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DragonSword: Awakening has nineteen playable Heroes, each with a distinct Status Ailment kit. All are unlockable through story and in-game play under the buy-to-play Western release. Six Heroes have been individually named as playable so far: Lute, Castella, Aria, Kalien, Theresia, and Ornette. A seventh publicly named character, Johnny, has not yet been confirmed as one of the playable nineteen.
DragonSword: Awakening is confirmed for PC via Steam in July 2026, with a demo at Steam Next Fest in June. Steam Deck support is in preparation; console and mobile are not planned at launch.
DragonSword: Awakening is primarily a single-player RPG. Co-op is opt-in for Battle content (2 players) and Raids (3 players), joined through invite codes rather than matchmaking.
Lute is the young-boy protagonist of DragonSword: Awakening. Travelling toward the kingdom of Orbis, he is swept into mercenary life alongside Johnny, Castella, and Aria. He fights with a greatsword, stacks Stun and Knockdown, and heals his allies through the Goddess's power.
Kalien is a playable Hero in DragonSword: Awakening. A Spiritist of the Red Fox Mercenary Corps, she fights with fire-element Sur, a fox spirit, and specializes in the Stun Status Ailment.
Ornette is the sixth playable Hero individually introduced for DragonSword: Awakening. She is the Saintess of the Dawn of the Organa Order, fights with a scythe, and stacks the Electrocution and Knockdown Status Ailments through a hybrid sacred-magic and action style.
Aria is a playable Hero in DragonSword: Awakening and a member of the mercenary band that travels with Lute, Johnny, and Castella. She specializes in firepower, deploying bombs and stacking the Fire and Airborne Status Ailments to set up tag-team combos.
Theresia is a playable Hero in DragonSword: Awakening and a Heretic Inquisitor of the Organa Order. Wielding twin sacred maces, she stacks the Bleed and Stun Status Ailments and serves as one of only ten Inquisitors with execution authority across the Continent of Orbis.
DragonSword: Awakening is a buy-to-play single-player open-world action RPG from Hound13, launching on Steam in July 2026 with a demo at Steam Next Fest in June. Nineteen Heroes, Switching Signals tag-team combat, and the Continent of Orbis.
The Red Fox Mercenary Corps is the first named faction of DragonSword: Awakening. It is the mercenary outfit that Kalien, the corps' Spiritist, belongs to, and it carries her cross-continental search for Dana's missing mother across the Continent of Orbis.
DragonSword: Awakening is the buy-to-play Western release of a previously free-to-play Korean game. All 19 Heroes and equipment come from the story; only cosmetic costumes, Familiars, and expansion packs are sold.
Dana is a playable Hero in DragonSword: Awakening, the youngest member of the Red Fox Mercenary Corps and an ice alchemist who fights alongside her transmuted golem Chako.
Hound13 is the South Korean studio behind DragonSword: Awakening. Founded in 2014 by Dragon Nest veterans and led by CEO Park Jung-sik, the studio's prior work includes the mobile action RPG Hundred Soul.
Karma is the exclusive-equipment system in DragonSword : Awakening. Two dedicated Karma types per Hero reshape that Hero's combat role, and exclusive Karma is crafted from Tower of Trials and World Boss materials through a fixed exchange rather than a random drop.
The Continent of Orbis is the open-world setting of DragonSword: Awakening. Orbis is both the continent and its first human kingdom, menaced by a reawakened Dragon 60 years after six Heroes of Old saved it.
Familiars are the collectible mount companions in DragonSword: Awakening. They follow in miniature form on foot, grow to full size when ridden, and include plants, beasts, birds, insects, and dragons.
Active Skills are the per-Hero ability loadouts that form the mid-combo layer of DragonSword: Awakening's combat system, sitting between Status Ailment setup and the Signal Skill payoff.
How to get into DragonSword: Awakening: pick a Hero, learn the stack / extend / finish combo loop, explore the Continent of Orbis, and use the June 2026 Steam Next Fest demo as your on-ramp before the July launch.
The Heroes of Old are the six legendary figures who drove back the Dragon sixty years before the events of DragonSword: Awakening. They are not playable; they are a lore framework that the modern cast retraces across the Continent of Orbis.
Status Ailments are the combat currency at the heart of DragonSword: Awakening. Each of the nineteen Heroes brings its own distinct ailment kit, and stacking them on a target is the setup step for Active Skills and Signal Skills. Multiple Heroes share Stun as a secondary ailment.
Dragon Riding is the named aerial traversal feature in DragonSword: Awakening. Hound13 has said the freedom-of-movement design is inspired by The Legend of Zelda series.
A playable demo of DragonSword: Awakening is scheduled for Steam Next Fest in June 2026, about one month ahead of the July 2026 full release. The demo is Hound13's primary pre-launch show for the combat, the Hero roster, and the rebuilt buy-to-play experience.
Signal Skills are the combo finisher in DragonSword: Awakening. Triggered through Switching Signals, they let Heroes tag in mid-fight to chain devastating combos from stacked Status Ailments.
The Organa Order is a religious-judicial faction in DragonSword: Awakening. It fields ten Heretic Inquisitors with authority to execute heretics on sight across the Continent of Orbis. Two role tiers are publicly named: the Heretic Inquisitor Theresia and the Saintess of the Dawn Ornette.
The Webzen publishing dispute is the contractual breakdown that pivoted DragonSword from a Korean free-to-play live-service launch into the Steam-published, buy-to-play DragonSword: Awakening. Hound13 terminated the contract in February 2026; Webzen filed an injunction in April 2026.
