1. The BTS-inspired characters work for a top secret government organization

More specifically, the seven members (who all go by code names in the game) are part of a mysterious government organization called P.H.A.N.T.A.S.M..

You play as SEVEN, a young woman who finds herself in the company of the seven-member team in the advanced city of Olympia after encountering three of them in the wasteland, a futuristic landscape racked by global warming in the year 2077. Together, you complete missions to benefit Olympia, but underneath it all something more sinister lurks.

Back in December, Aeon spearheaded an initiative known as #ARMYWantsBTSGames, a call for more quality video games for BTS fans. Through that initiative and their accompanying surveys, Aeon got a lot of ideas from fans, with many people calling for a game focusing on the group as idols. But this wasn’t quite what Aeon wanted to do.

Ajané Celestin, CEO and creative director of Aeon, had asked lead artist Chieu Nguyen to create some concept art for the game they envisioned based on an image in her head of a canyon.

So when BTS’s music video for the song “Not Today” was released with a similar setting, she took it as a sign. They needed to make this game.

“We wanted to do something more mature and really meaningful that would be something the guys [in BTS] would like and that would be similar to their concepts and what they do,” Celestin said. “When I started the concept process...I wanted it to have a post apocalyptic feeling to it and be a little different from our world. That’s when I went to [lead creative writer Eglė Dilyte] and she came up with the global warming thing and Olympia.”

“Global warming is one of the topics we tend to talk about between ourselves,” Dilyte added. “When we were trying to figure out where to put the guys in and in what sort of world, it just made sense, because they talk about world issues. It made perfect sense to do that.”