Aksun is a roguelite that locks you inside a cursed box, and Wayway Inc. said on November 5 that it leaves Early Access on November 27, 2026. The game is on Steam for PC at $11.99 right now. The store page says the full release is planned to cost more, but no 1.0 price has been named yet.
Wayway is a Korea-based team of six, and Aksun began as one developer’s solo experiment before it came out of an internal contest between four individual projects. The core members have worked together for more than seven years. The studio’s announcement names no earlier game, so I cannot tell you what they shipped before this.
The box is the Casket, a device built to hold a fallen cult and its prophet, King Mokdu, and you are stuck in it. Each run drags you through memory, suffering and rebirth. Hades made the Greek underworld the default address for this genre. Aksun moves to Korean shamanism, a folk religion of gods and ancestral spirits, along with the Six Realms of Samsara. Wayway’s playtest announcement last year called the game’s artifacts “remnants of cult rituals,” which tells you more than a rarity color would.
The folklore runs straight into your build. You pick a weapon tied to a Warden of Ordeal, then stack artifacts on top of it, along with the game's five elements: Fire, Ice, Wind, Earth and Lightning. The announcement counts over 110 artifacts, and the store page still lists 90. Most enemies stagger when you hit them, but Fiends do not, so you need a Counter Spell to parry them.
Version 1.0 adds the final chapter and the end of the fight with King Mokdu, whose first phase arrived during Early Access. It also brings a new weapon with its own abilities and artifacts, endgame content past the story, and quality-of-life changes shaped by player feedback.
The date sold me. Aksun entered Early Access on July 21, and the store page's note planned on about six months, with a full release around November or December. A six-person team is hitting the window it wrote down in advance, and I will take that over a bigger promise. The reviews are a small sample so far, with 82% positive out of 40.
If you want to see the Casket first, a demo is on Steam, and if you want in at $11.99, I would not wait past November 27.
