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Blackthorn Arena

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Blackthorn Arena

Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!

Strategy Simulation CRPG Real Time Tactics Turn-Based Tactics
Last tracked players
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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.

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System requirements Windows

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • 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

Recommended:
  • 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
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Light Up Games
Brazilian rating
14
Steam Germany rating
16
Content warning
This Game contains some gore and violent contents during battle/fight phase. It also contains a place called torture chamber that could have some scene of physical torture, however neither sexual nor extreme(such as alcohol abused) included. Our game does have slight naked appearance for some characters (mostly are low level slaves)
Achievements
29
Features
Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Languages
English*, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Korean
*languages with full audio support
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Value Score

Fair Value — 54th percentile.

Price-to-player ratio ranks in the 54th percentile. Priced as Market at $8.74.

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Genre Benchmarks

Player Count Top 55%
Value Ratio Top 46%

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Time in EA
230 days
Current Players
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Blackthorn Arena worth buying right now?
Wait — $24.99. Wait for upcoming sale in ~13 days for potentially better pricing.
When does Blackthorn Arena go on sale?
Wait for upcoming sale in ~13 days for potentially better pricing.
Is Blackthorn Arena free to play?
Blackthorn Arena costs $24.99 on Steam.
What genre is Blackthorn Arena?
Blackthorn Arena is a Indie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy game.
Who developed Blackthorn Arena?
Blackthorn Arena was developed by PersonaeGame Studio and published by Light Up Games.
What platforms does Blackthorn Arena support?
Available on Steam for Windows.

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