Writer Nexon has revealed that its recently-released motion RPG, The First Berserker: Khazan, missed inner gross sales forecasts. Throughout its current earnings name (through Yahoo Finance), the corporate mentioned that Q1 income for the sport was beneath what the corporate was anticipating of it. Nonetheless, Nexon isn’t too dissatisfied with this, for the reason that sport did handle to get a good bit of business success, and finally, helped in bringing extra consideration to the Dungeon & Fighter IP.
“The sport made its world debut on March 28 with robust rankings from each gamers and critics,” mentioned the corporate in its earnings name. “Whereas Q1 income was under our outlook, the sport achieved our goal as a strategic first step in a multi-year plan to introduce Dungeon & Fighter IP to a world viewers.”
The Dungeon & Fighter franchise is round a decade outdated at this level. Nonetheless, it has solely actually been recognized in east-Asian markets, because of MMO beat ‘em up sport Dungeon Fighter On-line. Nexon has beforehand tried to carry extra world consideration to the franchise with the discharge of video games like DNF Duel, however had did not spark curiosity within the IP till the discharge of The First Berserker: Khazan.
Dungeon Fighter On-line revolves round gamers taking up the position of characters dubbed Dungeon Fighters as they participate in numerous adventures the world over of Arad. The core gameplay revolves round fast-paced actions and dungeon crawling, the place gamers can tackle harmful enemies and progress their character by way of stage ups in addition to by discovering new tools.
The First Berserker: Khazan takes place in the identical setting, and expands on one of many key time durations of the backstory. The motion RPG revolves across the eponymous Khazan, who’s saved from the brink of dying by the Blade Phantom. A deal is struck between them, and so they set off to research a mysterious drive that’s inflicting disruptions within the stream of souls from the northern components of Arad.
Developer Neople has continued to assist The First Berserker: Khazan by way of post-launch replace since its launch. The newest one, out earlier this week, introduced with it two Boss Rush modes. Described as modes that provide the “Final Problem”, gamers can participate in what is basically meant to be post-game content material as soon as they’ve completed the primary story. The 2 Boss Rush modes are dubbed the Nice Common’s Crucible and Berserker’s Bloodshed.
The First Berserker: Khazan is accessible on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. For extra particulars in regards to the motion RPG, try our overview. And in case you’re caught on some components, try our guides for all bosses and their areas, a number of the strongest gear units, and how one can stage mastery and earn ability factors shortly.
Whereas The First Berserker: Khazan has been a crucial and business success, Nexon additionally has one other sport within the Dungeon & Fighter world within the works. Dubbed Dungeon and Fighter: ARAD, the sport is presently in growth for PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. It doesn’t but have a launch date, nevertheless.
