Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Very Positive · 89%Very Positive · 89%2021

$29.99

US Steam price, checked 2 h ago

The verdict

A stylish, story-rich turn-based RPG with clever lane combat and great voice acting, held back by bugs, slow walking and repetition. Skip it if you want polish or brisk pacing.

Great for

Turn-based RPG fans, Battle Chasers fans and League of Legends lore lovers, ideally buying on sale

Main risk

Unfixed bugs and soft locks, plus slow backtracking, can block progress and completionism

What players love

Great story and voice acting

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews

“great story telling with great voice acting”
Steam review · 84.2 h played ↗

“carried by the excellent voice acting and the barrage of compelling dialogue and interactions”
Steam review · 87.8 h played ↗

“Great game with a cool story and well-developed characters and their stories.”
Steam review · translated · 72.8 h played ↗

Engaging lane-based combat and builds

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews

“Having turn based combat with three different lanes for speed, 'normal', and power was a very interesting idea and I very much enjoyed juggling my party members around.”
Steam review · 71.8 h played ↗

“You can build your party in several ways, and most comps are viable if you commit. Buff stacking, bleed builds, crit abuse, all of it works.”
Steam review · 94 h played ↗

“The gameplay has perfect balance; you can open skills and runes at any time and change everything to fit your playstyle.”
Steam review · translated · 41.3 h played ↗

Rich League of Legends lore and characters

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 positive reviews

“where the game shines most are the characters. They're expanded upon so well”
Steam review · 39.1 h played ↗

“as a former League player in love with its lore”
Steam review · 6.3 h played ↗

“Now you can learn even more League lore and walk not just the Summoner's Rift but other locations.”
Steam review · translated · 40.4 h played ↗

Beautiful art style and music

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“this game really excels in its presentation, as the environment, characters, music & sound design is all amazing”
Steam review · 31.1 h played ↗

“graphics, magnificent work by artists, modelers and animators, one of the most beautiful games around”
Steam review · translated · 34.7 h played ↗

Fun even without knowing League

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“To answer the question of "Do you need to know LoL to enjoy this?" The answer is no.”
Steam review · 48.5 h played ↗

“I've never played League of Legends but still enjoyed the story and characters.”
Steam review · 33.6 h played ↗

What players complain about

Bugs and soft locks never fixed

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews

“This game is completely dragged down because it just has way too many bugs.”
Steam review · 59.1 h played ↗

“I was really enjoying the game until I came across a bug that locks me out of content with nothing I can do about it”
Steam review · 71.7 h played ↗

“The game is already a year old and nobody intends to fix the problems.”
Steam review · translated · 45.1 h played ↗

Weak story and dull characters

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“An uninteresting story with characters I don’t care about and “meh” combat.”
Steam review · 4.2 h played ↗

“The story is quite long with a pretty slow pace, which bored me enough to stop playing.”
Steam review · 37.6 h played ↗

Confusing map, quest tracking and clunky UI

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“There are so many quality of life problems in this game”
Steam review · 22.4 h played ↗

“after opening the map I even cannot find a name that corresponds to the quest objective”
Steam review · 9.1 h played ↗

Repetitive, bloated combat and length

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“Too many maps with too many meaningless fights (even when you play on higher difficulty).”
Steam review · 47.1 h played ↗

“By hour 30 the combat doesn't so much run out of steam as writhe in its death throes.”
Steam review · translated · 30.1 h played ↗

Slow movement, backtracking, limited fast travel

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“Even while sprinting your character moves incredibly slow.”
Steam review · 24.2 h played ↗

“There's only about 3-4 spots on each map you can TP to, otherwise you have to walk.”
Steam review · 27.2 h played ↗

“I am certainly not spending it backtracking for a straight 10 minutes for no other reason than "I have to"”
Steam review · 13.3 h played ↗

Reskin of Battle Chasers, unpolished

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“this basically is a LoL-themed reskin for the most part. Not worth the price at all.”
Steam review · 19 h played ↗

“Play Battle Chasers: Nightwar instead.”
Steam review · 8.7 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Playable

Minimum

OSWindows 10, 64-bit

ProcessorIntel Core i5-2300, AMD A8-5600k

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsRadeon Vega 8 / Intel Iris Plus / Geforce GTX 650 / Radeon HD 7770 (2GB VRAM Required)

Storage15 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 10, 64-bit

ProcessorIntel Core i3-6100, AMD FX-8120

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsGeforce GTX 660Ti, Radeon HD 7950

Storage15 GB available space

OSWindows 10, 64-bit

ProcessorIntel Core i5-2300, AMD A8-5600k

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsRadeon Vega 8 / Intel Iris Plus / Geforce GTX 650 / Radeon HD 7770 (2GB VRAM Required)

Storage15 GB available space

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