NCSOFT, a global leader in MMORPGs, is making a bold move into the shooter genre. The company unveiled two original shooters, Time Takers and Cinder City, during Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2025. These titles lead NCSOFT’s diverse 2025-2026 lineup, showcasing the company’s new global publishing strategy.
NCSOFT is set to make an impression at this year’s Gamescom, leading a series of showcases and reveals with its dynamic new tactical shooter. Introduced initially at G-Star 2023 as Project LLL, the game is an MMO third-person tactical shooter developed by BigFire Games, an NCSOFT studio.
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Known for their work in the MMORPG genre, the publisher is shifting their perspective to shooters, and that makes it one of the standouts of this year’s Opening Night Live. During Gamescom, the press will have the opportunity to see the latest titles.
What is NCSOFT’s Cinder City?
Players step into the shoes of a futuristic knight to navigate a world transformed by advanced technology. Players will fight across post-apocalyptic Seoul, battling through iconic landmarks and high-tech battlegrounds. In Cinder City, players step into the role of a futuristic knight to navigate a world reshaped by future technology.
Players will battle through iconic landmarks and high-tech battlegrounds in a post-apocalyptic Seoul, making brutal choices in their search for the lead character’s missing daughter. You can play this quest solo or cooperatively with a squad.
Cinder City x NVIDIA
Ray Tracing and DLSS 4 will come to Cinder City at launch. The game will appear as a flagship title at the GeForce RTX Event, where NVIDIA has partnered with NCSOFT’s BigFire Games to provide hands-on gameplay on PC stations built with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards.
The PCs will boast NVIDIA’s latest state-of-the-art graphics technologies, integrating NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction, and NVIDIA Reflex.
Does Cinder City have a release date?
As of right now, NCSOFT has not revealed a hard release date for their tactical shooter. However, we do know that Cinder City will release in 2026 on PC and consoles, including GeForce NOW, NVIDIA’s cloud gaming platform. It’s a large release window, but we have one!
