Westeros

During this year’s Game Awards, where many upcoming and often highly anticipated games announce themselves and reveal launch trailers, among the cinematics for the likes of The Witcher 4 or gameplay trailers for games likeElden Ring: Nightreign or The Outer Worlds 2, Warner Bros. and South Korean developer Netmarble unveiled a brand new trailer for Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, a mobile-only open world action RPG that starts during the fourth season of HBO’s award-winning Game of Thrones. Although it had officially unveiled at South Korea’s G-Star trade exhibition last month, it seemed to make few waves outside of the Asian press, so for many fans this is the first time they’ve heard of it.

See the new trailer, which features appearances by numerous familiar characters like Jon Snow, Varys, and Jaime Lannister:

The previous trailer, and some additional thoughts based on what we’ve seen, below!

Here’s the G-Star trailer that first revealed the game:

Very interesting to see the recreations of the locations and characters in the game, and particularly the decision to start it within the mid-series timeframe to try and wind its story together with that of the show. It’ll be interesting to see how the game progresses the story—there’s definitely a hint that late-series Game of Thrones is on the table, thanks to the appearance of a dragon overhead in what seems to be King’s Landing—and how much thought is given to the story of the character you choose within that framework.

The official site is sparse but has some added information, including that the game is class-based with knight, sellsword, and assassin archetypes. Here’s their first devblog note to visitors:

Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is aiming for a release sometime in 2025. When we have a more precise release date, we’ll be sure to share it!