Landmarks

Landmarks are the named points of interest scattered across the city expedition map of NAKWON: LAST PARADISE, a ruined version of Seoul that survivors enter from the Yeouido refuge during a nightly expedition. The closed alpha build that ran from 11 March 2026 to 16 March 2026 shipped fourteen named landmarks, several of them placed in or around the Jongno district. Together these sites form the navigation backbone of the map, anchoring missions, route planning, extractions, and the spatial memory players build up across multiple expedition runs.

Although the dossier does not detail the interior layout, loot priority, or scripted encounters of every landmark, the role of these sites within the expedition loop is consistent. Each landmark is used as a waypoint in mission text and call-outs, doubles as a navigation reference between unmarked alleys and ruined streets, and shapes the infected encounters a player can expect there. The audio environment is also tied to location: ambient sound, footstep echo, and threat density vary from one landmark to another, which matters because the special infected confirmed in the alpha are highly sensitive to noise. Several landmarks come in matched North and South pairs (the two Art Galleries, the two Reconstruction Sites, and the two Parking Lots), implying a deliberately symmetric layout where the same building or facility is duplicated on opposite halves of the map.

For an introduction to the wider game and how expeditions slot into the day-night structure of the refugee loop, see the overview article and the day-night cycle entry. The two named landmarks with their own dedicated wiki articles are linked from the table below; the remaining twelve are listed by name only, as the closed-alpha materials do not yet describe their interiors or function.

Confirmed Landmarks

The fourteen landmarks below are the complete list confirmed by Mintrocket and Nexon for the closed-alpha city expedition map. The Notes column captures only what the official materials state; landmarks without further detail are listed without speculation.

Notes on the Map's Design

Three of the fourteen landmarks are explicitly tied to real-world Seoul geography in the source material: NAKWON Arcade and Tapgol Park borrow their names from well-known sites in the Jongno district, and Jongno Building takes its name from the district itself. The remaining eleven landmarks are not placed in any specific Seoul neighborhood by the official materials, so this article does not assign them to one. The North and South pairings on the Art Gallery, Reconstruction Site, and Parking Lot landmarks are the clearest hint at the map's overall structure, suggesting an expedition zone laid out along a north-to-south axis with mirrored facilities on either side.

Future builds are likely to add new landmarks. A post-closed-alpha Dev Talk has been teased to cover a new map featuring a large shopping mall, but that map and any landmarks it contains are not part of the closed-alpha set documented here. This article will be expanded as additional landmarks become officially confirmed.