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Ashen Throne

The old kingdom is ash, and its throne stands empty. Ashen Throne is a top-down action MMORPG built on classic positional combat, deep gear progression, and guild war over a contested crown. Hunt and craft your way up solo or with a clan, then fight other players for control of the realm.

Free to play. Optional battle passes add convenience enhancements to gameplay — gather and quest faster, sell salvage from anywhere, and pick up a handful of helpful buffs — and support the game's ongoing live service.

Bloodsteel and the throne

The heart of the endgame is guild war over land and the crown, and it runs on Bloodsteel — a currency you mine from contested valley nodes, prise off elites and bosses, and earn by showing up to fight. Open-world PvP switches on in the later provinces.

Three paths, one oath

Each character walks a single class to the end. Pick the one you want to live in.

Real-time combat, manual or auto

Classic top-down, real-time action combat. Target with tab or a click and fight at your own pace. Take the controls yourself for the full depth, or switch on auto-combat and auto-cast for a relaxed, mobile-friendly session that handles the fighting for you. Swap between the two whenever you like.

Manual play is where the ceiling is. Open on a target with a debuff — Stun, Burn, Freeze, Poison, Shock — then follow up with a combo skill that lands bonus bash damage on the weakened foe. Read your spacing, chain the right skills in the right order, and your output climbs far past anything auto will squeeze out. Twelve active skills per class, each growing in power, reach, and control as you rank it.

And it shines in PvP. The Warrior, Wizard, and Taoist triangle turns every duel into a matchup, won by the player who reads position and timing best — from a roadside clash to a castle wall. Out in the later provinces the stakes are real: fall to another player and you can drop some of what you carry.

Power you earn

There is no shortcut to strength. You hunt it, craft it, gamble for it, and level it.

Upgrade and enchant

Roll bonus stats onto your gear — but every enchant re-rolls the whole item at once, so a great piece can come out worse. Go cheap and risk the cost, or spend a Protection Stone to lock in a roll you like and pay more for guaranteed quality. How hard you push your luck is up to you.

The Forge and gathering

Loot is not just vendor fodder. Mine, chop, fish, and harvest across the world, then follow recipes to craft weapons, armour, accessories, and supplies. A cheap craft is a coin-flip that can eat your materials; the safe route costs more but always delivers.

Skill mastery

Your twelve skills grow with you. Pour skill books and practice into the ones that fit your build and they hit harder, debuff longer, and cover more ground. The gap between a fresh caster and a mastered one is enormous.

A kingdom the Withering is eating

Two centuries ago a grey blight called the Withering crept in from the outer reaches, rotting the land and maddening everything it touched. Province after province fell. What survives clings to the inner sea, held together by trade, old oaths, and the border-wardens of the Magistry — and you are a fresh recruit sworn to that line, no chosen one, just a new pair of hands earning a name. Travel is level-gated across three provinces, and you push north into worse as you grow. Carry supplies, mind the routes, and go only as deep as you can survive. Every dungeon ends in a boss, and the deepest floors hide world bosses.

3 provinces · 20 dungeons · 80 levels at launch

At a glance

The crown goes to whoever can hold it. Earn your name, gather your clan, and take it.