Are you a fan of games in the line of Diablo? If yes then you will love Lost Ark. Lost Ark is a free MMO-Action RPG hybrid developed by Smilegate RPG and published by Amazon Games. Welcome to a rich world with innovative classes, skills, and a well-balanced combat system.

Gameplay

Become the character you want: In the Lost Ark odyssey, you will play a character you choose among the 15 available classes. As you gain experience and level up, you will be able to explore the world, hone your combat abilities, gain experience, and customize your skills and weapons. Enter in a universe where every place is vibrant, where honor and combat will bring you all over the world. But be careful as lots of beasts, challenges, and colossal bosses will be on your way.
Explore the world: Explore the Lost Ark's world and its seven vast and varied continents and the seas. Discover new cultures and incredible beasts. There is a whole world that awaits you.

Fight and raid: In Lost Ark, you will be able to prove your courage in epic battles and raids with other players to earn rewards and experiences. Many different quests, beasts, and colossal bosses are waiting for you. You can also choose to challenge other players in fantastic PvP fights.

Lots of Classes: Lost Ark offers up to 15 different classes in 5 different variations including the Warrior variations with the Berserker, the Paladin, and the Gunlancer; the Martial Artist variations with the Striker, the WarDancer, the Scrapper, and the Soulfist; the Gunner variations with the Gunslinger, the Artillerist, the Deadeye, and the SharpShooter; the Mage variations with the Bard, and the Summoner; and finally the Assassin variations with the ShadowHunter, and the DeathBlade.
Combat System: The combat system is just incredible as each class has its own set of skills and abilities you can mix and combine the way you want by assigning up to 8 skills on the hotbar. You can unlock up to three tiers of customizations for each of your abilities. The final result is that every combat can be unique in how you execute combos depending on what skills you trigger or what enemies you fight. Moreover, the combat system is built to be flexible so that you can change the skills' behavior in combat. Each class has its own combat style, moves, combos, and dynamics. At the end of the day, you will live a very different experience depending on you choose a WarDancer or a Berserker.

Fight, Dodge, and be clever: In Lost Ark, you will be able to combat in very different ways. You also have a very rich panel of additional items dedicated to combats, such as potions that grant you buffs, trinkets, bombs, and more. There are many possibilities to let you build complex strategies and master every aspect of the game.
Well balanced combats action: Lost Ark combats seem to be very well balanced. No matter if you face hundreds of enemies, you will always experience a well-balanced challenge so that you never feel overwhelmed or annoyed. This kind of balancing can be tricky, and it is delightful to share that in a brand new game.
Go beyond the fight: The game also contains lots of content to make you live a captivating experience. Indeed, there are also non-combat skills, guilds, social systems, crafting, and lots of other rich features that genuinely make the world around you alive.

Graphics and sound

Lost Ark features beautiful modern graphics for an MMORPG in a vast and rich world full of different ecosystems. Your eyes will love the high quality textures, the smooth shadows, the very efficient anti-aliasing techniques, as well as the beautiful lighting. Lots of care have been taken to add lots of details to every aspect of the graphics, to include as many detailed effects as possible, and to be able to render beautiful particle effects. The final result is great. You will also be able to fine-tune lots of graphics settings from the dedicated in-game menu so that you can get the best experience possible depending on your devices. The game also offers a beautiful ost that will shape your experience throughout the game and create memories for years and lots of polished audio feedback to make sure you never lose any piece of information.

Duration and game modes

As an MMORPG, Lost Ark offers a multiplayer experience you will enjoy for at least 20 hours if you only focus on the main story, but it will last over 50 hours if you strive to discover all the secrets and places of this world. As we talked about earlier, you can also enjoy various aspects of the game playing solo.

What do the reviews say?

Lost Ark has been rated 81/100 on Metacritic

"A well-crafted and highly polished ARPG that is certain to fare better than Amazon's previous outings. If you want plenty of lore, a deep narrative tale, and combat that gets straight to the point then Lost Ark is worth your time." (GameSpace)