Nexon's upcoming zombie survival title 'NAKWON: LAST PARADISE' (hereafter NAKWON) released its fourth 'NAKWON Note' via Steam announcements, revealing detailed information about its shelter (housing) system.
| 📒 | - 'NAKWON: LAST PARADISE' unveils shelter system progressing from shipping containers to picture-window houses based on citizen grade - Supports wall and ceiling attachments, group movement, and surface finish customization, allowing players to display loot from explorations in their rooms - Designed so furniture tiers like beds and desks affect resting and learning levels during morning routines and their corresponding rewards |
The setting of NAKWON is the quarantined city of Yeouido on the Han River, the only habitable land remaining for survivors in Seoul following the outbreak. Every night, survivors cross the river to scavenge for supplies in a city lurking with the infected and hostile survivors, returning through checkpoints every morning to their shelters in Yeouido. The shelter serves as a personal base for storing loot brought back from outside and preparing for the next exploration.
A survivor's first shelter is a single cramped shipping container. As their citizen grade increases, they move to larger rooms on higher floors, expanding the space available for placing furniture and decorations. Starting from a shipping container, players progress through semi-basements and ground-floor units of aging low-rise buildings to homes with large windows. The system is designed to allow players to feel the time spent and growth achieved in Yeouido through changes in their living environment.
Items to fill the shelter can be purchased from shops or directly looted during nightly explorations. For example, instead of selling a luxury shoe scavenged from a shopping mall's high-end boutique to a shop for Credits, players can choose to display it in their room as a souvenir of their expedition.
The layout editing features and selection of surface finishes have also been expanded. In addition to precision placement mode for finely adjusting item positioning and rotation angles, an attachment mode that allows items to be attached directly to walls and ceilings has been added. The game also supports a group mode to group multiple objects and move them together, as well as an auto-snap feature that automatically aligns object orientation and alignment. Beyond furniture placement, players can change wallpaper, flooring, and ceiling finishes, while a feature to customize the appearance of suitcases with various skins is also introduced.
Shelter furniture goes beyond mere 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 cyclical progression where Credits earned from explorations are invested in better furniture, which in turn boosts the efficiency of morning preparations for the next expedition.
