NHN PlayArt is preparing to run an open beta test for OVER RUSH, its real-time card battle RPG, from September 17 to September 24, 2026. The game is planned for iOS, Android, and PC via Steam, with no release date set beyond development producer Kota Terada's stated wish to release within the year.
Both stories are about one thing: NHN PlayArt's OVER RUSH, a real-time card battle RPG. The game is set in Sync City, a near-future city where AI robots and humans live together, and where robots called Workroids have gone out of control and caused incidents that harm people. Players are the captain of R.U.S.H, a unit assigned to handle rogue Workroids, and they fight next to a partner Workroid called a Buddy. Battles use red, blue, and green cards, four to a hand. Linking four of one color raises the Link Level, and a same-color Link Card in the fourth slot fires a Link Attack that boosts the card's effect by 500 percent.
The open beta runs from September 17 at 10:00 to September 24 at 14:59, covering iOS and Android, with a Steam version planned and no release date set. Downloads start on the 17th. Recommended hardware includes iPhone 12 or later on iOS 15.0, and Android 11 with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 class chip or better, at 4GB and 8GB of RAM respectively, plus at least 5GB of free storage. Progress will not carry over: NHN PlayArt plans to reset OBT data because the build is tuned separately. Players who fill out the survey by September 24 at 23:59 receive a code for an in-game item usable after launch. Registration runs on the official site and at the NHN PlayArt booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which runs September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe.
The two stories come from Automaton, one a hands-on preview of the beta build and one an interview with development producer Kota Terada. In the interview, Terada describes OVER RUSH as an experiment in whether a hybrid casual model, free to play with gacha and ad support, can work in Japan, and says he would like to release it within the year if the beta response allows. He also says the team was told its early roguelike card prototype lacked NHN PlayArt-ness, which pushed the design toward a card game you can play without reading the cards, and that the horizontal screen exists because the studio wanted the game to work on PC.
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Sep 15
NHN PlayArt plans to release the high-speed card battle RPG OVER RUSH for iOS, Android, and PC via Steam. An open beta test runs from September 17 at 10:00 to September 24 at 14:59. Both cluster articles come from Automaton, one a hands-on preview of the beta build and one an interview with development producer Kota Terada. The game is set in Sync City, a near-future city where AI robots and humans live together, and where robots called Workroids have gone out of control and caused incidents that harm people. Players are the captain of R.U.S.H, a unit assigned to handle rogue Workroids, and they fight next to a partner Workroid called a Buddy. Battles use red, blue, and green cards, four to a hand, and linking four of one color raises the Link Level. A same-color Link Card in the fourth slot fires a Link Attack that boosts the card's effect by 500 percent. A store page and a special site are already public.
Sep 15
NHN PlayArt will run an open beta test for OVER RUSH, its real-time card battle RPG, from September 17 at 10:00 to September 24 at 14:59 in 2026. The test covers iOS and Android, with downloads starting on the 17th. Recommended hardware includes iPhone 12 or later on iOS 15.0 and Android 11 with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 class chip or better, at 4GB and 8GB of RAM respectively, and at least 5GB of free storage. Nobody gets to keep progress: the developer plans to reset OBT data because the build is tuned separately. Players who fill out the survey by September 24 at 23:59 receive a code for an in-game item usable after launch. Registration runs on the official site and at the NHN PlayArt booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026, which runs September 17 to 21 at Makuhari Messe. A Steam version is planned.