[dropcap style=”style1″]T[/dropcap]he popular South Korean hack-and-slash RPG “Blade: Sword of Elysion” is coming West, launching today on the iOS App Store.

Vietgame.asia – Mobile gaming is quite large in South Korea — it’s over a billion dollar market — and Blade: Sword of Elysion was the first mobile game to win the South Korean Game of the Year Award. To date, it’s been downloaded over six million times. The Unreal Engine-powered game was also in one of the top four in-terms-of-revenue games on Google Play in May 2014 worldwide, just from its South Korea base. Now, Blade: Sword of Elysion follows in the footsteps of other South Korean gaming companies — like NC Soft — eyeing the also profitable Western mobile market.

Publisher 4:33 Creative Lab is responsible for bringing the game – developed by ActionSquare – over. The studios are hoping that the success the game had in Korea will lead to success in the West as well. It even worked with Western UI/UX experts and localization companies and creative writers to adapt the game to the new market.

In Blade: Sword of Elysion, players enter the hack-and-slash dungeon-crawler world of Elysion, a land under the sway of dark forces, and they must bring light to the world. You take the role of one of three heroes: Leo, Reina, or Limon. It has three classes; a warrior (fighter with a melee focus), mage (ranged spell class), and assassin (a fast melee class). Today’s release has 80 campaigns, with more coming in future content updates.

Blade: Sword of Elysion is free-to-play, with in-game purchases for weapons, armor, and other options for your character, using both in-game and hard currency. Blade: Sword of Elysion has an interesting auto-battle option. After players clear a level at least once, they can toggle this feature on, and essentially have the game farm itself.

Blade: Sword of Elysion is available now on the App Store, and it will release on Google Play in November, with cross-platform PvP.

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