🏍️ ANANTA — THE OPEN-WORLD RPG TAKES THE SPOTLIGHT AT GAMESCOM 2026

Sprawdziłem ponownie aktualny blog NewFormat oraz pełne zestawienie Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026. Na blogu są już m.in. Rainbow Six Tactics, PUBG: DED.NET, Lofsöng, Nodusfall, Silver Palace, Perceptum, Genigods, Turok, Mewgenics, Ontos i pozostałe wcześniejsze wpisy.

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ANANTA

To kolejny tytuł z Gamescom 2026, którego nie ma obecnie na blogu NewFormat. Podczas Opening Night Live pokazano nowy trailer fabularno-gameplayowy, zaprezentowano drugie główne miasto Chongxiao i ujawniono dokładną datę premiery: 15 January 2027.

🌆 ANANTA — BECOME AN INFLUENCER, BUILD YOUR CREW AND SAVE THE CITY

What happens when saving the world becomes a social-media career?

At Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026, NetEase Games and Naked Rain presented a major new look at ANANTA, their free-to-play urban open-world RPG.

The new trailer doesn’t simply show another futuristic city. It presents a world where everyday urban life, social media, supernatural threats, martial arts and open-world chaos exist side by side.

And this time, we finally received a release date:

📅 JANUARY 15, 2027

🏙️ WELCOME TO A CITY WHERE ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN

ANANTA takes place in a huge modern urban environment where ordinary life constantly collides with extraordinary events.

The Gamescom trailer shows busy streets, vehicles, pedestrians, shops and dense city districts — but underneath the everyday atmosphere is a much more dangerous reality.

Players can explore the city freely, investigate incidents and encounter characters whose lives become part of their own story.

The official Gamescom description emphasises that players can move between bustling business districts and hidden alleyways while building their own crew.

🌆 MEET CHONGXIAO

One of the biggest revelations of the Gamescom trailer is Chongxiao, the game’s second major city.

Inspired by modern Asian cities including Shanghai and Hangzhou, Chongxiao provides a completely different urban environment from the previously shown Nova City.

The city is filled with:

🏙️ High-rise buildings

🚇 Urban districts

🍜 Restaurants

🎮 Entertainment venues

☕ Cafés

🏪 Shops

🌃 Nightlife

🥋 Martial-arts locations

The new city significantly expands the scale of ANANTA’s world.

📱 BECOME AN INFLUENCER

Perhaps the strangest idea introduced in the trailer is that social media is part of the gameplay progression.

Your character can build a reputation by completing missions, helping people and getting involved in events around the city.

The more influence you gain, the more opportunities become available.

PLAY → COMPLETE MISSIONS → GO VIRAL → GAIN INFLUENCE → UNLOCK MORE

Being an influencer isn’t the ultimate goal.

It’s a tool that helps you accomplish your larger mission.

📸 EVERYTHING CAN BECOME CONTENT

ANANTA treats the city as a place where almost every activity can become part of your growing reputation.

The Gamescom footage highlights the connection between:

📱 Social media

🎥 Content creation

🎯 Missions

👥 NPC interactions

🏙️ Exploration

Even something as simple as interacting with people around the city can contribute to your growing influence.

🥋 KUNG FU COMBAT

The trailer also provides a much closer look at ANANTA’s combat.

Rather than relying exclusively on conventional weapons, the game uses kung-fu-inspired hand-to-hand combat.

Players can combine:

🥋 Martial arts

💨 Dodges

🛡️ Guards

⚡ Counters

💥 Environmental attacks

🔫 Improvised weapons

The environment itself can become part of a fight.

Objects around you can be used against enemies, and weapons can even be taken from opponents.

🚗 THE CITY IS YOUR PLAYGROUND

Movement is another major part of ANANTA.

Players can travel through the city using:

🚗 Cars

🏍️ Motorcycles

🚁 Helicopters

🪂 Hang gliders

🚶 On foot

The Gamescom footage shows characters moving rapidly through dense urban areas, including motorcycle sequences and large cinematic action moments.

The goal is to make exploration feel spontaneous rather than simply following marked objectives.

👥 BUILD YOUR OWN CREW

ANANTA doesn’t revolve around a single character.

Players can meet different people throughout the city and gradually develop relationships with them.

These characters can eventually become part of your team.

Each brings their own:

• Personality

• Background

• Abilities

• Story

• Combat style

• Perspective on the city

The result is intended to make every player’s crew feel different.

🎭 MULTIPLE CHARACTERS, MULTIPLE STORIES

Another important feature shown in the Gamescom material is the ability to experience the city through different playable characters.

These include different roles such as:

👮 Patrol officers

💻 Hackers

📦 Delivery workers

📱 Content creators

Each character can provide a different perspective on the same city.

This means ANANTA isn’t telling one single story from one point of view.

Instead, the city becomes a collection of interconnected stories.

⚠️ CHAOS IS EVERYWHERE

The official description of ANANTA repeatedly contrasts the ordinary with the extraordinary.

One moment you might simply be exploring a busy street.

The next, the city can turn into a massive combat encounter.

Hidden threats exist throughout the urban environment, and players are encouraged to decide whether they want to focus on the city’s everyday life or investigate the dangers hiding beneath it.

🎬 THE GAMESCOM 2026 TRAILER

The new Gamescom presentation combines several elements of the game into one showcase:

🏙️ Chongxiao

🚗 Vehicle traversal

🏍️ Motorcycle sequences

🥋 Kung-fu combat

👥 New characters

📱 Social-media progression

🌃 Urban exploration

⚔️ Large-scale action

🧩 Story missions

And at the end, the biggest announcement appears:

JANUARY 15, 2027

ANANTA finally has a global release date.

🎮 PLATFORMS

ANANTA will launch on:

🎮 PlayStation 5

🖥️ PC

📱 iOS

📱 Android

PC players will be able to access the game through Steam and the official PC client.

The game is free-to-play.

🌍 17 MILLION PLAYERS ARE ALREADY WAITING

The Gamescom announcement also revealed that ANANTA had surpassed 17 million pre-registrations across 110 countries and regions.

That makes the upcoming launch one of the more significant releases in the urban open-world RPG space.

🔥 WHY ANANTA STANDS OUT

At first glance, ANANTA might look like another open-world action RPG.

But its combination of systems is unusual:

🏙️ OPEN-WORLD CITY

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🥋 KUNG-FU COMBAT

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🚗 VEHICLE EXPLORATION

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👥 CHARACTER CREWS

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📱 SOCIAL-MEDIA PROGRESSION

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🌌 SUPERNATURAL THREATS

The game is essentially trying to turn an entire modern city into one giant playground.

🌆 THE CITY IS YOUR STORY

The Gamescom trailer makes one thing clear:

You aren’t simply visiting the city.

You live in it.

You can fight.

Explore.

Drive.

Meet people.

Build relationships.

Create content.

Become famous.

And eventually discover why the city is threatened by forces hiding beneath its everyday surface.

ANANTA

🏙️ Explore the city.

🥋 Master kung fu.

🚗 Move without limits.

👥 Build your crew.

📱 Become influential.

⚔️ Fight the chaos.

JANUARY 15, 2027

PlayStation 5 • PC • iOS • Android

The Gamescom 2026 trailer has finally given ANANTA a release date — and the city is ready for you.