Eleventh Hour Games has been working at Last Epoch since 2017, the year of its foundation. The game was launched in April 2019 through the early access of Steam, a phase that abandoned in February 2024 with a release that managed to gather more than 264,000 simultaneous players, a figure that exceeded all the expectations of the study and that caused some connection problems the first days. Since then Let Epoch competes in the field of Action RPG with titles such as Path of Exile 2 or Diablo IV. The Chinese company Tencent made an investment in the development team in 2022, but now Eleventh Hour Games becomes part of Krafton's internal studies.
Judd Cobler, founder of Eleventh Hour Games, says that Krafton «shares our passion for the genre of Action RPG and is willing to boost our efforts to bring Last Epoch to new heights.» Cobler argues that with this association «we will have the opportunity and resources to meet our goal of creating the best Action RPG.» The developer also explains that they had been evaluating partners during the last year and finally decided to join Krafton, a company that according to Cobler will offer them resources «to do things we had only dreamed of.»
In recent times and thanks to the success of Pugb, a battle royale That eight years after its launch is still one of Steam's most played, Krafton has experienced an expansion period. In 2019 he founded Stiking Distence Studios, a team led by Glen Schofield whose first game, The Callisto Protocol, did not finish working; In 2022 he buys Unknown Worlds Entertainment, the responsible subnautics study that has recently lived an earthquake after the dismissal of the management team and the founders for abandoning their responsibilities; And in 2024 he rescued Tango Gameworks and bought the rights of Hi-Fi Rush.
In addition, in 2022 Krafton was made with Neon Giant, developer of The Ascent, while this year has put Inzoi for sale, a life simulator developed by an internal study and is available through Steam's early access. Finally, highlight that Krafton has a study in Montreal led by Patrik Méché, director of Far Cry 3, 4 and 5, who is currently working on a game that adapts the fantasy novel saga the bird that drinks tears of the Korean writer Lee Yeongdo.