Ruined King: Riot Single Player Turn-Based RPG

About time they did something like this. We all knew something was coming just a matter of SP or MMO. Thankfully they didn't jump right into the MMO market.

very action oriented trailer for a turned based rpg seems like a very poor choice.

Was this announced ahead of time? Seems like a surprise release date. This is the same studio that made the Battle Chasers game which was decent enough turn-based combat.

Preview video on Steam looks incredibly similar to the BC gameplay.

Yeah, it was a surprise release. Only Hextech Mayhem was expected to come out today.

Pretty tempting to pick up for Switch. Battle Chasers was almost a great game, so I would hope they fixed the complaints about it when they made this one. Downside of surprise release is no reviews though. Fortunately I'm still less than halfway through SMT V so there's plenty of time to wait and see how it turned out.

Battle Chasers had some flaws yea but it was still a blast.

I'll probably give this a shot, largely just to have something chill I play and not pay infinite attention to.

This literally is the successor to Battle Chasers: Night War using the same systems with some new additions. Most significant changes I've seen so far are Speedy/Balanced/Power versions of moves that trigger faster or for more damage, enchanting lets you infuse items to higher rarity if you have materials, and you upgrade individual abilities directly rather than having a perks list.

All this world building.. you would think they are leading up to something "big".. something that they would want millions of players to interact with. Hrmmm...

There's a free fishing rod/bait from chests in town, caught a treasure box from my first fishing hole and it gave a purple chest and neck upgrade. Fish to success!

Daidraco said:

All this world building.. you would think they are leading up to something "big".. something that they would want millions of players to interact with. Hrmmm...

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Their MMO isn't even a secret, it's just official knowledge. Only question is the timeline really. 2023? 2025? Who knows.

ronne said:

Their MMO isn't even a secret, it's just official knowledge. Only question is the timeline really. 2023? 2025? Who knows.

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Was Sarcasm, Ronne. The timeline is exactly what I was insinuating. In essence, a release date.

Seems solid so far. Only played a couple hours- but also got hijacked by fishing. No purples for me ><.

friends feeling it. might check into it myself.

high quality.

I liked BC so this game is appealing as the same genre. I think the maps are static in RK with no procedural generation going on through the temple "dungeon" at least. Got a rank 10 fishing rod/bait free in a temple chest so they like to hand those out at certain points. The map is not registering an enchanting recipe I got and continues to list 0/1 plus there's a grate blocking the last temple chest and I can't find any more puzzles. Guess they might have later unlocks and have you revisit but it's easy to see 7/8 on the map and remember.

As far as changes from BC you get rune shards upon hitting level 8 and by level 12 you have enough to buy a second rank. Those replaced perk tomes and the two Mastery trees have four tracks total to put shards into I assume it will be 1/2/3/4 cost for each. Between runes and ability upgrades you choose your build diversity through the mid game. If you skip buying gear with gold you will be weaker going into a fresh dungeon but so far I've got enough from chests to outfit three people.