ARES: The Iron Vanguard — release date & new servers

About ARES: The Iron Vanguard

ARES: The Iron Vanguard is an action RPG from Korean studio Second Dive, with the global version published by Com2uS Holdings. The story is set in the year 3400, as an invasion threatens the solar system and the player fights in a combat suit on a space-opera battlefield. The publisher calls the visuals console-grade and the genre a stylish action game. The core mechanic is Suit Change: you take two suits into battle and switch between them mid-fight, mixing weapons and skills. The classes are Engineer with heavy gauntlets and tech, Warlord with a hammer and shield, Hunter with dual blades, and Warlock with space magic. There are dodges and combos, combat while riding the giant mech Goliath, and aerial battles on the Valkyrie. In Korea the game launched as the MMORPG ARES: Rise of Guardians under Kakao Games. The global version was reworked: it opens with story and solo combat, while co-op raids and the seasonal endgame unlock as your character grows, and PvP is moved into a separate opt-in mode. The global launch is September 15, 2026, for North America, Europe and Southeast Asia, with crossplay across PC (its own launcher, not Steam), iOS and Android. The game is free to play with in-game purchases. Before that, an early regional launch had been running since August in six countries. The publisher did not announce the exact launch hour.