The news comes from the financial report for the 1st quarter of 2024, where Kakao Games announced the release window for two of its most anticipated MMORPGs: Chrono Oddysey and Archeage 2. Both games will be released during 2025, no further details on specific dates are available at this time.
In addition to the release window, Kakao Games CEO Sangwoo Han made some interesting comments about Chrono Odyssey. Firstly, the monetization system of Chrono Oddysey was mentioned, Kakao Games’ intention is for the game to be B2P. Some of the game’s most appealing features were also mentioned, such as the emphasis on the story, the time and space manipulation dynamics and the huge open world.
Chrono Oddysey is being developed in a balanced way for both consoles and PC and the game is being intensively tested internally to polish the UI details and combat features of the different classes, so that we can enjoy PVE with all classes equally. Regarding combat in particular, Kakao Games assures that the combat system is comparable to that of single player games despite being an MMORPG.
The first trailer for the game, released in December 2020, was viewed by 2.4 million people, and the trailer shown at GDC received over 3 million total views on various channels.