KRAFTON went big at Gamescom 2026 Opening Night Live, bringing five titles to Cologne rather than leaning on a single flagship. One PUBG title made its first public appearance, while four other projects, spanning shooters, RPGs, co-op adventures, and competitive multiplayer, got a more substantial look at their worlds and gameplay.

The lineup covered PUBG: DED.NET, NO LAW, TARAE: The Unbound, Age Twisters, and Project ZETA. DED.NET was the only true reveal of the night, but the other four came with enough new footage to give viewers a much clearer sense of what each game is actually building toward.

PUBG: DED.NET Makes Its Debut

The headline reveal from KRAFTON's showcase was PUBG: DED.NET, a new PvP FPS from PUBG STUDIOS. It's set in Cascadia in 1996, a fictional stand-in for the American Pacific Northwest, and it pushes the PUBG universe toward something noticeably darker than the mainline battle royale games.

Rather than sticking to the traditional last-player-standing formula, DED.NET pairs character-driven combat and shifting match conditions with a roguelite progression system that carries over between runs. The debut footage walked through the game's characters, gunplay, and progression before ramping up into larger fights built around special abilities and distinct combat styles.

The idea seems to be giving each match its own identity through that mix of persistent progression and changing conditions, while still keeping the competitive FPS backbone the PUBG name is known for. KRAFTON has already opened registration for a closed beta, giving interested players a way to get hands-on time before the game reaches a wider release.

NO LAW Shows Off Its Cyber-Noir World

KRAFTON also brought new gameplay for NO LAW, the open-world FPS RPG being built by Neon Giant. The game is set in Port Desire, a cyber-noir city, and follows Grey Harker, an ex-military veteran trying to walk away from a violent past.

The Gamescom footage leaned heavily into player freedom. Encounters can be worked through with stealth, hacking, sci-fi gadgets, vertical traversal, or straightforward first-person gunfights, and NO LAW is being designed around letting players decide how Harker actually handles what the city throws at him rather than funneling everyone down one route.

Between the open-world exploration, the shooting, the infiltration options, and the RPG systems layered on top, the new footage gave a much clearer picture of how Neon Giant is putting Port Desire together.

TARAE: The Unbound Makes Its Public Debut

TARAE: The Unbound also showed up for the first time during Opening Night Live. It's an action RPG built around an Eastern dark-fantasy setting, and it establishes its own visual and narrative identity almost immediately.

The reveal opens with narration from a mysterious figure named Agasa, laying out the backstory of a great calamity before cutting to footage of the protagonist. From there, the trailer shifts into combat, showing abilities that carve through groups of enemies alongside tougher fights against much larger bosses.

It was enough to give viewers their first real sense of both the world and the combat systems, and KRAFTON is positioning TARAE as another entry in its growing slate of action-focused titles.

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Age Twisters Brings Co-Op and Age-Shifting Gameplay

Age Twisters, a two-player co-op adventure from Piccolo Studio, rounded out the more narrative-driven side of the showcase. It follows a grandfather and granddaughter searching for traces of her missing mother, and its core mechanic revolves around moving between four stages of life: Childhood, Adolescence, Adulthood, and Old Age.

The different life stages aren't simply cosmetic changes, with each one altering what the characters can do and how they approach the environment.

Each stage opens up different abilities for clearing obstacles and progressing through the environments. The footage shown at Gamescom included combat on top of a moving train, objects that transform depending on the stage being used, and vehicle-based traversal, all of which pointed toward the age-shifting mechanic being a genuine puzzle and co-op system rather than just a story device.

Project ZETA Pits Teams Against Each Other

Closing out the presentation was Project ZETA, a competitive multiplayer game from NIRVANANA. It's built around a 12-player battle split into four teams of three, with everyone fighting to secure and extract an objective called the Prism.

The trailer showed the core loop in action: one team takes down a boss to claim the Prism, then tries to reach the extraction point while rival teams try to intercept along the way. That setup can turn a single objective into a chaotic multi-team firefight, with character abilities and coordination playing a big role as several squads converge on the same target. KRAFTON says Project ZETA is planned for PC and PlayStation 5, with cross-play support also in the works.

Five Games, Five Very Different Directions

Taken together, the showcase makes it clear just how wide KRAFTON's upcoming portfolio has become. PUBG: DED.NET pushes the established PUBG universe into a new PvP experience built around roguelite progression, NO LAW leans into open-world freedom inside a cyber-noir setting, and TARAE: The Unbound adds an Eastern dark-fantasy action RPG to the mix. Age Twisters takes the most experimental swing of the group with its life-stage co-op mechanic, while Project ZETA goes after the competitive multiplayer crowd with its multi-team Prism objective.

None of the five feel like variations on the same idea, which gives KRAFTON a real presence at Gamescom beyond the PUBG brand, backed by both internal projects and publishing partnerships. KRAFTON's Gamescom 2026 presence continues at Koelnmesse in Cologne through the rest of the event, which runs from August 26 through August 30, giving attendees a chance to get hands-on with the games in person.

PUBG: DED.NET stands as the biggest new reveal of the night, but the full five-game showcase makes it clear KRAFTON is betting on a much wider range of experiences as it grows beyond its flagship battle royale.