We are excited to reveal our upcoming game - Arkheron! In addition to this reveal, we’re also kicking off our Alpha Playtesting phase with a community playtest on Steam this weekend!
Arkheron is a team-based PvP game where 15 teams of three fight to ascend a mysterious Tower. Your team will work together to collect items, combine their powerful abilities and create unique builds on the fly to be the last team standing.
Our playtests are currently only available on Steam. When Arkheron launches next year, it will be available on PC, PlayStation® 5 and Xbox™ Series X & S.
Arkheron - Official Reveal Trailer
Arkheron - Gameplay Overview
What to Expect from the Arkheron Alpha
We’ve been hosting private playtests for some time now - but this is our first time sharing the details of Arkheron openly with the world! In this next phase, one of the key differences is that we’ll be able to seek feedback from a wider group because there’s no need to keep things under wraps.
Prior playtests have given us a lot of helpful insights into how Arkheron plays with small groups and in highly competitive spaces. We’re now working on how we can make Arkheron more approachable to a larger group of players. This means things like our matchmaking systems are still close to a prototype phase. Arkheron also has a bit of a learning curve and we’re working on how to smooth that out for new players as well.
During this phase, we are still planning to experiment with various game mechanics and systems in Arkheron. Our team loves to throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks and what doesn’t. You may see work-in-progress content that isn’t final or limited prototypes of new things. This is part of the fun of the Alpha - we would love to get your feedback and offer the opportunity to help shape the game.
Some of the key things we’re still exploring are our patch building processes, server scaling, regional support and game balance! And we’re still working on finishing planned parts of Arkheron - like adding future support for colorblind mode and other accessibility features.
We are also super interested in seeing how the meta changes with more players and more game time. We believe the core loop of Arkheron is fun - and now we're figuring out how to make sure it's a smooth experience that provides the most fun possible from login to logout.
Let us know your thoughts over on Discord - discord.gg/arkheron
Join the Arkheron Playtest This Weekend!
If you’d like to jump in, you can sign up here on Steam or through FirstLook if you prefer email. We will be sending out invites in waves - so if you don’t get one right away, just hang tight! We will also offer friend invites to those selected, so keep an eye out!
If you’ve been invited to join the community, you can jump into Training Mode now until the end of the weekend. This is our practice mode that lets you experiment with item combinations or jump into the sparring room for mini-matches up to 3v3 players.
Ascension (Arkheron’s core game mode and the best way to experience our game!) will be up over the weekend from Friday through Sunday! Each region will have an allocated timeblock during each day. You’ll only be able to join the playtest during the allocated time period for your region.
Alternatively, if someone from a different region invites you to join their party - you can join that region. Just note that if you’re playing outside of your dedicated region, your ping may be high!
Please note that Arkheron is currently only available in English, Korean and Japanese. We will support more languages in the future!
Americas +
This time block is open to all of Canada, the United States, South America and surrounding island countries.
|| Friday Sep 19 || 11:00am - 11pm PDT
|| Saturday Sep 20 || 11:00am - 11pm PDT
|| Sunday Sep 21 || 11:00am - 11pm PDT
View this in your local time here.
Europe +
This time block is open to all Europe, Russia, EMEA, and Africa
|| Friday Sep 19 || 5pm - 11pm CEST
|| Saturday Sep 20 || 11:00am - 11pm CEST
|| Sunday Sep 21 || 11:00am - 11pm CEST
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Asia +
This time block is open to most of Asia as well as Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
|| Saturday Sep 20 || 11:00am - 1am KST
|| Sunday Sep 21 || 11:00am - 1am KST
|| Monday Sep 22 || 6pm - 1am KST
View this in your local time here.
Thanks so much for checking out Arkheron. We hope to see you in the Tower this weekend!