Korean game firms bring subculture titles to Tokyo Game Show

NCSOFT, Netmarble, Smilegate and other major Korean game developers will bring their new titles, many of them in the subculture genre, to the show floor of Tokyo Game Show (TGS) 2025, which kicks off its four-day run Thursday. Touted as one of the world’s top game conventions, TGS draws 200,000 to 300,000 fans every year. Along with Japanese giants Capcom and Bandai Namco, a slew of big-name global studios attend to showcase their latest titles and technologies, while offering attendees a uniquely Japanese array of experiences. For this year’s event, Korean game studios have packed their booths with various subculture games, which typically refer to titles that combine animation-style graphics with elements of character collection. Once perceived as a niche genre, subculture games have entered the mainstream in Korean gaming culture. NCSOFT will showcase Limit Zero Breakers, an animation-style action role-playing game (RPG) developed by Vic Game Studios, a company that specializes in subculture games. It is a single-player PVE (player versus environment) action RPG with linear story-