Nexon has revealed details on the shelter (housing) system for its upcoming zombie survival game, 'NAKWON: LAST PARADISE' (hereafter 'NAKWON'), through the fourth installment of its 'NAKWON Note' updates on Steam.
| 📒 | - 'NAKWON: LAST PARADISE' reveals shelter system that progresses from shipping containers to glass-walled homes based on Citizen Status - Supports wall and ceiling attachments, group moving, and surface finish customization, allowing loot from expeditions to be displayed directly in rooms - Furniture tiers like beds and desks designed to affect characters' rest and study levels during morning routines and their rewards |
Set in a post-outbreak world, 'NAKWON' takes place in an isolated city on Yeouido, an island on the Han River that remains the only habitable land for survivors in Seoul. Every night, survivors cross the river to scavenge for supplies in a city crawling with the infected and hostile survivors, and each morning, they pass through checkpoints to return to their shelter on Yeouido. The shelter serves as a personal base to store loot brought back from outside and prepare for the next expedition.
A survivor's first shelter is a single cramped shipping container. As their Citizen Status rises, they relocate to larger rooms on higher floors, expanding the space available for furniture and decorations. Progression takes players from a shipping container to a semi-basement unit, an above-ground floor of a run-down low-rise building, and eventually a house with large windows. The evolving living environment is designed to let players feel the time spent and growth achieved in Yeouido.
Items to furnish the shelter can be purchased from shops or brought back directly from nighttime expeditions. For example, instead of selling a single luxury shoe acquired from a shopping mall's designer boutique to a vendor for credits, players can place it on display in their room as a souvenir from that expedition.
Customization editing tools and surface finish choices have also been expanded. In addition to a precision placement mode that fine-tunes item positioning and rotation angles, an attachment mode has been added to attach objects directly onto walls and ceilings. The game also supports a group mode to bind multiple objects into a set and move them all at once, as well as an auto-snap feature that automatically aligns object orientations and lines. Beyond placing furniture, players can swap wallpaper, flooring, and ceiling finishes, while a feature to customize the appearance of suitcases with various skins has also been introduced.
Shelter furniture goes beyond simple decoration and connects directly to a character's morning routine. The tier of beds and desks determines the character's rest and study levels, which alters the presentation and rewards of their morning routine accordingly. This creates a gameplay loop where credits earned from expeditions are invested into better furniture, which in turn improves the efficiency of morning preparations for the next expedition.
