Legends of Runeterra

Riot Games, Inc

In-app purchases

About this game

In this strategy card game, skill defines your success—not luck. Mix and match iconic champions, allies, and regions of Runeterra to unlock unique card synergies and outplay your opponent.

MASTER EVERY MOMENT
Dynamic, alternating gameplay means you can always react and counter, but so can your opponent. Choose from dozens of champion cards to include in your deck, each with a different mechanic inspired by their original League of Legends abilities.

Champions enter the battle as powerful cards, and if you play smart, they level up to become even more epic. Level your champions multiple times in-game, and earn Champion Mastery crests the more you play.

ALWAYS A NEW WAY TO PLAY
Every champion and ally in the game comes from a region of Runeterra. You have access to a collection of cards from nine regions: Demacia, Noxus, Freljord, Piltover & Zaun, Ionia, Targon, Shurima, the Shadow Isles, and Bandle City.

Explore how different champions and regions work together to give you unique advantages against your opponents. Combine, adapt, and experiment with frequent new releases in an always-evolving meta.

CHOOSE YOUR PATH
In PvE, each card you choose shapes your journey. React to unique encounters, earn and equip power-ups, unlock new champions, and rise to new challenges as you move across the map. The enemies will get stronger, but so will you—and you’ll discover different endings the more you play.

PLAY TO WIN, NOT PAY TO WIN
Earn cards for free, or buy exactly what you want with shards and wildcards—you’re in control of your card collection, and you’ll never pay for random packs of cards. While there’s always the option to purchase specific champions, you can easily complete your collection without spending a cent.

Victory or defeat, each battle brings experience and progress. Choose which region you explore first and unlock the cards that call to you, changing regions as often as you like. As you advance, you’ll collect new allies, spells, and champions.

Once a week, you’ll also unlock chests from the Vault. These chests level up the more you play, increasing the rarity of cards inside from common all the way up to epic. They can also contain wildcards, which can be turned into any card you want—no guessing required.

DRAFT AND ADAPT
Labs are limited-time experimental strategic game modes focused on more extreme changes to the classic Legends of Runeterra formula. Choose a premade deck with specific constraints, or bring your own. The rules are always changing, and sometimes you might need a little help from your friends! Go see what Heimerdinger is cooking up next.

CLIMB THE RANKS
At the end of every season, 1024 qualifying Ranked players on each of LoR’s four regional shards (Americas, Asia, Europe, and Southeast Asia) will be able to compete for pride, glory, and a cash prize in the seasonal tournament.

But Ranked play isn’t the only way to qualify—you can also run the Last Chance Gauntlet. Gauntlets are limited-time competitive modes with unique rules to play around and exclusive rewards to unlock.

Download Legends of Runeterra today and experience the turn-based collectible card game (CCG) in a quest to become the ultimate deck-building master!

Ratings and reviews

I absolutely love this game, and I've been playing it for years now. It's remained consistently high quality, and I still play it often. However, as of recently, when playing a POC adventure and being booted from either internet issues or idling, the game no longer opens. It will remain on the login screen indefinitely, and it seems the only way this resolves is if an update is required. This has happened to me twice now, making the game unplayable. Once this is fixed, I'll update to 5 stars.

Every time the game is updated, it seems to break at the most fundamental level. Now, a large number of people cannot even log in. So why bother complaining about the huge increase in leveling constellations when I cannot even get into the game. PoC is great but the small number of missions get stale. Some champions are just not viable and the rewards from weekly and daily quests are so meager. This points to asking players to spend real money to afford all this. But it is all too much.

DO NOT INSTALL THIS!! There is currently a major bug where you are perpetually stuck at the loading screen without letting you be able to play. Devs say that there will be a fix next patch (as of 6/21), but that won't be for another month! It's literally unplayable right now and only 1-star reviews will increase the likelihood of a hotfix

What's new

This patch, Yasuo gets a full Constellation of powers, plus a new addition to the Path of Champions roster with Swain.

Full Patch notes at https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news.

This patch:
- Difficulty increase for Noxus's Swain Adventure
- 4 new bundles
- 2 new signature relics