Two months after it was leaked by South Korea’s recreation ranking board (opens in new tab) and three weeks after it was formally introduced (opens in new tab), The Mageseeker: A League of Legends Story has an imminent launch date and a vibrant new trailer to go along with it. The sport, which tells a narrative based mostly round acquainted LoL hero Sylas, is about to return out on April 18.
I am not a lot of a LoL man, however Mageseeker appears fairly intriguing based mostly on what we have seen to this point. It is being made by Digital Solar—the identical devs who made the moderately good shop-sim roguelite Moonlighter (opens in new tab)—and guarantees a “2D pixel motion RPG” the place you lead a magical revolt towards the tyrannical Mageseekers who rule the dominion of Demacia. There are a number of correct nouns in there that do not imply a lot to me in any respect, however I am up for steering a revolution in a 2D RPG from the Moonlighter devs.
Mageseeker is not the one mission that Riot Forge—Riot’s LoL-focused publishing arm—has cooking away. Again when the sport was formally introduced, we additionally acquired information that Convergence: A League of Legends Story and Music of Nunu: A League of Legends Story would each be launched in summer season this 12 months, a while after the discharge of Mageseeker. These video games have had a far slower turnaround than Mageseeker, although: They had been introduced in 2019 and deliberate for final 12 months.
I suppose Riot Forge wished to keep away from making that mistake once more, therefore the fast turnaround between Mageseeker’s announcement and its fast-approaching launch date. The Korean rankings board could have stolen its thunder a bit when it leaked the sport, on the similar time revealing it will function “steady battle scenes towards people/non-humans,” which I believe is an outline you possibly can slap on nearly any recreation ever made, but it surely’s nonetheless refreshing to see such a small hole between a recreation’s announcement and launch.
You’ll be able to try Mageseeker over on Steam (opens in new tab), GOG (opens in new tab), and the Epic Video games Retailer (opens in new tab). You’ll be able to, if you happen to’re so inclined, preorder it for entry to some bonus cosmetic-sounding knick-knacks.
