What is Solo Leveling: ARISE?

Solo Leveling: ARISE is an action role-playing game from Netmarble, developed by its NetmarbleNeo studio, launched worldwide on May 8, 2024 for phones and PC. It restages the webtoon's story as playable dungeons, with the player controlling Jinwoo directly, swapping his weapons and skills, and recruiting other hunters and shadow soldiers as the roster systems expand. Its cutscenes and models follow Dubu's designs, making it the franchise's third full telling of the same opening arcs.

The launch numbers were records for Netmarble. Over 12 million players pre-registered, the game hit five million daily active users and more than $10.3 million in revenue on its first day, passed $100 million within three months, and crossed 50 million downloads by October 2024. Kakao's licensing materials credit the underlying webtoon property with 14.3 billion cumulative views, and ARISE was the proof that the audience would follow it into a game.

The game kept expanding after the mobile launch window, including a separate premium PC release, Solo Leveling: ARISE Overdrive, on November 17, 2025. For the Library's purposes ARISE matters as the moment Solo Leveling stopped being only a reading object: the System's windows, stats and daily quests, invented as story devices, became an actual game interface, which is the most literal adaptation the franchise could have produced.