Legends of Runeterra

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6.8

Mixed or average reviews- based on 183 Ratings

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  1. Dokki
    Jan 7, 2022
    1
    its simmilar to tft, but worse. TFT, but not that good. It is a card game .
  2. JoMeowMeowTH
    Feb 9, 2022
    2
    2/9/2022

    Today I played lor, I played LAB mode. A mode that fights with Ai with characters like Yasuo Jinx Jayce to choose from. I have played Yasuo until Victor. Before reaching the Viktor stage, I had to pass a level where it was random, every turret Round start. I'm going to tell you that **** is so unbalanced I'm stuck at level 3 4 times and still haven't passed. I think what 1.    2/9/2022

    Today I played lor, I played LAB mode. A mode that fights with Ai with characters like Yasuo Jinx Jayce to choose from. I have played Yasuo until Victor. Before reaching the Viktor stage, I had to pass a level where it was random, every turret Round start.
    I'm going to tell you that **** is so unbalanced I'm stuck at level 3 4 times and still haven't passed.
    I think what
    1. Unbalanced is a card that Ai randomly gets and still gets a Key word. Key word is this. It pisses me off a lot. I randomly hit through and the one that hit through is a T-Rex 8/8.
    2. The card I have The gad I randomly picked up some important characters.
    2.1 Cleared the whole board (this one I'm okay with) but what's not okay is when the main character is dead What character? to defeat the T-rex 8/8 Overwhelm.

    2.2 Random Gards Gards that can make me play easier won't say. For example, if I do a Yasuo + Yone combo, these gards won't come out.

    End. I'm dizzy. I'm totally out of mood playing this LAB. I wasted 1 to 2 hours.
    Played several rounds, but still did not pass.    … Expand
  3. Saintphoenix
    Jun 21, 2020
    2
    Muchas animaciones que hacen alargar la partida, son demasiadas, completamente innecesario.
  4. OneHellOfAHorse
    May 11, 2020
    3
    Game is really beautiful and feels really good to play as expected from riot and i quite enjoyed the tutorial section which is really showing you all the different mechanics of the game.

    However this game really needs to be more balanced, and not by just adding more cards to outperform the previously op ones. Then i'm also quite disappointed by the way you get cards, you can get a    Game is really beautiful and feels really good to play as expected from riot and i quite enjoyed the tutorial section which is really showing you all the different mechanics of the game.

    However this game really needs to be more balanced, and not by just adding more cards to outperform the previously op ones.

    Then i'm also quite disappointed by the way you get cards, you can get a lot of cards early in the game just by following the tutorials but they're just basic cards. If you really want good cards you have to level up all the different factions, and doing so takes a long time and you will most likely end up against player you won't be able to counter because of the balance problem mixed with your lack of cards.

    I would also mention that i was expecting a better shop to get cards. Getting the rarity you want is a thing, but the cost is ridiculous for only one random card.

    TL;DR Game is beautiful, as of today i only came across one bug but i think it is only on it's way to becoming a cool card game but i hope Riot finds a way to fix it as a card game should be and not as League of Legends is fixed.    … Expand
  5. Flemat
    Jul 27, 2020
    2
    Solid mechanics, nice art style and card balance is fairly ok. Without the 1 major cons it would be a 8/10.
    HOWEVER
    the 20 hp that the players have is JUST NOT ENOUGH in my opinion. Why make expensive, decks (why buy or grind), when you can just go "Noxus" / "anything else" but i recommend "Ionia" to just go "face aka. Nexus, and win in sometimes 3, usually 4-6, and at most 8 turns!?    Solid mechanics, nice art style and card balance is fairly ok. Without the 1 major cons it would be a 8/10.
    HOWEVER
    the 20 hp that the players have is JUST NOT ENOUGH in my opinion. Why make expensive, decks (why buy or grind), when you can just go "Noxus" / "anything else" but i recommend "Ionia" to just go "face aka. Nexus, and win in sometimes 3, usually 4-6, and at most 8 turns!? Ofc. you can go meta Heimerdinger/Vi or something similar, but again...WHATS THE POINT?!

    Because of this kinda game breaking thing (easy to fix, yet still isn't: Nexus hp 20 -> 30) its VERY CHEESE, very EASY to dominate casual players and to grind up EVERYTHING in 2 weeks (inc. Bildgewater). So yea after 2 weeks i'm left with: ok, what now? NOTHING really. So w8 for next big updates / uninstall, that's it.

    PS: If you play anything else, it will take you MONTHS to get everything. Some of my friends stopped playing it all together after 2 weeks because "its too grindy" / "too slow to progress". When I told them and showed them my method, they were like " F OFF!!!". Some came back and finished their grind in a few days, some swore to never touch this game again EVER!

    In either case, you MIGHT have a solid 2 weeks of fun (by that i mean Strategically and tactically go ONLY Face/Nexus like a totally skilled player. Units live or die? Doesn't matter! Amount of cards in hand and/or deck? Doesn't matter! Mana cost/efficiency? Doesn't matter, only playing with cheap BS units and everything comes on curve 97.50% of the time! Leveling up Hero units? Doesnt matter, if it lives or dies! Strategy, positioning, synergy, tactics? DOESN'T F-ING MATTER!!! FACE FACE FAAAAACE like a total moron. Aaand it actually WORKS XD). Would usually rank it higher for that fact alone, that I had 2 weeks worth of fun, but we are talking about a company that has a lil. bit of che ching ($$$), so nope. League of Legends wanst made to last 2 weeks. I mean COME ON someone rewrite the 2 to a 3 (20 -> 30), if its mixed up! is it THAT HARD? Yes it is :)

    3/10
    THREE/TEN    … Expand
  6. J21Lb
    Jun 4, 2020
    4
    I do not know much English and therefore translate from Google.
    I put 4 out of 10 developers on the aspects that the game deserves a month after the release, let's go through them.
    When the game was released, a wild fall of the servers began, the loss of the donation currency - support scripts - which responds quickly, but does not help properly. Since the game is still open-beta testing    I do not know much English and therefore translate from Google.
    I put 4 out of 10 developers on the aspects that the game deserves a month after the release, let's go through them.
    When the game was released, a wild fall of the servers began, the loss of the donation currency - support scripts - which responds quickly, but does not help properly. Since the game is still open-beta testing very poorly, constant crashes, relapses into the game. Then we go to the system of avatars and other favorite things that players love, avatars are broken - the patch was fixed, but still they bug every other time, we take bugs which still doubled with the release. We follow the meta - patch balance in the CCI once a month. We still have a lot of work to do, well, while the game still looks like in the developers, there are already many promises and so far few people believe in it and everyone is waiting. They are great guys and all that - the gorgeous game I play - but still the quality of the product is at a very low level because it was made at Unity. I’ll summarize the results of 2020 - if all the shortcomings are removed I will give it a better grade, but for now it’s 4-5 out of 10, no more, because I’m not playing the Riot project, but the indie studio project.    … Expand
  7. Kezz123
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    They finally did it. They copied heartstone formula to fix outcome of games. I have seen since last patch (never once before last patch) 90% of my games with stuff coming out that is 1 chance in 100000300403002020. Pathetic. Skill is no longer relevant. Lets aim to make everyone as close as 50% winrate as possible. What a joke. it was pretty obvious this was happening in HS andThey finally did it. They copied heartstone formula to fix outcome of games. I have seen since last patch (never once before last patch) 90% of my games with stuff coming out that is 1 chance in 100000300403002020. Pathetic. Skill is no longer relevant. Lets aim to make everyone as close as 50% winrate as possible. What a joke. it was pretty obvious this was happening in HS and hard to debate that they could do it after certain cards allowing you to fetch the "perfect" card were released....but holy smokes is it even more obvious in this game with 40 card decks. Player tossing 90% of his deck in the first 3 turns but somehow not only started with all the toss cards but managed to not toss any of his combo finishers and good cards. Its astonishing that I had literally 2 copy paste games where the opponent drew exactly the same thing, played the same cards, tossed the same cards and ended the game the same way with the same cards. Astronomical odds of happening....happening in 2 of my last 6 games. lol. You got more chances to get hit by a meteor particle in the left eye and develop an eye infection that attracts a lightning bolt generated by a anormal electro magnetic field due to 2 planes colliding with a fire truck in the sky. disgusting how they all ruin games in the sake of making bad players feel like they are good 50% of the time to drive mtx.
    This game WAS so good. They ruined it. Not mentionning that you may as well make a net deck now because 99.9% of decks you will play against are the same 3-5 decks.    … Expand
  8. Serpicnate
    May 8, 2020
    4
    I really enjoy the Universe Riot Games created with their main game League of Legends. Which is why I tried staying positive about any flaw I found while playing in both closed and open Beta. Sadly, they remain untouched. Here is my honest view on the game after putting in dozens of hours:

    Music and Art is great as with all of Riot Game's work. And just as such, the game-play itself is    I really enjoy the Universe Riot Games created with their main game League of Legends. Which is why I tried staying positive about any flaw I found while playing in both closed and open Beta. Sadly, they remain untouched. Here is my honest view on the game after putting in dozens of hours:

    Music and Art is great as with all of Riot Game's work.
    And just as such, the game-play itself is lackluster.
    It fixes many issues other games in the same genre have, while adding a lot more.

    Mana-efficiency of cards is all over the place.

    Region limitation handicaps creative decks and makes matches very predictable (if not boring) once you have gotten enough experience.

    AFK behavior is basically a punishment for the active player, instead of the other way around.

    Balancing issues haven't been touched since the closed beta. Instead, they added more cards to then ignore balancing again. (Which I should have expected from this company).

    Bugs and glitches as far the eye can see.

    Lackluster missions and points for winning matches.

    Even worse: the more you play, the less points you'll get over time. It is the first game I have encountered, that punishes active play.

    Summing up all of the above, I couldn't be more disapointed by a game so proudly labeled to have a fix for other card game issues. How about instead of fixing their problems, you fix your own first, Riot?    … Expand
  9. 6oni
    Nov 5, 2020
    1
    really horrible, a game has to be fun, not a frustrating job
    , when everything comes down to winning, investing hours, money and looking at the best decks on the internet.
    a game made without passion just another business attempt
  10. ningen_sekai
    May 20, 2020
    2
    Game is pretty but gameplay wise its one of the worst games developed,the decision made for some cards are so unhealthy for the game, not fun to play and not fun to play against.
  11. NDiggy13
    Jun 22, 2020
    0
    Another pay to win card game in the same vein as Hearthstone and Gwent. If you like Hearthstone but would rather play a card game set in the League of Legends universe then this game is worth checking out. Be forewarned though, just as with Hearthstone, you'll either have to spend a lot of money up front or spend a copious amount of time playing the game over the coming months to be ableAnother pay to win card game in the same vein as Hearthstone and Gwent. If you like Hearthstone but would rather play a card game set in the League of Legends universe then this game is worth checking out. Be forewarned though, just as with Hearthstone, you'll either have to spend a lot of money up front or spend a copious amount of time playing the game over the coming months to be able to build a competitive deck. Matchmaking is abysmal and deck balance doesn't exist.

    The game seems generous at first with rewards, but you quickly learn that the rewards aren't the powerful cards you really need to compete. And if you decide you do want to spend money, then I hope you have plenty of cash to burn because it will cost quite a bit to build a competitive deck or two with how the shop is structured.

    Card balance and mana costs need a lot of tuning, which is surprising since I would have assumed they would have gotten this more balanced before going live. Some champions are absolutely broken, Tryndemere springs to mind. He's insanely powerful and once he's on the field it's a guaranteed win. Doesn't require any set up or intricate card combinations to pull off, just play him and you win 95% of the time. That's not well balanced, and that's just one example.

    Stay away from this game unless you plan on spending a lot of money, or don't plan on having a competitive deck for several months, because it will take at least that long to build with the reward system currently in place.

    Riot also employs Bots in ranked play.    … Expand
  12. Dmor
    May 14, 2020
    0
    Too beginner friendly and holds your hand wayy too much. Plus poro sucks at being cute.
  13. Nidame
    Jun 4, 2020
    0
    The game is frustrating, unplayable, unbalanced, mechanics that should not exist, cards that should not be created at all, bugged, I should write a separate review about this funny matchmaking, always choose the most expensive cards from the deck, no matter that you have a deck filled to the brim with cheap **** always will you choose what you don't need, and your opponent always say,The game is frustrating, unplayable, unbalanced, mechanics that should not exist, cards that should not be created at all, bugged, I should write a separate review about this funny matchmaking, always choose the most expensive cards from the deck, no matter that you have a deck filled to the brim with cheap **** always will you choose what you don't need, and your opponent always say, always has what he needs, how the **** do I ask? Errors that often lead to your defeat, and do not write about the mistakes you make, but about those ****ing bugs that make the opponent's unit invisible from the beginning of the game, or the graphics of the unit that you got rid of 5 games ago! the glow that hits your eyes from some cards is so bright that half the screen is invisible, so you can't play unless you get rid of the cards from the hand that is responsible for it. I play from the beta and I think it will stop, I can't stand this carousel of frustration, first Elusive, then Burn Aggro, now Unyielding Spirit, Rito, get down to work and you don't promise a pear on a willow, first fix it and then add content because I'm ****ing it can't be played, I know that I wrote a lot of bad things, probably most of what I wrote here happened only to me, but seriously the **** like me can't win even 1 game per hour what is to be said by a new player who is delighted with the positive reviews will come to LoR and will get after all this, **** up on the farm to collect cucumbers and not the ****ing cards. If you've read it to the end, then good luck on your journey through the dung heap called Legends of Runeterra.… Expand
  14. ChitimusWinton
    Aug 15, 2020
    0
    I recently started playing Hearthstone until i realised after a short while the matchmaking was completely fixed and no matter what you did climbing ranked is next to impossible unless you spend money, so i uninstalled. Then i started playing LOR and guess what the exact same thing. Gaming has died, the game developers of this world are greedy and corrupt just like the rest of it.
  15. KinG_AnTeZ
    May 30, 2021
    3
    Gioco ingiocabile, come al solito Riot pensa solo a inserire nel gioco nuove Skin e personaggi nuovi ma non sa ne bilanciare ne aggiungere nuove carte con criterio. Nel gioco ci sono solo mazzi combo uno più tossico dell'altro non esistono mazzi control e i mazzi aggro fanno fatica contro tutti gli altri.. però riot in compenso ci mette a disposizione nuove skin molto economiche allaGioco ingiocabile, come al solito Riot pensa solo a inserire nel gioco nuove Skin e personaggi nuovi ma non sa ne bilanciare ne aggiungere nuove carte con criterio. Nel gioco ci sono solo mazzi combo uno più tossico dell'altro non esistono mazzi control e i mazzi aggro fanno fatica contro tutti gli altri.. però riot in compenso ci mette a disposizione nuove skin molto economiche alla modica cifra di 50 euro tanto per rendere il gioco ancora più ridicolo. Do 3 al gioco perchè nel meta esistiono come ho detto solo mazzi combo tossici e poco bilanciati una schifezza totale.… Expand
  16. DioXGaming
    Jan 4, 2021
    2
    Good for nothing pay to win antics game created to trick players into buying cards that are way overpowered making it impossible for players to play against and win. A good for nothing pay to win video game that you rather not play unless you have nothing else to play in which I have to say "get a job".
  17. Noiza
    Dec 13, 2021
    3
    The game is something between Meh and OK.
    F2P friendly, nice Graphics/Artwork and regual new content makes it fun for a game now and then.
    The biggest let down for me are Bugs, Metaplay and communication. Bugs appear on a dayli base and range from grafics glitches into others to cards wont work or you cant place them (even though i encountered gamebreaking bugs very rarely). Bugs    The game is something between Meh and OK.
    F2P friendly, nice Graphics/Artwork and regual new content makes it fun for a game now and then.

    The biggest let down for me are Bugs, Metaplay and communication.
    Bugs appear on a dayli base and range from grafics glitches into others to cards wont work or you cant place them (even though i encountered gamebreaking bugs very rarely).
    Bugs stay in the game for very long until they get fixed e.g. Shurima came out 8 Months ago and Azirs voice lane is still cut during the lvl up animation.

    Communication means, i have the feeling they only hear positiv feedback and ignore negativ feedback/player suggestions, one reason i post my critic here.
    Imo the Report Side is not comfortable (i was not able to use it for a long time) and i dont like the big chatroom on discord, i feel ignored.

    There are a lot builds you can play but only for the Memes, not for winning. In ranked, you can see only flavor of the month, the Metagame is very strong in this one.
    Off-Meta builds are really not fun to play and the few Meta Builds change on every patch.
    Power Creep is a huge problem in LoR, every patch, the new Cards are way more powerfull then the "older ones", either by having way better Stats/cost ratio or have the same stats but really good keywords.
    The game makes no secret that it has its focus on fast games, thats why rush decks are Meta and lategame or control decks feel useless. E.g. Seamonsters needs you to throw 25 of your 40 cards away ,literally(!), to have theyr keyword work.
    The only reason i do sometimes recommend it to some die hard League fans is its because its F2P.

    EDIT: New expansion is out, tonns of skinns, new power creep no balancing.    … Expand
  18. Mazma
    Dec 25, 2020
    4
    Altro gioco di carte online che tenta di rinfrescare il genere, senza il minimo successo.
  19. Welp123
    Oct 21, 2021
    0
    Unbalanced, and don't know if the game is more luck than me but it always got a card to beat me just in time all the time, and the cards too op, then riot just add more op card, overall: almost trash
  20. jebac_karty
    Jul 25, 2022
    0
    jebane rng chłopy myślą po 15 minut czy wstawić pająka 1|1 a potem i tak wygrywa bo na start dostaje do ręki karty z kosztem 6 5 5 i 8
  21. AlexMakesToast
    Nov 20, 2022
    3
    Legends of Runeterra = 3/10
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87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 12
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  1. But Why Tho?
    Apr 6, 2021
    95
    With an exciting new region, new mechanics, and themes adding a bevy of new strategies to the game, this new expansion looks to really shake up the meta in an exciting way.
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  2. GameStar
    Jul 2, 2020
    81
    The strategically and optically convincing TGC skillfully introduces new ideas into the genre. Very generous and fair Free2Play system!
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  3. CD-Action
    Jun 25, 2020
    90
    There’s a lot of pleasure to be had in watching your favorite champions do similar tricks to those from League of Legends. It’s a bold mix of themes known from Magic: The Gathering and Hearthstone with stuff that’s absolutely unique. [07/2020, p.48]
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