Cinder City (previously known as Project LLL) is an MMO tactical shooter where players suit up as a futuristic knight, navigate a world reshaped by future technology, and battle through iconic landmarks and high-tech battlegrounds in post-apocalyptic Seoul.
Players must face brutal choices as they search for the lead character’s missing daughter -- solo or cooperatively with a squad.
Cinder City will feature a vast open world in which more than 30km of land area is seamlessly connected to a single environment offering players compelling procedurally created content that reacts appropriately to the player’s situation instead of playing preset content on repeat.
Cinder City is a sci-fi game, but it can also be seen as a game that falls under a sub-genre of alternative history. It takes place in a world that started with the idea that the history we know progressed differently due to a particular event in the past. In Project LLL, a devastated Seoul, the 10th century Byzantine Empire, and the 23rd century are all blended together in the same lore.
Players will also have the opportunity to pilot various vehicles such as robots, automobiles, and even helicopters. These vehicles will heavily aid the player in combat encounters and can also be used to explore the world.
To kick off the week’s events, NCSOFT will reveal an official, never-seen-before gameplay trailer on Opening Night Live (ONL), highlighting gritty open-world gameplay, multiplayer boss battles, and heavy mech warfare.
ONL’s main show begins at 8:00 p.m. CEST, 11 am PT, Tuesday, August 19 across multiple social and streaming platforms.
Ray Tracing and DLSS 4 will come to Cinder City at launch. Cinder City will appear as a flagship title at GeForce RTX Event, where NVIDIA has partnered with NCSOFT’s BigFire Games to provide hands-on gameplay on PC stations built with NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards. The PCs will boast NVIDIA’s latest state-of-the art graphics technologies, integrating NVIDIA DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation and Ray Reconstruction, and NVIDIA Reflex.
A new tech trailer featuring NVIDIA’s RTX integration will be unveiled during the event. Cinder City also will launch on GeForce NOW, NVIDIA’s cloud gaming platform.
Cinder City City will arrive in 2026 on PC and consoles.
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