Ruined King: A League of Legends Story is a 2021 turn-based role-playing video game developed by Airship Syndicate and published by Riot Forge.

The game is set in Bilgewater, a bustling pirate city, and the Shadow Isles, a cursed region filled with a corrupting force called the Black Mist.

[3] A release date was not provided by the developer or publisher until it was launched, alongside Hextech Mayhem, on November 16, 2021 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One.

[4] Like Airship Syndicate's Battle Chasers: Nightwar, Ruined King A League of Legends Story is presented in a top-down perspective, with players directly navigating a party of characters around the world and through dungeons.

The effects Ultimates have can vary greatly depending on the character's role: they can be purely damage-focused, buff or debuff, or even revive fallen allies.

Fortune is torn between her desire to be a fairer ruler than Gangplank and the anger she has nursed over the long years of plotting her revenge.

Unbeknownst to her, Gangplank yet lives: Illaoi of the indigenous Buhru people, Priestess of Nagakaboros and his former lover, pulled him from the deep.

The nearby Shadow Isles are Runeterra's domain of the undead, a land in which tormented spirits are trapped by a supernatural force called the Black Mist.

In a fit of grief and rage, Viego commanded his army to slay whoever stood in his way and had Grael (later Thresh) lead him to the waters.

In the present, Viego, now resurrected as the Ruined King, rules the Isles in a weakened state, desperately seeking a way to bring back Isolde.

Braum seeks the life-giving waters to cure a plague in his homeland of Freljord, while Yasuo was hired to protect Ahri, who has since run away from him to the Shadow Isles.

As they travel, they find out Bilgewater was again attacked by the Black Mist from the Shadow Isles and Illaoi's temple was invaded by Gangplank.

Gangplank is defeated, but Viego remains at large and extends the Black Mist to Bilgewater, convinced (by Thresh) that the key to resurrecting Isolde is there—and that anyone in his way deserves to die for keeping him from his love.

Making peace with her past, Ahri sacrifices the Vesani records to get the memories they need, through which they learn that Viego's relationship with Isolde was not as perfect as his delusions say.

Ahri uses her Vesani magic to return Viego's memories to him, reminding him of how possessive and cruel he was to Isolde, causing his resolve to falter and weakening the Black Mist that protects him.

Before the final blow is struck, Viego pleads with Fortune, saying he can give her the power she wants, but she turns him down and traps him inside a Buhru artifact.

PC Gamer similarly called the cast of Ruined King an "entertaining bunch" and the combat "the heart of the game", while criticizing the uninteresting story and the lack of exciting content.