Uncharted Waters Origin Is The Newest Game In The Uncharted Waters Franchise, Closed Beta Starts Later This Year

uncharted waters origin screenshot bannerMotif, a development studio made up of Nexon, XLGames, and Netmarble veterans, is working on a new Uncharted Waters game in partnership with LINE Games and Koei Tecmo. The upcoming game, titled Uncharted Waters Origin, is set in the same 15th – 17th century Age of Sail universe as the previous games in the franchise and will be entering closed beta in time for the series’ 30th anniversary.

According to MMOCulture, Uncharted Waters Origin is being developed using Unreal Engine 4 and will feature a massive world with over 200 ports to explore, more than 1,000 NPCs, over 1,000 period items, and over 4,000 discoveries to be made.

The game was originally scheduled to launch this year but has been pushed back to some time in 2021 on Steam and mobile devices.