
Re-experience the thrill and challenges of managing a Gladiator arena in this management/simulation game. With new content, new graphics, Quality of Life updates, and all DLCs packed into this new experience, this is how Blackthorn Arena was meant to be experienced.
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Re-experience the thrill and challenges of managing a Gladiator arena in the new Blackthorn Arena: Reforged. With new additional content gameplay, new graphics, Quality of Life updates, and all DLCs packed into this new experience, this is how Blackthorn Arena was meant to be experienced.
Enter The Freelands, a realm of adventurers and fortune seekers, where the quest for wealth is above all else. You have just inherited the Blackthorn Arena, and how you manage it is up to you..












15 Arenas each with its own unique style
26 Legendary Champions with their own powerful battle styles.
7 Different Weapon types for your gladiators to master
12 Unique Gladiator classes/Genre
About 200 Different skills that can be combined to make the Ultimate Gladiator
More than 100 unique enemy types! Players will encounter tough opponents in a variety of competitions and side exploration missions
Around 500 pieces of equipment, including Legendary Weapons and Armor Sets for players to obtain
"Blackthorn Arena: Reforged" features a Real-Time Combat System with an optional Auto battler Combat System. Players can switch to it at anytime of the Game.
More than 30 hours of playing time! Lots of abundant Events and Side Missions are waiting!
Buy slaves and train them into Gladiators. You will need to manage their attributes, skills, talents, and equip them with the best armor and weapons you can afford. Some of them may exhibit the capacity to become auxiliaries for your crew, such as cooks, healers, drillmasters, blacksmiths, etc.
Send your Gladiators to fight in more than 14 diverse arenas or dispatch them to explore The Freelands for loot and secrets. Challenge champions of other arenas and take over their positions. Strive to become the most powerful arena master in the world.
As your gladiators win battles in other arenas, you will gain money and reputation. Winning leads to new slaves, better equipment, and upgrades for your establishment when needed. Reputation is important too, as it highly effects the Arena's income.
Key Features
All Gladiators exist dynamically in the world – not just the ones affiliated with you, but also the gladiators in other Arenas. Gladiators will fight in different competitions held all over the world every day. They can die, get injured, or grow stronger, just as your gladiators do. Whenever you defeat other Gladiators, you can either spare their lives or execute them - which can lead to unexpected outcomes!
Blackthorn Arena offers players a cRPG character development system. Choose between multiple major attributes, weapon types, and combine over 100 combat skills to build a unique Gladiator. Your Gladiators will gain various traits during their Gladiatorial career, which will have a strong impact on competitions.
Choose from over 500 pieces of armor and weapons, and not just for combat effectiveness but also for the aesthetic! Each set of armor has a unique appearance and will be reflected in the game’s advanced avatar system. There are also mysterious Legendary Weapons and Armor waiting for players to find and obtain them.
As an arena master, you must deal with several events every day. Some of them may be opportunities while others spell disaster. Thus dealing with all kinds of emergencies also becomes an important and inevitable experience of managing an arena. Meanwhile, there are a large number of side missions in the game. Players can trigger them and send Gladiators to participate in the missions such as highway robberies, exploration of dungeons, beast hunting, and many other quests!
Players can dispatch Gladiators to various exploration areas to discover, and capture rare and powerful creatures to put them into the arena as the finale of hosting Venationes.
The battle between the arenas is not limited to just 1v1, 2v2, 3v3, or 4v4. At the same time, there are different battle modes such as venationes, exhibition, tag fight, throne challenge and tournament to challenge players’ ability.
The game’s combat is based on real-time, but you can pause it at any moment to issue a command, switch between characters, or apply several other actions.
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Reviews
优化差,BUG多,开发商没跑路,但是很不负责,已经停止修复BUG而去开发新游戏了,所以建议看到这个开发商出的游戏都别买,避坑。
If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to pay money to beta-test a PowerPoint presentation held together with duct tape… boy, do I have a gladiator simulator for you. 🎮 Gameplay Imagine chess, but every piece forgets how to move, walks into a wall, then dies of confusion. That’s Blackthorn Arena: Reforged. Your gladiators enter the arena with: The confidence of champions The intelligence of a Roomba having a panic attack Half the time they attack the air. The other half, they attack themselves. Beautiful. 🧠 AI AI stands for: Actively Ignoring your commands Your healer will sprint into melee. Your tank will refuse to tank. Your archer will close his eyes and spin like a malfunctioning Beyblade. I’ve seen NPCs in Skyrim with 0 brain cells. Blackthorn Arena saw that and said: “Hold my beer.” 📟 UI / Interface The UI looks like it escaped from a 2006 Flash game. Buttons overlap like they’re cuddling for warmth. Tooltips show up three minutes late like they got stuck in traffic. Sometimes you click a button and: nothing happens or the wrong thing happens or everything happens and the UI has a stroke Truly revolutionary. 🚑 Optimization This game is so poorly optimized that even your GPU stands up, looks at you, and says: “Bro… I can’t.” FPS drops harder than your gladiators. Loading screens last longer than your relationships. And the stuttering? That’s not your PC — that’s the game having a midlife crisis. 🐛 Bugs The bugs deserve their own arena. At this point they could fight in tournaments. Honestly, the bugs have better AI than the gladiators. Characters freeze Abilities don’t fire Inventory disappears Animations just… give up It’s less “game” and more “interactive museum of software malfunctions.” 🏁 Final Verdict Blackthorn Arena: Reforged is an incredible educational experience. It teaches you patience, anger management, and how to uninstall a game in record time. If you enjoy: Paying to suffer Being ignored by AI Watching your characters run face-first into walls Experiencing bugs that should come with an entomology degree Then congratulations — this is the game for you. For everyone else? Avoid it like your ex texting you “we need to talk.”
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.29/day in the week to Jul 24 → 0.14/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Polish*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 62 reviews with recorded playtime.
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忽然想重新玩一遍,发现被改的面目全非,不管什么搭配都可能猝死,玩家花费时间堆积的经验搭配被制作住改了又改,总之一句话,你游戏本身的引擎问题导致的各种技能BUG攻击bug你没本事修,就购买你游戏的玩家好欺负?你就像个傻逼一样站出来说“玩家的玩法是不对的,有恶意利用游戏机制的行为,你们花费无数时间总结的经验制作组不认可,要改”折磨了80多个小时又通了一遍,结束来给个差评,一句话,你们工作室的游戏以后拉黑,绝不会买,我草泥马,傻逼制作组,这次通关只有无尽的恶心。
This is just another broken re-release scam.
Pretty meh.... so I don't recommend. Blackthorn Arena: Reforged 3/10 Heisen
かなり面白かったけど人を選びすぎ 常に何かがバグっている(キャラのアイコンが真っ黒になったり頭防具を変えると急に禿げる、モーションがおかしい等) 進行不能系のバグはタッグマッチ(勝ち抜き戦)でダウンした先鋒を中堅が蘇生して2対1の状況にした状態で負けると試合が進まなくなる現象のみ遭遇 日本語訳はUIや流派の解説に若干の未翻訳部分があるがストーリー部分の翻訳は完璧 トーナメントで勝ち上がってくる敵チームによって難易度が激変するので若干の運ゲー感あり 勝つまでロードを繰り返すのが苦じゃない人じゃないとつらいかも アイアンマンモードもあるけどクリアできる気がしない 何をどう育てれば強いキャラになるのか全く見当がつかないのでかなりの試行錯誤が楽しめる たまにとんでもねえ弱スキルがあるのでスキル振り直しポーションのお世話になる 二刀流ローグの毒扇風機やコマンダーモンクの回復ゾンビが強いと思いきや 大盾タンクのネームドキャラが無双していたり極まった魔法使いが全てを破壊したりする 最終戦で生き残り勝利をもたらしたのは適正レベルが5も低い獣変身マンだった 中国人が考えた最強の中世ファンタジーが舞台なので 侍、忍者、武侠の剣士、唐王朝ごろの槍兵、獣に変身するヴァイキング、魔法使いなどが出てくる‼‼‼‼ キャラメイクがあり、おっぱいスライダーがある‼‼‼‼‼‼‼‼
No. You NEED to postpone the Spring games!!! (In "settings" or in the "default game") The spring games need to be postponed to make this game playable. Even on the easiest custom difficulty the gladiators will not be strong enough to reach 15+ level which is needed to beat the stupid tournament. If you aren't the champion of this unbeatable tournament you will be "GAME OVER". This ruines the whole game, it would be so much fun to just have the option to play as long as you want. To grind infinitely and to commit to the important tournament when you know you are ready. Now I have to uninstall the game untill it is ready for a 10th playthrough when the game is finally ready to be played properly. This game has so much potential as one of the few "Gladiator Ludus management" games.
我没有魔法dlc,新手教程刚过,第一局对面一发法术轰过来给我打残了,你们有什么头绪吗?
优化差 BUG多 玩一会就开始卡顿 制作组也不打算修复了
Yet another game with a great deal of potential, destroyed by over-reliance on RNG. I mean, seriously. Why bother allowing us to create roles (characters) if - - Their home skills have nothing to do with the traits you pick ("inborn cooks" that are skilled in alchemy) - You might not find them in the market. Why set up a crafting system if you will only allow the materials to be randomly available? I mean seriously... if you're going to do that, might as well just call it "roll dice arena" and be done with it.
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