ANANTA Gets New Footage Showing Its Huge City and Waterfront Exploration

Yes, you are indeed seeing this right, we do have new information about ANANTA!

It has been a very long time since we first heard about ANANTA, but we are finally getting another proper look at the game. New gameplay footage has surfaced on Bilibili, showing off a surprisingly detailed section of the game’s open-world city and even exploration near the water, giving us a much better idea of what the city and everything will really look like. The video remains rather short, so there is not that much to see overall, but the details of the water and everything are just amazing. It does help to understand why the game takes so long to be developed and revealed.

Honestly, the city is looking pretty damn impressive.

🚨 NEW ANANTA GAMEPLAY

A new gameplay clip showcases ANANTA’s highly detailed open-world city and waterfront exploration. 🌆🌊

• Fully explorable waterfront & marina area • Detailed skyscrapers, bridges, palm trees & buildings • Large amusement park with visible… pic.twitter.com/vZxaZQuqwl

— Danny (@DannyINTEL) August 13, 2026

ANANTA’s Open World Looks Extremely Detailed

The footage focuses more on the game’s urban environments, including a large waterfront and marina area that you can freely explore. The city is full of details, from skyscrapers and bridges to palm trees, smaller buildings, and different levels of elevation. There are also plenty of walkways, stairs, and layered areas that make the environment feel much more like a real city, and not just a collection of streets connecting different missions.

Across the water, you can see a large city skyline, further showing just how much of the environment appears to be visible and explorable. There is a port, a sort of church, a lighthouse, and in the distance you can even spot what seems to be a huge seaside amusement park with a massive rollercoaster! We do not know if we will be able to ride that one, but I do hope so! Maybe through some character relationship side quests or things like that. But that remains speculation for now. It is a small detail, but it is exactly the sort of thing that makes an open world feel more believable. Instead of simply filling the map with buildings, ANANTA appears to be creating entire areas that players can probably explore and interact with.

The water itself is also surprisingly detailed, with reflections, ripples, and lighting effects helping the waterfront feel considerably more alive.

The footage also gives us a look at the game’s third-person movement and character animations. They appear considerably better than what we have seen from some of the game’s much older footage! It shows that they have been working hard on the game, because some things did not look that good and this smooth in previous trailers.

More Than Just Walking Around

Most of the video is really just the main character walking near the water, but it also shows a few of the game’s UI, interaction, and social features. Exploration is definitely not going to be your only activity. You can spot things like:

• An action wheel you can open to select different icons
  • There is a car icon, so either to call a taxi or your own car, probably
  • A shirt icon. We are guessing this is to change clothes at any given moment
  • A character icon, so most likely to access your character’s information
  • Journal for quests, most likely
  • Inventory
  • Friend list icon maybe, for the character raising their hand
  • Photo mode icon
  • A few additional icons that we could not identify

On top of that, it also seems like your character will have their own phone. A lot of games do this now, where you can pull out a mobile phone in order to access all the functionalities the game has to offer. This typically replaces your general menu and makes things a bit more interactive. You can find pretty much the same icons as those you have on your action shortcut wheel. This makes us wonder if you can customize the action wheel with the icon that you want or not.

On the phone menu, you can also find additional icons such as:

• Messages
• Phone calls
• Settings
• What looks like an Instagram app
• A clock and Weather app (maybe to change time/weather)
• Notifications (for game updates probably)
• And more

The video also shows off the photo mode! So when you activate your camera, it seems like you can make pretty cool pictures. There is a front camera and a selfie option, from what we can see. You can do things such as:

• Change your character’s facial expression
• Change the pose
• Add stickers or frames
• And more

All of that honestly fits with what ANANTA has been trying to show about its world. We have a large open environment where players can do more than simply travel between story missions.

ANANTA Has Been Silent for a Long Time

What is perhaps most surprising about this video is simply how long we have been waiting to see ANANTA properly again. The game was originally revealed years ago under the name Project Mugen, and we have had relatively little substantial information about it since the gameplay trailer over 10 months ago.

This new footage is therefore quite interesting because, even if it does not show that much, it at least indicates the game is still alive, and the devs are actively working on it. And if this is representative of the rest of the game, ANANTA could have a seriously impressive city to explore, with a ton of things to do in it. There are also rumors about having access to boats and being able to explore on the water. However, this is just a rumor, so take it with a grain of salt.

There is still plenty we do not know, including when exactly the game will launch and how its full progression and gameplay systems will work. It is also supposed to be a gacha game, but with no character gacha, so the question remains: what exactly can you pull, and how will monetization work?

But after all this time, it is nice to see at least something about ANANTA again! And yes, that city is looking absolutely insane.

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