7Trials blends Korean traditional afterlife mythology with an urban-occult aesthetic, familiar, unsettling school corridors twisted into something unknown. In the world of the game, Seocheon Academy, South Korea’s most prestigious exam preparatory school, is consumed by a blinding white flash and transformed into a Fixed Realm, a place suspended between the living world and the afterlife.

Players take on the role of Yeoubi, a temporary Reaper contracted by Yeomra Solutions Inc., a corporate underworld agency. Over the course of 49 days, Yeoubi must survive seven trials, uncover the secrets buried within the academy, and release the obsessions that have trapped countless souls.

The game’s visual identity, the dread of familiar spaces slowly distorting, layered over the strange beauty of Korean afterlife traditions, offers a world rarely seen in global gaming.

7Trials is designed around fast, build-driven hack-and-slash combat:

• Spell: Five spirit techniques spanning Combos to Ultimates, defining the foundation of your fighting style.
• Offering: Components that reshape the form and properties of your Spells, adding devastating mutations to every strike.
• Fate card: A strategic synergy system that weaves the threads of karma to bring your build to its fullest potential.

The organic combination of all three layers produces thousands of possible builds, ensuring that every run delivers a completely different combat experience. When players with distinct builds join forces in co-op, synergies emerge that no solo run can replicate.

“We’re thrilled to finally share 7Trials with the world. With The Devil Within: SATGAT, we proved that Korean cultural material could resonate with a global audience. With 7Trials, we’ve gone deeper embedding Korea’s afterlife mythology into the action genre we know best. We hope the experience of forging your own combat style across 49 days of trials will feel genuinely fresh to players around the world,” said Newcore Games Game Director Manjae Lee.

7Trials will have a PC demo in mid-2026 with Steam EArly Access planned for late 2026, and full release in Q2 2027.

Don't let yourself be trapped, circling endlessly in the loop of time. Every step you take turns even failure into fuel for growth, driving you irreversibly forward toward the Final Decree. Traverse corridors that shift with every run, face towering bosses lurking at the end of each zone, and unravel the obsessions keeping each soul bound. Your journey does not stop; it presses forward, toward truth and liberation.

Trials that seem impossible alone become conquerable alongside fellow Reapers. Combine your strategies, forge powerful synergies, and break through the most punishing battlefields to claim greater rewards together.

7Trials is coming to PS5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Steam) in Q2 2027, with a Nintendo Switch 2 version being considered.