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.

• Valley Wars — Every Friday at 8:00 PM UK time, guilds fight king-of-the-hill over three valleys. Hold one and your clan taxes the Bloodsteel earned inside it. A clan can own only one valley at a time.

• Castle War — Every four weeks, Sunday at 8:00 PM UK time. Clans bid Bloodsteel for a slot and only the top two bidders fight. Storm the grounds, seize the capture spires for respawns and battlefield buffs, then take the palace. The winner taxes Bloodsteel across the whole server.

• Everyone gets paid — Win or lose, taking part earns Bloodsteel and guild rewards, so the strongest clan can't lock everyone else out.

Three paths, one oath

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

• Warrior — A melee combo bruiser. Charge a weapon art, then unleash it on your next swing. Stack Stun, Knockdown, and Burn on a target, then detonate it with finishers that hit up to twice as hard against a staggered foe. Vault into the pack, drag enemies into a vortex, and outlast anything that hits back.

• Wizard — A ranged elemental powerhouse. Burn enemies down and finish them with a meteor; slow them to ice, then freeze them solid so they take full damage with no defence; or shock them to strip their magic resist and chain lightning through a whole pack. Blink out of trouble, raise a shield when pressed, and dictate the fight from range.

• Taoist — The support and summoner. Rot enemies with poison, enfeeble them so every ally hits harder, and call a spirit-beast to fight at your side. Mind-control a monster into serving you, shield and heal your party, and win the fights raw damage can't.

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.

• Bichon (1–50) — The Magic City march. Farmland raiders, a smuggler-ridden coast, sun-maddened exiles in the highlands, and a blighted frontier where the Withering bleeds through. Old imperial mines, prisons, and temples, all turned hostile.

• Mongchon (51–65) — Desert tombs and imperial ruins. Sand shrines, a tomb maze, and temple-sanctums where mistakes start to cost you.

• Eldergrove (66–80) — Deep forest, crystal mines, and glacier halls, ending in the Abyss: a twenty-five-floor descent that is the true endgame.

3 provinces · 20 dungeons · 80 levels at launch

At a glance

• Free to play, supported by optional convenience battle passes

• Passes add quality-of-life — faster gathering and questing, remote salvage selling, and minor buffs

• 3 classes, 80 levels at launch

• 3 provinces, 20 dungeons, a 25-floor endgame Abyss

• Real-time action combat — play manually or with auto-combat

• Manual combos: debuff a target, then follow up for bonus bash damage

• Warrior / Wizard / Taoist triangle, 12 active skills per class

• Weekly Valley Wars and a monthly Castle War fought over Bloodsteel

• Open-world PvP with real stakes in the later provinces

• Gear enchanting and risk-or-safe crafting at the Forge

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