Dave The Diver has been considered one of the biggest indie game success stories of 2023, and now Mintrocket, the team behind the well-received pixel art fishing and management sim game, is pivoting to a very different project: a third-person PvPvE zombie stealth survival game in the vein of DayZ. Previously revealed in September, Nakwon: Last Paradise will open its doors to players for a pre-alpha playtest beginning on November 29 and ending on December 3.
In Nakwon: Last Paradise, players have to survive a post-apocalyptic version of Seoul, South Korea, which means few firearms will be available. Instead, they’ll need to use stealth, smarts, and, when all else fails, melee weapons. The game will be played in a PvPvE setting, which seems intended to give it the same uneasy alliance element of a game like DayZ, where each human player you come upon may be a friend or foe. Alongside news of the playtest comes this 20-minute gameplay video featuring work-in-progress gameplay.
The game also features an extraction gameplay loop that sounds akin to something like Escape from Tarkov, Call of Duty’s DMZ, or Vigor, where they’ll enter the city with other players, loot up as best they can, and then try to escape with their loot–and their life.