The long-awaited Solo Leveling: Arise is now available worldwide for download.

Netmarble’s goal is to develop the RPG for mobile and PC for Steam over the course of 2024 and expand it to a console version in 2025.

The highly anticipated action role-playing game by Netmarble, Solo Leveling: ARISE will be released on Wednesday, May 8th worldwide, with over 12 million pre-registered users eagerly awaiting to try the game. The game can now be downloaded on Android and iPhone, with a total size of 40 GB.

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This figure breaks the record for pre-registrations for any Netmarble game, as it is based on a web novel by Chu Gong that enjoys great popularity and has a large fandom worldwide.

The novel has been adapted into a webtoon and an animated series, and both have been very successful. The webtoon accumulated over 14.3 billion views worldwide, while the animated series ranked among the most watched on Netflix.

The game developers are very confident that this will become their next “cash cow”.

What is Solo Leveling: Arise game about

Solo Leveling revolves around the protagonist, Sung Jin-woo, and his journey to become a high-level hunter, a human with magical abilities who can fight monsters. As the story mainly revolves around the protagonist, it is a single-player action game.

The company seems determined to maintain the single-player gameplay, as the game’s specifications “are not intended for real-time multiplayer content,” according to Jin Seong-keon, producer at Netmarble Neo.

Since the game is based on a beloved IP, the company has put a lot of effort into crafting the game’s narrative. A total of 18 stages are currently awaiting users. The schedule for the first update has not been revealed yet.

The game follows Jin-woo’s evolution from the lowest E rank to becoming a necromancer and ultimately a shadow monarch. As the story progresses, he acquires various abilities and powerful weapons that amplify his strength. Jin highlighted the transition to shadow monarch as one of the most enjoyable phases that he hopes players will experience.

Suits do not affect the character’s gameplay abilities. Game items and weapons to enhance the character’s abilities in the hunter phase can be acquired through gameplay, events, and the so-called loot box system, a draw that players can purchase and that may or may not favor their gameplay situation.

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The game’s business model is based on monthly subscription levels and battle passes, which will be universally implemented without differences between regions.

The objective of Netmarble is to develop the RPG for mobile and PC for Steam during 2024 and expand it to a console version in 2025.

The pre-registration of the Solo Leveling game vaporizes all expectations

Solo Leveling is one of the most appreciated franchises by anime fans, something that is demonstrated by the number of pre-registrations for its first video game.

Sometimes we are not fully aware of the pull of certain franchises. It may seem that being popular among certain sectors does not make them so big, that what happens around them are not huge movements because they do not come from the most common mainstream. This makes it even more shocking when there is a huge success case among franchises outside the majority’s radar. As has been the case with Solo Leveling.

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Solo Leveling: Arise is the first video game based on the franchise of light novels and Korean comics of the same name. As we told you in more detail recently, the game was announced by surprise, with a teaser trailer that barely clarified anything. The only thing we knew is that it would follow the same story as the original work and that it would be an Action RPG. Well, that hasn’t stopped it from reaching five million people pre-registered for the game’s launch in less than a week.

This makes the game an overwhelming success even before its release. It also means that people who play Solo Leveling: Arise from the start will do so with some extra rewards than they expected. As is usual in Asian mobile games, pre-registration comes with incentives that, if a certain number of registered users is reached, special items and in-game currency will be given to those who signed up before the launch. This also includes Solo Leveling: Arise, where its players have already secured a good amount of these rewards.

While it is true that the game has been presented to us with little information, it seems that Netmarble, the developing studio, has wanted to dose the information prudently. Because since the game’s announcement, more videos showing the content of Solo Leveling: Arise have been appearing.

With several character trailers, which show us beloved characters with a design that reminds us of their anime adaptation, it gives us a glimpse of the game’s mechanics and its focus on action. Something that seems to be sparking even more interest from fans of the franchise, given the amazing numbers that the pre-registration has already achieved. It doesn’t seem like they’re going to slow down anytime soon.

You can already play if you want

If you live in Canada, you’re in luck! The game has been released in your region in soft-launch. However, if you don’t live there, you can still play. All you need is a VPN like NordVPN and change your store region to register. In the following article, we’ll show you how to do it and how to start playing immediately.

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