Blackthorn Arena is a strategy/management sim with real-time combat system set in a fantasy world with 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 glories in the arenas!

## About This Game
The story happens in a brutal land called the Freelands, consists of several
city states and trade towns while slavery is still a universal thing here. You
– as an heir of the Blackthorn Arena, swear to take back the glory and honor
once belong to your family.

Core Game Play:
1) Build your gladiators:
Buy slaves and train them into gladiators. You will need to manage their
attributions, skills and talents, equip them with the best armors and weapons
you can afford. Some of them may have talent to become a support staff such as
cooks, healer, drillmaster, black smith etc.

2) Claim your Glories:
Send your Gladiators to fight in 10 diverse arenas in “The FreeLand”, defeat
other gladiators and over 30 kinds of monsters. Challenge the champions of
other arenas, kick them out of their throne. Create your own champions and
become the most powerful master in the world.

3) Manage your arena:
Don’t forget you have an arena to manage! As your gladiators win battles in
other arenas, you will gain money as reward, as well as reputation. Money can
buy new slaves, better equips and upgrade your arena when needed. Use your
money wisely because everything about running an arena is depending on it.
Reputation is important too, cost reputation to hold a game will grant you
considerable incomes.

Key Feature:
1) All Gladiators are lived:
All gladiators are existed dynamically in the game world – not only yours, but
also gladiators in other Arenas or belongs to other masters. NPC gladiators
will enroll in different competitions which hold all over the world every day.
They could die, get injured or grow stronger as your gladiators do. Whenever
you defeat other Gladiators, you can either spare their lives or execute them.
If you spare gladiators, you may face them again in the future battle.

2) RPG level Character build:
Blackthorn Arena offers players a CRPG level character build systems. Choose
between 6 major attributes and 6 weapon types, combine over 100 combat skills
to build a unique fighter. There are no classes, you create your own class!
Your Gladiators will also gain various traits during their gladiator career.
Some traits may have strong impacts in competitions.

3) Various equipment:
Equip your gladiators with over 200 pieces of armors and weapons, not just for
combat effectiveness but also for fashion! Each set of armor has an unique
appearance and will reflect in our advanced avatar system.

4) Abundant events:
As an Arena master, you must deal with plenty of events every day. Some of
them are opportunity while others are total troubles. Dealing with all kinds
of emergencies is also an important and inevitable experience for an Arena
master.

5) Real time combat with tactical pause:
The game’s combat is based on real time, but you can pause at any time to
issue an command, switch between characters or apply other technique
movements.

6) Editable Combat AI
During fighting, you can command only one gladiator at a time. The rest of
them will fight automatically. But you can always edit your gladiators’ combat
AI so they can response to different situation properly.

7) Brutal and challenging Gladiator Career:
The career of a gladiator is cruel and gory. Your Gladiators could completely
lose control due to will collapses in the battles. Also beware, Gladiators may
die permanently when get defeated! So, please cherish your Gladiators’ lives,
but don’t get over passible for them.

## Mature Content Description
The developers describe the content like this:
This Game contains little gore and violent content during battle/fight
phase.

Blackthorn Arena