Runes of Magic
Runes of Magic (RoM) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by the Taiwanese developer Runewaker Entertainment and adapted for the English and German-speaking market by German…
Runes of Magic is an adventure developed by Runewaker Entertainment, released 19 March 2009 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Runes of Magic is
Runes of Magic is an adventure game developed by Runewaker Entertainment and released in 2009. It was published by Gameforge. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on RENA.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A Fanciful and Sinister Imagination Taborea was born when Ayvenas began recording his visions of an extraordinary world in a book. As he wrote, the god created peaceful races and idyllic lands for them to inhabit. But, as we all know, a happy story is a boring story, so one day he had a thought that would prove very dangerous indeed: “What if the story weren’t so peaceful?” This insidious thought so consumed him that he began painting Taborea in a darker palette of colours: Wise men became fools, gentle elves developed brutal tendencies and gracious dwarves were spoilt with greed. Even the provisions intended to protect the creatures of Taborea were twisted and corrupted. Ayvenas recognised…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Runes of Magic holds a critic score of 49 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 18 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Runes of Magic launched on 19 March 2009, within three weeks of Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Empire: Total War and Guitar Hero: Metallica. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars, Empire: Total War, Guitar Hero: Metallica.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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