2-Hour Wait for Demo... Krafton’s 'Dark and Darker' Gains Popularity

On the 16th, visitors are attending the Krafton booth at 'G-Star 2023' held at BEXCO in Busan.

"Fortunately, I lined up early, so I only have to wait for an hour."

On the afternoon of the 16th, a long line formed at the Krafton booth at the international game exhibition 'G-Star 2023' held at BEXCO in Busan. In the middle of the waiting line, a sign read "Current estimated wait time: 1 hour." Visitors kept coming to try out the new game "Dark and Darker Mobile," independently developed by Bluehole Studio, a creative studio under Krafton.

Krafton prepared 70 demo seats where visitors could directly play Dark and Darker Mobile. On the opening day of G-Star, the 16th, visitors waited more than two hours to try the demo. Those who participated in the demo left comments such as "It seemed to capture the original's feel well, which was great," "The tension and immersion were excellent," and "The controls were intuitive, so I could adapt quickly and easily." G-Star visitors can participate in the Dark and Darker Mobile demo until the 19th.

A quiz show where visitors can solve fun questions related to Dark and Darker Mobile is held four times daily at 11:30 AM, 12:30 PM, 2:30 PM, and 3:30 PM. Visitors who experience the booth and participate in the Krafton quiz show receive generous prizes such as Dark and Darker Mobile-themed cloak blankets, tavern wood mugs, folding chairs, and string bags.

A cosplay event where visitors can meet characters from Dark and Darker Mobile at the booth is also held daily. Popular domestic cosplay models ‘Song Jua’ and ‘Naritteng’ transformed into characters from Dark and Darker Mobile. At 11 AM and 3 PM every day, cosplay shows are held to add enjoyment for visitors.

Since the first half of the year, developers from various studios within Krafton have gathered at Bluehole Studio to develop ‘Project AB,’ an extraction RPG genre game. After signing a global license agreement last August, the project uses only the name of the original PC version of Dark and Darker, while all other assets are independently developed by Bluehole Studio to quickly capture the original’s feel.

Dark and Darker Mobile, an extraction RPG themed around escape, features elements of ‘survival’ from the battle royale genre and ‘exploration’ from the dungeon crawler genre. Additionally, based on Krafton’s experience in the global mobile game market, the game is optimized by applying control methods that consider the characteristics of mobile platforms and the convenience of mobile game users.