
Forge a lasting dynasty across a Gladiator League of Runerock in this turn-based strategy game with RPG aspects. Hire your team, outfit them with equipment and spells, then lead them into tactical combat. Guide careers from raw recruits to seasoned legends, training new successors for arena glory.
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Take charge of your own fantasy gladiator team! This classic turn-based strategy game combines RPG elements, gladiator management, and tactical combat.
Managing your gladiator team is challenging and requires you to:
Hire new gladiators.
Equip them with weapons, armor and spells.
Scout your opponent teams.
Crush your competitors in turn-based battles (if you are able to win matches).
Invent innovative explanations for your losses (if you're unable to win matches – "The sun was in my gladiator's eyes!" is always a classic).
Earn money from ticket revenues and win bonuses.
Pay your gladiators' salaries.
Watch your favorite gladiators improve their skills and attributes, gain fame and victories, and ultimately retire from gladiator fights.
Strive for the ultimate goal: the League Championship of Runerock.
Each gladiator is almost as unique as a snowflake, with stats that include:
Name (of course!).
Age (old gladiators are liberated from gladiator battles, so this is quite important).
Character class (there are 36 different classes in the game, for example, the mighty Minotaur, the smart Sorceress, the stout Stoneman, and of course, the barbaric Barbarian).
Attributes (strength, dexterity, mana, health).
Set of melee and missile weapon skills.
Spell skills.
Miscellaneous skills like dodge and magic resistance.
Morale (nobody likes losses or other mishaps).
Most gladiators' stats can and will improve during their careers!
To all the Finnish fans of the "Areena" games: Runerock Arena is a game by the original creator, Seppo Suorsa.
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Challenging but rewarding gladiator manager game.
This game has a long history beginning from the 1990's. It's a very straightforward turn-based arena combat game with a management layer for hiring and equipping etc. There's a lot of different races and a good variety of equipment and spells. Skills, including spellcasting skills, improve with use. So you can either hire young cheap gladiators and see them improve (and guide them in a direction you want), or if you have the money, hire superstars (but they age and retire at some point). In Finland, it's a cult classic both because it's a good game and also because of hilarious tongue-in-cheek descriptions for everything. I switched the language to English for a moment, and it's the same descriptions, only slightly less unique and flashy writing style.
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Languages: English, German, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil
Hours played at review time, across 25 reviews with recorded playtime.
Runerock Areena 5
Mahtijäniksen siunaama peli!
Pure nostalgia
Arena is back, baby! This version has updated the name, but the core gameplay loop is the same - manage, outfit and control a misfit team of gladiators. New features and improvements have been added to the game but it hasn't lost any of the old magic that it brought with it like all those years ago. My dream of beating the cup on the first year still eludes me. Before I get to that I just need to fight through few more years. Or decades! See you on the sands of the Runerock Arena!
Paras Areenan versio tähän mennessä.
A very good continuation in legendary Areena games, which I have played since my childhood! The atmosphere and gameplay are still the same - but this is a good thing. Many things has been also improved, such as graphics and playability. This is also a thing with the now released full version! Best of the Areena games up to this date. Easy and fun to learn.
Great game, fun to play and works well
Simple but entertaining, just as it was back it the days with Areena 4
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