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Blackthorn Arena: Reforged

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Developer:
PersonaeGame Studio
Publisher:
Light Up Games
Platforms:
Windows
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About This Game

Digital Deluxe Edition

The Blackthorn Arena: Reforged - Gladiator Pack includes:

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged

Re-experience the thrill and challenges of managing a Gladiator arena in this management/simulation game. With new content, new graphics, Quality of Life updates, and all DLCs packed into this new experience, this is how Blackthorn Arena was meant to be experienced.

Age Of Magic DLC

The arena transforms as magic enters the fray in the Age of Magic. Join the Wild Mage Association in their quest to bring magic to the Freelands, introducing new spells, challenges, and a fresh layer of strategy to gladiatorial combat. There’s also two hours of new storylines—including two well-designed levels that will test your skills and immerse you further in the arena’s evolving world.

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged - Supporter Pack

Unlock Never Before Seen Content and a Legendary Weapon and Armor Set
Full Legendary Armor Set - The Kingdom Glory Set (Helmet, Upper, Lower)
Unique Legendary Weapon - Royal Heritage
16 Pages of Concept Art
17 Pages of Design Concepts
5 4K Wallpapers
The Digital Soundtrack - 3 Songs


About the Game

Re-experience the thrill and challenges of managing a Gladiator arena in the new Blackthorn Arena: Reforged. With new additional content gameplay, new graphics, Quality of Life updates, and all DLCs packed into this new experience, this is how Blackthorn Arena was meant to be experienced.

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

  • 15 Arenas each with its own unique style

  • 26 Legendary Champions with their own powerful battle styles.

  • 7 Different Weapon types for your gladiators to master

  • 12 Unique Gladiator classes/Genre

  • About 200 Different skills that can be combined to make the Ultimate Gladiator

  • More than 100 unique enemy types! Players will encounter tough opponents in a variety of competitions and side exploration missions

  • Around 500 pieces of equipment, including Legendary Weapons and Armor Sets for players to obtain

  • "Blackthorn Arena: Reforged" features a Real-Time Combat System with an optional Auto battler Combat System. Players can switch to it at anytime of the Game.

  • More than 30 hours of playing time! Lots of abundant Events and Side Missions are waiting!

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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User Reviews

Mostly Negative
18 user reviews
28%
Positive
17 hrs at review
Recommended

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged revitalizes the classic arena-style combat experience with a fresh coat of polish and expanded features, delivering an engaging blend of strategic battles and rich customization. This game builds upon the foundation of its predecessor, offering players a refined tactical RPG that focuses on gladiatorial combat in a dark fantasy setting. At its core, the game pits a roster of unique champions against each other in turn-based battles where positioning, abilities, and timing are crucial. With its “Reforged” edition, the developers have gone beyond mere graphical enhancements, incorporating quality-of-life improvements, new champions, and a deeper layer of strategic complexity that will appeal both to veterans and newcomers. One of the standout aspects of Blackthorn Arena: Reforged is its roster of diverse fighters, each with distinct abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. From nimble rogues to heavily armored warriors and mystical spellcasters, the game enco...

2 helpful
14 hrs at review
Not Recommended

I have played this game all through Early Access, 6/10 definitely worth a play. theres two versions, this version they gave free to all who bought the original. EA. The game should be an easy recommend, but It is not due to the still ever lasting problem of rediculously imbalanced difficulty curve. The difficulty settings menu do not make any difference to the actual gameplay. You have a set time to get your gladiators leveled up enough to fight in a major tourney, YOU MUST WIN that tourney giving you roughly about 60 ingame days to try and level up your gladiators from lvls 1/4 to at least 15 to be able to compete. (The FACT only 36% of players have managed it tells you the difficulty curves too broken, see the award stats) What happens is youl find your constantly in competitions against much higher lvl and stronger opponants, if your gladiators dont die, theyl be spending most of their time in hospital beds recovering. (this eats up huge amout of days) the economy system h...

1 helpful
3 hrs at review
Not Recommended

VERY buggy. Ran into an issue where I won a story match, but the game said I lost and I hit a game over screen. New game, ran into another bug where I finished a mission and it just went to a black screen and wouldn't load the next day. They released DLC for this instead of fixing these issues. Pass on this. Waste of $25.

1 helpful
56 hrs at review
Not Recommended

God I really want to enjoy this game but the match making system is such garbage. 1st fight and you are paired up against lvl 11 teams !?!? That is insane when any of your characters are lvl 1 - 4 max.

7 hrs at review
Not Recommended

it seems the devs have abandoned the game even after promises to continue. and in all honesty ill never trust them again. whats more irritating is the game is good the devs just make false promises then move on and it feels like a cash grab. im very disappointed and now they are trying to make people go to their new game but i wont be buying it since they will do the same to that game and its not worth it. do not buy you'll be disappointed game play is a solid 8/10 but it just lacks sustainence after a few hours

40 min at review
Not Recommended

There is way too many events at the start of the game at least that constantly hurt you and make it almost impossible to deal with healing - your guys will always be hurt, pissed off and try to rebel. You need to combat and have matches consistently however the game will deliberately throw matches you can't win at you and do so several weeks in a row at a time and or have matches that barely pay out anything. It just isn't fun. Wanted to love it since I enjoyed Colosseum Road to Freedom but alas this just tries to screw you over every in game day you play it.

165 hrs at review
Recommended

Großartiges Spiel. Am Anfang brutal schwer, bis man die Mechaniken verstanden hat. Wird dann immer besser, je lämger man spielt. Hatte 0 crashes. Es gab nur einen lästigen Bug, beim Laden eines Dungeon hatte ich ab und zu einen schwarzen Bildschirm. Meistens hat das Laden des Savegames geholfen. Alles in allem, großartige Arbeit von dem Entwicklerstudio. Checke jetzt das Rolenspiel.

System Requirements

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: 30 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD Required!!!

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: 30 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: SSD Required!!!

FAQ

How much does Blackthorn Arena: Reforged cost?

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged costs $12.49. Currently 50% off!

What are the system requirements for Blackthorn Arena: Reforged?

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: 30 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD Required!!! 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: 30 GB available space Additional Notes: SSD Required!!!

What platforms is Blackthorn Arena: Reforged available on?

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged is available on Windows PC.

Is Blackthorn Arena: Reforged worth buying?

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged has 28% positive reviews from 18 players.

When was Blackthorn Arena: Reforged released?

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged was released on Nov 2, 2024.

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