You inherit Blackthorn Arena in the Freelands and take the role of its master. Build the arena’s roster and reputation while deciding how to manage its day-to-day operations. Buy and train gladiators, develop their attributes, skills, talents, and classes, and equip them with weapons and armor. Some can also take on support roles such as healing, cooking, or smithing. Send fighters into arena competitions or exploration missions to earn money, reputation, loot, and secrets. Victories can fund new equipment and arena upgrades, while rival gladiators can grow stronger, be injured, or die as they compete.
Run an inherited fantasy arena, train and equip gladiators, manage its staff and finances, and send fighters into bouts or exploration.
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!
Developed by PersonaeGame Studio · Published by Light Up Games
You inherit Blackthorn Arena in the Freelands and take the role of its master. Build the arena’s roster and reputation while deciding how to manage its day-to-day operations.
Buy and train gladiators, develop their attributes, skills, talents, and classes, and equip them with weapons and armor. Some can also take on support roles such as healing, cooking, or smithing.
Send fighters into arena competitions or exploration missions to earn money, reputation, loot, and secrets. Victories can fund new equipment and arena upgrades, while rival gladiators can grow stronger, be injured, or die as they compete.
The supplied reviews include brief expressions of enjoyment: one player says managing the team and arena is fun, and another calls the game entertaining. Other comments identify its arena-owner role-playing and management focus, but provide little detail about specific things they enjoy.
Full Game Details
From the Devs
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.
