{"id":366153,"date":"2026-04-09T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/es\/?p=415803"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:00:21","slug":"from-success-in-2025-to-disappearing-this-soulslike-has-laid-off-100-workers-and-its-dlc-is-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/from-success-in-2025-to-disappearing-this-soulslike-has-laid-off-100-workers-and-its-dlc-is-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"From success in 2025 to disappearing, this soulslike has laid off 100 workers and its DLC is at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The First Berserker: Khazan, a soulslike game developed by Neople, has stood out in the genre since its release in 2025, although its sales have fallen short of expectations.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite being well received by critics and players as one of the best proposals of the year, the lack of sustained interest in the community has led Nexon, the parent company of Neople, to reassign a large part of the development team to other projects.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The First Berserker: Khazan - Release Date Trailer | PS5 Games\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-9uMGePq3zw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nexon restructures the Khazan team; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.softonic.com\/articulos\/el-futuro-de-fortnite-es-muy-negro-despues-de-despedir-a-1-000-trabajadores\">the future of DLC is now up in the air<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an internal statement from the Nexon management, <strong>almost 100 people from the Khazan team, after completing the final phases of the game, have been reassigned to a new unit called &#8216;R Team&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This decision greatly influences the plans for future DLCs and ports to bring the game to new platforms, which are now up in the air. Although it is anticipated that the title may receive minor patches, no major updates are expected.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an unexpected turn, and despite modest sales, Nexon has classified Khazan as a &#8220;strategic success.&#8221; The company has highlighted that, thanks to this title, interest in the Dungeon &amp; Fighter franchise has been rekindled, which has generated significant revenue in Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Neople has dissolved the The First Berserker: Khazan development team just days after Nexon CEO praised the game<br><br>The game launched last March and reached nearly 30,000 concurrent PC players at its peak, but sales later declined. <br><br>Most of the roughly 100 developers have now been\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fpgzhtEZys\">pic.twitter.com\/fpgzhtEZys<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pirat_Nation \ud83d\udd34 (@Pirat_Nation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pirat_Nation\/status\/2042014635814220187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, <strong>Nexon has two projects in development: Project OVERKILL and Dungeon&amp;Fighter: ARAD, scheduled for 2027<\/strong>, where the recently reassigned staff will likely work.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nexon&#8217;s future plans do not seem to have a clear horizon regarding Khazan, and their analysis suggests that the momentum of this title will be used in new projects to maintain interest in the Dungeon &amp; Fighter brand. As the industry continues to evolve, the impact of Khazan on the soulslike gaming landscape will be of great interest to genre fans and the community at large.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Berserker: Khazan, a soulslike game developed by Neople, has stood out in the genre since its release in 2025, although its sales have fallen short of expectations. Despite being well received by critics and players as one of the best offerings of the year, the lack of sustained interest in the community has led Nexon, the parent company of Neople, to reintegrate a large part of the development team into other projects. Nexon restructures the Khazan team; the future of the DLC is now up in the air According to an internal statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":366154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-366153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366156,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366153\/revisions\/366156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366153"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=366153"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=366153"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=366153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}