World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth (abbreviated as Battle or BfA) is the seventh expansion for World of Warcraft. It was announced at BlizzCon 2017 on November 3, 2017. The idea of the expansion came up…

79 13 August 2018

Role-playing (RPG) Action Fantasy Open world Warfare

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Blizzard Entertainment, released 13 August 2018 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 16 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2018. It was published by Activision Blizzard. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Declare Your Allegiance Azeroth paid a terrible price to end the apocalyptic march of the Legion's crusade—but even as the world's wounds are tended, it is the shattered trust between the Alliance and Horde that may prove the hardest to mend. In Battle for Azeroth, the fall of the Burning Legion sets off a series of disastrous incidents that reignites the conflict at the heart of the Warcraft saga. As a new age of warfare begins, Azeroth's heroes must set out on a journey to recruit new allies, race to claim the world's mightiest resources, and fight on several fronts to determine whether the Horde or Alliance will lead Azeroth into its uncertain future. Whoever wins the coming war will…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and warfare.

Where it sits in the Warcraft series

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is the 41st of 69 entries we hold in the Warcraft series. The next entry was World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth - Collector's Edition in 2018. Its critic score of 79 is almost exactly the series average of 80. The highest-rated entry is World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King at 97.

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How it was received

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth holds a critic score of 79 out of 100. That places it above 59% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 10 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 75, across 107 votes.

What it launched against

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth launched on 13 August 2018, within three weeks of Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition and The Messenger. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition, Dead Cells, Divinity: Original Sin II - Definitive Edition, The Messenger.

Cheats and codes

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