About This 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.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Blackthorn Arena: Reforged has mature content such as gladiatorial combat, killing, and deals with slavery (such as in Ancient Rome).