Ruined King

A spin-off to Riot Games' League of Legends, Ruined King uses characters and a setting originating in its parent title. The game is set in Bilgewater, a bustling pirate city, and the Shadow Isles, a cursed region filled with a corrupting force called the Black Mist. The player controls a party of six characters from League of Legends to find the source of the Black Mist. It is backwards compatible with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, with free upgrades to the native versions to be available in the future. Like Airship Syndicate's Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Ruined King A League of Legends Story is presented in a top-down perspective, with players directly navigating a party of characters around the world and through dungeons. When an enemy is encountered, the environment switches to a turn-based battle area in which characters and enemies await their turn to attack. Each of the main characters has a passive and active Dungeon Ability that players can use while traversing the world map, but the group can contain only three characters at one time out of a possible six and only one character can be present on the map at a time, so the player must anticipate which abilities will be useful. The game will often require the player to select a particular character for story progression or to obtain a rare item: Illaoi, as one of the Buhru people, is the only member of the team who can decipher Buhru text and artifacts, so she is a necessary inclusion for the Buhru Temple. The combat of Ruined King differs from traditional turn-based combat due to a mechanic called the Initiative Bar: it displays a timeline upon which every combatant has a position, showing when they will act and sometimes giving information on enemy abilities. Some abilities are Instant, but some have the option to select a Lane of the Bar: Speed, Balance or Power, forcing the player to consider the trade-off between a weaker ability sooner or a stronger one later. This is useful for dungeons or longer fights in which being economical with mana is a consideration. Ruined King: A League of Legends Story takes the player on a journey through Bilgewater and the Shadow Isles, regions of the world of Runeterra, the canon setting of League of Legends. Bilgewater is a port city in the Serpent Isles, and a town of outlaws, opportunity, and anarchy. The only law is that of the pirate captains', chief among whom is Gangplank, the Saltwater Scourge: a ruthless captain of the Dreadway and leader of the Jagged Hooks gang. Now a grown woman and a captain in her own right, Fortune has taken back the pistols that are her birthright and with them her revenge, blowing up the Dreadway with Gangplank on it. Fortune is torn between her desire to be a fairer ruler than Gangplank and the anger she has nursed over the long years of plotting her revenge.