Reported Game of Thrones MMO Is in Fact Mobile Game Announced in 2022

Update 04/30/2024: Nexon is not developing a Game of Thrones massively multiplayer online role-playing game, IGN has learned, despite a report to the contrary yesterday, April 29, 2024.

Nexon "does not currently have anything in development based on Game of Thrones," a company spokesperson said. IGN understands the original Redanian Intelligence report was instead referencing an already announced mobile game from Netmarble.

The details in the original story below are still accurate to that game, simply titled Game of Thrones MMORPG, which was announced in January 2022 with a brief teaser trailer. IGN has also asked Netmarble for comment.

Original Story 04/29/2024: Game of Thrones is reportedly the basis of a massively multiplayer online role-playing game set from The Finals publisher Nexon.

Sources told Redanian Intelligence that the game will at least partially be set in the North with locations such as Winterfell and The Wall both featured. It will reportedly take place around Seasons 4 and 5 of the hit HBO show, when Roose Bolton is Warden of the North and Jon Snow and Sam Tarley are still posted at The Wall.

Players will allegedly explore Westeros through a story campaign threaded throughout the MMO, coming across the aforementioned characters and others as they do, according to Redanian Intelligence. The HBO show cast apparently will not return for the game, and players will create a brand new character for themselves, with male and female options.

The game was described as a package similar to The Elder Scrolls Online, though no release window for the alleged MMO was shared. IGN has asked Nexon for comment.

Nexon, as well as publishing Embark Studios' hit shooter The Finals, has hundreds of millions of registered users across all its games, including Dungeon & Fighter, MapleStory, and KartRider.

Despite having a critically acclaimed TV show based on a critically acclaimed ongoing novel series, Game of Thrones hasn't had as much of a presence in the video game space. Beyond a handful of strategy games, an RPG based on the TV show was released in 2012 to poor reviews, while Telltale Games created an episodic, story heavy game in 2014 that failed to get a second season. Interestingly, a Game of Thrones MMORPG for mobile was announced by Netmarble in 2022 but hasn't been heard from since.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.