RAID: Shadow Legends

What the game is

A hero-collecting RPG set in Teleria, where you summon Champions from sixteen factions, equip them with Gear and send squads into turn-based battles. Knights, orcs, elves, undead and demons are among the factions, and ranking Champions up is how their skills, area attacks and magic among them, grow teeth.

Plarium surrounds the collecting with a twelve-location campaign, fully voiced, plus dungeons with repeatable bosses, Clans with co-op Clan Bosses and Sieges, and an Arena with both asynchronous and real-time PvP.

How a session plays

Most of your time goes on management. You run campaign stages and dungeons for loot and experience, level and rank Champions, fit Gear, and send teams into fights that resolve on their own once set up.

Clan activity adds a schedule: Clan Boss hits, Siege participation, and the Arena for anyone who wants to test a lineup against other players. The real decisions are in team composition and Gear, not in the moment-to-moment combat.

Why people look for it

It's one of the most heavily marketed mobile games ever made, so name recognition is enormous. Beyond that, collectors are drawn by the faction count and the dark fantasy art, and the Clan system gives social players a home. It's also searched for by people checking whether the game lives up to the advertising.

Look and feel

Dark, ornate fantasy with high-detail character models is the Plarium house style, and the listing's voiced campaign suggests cinematic ambitions. Plarium's page shows five screenshots. Expect a dense interface with many currencies, event panels and summoning screens competing for attention, as is typical of the Strategy-labelled gacha format.

Updates and upkeep

The 4.7 average rests on a hundred thousand ratings or more, and the game is available in thirteen languages including Korean, Japanese, Spanish, French, German and English. Plarium Global Ltd operates it as a live service with Clans, Sieges and Arena seasons, which requires continuous attention. App Store only in our data, no version string listed.

Good for

• Faction-roster collectors

  Sixteen factions of Champions give completionists a very long shopping list.

• Clan boss schedules

  Co-op bosses and Sieges suit players who like a group with regular commitments.

• Voiced campaign followers

  Twelve locations of fully voiced story is more narrative than most gacha games offer.

Before you install

The 12+ rating and free label are the least important facts here, because the listing is candid that it's designed around in-game purchases, random items among them, with optional monthly subscriptions called Raid Cards on top. That's loot-box mechanics plus recurring billing, which is worth knowing up front. Online play is required for Clans and Arena. Ads, account sign-in and storage size aren't stated.