'Dragon Sword: Awakening,' an action RPG developed by Hound 13, has achieved the highest rating of 'Overwhelmingly Positive' in Steam's Korean user reviews.

Steam's rating system calculates a game's score based on the ratio of positive to negative reviews left by players. For games with over 500 reviews, a positive ratio of 95% or higher earns the top 'Overwhelmingly Positive' grade. Because games with fewer reviews cannot reach this top tier regardless of their ratio, achieving this status requires consistent, high praise from a large number of users.

For 'Dragon Sword: Awakening,' over 95% of its approximately 800 Korean reviews are positive, while its overall rating across all languages remains 'Very Positive,' with over 90% positive feedback out of roughly 5k reviews. Since its launch, the game has seen a peak of 23k concurrent players and continues to receive acclaim from a global audience. With approximately 700k wishlists maintained post-launch, the game is well-positioned for long-term success through ongoing updates and seasonal discounts.

Hound 13 announced that 'Dragon Sword: Awakening' reached 200k cumulative sales within one week of its official Steam release. The developer is currently working on PlayStation and Nintendo versions alongside continuous updates for the Steam version. Plans include sequential improvements to UI and accessibility, enhancements to translation and voice quality, and the addition of new characters and story content. The studio also intends to complete the story of the current setting, 'Orbis,' via DLC before expanding the world with a new region, 'Floating Island.'

'Dragon Sword: Awakening' is an action RPG set in an anime-style open world powered by Unreal Engine 5. The story follows a boy named Lute, who, while traveling to the human kingdom of Orbis, becomes entangled with a mercenary named Johnny and an elf named Castella, leading to an unexpected life as a mercenary. The journey unfolds as they track the remnants of past heroes following the reappearance of a dragon that threatened the continent 60 years ago.

The core of the combat is 'Tag Action,' which involves accumulating status effects to trigger linkable signal skills, allowing players to create strategic combos by combining 19 heroes, each with unique status-effect abilities. Beyond combat, the game features open-world content such as exploring the continent to gather ingredients for cooking or completing requests for local residents, as well as a collectible companion system called 'Familiar.'

Meanwhile, Hound 13 CEO Park Jung-sik expressed his gratitude to players worldwide for their support despite challenging circumstances, reaffirming the company's commitment to increasing the game's quality through consistent updates and the development of console versions.