
Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with a real-time/turn based combat system, set in a world of mythical monsters and classic fantasy races. Play as the master of Blackthorn Arena, train your slaves into gladiators, forge them into your champions, and send them to fight for your glory!
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overall I like the idea and it is not badly executed. Easy to learn the basics Hint:always try to have you gladiators do something before you press the hourglass, go to the traitor or into battle. not have them sitting doing nothing if you can. Graphics are all right but will never win any awards. So far I have got few bugs but none game-breaking. Mostly enemies ragdolling around in the cutscene after fights or running away when I press their profile. it was some replayability but can be quite repetitive. For me this will be one of those games that I go to 1-3 times a year and play then for few days. There are better games out there but there are also a lot of worse
游戏也太卡了吧? 一打兽人表演赛就卡死!!!!!!优化太烂了!
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 24 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 22 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,513 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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Languages: English*, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Korean*languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 801 reviews with recorded playtime.
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怎么说呢?游戏中bug问题还是有待改进,拳师一个抱摔结果把敌人甩进观众席里打也打不到,还有飞踹突击都有可能卡到竞技场以外,4打4的局变成3打4,希望能在竞技场周围设空气墙,不然动不动重启游戏很影响游戏体验。
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虽然bug有点多,剧情几乎没有,但还是个好玩的游戏,尤其是这个战斗编辑系统,手残玩家的救星
the Game is good .. the idea is nice too .. but still need a lot of work I can say it's a nice gamee to try and hope there will be a 2nd tital with new stuff
Best Gladiator management sim. The addition of real-time combat (with tactical pause) which you can directly control or simply watch play out is great. The character customization is expansive and the tactical scripting of individual gladiators' behaviors means that the aforementioned combat can be just as fun to simply watch as it is to control. In fact, when I got the game I was real excited to control my gladiators, and it is fun, but I was surprised to find I enjoy just watching the battles play out even more! On of my favorite parts of RPGs is character creation/leveling up, and the gladiator customization means I get to constantly create and develop new characters endlessly. It also makes starting up again after you inevitable go bankrupt and fail an exciting prospect rather than a frustrating one. Beyond the combat and individual gladiator customization, the actual management of your gladiator academy has plenty of crafting/research/upgrading options. The several academies that I have started have each played quite a bit differently depending on the gladiators I hired and their individual quirks. There were entire play-throughs, for example, where I didn't need to use my torture chamber but once or twice, and others where it was constantly manned and full of disobedient gladiators. There was another playthrough where my main hall (dining/kitchen) didn't need much fine tuning, but another where my gladiators' moral was constantly on the fritz and needed extra attention. Lots of replayability, perfect challenge level and challenge variety, great character customization, and you get to watch real gladiator battles play out, just like the good old days... 10/10
挺好玩的,就是Bug比较多,有点烦
非常好。
好玩,就是BUG多 期待优化!可玩性很高 期待
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