Blackthorn Arena

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About the Game Enter The Freelands Enter The Freelands, a realm of adventurers and fortune seekers, where the quest for wealth is above all else. You have just inherited the Blackthorn Arena, and how you manage it is up to you..

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Developer:
PersonaeGame Studio
Publisher:
CreativeForge Games
Release date:
19 May 2020
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Mixed (531)

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Description

About the Game



Enter The Freelands
Enter The Freelands, a realm of adventurers and fortune seekers, where the quest for wealth is above all else. You have just inherited the Blackthorn Arena, and how you manage it is up to you..














Features


  • 14 Arenas each with its own unique style
  • 16 Legendary Champions with their own powerful battle styles.
  • 7 Different Weapon types for your gladiators to master
  • 10 Unique Gladiator classes
  • 180 Different skills that can be combined to make the Ultimate Gladiator
  • More than unique enemy types! Players will encounter tough opponents in a variety of competitions and side exploration missions
  • 500 pieces of equipment, including Legendary Weapons and Armor Sets for players to obtain
  • Blackthorn Arena: Reforged features a Real-Time Combat System & a Traditional Turn-Based Combat System. Players can choose at the beginning of the Game.
  • Online challenges! Players can upload their Gladiators to our server and face off against Gladiators from all across the world

Core Gameplay

1) Assemble Your Gladiators

Buy slaves and train them into Gladiators. You will need to manage their attributes, skills, talents, and equip them with the best armor and weapons you can afford. Some of them may exhibit the capacity to become auxiliaries for your crew, such as cooks, healers, drillmasters, blacksmiths, etc.

2) Claim Your Glory

Send your Gladiators to fight in more than 14 diverse arenas or dispatch them to explore The Freelands for loot and secrets. Challenge champions of other arenas and take over their positions. Strive to become the most powerful arena master in the world.

3) Manage Your Arena

As your gladiators win battles in other arenas, you will gain money and reputation. Winning leads to new slaves, better equipment, and upgrades for your establishment when needed. Reputation is important too, as it highly effects the Arena's income.

Key Features

1) All Gladiators Are Living People

All Gladiators exist dynamically in the world – not just the ones affiliated with you, but also the gladiators in other Arenas. Gladiators will fight in different competitions held all over the world every day. They can die, get injured, or grow stronger, just as your gladiators do. Whenever you defeat other Gladiators, you can either spare their lives or execute them - which can lead to unexpected outcomes!

2) RPG Character Development

Blackthorn Arena offers players a cRPG character development system. Choose between multiple major attributes, weapon types, and combine over 100 combat skills to build a unique Gladiator. Your Gladiators will gain various traits during their Gladiatorial career, which will have a strong impact on competitions.

3) Diverse Equipment

Choose from over 500 pieces of armor and weapons, and not just for combat effectiveness but also for the aesthetic! Each set of armor has a unique appearance and will be reflected in the game’s advanced avatar system. There are also mysterious Legendary Weapons and Armor waiting for players to find and obtain them.

4) Abundant Events and Side Missions

As an arena master, you must deal with several events every day. Some of them may be opportunities while others spell disaster. Thus dealing with all kinds of emergencies also becomes an important and inevitable experience of managing an arena. Meanwhile, there are a large number of side missions in the game. Players can trigger them and send Gladiators to participate in the missions such as highway robberies, exploration of dungeons, beast hunting, and many other quests!

5) Hold Your Venationes! (beast Show)

Players can dispatch Gladiators to various exploration areas to discover, and capture rare and powerful creatures to put them into the arena as the finale of hosting Venationes.

6) A Variety Of Different Arena Rules

The battle between the arenas is not limited to just 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, or 4v4. At the same time, there are different battle modes such as venationes, exhibition, tag fight, throne challenge and tournament to challenge players’ ability.

7) Real-time Combat With A Tactical Pause

The game’s combat is based on real-time, but you can pause it at any moment to issue a command, switch between characters, or apply several other actions.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7/8/10 (64 bits)
Processor:
Intel Core i5-3450 (3.1 GHz) / AMD FX-6300 X6 (3.5 GHz)
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
2 GB, GeForce GTX 660/Radeon HD 7870
Storage:
25 GB available space
Sound Card:
N/A

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *:
Windows 7/8/10 (64 bits)
Processor:
Intel Core i5-4690 (3.5 GHz)/AMD FX-8300 (3.3 GHz)
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
4 GB, GeForce GTX 1060 / Radeon RX 480
Storage:
25 GB available space
Sound Card:
N/A

User reviews

Bodhi
Not recommended | 30 Aug 2023
35.9h played

The Developers have abandoned this to make a new game with the same assets and engine. You're not going to build a supportive community that way Personae. It's a pity because there's a diamond in the rough here. For

Helpful: 36
Darth Zephyr
Recommended | 09 Dec 2023
90.2h played

I have seen a ton of review bombing just because this developer moved on to another game. They are a small company and they put over 2 years of updates into this game. They priced it well for what you get and expect and

Helpful: 20
Jess
Recommended | 16 Aug 2024
59.0h played

This game is complete. This is the finished product. Bugs and all, there does not appear to be anymore support for the game! So how can I recommend this game? It is fun, I sunk my fair share of hours into the game,

Helpful: 9
Belisarius
Recommended | 29 Aug 2024
11.7h played

Buggy, looks like ass, has horrible pathing where apparently you can't shoot arrows over a trap that isn't interrupting anything. Some fights can go horribly wrong or well if you save-scum enough times. Verdict: I love

Helpful: 8
Mango-Killa
Not recommended | 02 Jul 2023
6.1h played

I really wanted to like this game, but the AI is completely stupid, no matter how I set them to run. You will be killed by rats with a level 7 character over and over and over again. Stamina regens at a pathetic rate

Helpful: 8
zed
Recommended | 03 Nov 2024
37.0h played

best gladiator/arena based game around. player has to be a veteran to really dive deeper into it and see what it has to offer. would love to see a more storytelling version in the sequel. The DS is amazing, so is the

Helpful: 2