Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire is a successful franchise, but it hasn’t had much luck when it comes to video games. Many were released, but only the one from Telltale games received more or less recognition and it was cancelled after one season anyway. Now, we have news of another Game of Thrones game in development.
New Game of Thrones MMORPG in development from Nexon
We learned that Nexon is developing a new MMORPG set in the world of Game of Thrones. Nexon is behind the recently successful FPS shooter The Finals as well as Warhaven, Kartrider and others.
The game is set in the North as we know that Winterfell and The Wall are featured. Timeline-wise, the story is set somewhere around Game of Thrones Season 4/Season 5. Roose Bolton is already Warden of the North there and Jon Snow with Sam Tarly are still on The Wall. Other kingdoms are possible as well, but we only heard of the North so far.
The player will meet these and other characters during the game, but as far as we know, the original cast isn’t returning to voice their characters. At least in the current iteration of the game. Instead, the game will have a new voice cast who will try to sound similar to the HBO actors.
As far as we understand, the yet-untitled game has a story campaign, but it’s online. The player can choose between male and female protagonists, and the one that isn’t chosen is still involved in the game somehow, like in Mass Effect: Andromeda. The entire package sounds somewhat like The Elder Scrolls Online, but we don’t know enough details to say what it is exactly, aside from those we mentioned already.
We couldn’t get info on who the protagonist is exactly, but it is a new character and they’ll be running around solving problems. Typical for an MMORPG. We don’t know when it will be out: maybe 2025, maybe 2026, maybe later. Game development take a lot of time, so we’ll have to be patient.
Fun fact, 10 years ago there was another MMORPG being developed called Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms, bit it got cancelled.
House of the Dragon Season 2 will premiere on HBO in June 2024 and filming for The Hedge Knight starts then as well. We will keep following both shows, so stay tuned!
