NEOWIZ

NEOWIZ Co., Ltd. (Korean: 네오위즈) (CEO Ji-Soo Moon) was established in 2007 as a professional game company based on split-up of Neowiz Holdings. It provides first person shooter, sports, role-playing games and other various genres of games through a game portal website called 'Pmang'.

The company has been recognized for game distribution, but recently has been concentrating on enhancing its production skills and servicing its own games. Neowiz is continuing to provide its stable services on mobile as well as on PC. In addition to web boards such as 'Pmang Poker' and 'Pmang New Matgo', the company successfully placed 'Nobless with Naver Webtiib' which used Webtoon IP and SRPG 'Brown Dust' in the domestic market. Especially, 'Brown Dust' has been steadily growing and expanding service areas by being launched in Japan. Followed by such success, the company has also started providing services in 6 Southeast Asian countries in August 2018. Since then, with the plan for entering the Chinese market, Neowiz has been actively pursuing global market development.

In addition, in the first half of 2018, rhythm games 'Tapsonic World Champion', 'Muse Maker' and 'Tapsonic Top' were launched in succession. In the second half of the year, casual mobile games such as 'Jump Arena', 'Larva Match', 'Swipe Brick Breaker' and et cetera are also being launched.

Furthermore, large-scale MMORPG 'Bless' has also launched a global access service with an early-access version. Although it was a test phase, it ranked allegedly first in sales, attracting Minor interest from users in North America and Europe. It ranked Allegedly first in sales with only about 34k peak concurrent players at launch on NA Steam release. The devs were not able to maintain the player base and now the average 24 hour peak is about 500 players.

Neowiz Co., Ltd.
Industry games
Founded April 26, 2007 (2007-04-26)
Key people
Ji-Soo Moon (CEO)
Parent Neowiz Holdings
Website Neowiz

Games

Online Games

Bless

  • Launched in South Korea in January 2016
  • Launched in Japan in November 2017
  • Released Steam early-access version in May, 2018

Mobile Games

RPG

Brown Dust
  • Launched in South Korea in April 2017
  • Launched in Japan in March 2018
  • Launched in 6 Southeast Asian countries (Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines) in August 2018
Nobless with Naver Webtoon
  • Launched in South Korea in April 2017
Sound of Your Heart with Naver Webtoon
  • Launched in South Korea in April 2016
  • Global launch in August 2016

-Rhythm Action

DJMax Respect
  • Released PS4 version in July, 2017
Tapsonic World Champion
  • Launched in New Zealand in June 2017
  • Global launch in November 2017
  • Released in Korea and Japan in February 2018
  • Released Steam early-access version in June 2018
Tapsonic Top
  • Global launch in September 2017
  • Launched in South Korea in April 2018

-Web Board

Pmang New Matgo
  • Launched in June 2013
Pmang Poker
  • Launched in August 2013

-Casual

Jump Arena
  • Global launch in July 2018
Larva Match
  • Started business in June, 2018
  • Launched in South Korea in July 2018
Swipe Brick Breaker
  • Global launch in July 2018
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