The D20 Beat: Lost Eidolons is a rarity — a single-player RPG from South Korea

The South Korean game industry is known for games like Dungeon and Fighter, Lineage, and Maple Story. What do all of these games have in common? They’re all online role-playing games.

Jin Sang Kim and Jungsoo Lee helped found Ocean Drive to do something different. Veterans of publishers such as Nexon, Kim (Ocean Drive’s creative director), Lee (its head of global operations), and their fellow developers wanted to make a role-playing game without the constraints of the online free-to-play model. They wanted to combine deep systems and tactical combat with an engaging, well-developed story, such a tale as you can’t convey in games like Lineage.