BULKHEAD posted reasons not to buy it and told people to refund, then sold three million copies by September 26. Payment is $39.99 once plus an optional $12.99 Supporter Pack. Steam reviews split sharply by language.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time4.0
Nintendo's 40th anniversary headliner is 28 years old: Ocarina of Time returns November 5, Switch 2 only
Series producer Eiji Aonuma showed the first gameplay of the Ocarina of Time remake at the Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September 8 and dated it November 5. It is a Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, $59.99 digital and $69.99 physical, rebuilt down to the texture of each material.
Path of Exile 24.0
The door costs money until December 11, when Path of Exile 2 goes free
Grinding Gear Games' hack and slash action RPG, still in Early Access. The December 11 full release and the switch to free-to-play were announced at gamescom on August 25, and the Forbidden Rites event league opened on September 4. Valve's September 6 tally moved it from 94th to 33rd in a week.
How to Fish4.0
One million players in two days, then eight patch notes in a fortnight for How to Fish
A physics-driven co-op fishing game that arrived on August 20. Three days later Dazed Games announced a million fishermen, and Valve's most-played tally for September 4 puts it eighth. Checkout happens once at $7.99, and the gambling tables inside take fish.
Astrae Oratio3.0
A magic RPG whose actual job is paperwork: how much of Astrae Oratio can anyone check today?
A mobile collection RPG about a junior civil servant reassigned to the bureau that administers Tokyo's hidden wizards. Dynamis One develops, NCSOFT publishes. On 3 September 2026 there is no release date and no store listing, only a beta form that shuts at noon on 21 September.
Crimson Desert4.0
Crimson Desert: the August update was free, the October expansion is $24.99
Pearl Abyss shipped this open-world action adventure on 19 March 2026, renamed it Enhanced in August and charged owners nothing. Charting the Unknown, the expansion that opened for pre-order today, is a separate $24.99 product. The base game lists at $69.99, cut to $55.99 until next week.
Delta Force4.0
Five days before the anniversary season, the odds are the one thing Delta Force does not publish
A free military shooter that charges nothing to install and opens a six-tier coin menu once you are inside. Its Steam peak on 3 September 2026 was 105,867 players, the anniversary season starts on 8 September, and the per-coin price ranking flips depending on which store you open.
Eternal Return4.0
"Multiplayer Battle Survival Arena" on the official site, "Battle Royale" on Steam: two labels for Eternal Return
Squads land on Lumia Island, scavenge materials, craft weapons and fight until one team is left. Nimble Neuron opened early access in October 2020 and released the game fully on July 19, 2023. On September 3, 2026 it sat at number one on Steam's Korea top sellers chart, in week 165 there.
Fate/Grand Order3.5
Do you have to install Fate/Grand Order before you can read its pull rates?
A command-card turn-based RPG about summoning Servants and building a party from them. On 3 September 2026 the Japanese build is running a 35-million-download campaign, the English build is a separate app on its own schedule, and the rarity rates sit on no web page.
FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION3.5
Pre-orders opened today, seven months out, and FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION already lists a paid story pass
PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, Steam and Epic opened pre-orders on 3 September 2026 for a game that ships on 8 April 2027. The closing chapter of the Final Fantasy VII Remake Series has no gacha and no season pass, and its paid Story Expansion Pass is already listed. Four editions, $69.99 to $109.99.
Forza Horizon 64.0
"Japan Awaits" is the whole pitch, and three months on Forza Horizon 6 lists 26 add-ons beneath it
Playground Games moved the Horizon Festival to Japan and put more than 550 real cars on its roads. On 3 September 2026 it holds a top-seller position at full price with no discount, a new $2.99 car went up the same day, and the install wants 167 GB plus a connection that never drops.
Ghost of Yōtei4.5
Eleven months in, the only recurring charge in Ghost of Yōtei is PS Plus
A PS5-exclusive action adventure set in 1600s Ezo, where the mercenary Atsu hunts the six outlaws who killed her family. The Complete Edition costs $69.99 once and carries no in-game store; owners of the original pay $14.99 for the October expansions. Legends co-op is free, PS Plus is not.
HELLDIVERS 24.0
Dropping in, clearing the objective, and extracting: the HELLDIVERS 2 loop, two years and seven months on
Four players fall from orbit, break something on the ground and run for the shuttle. Out since 8 February 2024, it still drew a developer post on 3 September 2026 and sat 26th on Steam's most played chart. One payment of $39.99 opens everything; later charges run through Super Credits.
Limbus Company4.0
If you want a gacha where the roster never grows, Limbus Company has kept twelve names since 2023
Project Moon's free turn-based RPG updates every Thursday, today included. The twelve Sinners never change, and extraction hands out Identities and E.G.O for them to wear instead. Steam lists three languages, Korean is the one with voice acting, and no odds table appears outside the game.
LIMIT ZERO BREAKERS3.0
6 September at 11:00 KST closes the sign-up window, and the LIMIT ZERO BREAKERS test that follows runs five days
Nothing here is for sale yet. As of 3 September 2026 the Steam listing still reads Coming soon, and the only way into LIMIT ZERO BREAKERS is a closed test running 10 to 14 September. Sign-ups close at 11:00 KST on 6 September, and every account made during those five days is deleted afterwards.
Marvel Rivals4.0
All 53 heroes unlock for free, and Marvel Rivals sells you costumes instead
A 6v6 hero shooter built on Marvel characters, free to install since December 2024. As of 3 September 2026 every hero unlocks without payment, the charges sit on costumes and the seasonal pass, and the store rating names random items without naming any odds.
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT3.5
Most battle royales open with a gun, while NARAKA: BLADEPOINT opens with a sword and a grappling line
Sixty players drop onto one island and settle it with blades. A new hero and a new season arrived on 3 September 2026. Payment splits between an in-game Gold shop and four Steam skin packs, one of them 38,600 won for a single grappling-hook skin. The Epic build is delisted on 29 December.
NTE: Neverness to Everness4.0
Rolling a die and moving along a board is how NTE: Neverness to Everness runs its gacha
An urban open-world action RPG that makes you an unlicensed anomaly hunter in Hetero City. Free since 29 April 2026, on Steam since 7 July. The gacha runs on dice and a board, the standard board publishes its odds to four decimal places, and the seasonal board people actually roll on publishes none.
Onimusha: Way of the Sword3.5
If you are weighing the pre-order today, the demo is the only part of Onimusha: Way of the Sword you can play
On 3 September 2026 the Steam listing still reads coming soon, and the only working button is pre-order. Why Capcom pulled the date three weeks forward, what sits above the $69.99 standard edition, and how far the free demo goes before the game arrives on 4 September.
PEAK4.5
A game that has shipped its last major update is not a game that has closed, and PEAK is the first kind
Four scouts at most climb the mountain at the center of an island, and the map is rebuilt once a day. Team PEAK called the August 11 update the last major one, then shipped another patch on September 2. The Steam daily peak on September 3, 2026 hit 45,686, and the only checkout is the first one.
Pokémon TCG Pocket4.0
28 expansions with published odds, and three separate checkouts in Pokémon TCG Pocket
The physical Pokémon card game rebuilt for a phone, opening two free booster packs a day. Past those two, payment starts in three places: the App Store, Google Play, and a separate official web store. All 28 expansions publish pull rates card by card, and a cancelled subscription is not refunded.
STAR WARS Zero Company4.0
A debut from XCOM veterans, and a Star Wars tactics game with no battle pass
A single-player turn-based tactics game released August 27, 2026, and the first title Bit Reactor has shipped. It took first place on Steam's weekly global top sellers for the week of August 25. After $49.99 on PC the only other item for sale is a $9.99 cosmetic upgrade, and consoles ask $10 more.
The Blood of Dawnwalker4.0
63,948 players on day one, and The Blood of Dawnwalker charges you exactly once
Rebel Wolves released its first game on 3 September 2026, an open-world dark fantasy RPG set in fourteenth-century Europe where Coen is human by day and a vampire after dark. It costs $69.99 or $79.99 once, no storefront sits behind that purchase, and the Steam score already splits by language.
The First Descendant3.5
Grinding the same boss for one more part, and every charge in The First Descendant runs through Caliber
A free third-person co-op looter shooter from Nexon Games, patched on September 3, 2026. Payment runs through one in-game currency called Caliber, sold in six bundles from $4.99 to $99.99, and the install asks for 100 GB. The published odds page opens in Korean only.
Umamusume: Pretty Derby4.0
Which Umamusume: Pretty Derby does your store actually sell you?
A free racing life-sim in which you train girls who inherit the names of real racehorses. The global build won Best Mobile Game at The Game Awards 2025, and it is one of five separate apps with different publishers, prices and disclosure rules. Korea gets the lowest store rating of the five.
Where Winds Meet4.0
Where Winds Meet: a cosmetics-only pledge, and nine rating boards that name random items
NetEase writes that gameplay content is entirely free and monetization is limited to cosmetics. Nine rating boards attach a random-items line to the same game, the shop holds a battle pass, a Draw Shop and a monthly subscription, and no official page publishes the odds. The PC build wants 130GB.
Yu-Gi-Oh! MASTER DUEL3.5
A free-to-play game on Steam's top-seller chart, and the gem math behind Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel
Konami's online Yu-Gi-Oh! card game installs for nothing. The world championship final ended on August 30, and a new Selection Pack opened three days later. US App Store gem packs run $2.29 to $70.99, both mobile stores disclose loot boxes and ads, and no official page publishes pull rates.
Slay the Spire 24.5
A game that runs on 4GB of RAM is sitting at number eleven on Steam
Slay the Spire 2 is a roguelike deckbuilder in early access for 27,000 won. You assemble a deck over a single run, lose it all when you die, and co-op is introduced for the first time in this entry.
Arknights: Endfield4.0
Half a year of phone spending in Arknights: Endfield falls short of its first two weeks across all platforms
A Steam page opened on August 13 with no date attached. Why Hypergryph shipped everywhere except Valve's storefront, why half of any given session is spent laying conveyor belts, and where the charges begin once Oroberyl runs out.
CookieRun: Crumble3.5
Devsisters left three jobs to the player in CookieRun: Crumble, and all three fit in ten minutes
Devsisters launched its idle RPG worldwide on July 30, 2026, and roughly half of day-one revenue came from outside Korea. Twelve cookies fight without you while you pick the team, collect offline earnings and clear two dungeons. Three weeks on, the charts are already sliding.
hololive Dreams4.0
Five percent is more than eight times HoYoverse's rate, so why does hololive Dreams feel stingy?
hololive's first official mobile game puts a theme park on an empty island and runs more than 150 songs through it. The top rarity drops at 5 percent, over eight times what HoYoverse advertises, and twelve new 5-stars entered the pool between July 28 and August 17.
Palworld4.0
Six Weeks After 1.0, Palworld Still Holds 187,000 Players
Two and a half years of Early Access ended in July, and the patent claims narrowed to builds no longer distributed. What $29.99 buys, what the first ten hours ask of you, why the recommended spec calls for 32 GB of RAM, and what happens to the frame rate once the base grows.
Blue Archive4.0
Becoming Sensei in the month Blue Archive opened Act 2 on the global servers
A real-time tactics RPG set in an academy city where students carry rifles. With Main Story Act 2 live on the global servers since August 18, 2026, this covers what you do, where payment happens, and how the first ten hours feel.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 334.5
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, a Year After the Sweep
Nine wins at The Game Awards, eight million copies, and a year of small patches. What Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 asks of your hands and your wallet, and where the Switch 2 talk actually stands.
Elden Ring4.5
One week before the Switch 2 edition, four things Elden Ring charges you for
Elden Ring reaches Nintendo Switch 2 on August 28. What you pay for across the base game, the expansion, Nightreign and the new pack, what the first ten hours feel like, and which version to buy on which machine.
Genshin Impact4.5
Genshin Impact 7.0: Worth Starting Now?
Snezhnaya opened on August 12, 2026 and closed the loop on six years of story. For students who never played: what the game is, what you actually pay for, what the first ten hours feel like, and why Xbox is in while Switch 2 is still not.
Honkai: Star Rail4.0
Honkai: Star Rail Before 4.5: A Boarding Guide
Why turn-based combat suits busy people, how far the 2026 story has traveled, what 160 Stellar Jade adds up to, and why there is still no Xbox version. The state of the space-train gacha RPG four days before Version 4.5 lands on August 26.
Monster Hunter Wilds4.0
Eighteen months after launch, Monster Hunter Wilds fell to $39.99 and a demo followed the next day
Eighteen months after launch, Monster Hunter Wilds has a permanent price cut and a free demo. Whether that makes it a good first Monster Hunter, with the PC performance saga and the 2027 expansion in view.
Goddess of Victory: NIKKE3.5
Goddess of Victory: NIKKE review, built for ten-minute sessions
A vertical-screen cover shooter in which android soldiers fight to retake a surface lost to machines. Built around short sessions and idle income, with a 200-pull guarantee on featured characters. How far does a free account actually get?
Stellar Blade4.0
If Blood Rain is what brought you to Stellar Blade, the machine you own decides the rest
A sequel with a new lead and a Switch 2 port have put the 2024 action game back in conversation. What a first-time player gets from Stellar Blade in 2026: the combat, the pricing, and the arguments around it.
Wuthering Waves4.0
Wuthering Waves in 2026: 50GB, an 80-Pull Ceiling, and an Xbox Launch
Version 3.6 arrived on August 20, 2026 and the Xbox release landed on July 10. Kuro Games' open-world action RPG had a rough 2024 launch; this review checks where it stands now, from the disk space you clear first to the pull math.
Zenless Zone Zero4.5
The video store shutter that opens Zenless Zone Zero, two years and one Steam launch later
HoYoverse's urban action RPG has you rotate three agents through disaster zones beneath a neon city. Two years and a Steam launch later, this review covers the first ten hours, the pull math, and who should skip it.