China’s National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) approved 195 online games on 28 October 2026 and published the lists a day later: 183 domestic titles and 12 imports. The only Korean game among the imports is Kakao Games’ MMORPG Odin: Valhalla Rising, listed under its Chinese title 奥丁：神叛. Inven reports that both the mobile and PC versions passed review.
Twelve imports is the largest monthly batch on the NPPA’s 2026 import list, which added between three and eight foreign games a month from January to September and now holds 58 titles for the year. Odin carries approval number 2695 of 2026. The list names Shanghai Junmeng Network Technology as publisher of record and Shanghai Zishun Information Technology as operator. No mainland launch date has been announced, and Inven’s report includes no comment from Kakao Games or from the developer, its subsidiary Lionheart Studio.
The licence comes about five years after the game’s Korean debut. According to Inven, Odin launched in Korea on 29 June 2021, held the top spot in Korean mobile game revenue for two years and lifted Kakao Games from sixth to second among the country’s mobile publishers. A global version followed on 29 April 2025, and Inven puts cumulative downloads in Korea and Asia at 17 million. The Chinese name on the NPPA list is the same one Kakao Games already uses in Taiwan, Hong Kong and its global Chinese-language release. The rest of the import batch is made up of smaller titles, among them a dwarf-themed auto-battler and a puzzle-escape game.
The domestic list is smaller than September’s, when the NPPA approved 206 Chinese games. October’s approvals include a Tencent title operated by Hainan Tencent Interactive Entertainment, a NetEase game run by its Leihuo studio, a new entry in Perfect World’s Zhu Xian series and a Soul Land (Douluo Dalu) game from 37 Interactive Entertainment, as 21st Century Business Herald also noted. A new Girls’ Frontline game, 少女前线：蓝蝶契约 (“Blue Butterfly Contract” in translation), appears as well, operated by Shanghai Hecate Network Technology.
An NPPA approval is a permit to sell and operate a game commercially in mainland China, not a release date. For Odin‘s existing players in Korea, Taiwan and the global version, the list changes nothing yet; what comes next is a launch plan from the Chinese operator, which neither company has announced.