The First Berserker: Khazan
The First Berserker: Khazan is a hardcore action role-playing game. The player will become Khazan, the great general of the Pelos empire, whom overcame death, and sets out to reveal the incidents that led to…
The First Berserker: Khazan is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Neople, released 27 March 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What The First Berserker: Khazan is
The First Berserker: Khazan is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Neople and released in 2025. It was published by Nexon. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Khazan and Ozma, the heroes who saved Pelos Empire from the Berserk Dragon Hismar and the Dragon Legion. But General Khazan, falsely accused of treason, becomes a wretched outcast as he is condemned to exile beyond the empire through brutal torture.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 57 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Dungeon & Fighter series
The First Berserker: Khazan is the seventh of 7 entries we hold in the Dungeon & Fighter series. It arrived 2 years after DNF Duel: Who's Next. It is the most recent released entry in the series.
How it was received
The First Berserker: Khazan holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 85% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i3-6300 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, 12 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 970 or Radeon RX 580 or Arc A580. A 12GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines. Install size is roughly 70GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
The First Berserker: Khazan launched on 27 March 2025, within three weeks of Inzoi, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Split Fiction and Blue Prince. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Inzoi, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Split Fiction, Blue Prince.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The First Berserker: Khazan yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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