Ruined King: A League of Legends Story

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is a story-driven, turn based role-playing game that features fan favorite champions, innovative turn-based combat, and beautiful art direction along with brand new…

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Adventure Indie Role-playing (RPG) Turn-based strategy (TBS) Fantasy

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is an adventure developed by Airship Syndicate, released 16 November 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is an adventure game developed by Airship Syndicate and released in 2021. It was published by Riot Forge. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Set in the world of Runeterra, this turn-based role-playing adventure unfolds between the lawless pirate city of Bilgewater and the cursed, undead-haunted Shadow Isles. Each year a supernatural force called the Black Mist rolls across the sea in a dreaded event known as the Harrowing, dragging fresh souls into torment, and lately the Harrowings have been growing worse. When the Mist strikes Bilgewater once more, an unlikely group of champions is drawn together to confront its source. Among them are the fearsome captain Miss Fortune, the devout priestess Illaoi, the stalwart protector Braum, the wandering swordsman Yasuo, the mysterious fox-woman Ahri, and the undying killer Pyke. Each…

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the League of Legends series

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is the sixth of 13 entries we hold in the League of Legends series. The next entry was The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story in 2023. Its critic score of 78 is 7 points below the series average of 85. The highest-rated entry is Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story at 90.

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How it was received

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story holds a critic score of 78 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 4 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story launched on 16 November 2021, within three weeks of Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Age of Empires IV, Forza Horizon 5, Unpacking, Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Screenshots

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When did Ruined King: A League of Legends Story come out?

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story was released on 16 November 2021 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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