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Steam

2011 · Beat 'em up · MMORPG

Rusty Hearts

Rusty Hearts is a multiplayer online game with fast-paced and highly-stylized brawling combat combined with a solo or team-based dungeon exploration experience. In this gothic inspired world of vampires, half-vampires, and humans, players will be able to unleash devastating combo attacks, engage in a wide variety of epic monster battles, collect valuable loot, and become a unique hero.

Released: 11 May 2011
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Beat 'em up MMORPG Role-playing
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Multiplayer
Themes: Action
Age ratings: PEGI 12
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean

About

Rusty Hearts was a free-to-play MMORPG video game developed by Stairway Games and published by Windysoft in South Korea, Perfect World Entertainment in North America, Sega in Japan and Xunlei Games in China.

›Story

Rusty Hearts is a heavily story-driven, anime-styled action MMORPG. The narrative takes place in Rumania, predominantly at Curtis Castle in the capital city of Bramunez. It follows a rag-tag group of four adventurers known as "The Specialists" as they attempt to defeat the vampire lord Count Vlad.

Keywords

anime
vampire
magic
crafting
death
maze
brawler
steam
witches
undead
online
free-to-play

Media

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

There are nine playable characters, which have their own combat styles.

Avatar skins which replace the main default characters' appearance and sound can be purchased in the in-game cash shop. Once purchased, the new character is created from level 1. Each avatar character has small changes to differentiate from their original such as slightly different animations or the speed of their moves, but for all intents and purposes, they share the same weaponry and special moves. The cost of creating any avatar character is for free.

Story

Long ago, the Bartbarod kingdom thrived near what is known today as Macedonia. The royal family maintained a pure bloodline until a genetic mutation nearly wiped them out and gave rise to a new race of mutants called vampires. They in turn gave rise to new race of half-breeds, causing the pure-blooded vampires to grow wary. The ruler of the Vampires at this time, Lord Vlad, decided that he would eliminate the impurities that threatened the existence of his people and declared war against humans and half-breeds alike.

After the Black Plague had swept through Europe in the 14th century, the great witch Philistia assembled the Hermetic Association of the Golden Seal, a unification of small rebel groups to fight against Lord Vlad's vampire army.

Development

The closed BETA started on the 27 July 2011; however, the high number users attempting to access the game caused long load times, and as a result many users were unable to take part in the closed BETA until the 28th of July 2011. Perfect World Entertainment announced at the launch that all Beta accounts would have their data erased prior to the release of the full game.

Phase 1 of the closed Beta ended on 17 August 2011 so that a large number of in-game changes could be implemented. Character Data was not erased in the transfer to the second closed Beta test, which began on 24 August 2011. Players who joined within the first 12 hours of the launch were given a special costume item for one character as part of the progression to open Beta.