You'll be able to play 3v3 matches with famous heroes from The Witcher universe in a lightweight MOBA setting

Jan 21, 2015 12:57 GMT  ·  By

The Witcher Battle Arena, the free-to-play brawler from Witcher series maker CD Projekt RED, is going live on January 22.

The game has been alive and kicking in beta for the past several months and even had a soft release in some parts of the world, and now it finally looks like it's time for it to step into the limelight.

While on the PC there is a wide variety of different multiplayer online battle arena games to try out, with Dota 2, League of Legends, Smite and Infinite Crisis routinely drawing millions of players every day, on the mobile front, things are a little different.

No company has yet managed to solve the riddle of profitability in free-to-play MOBAs on mobile platforms, and now CD Projekt RED is making an attempt.

The Witcher Battle Arena will pit two teams of three players against each other, with numerous figures from The Witcher's role-playing universe making an appearance in clashes set across a number of fantasy battlegrounds.

Another attempt to strike gold with a MOBA

The company claims that The Witcher Battle Arena won't have any pay-to-win mechanics, with all in-app purchases being solely cosmetic. Everything offered in the game can be purchased with in-game currency, which is earned by playing regularly.

Matches are designed to take a short time to complete, with five minutes being the goal. You have to take control of some pillars around the map, slowly draining your opponents' life bar. Once it's depleted, you win.

Victory depends on timing and on team coordination, as well as managing a well-rounded offensive and defensive strategy, so you don't lose your pillars but are able to capture your enemy's.

The Witcher Battle Arena features cross-platform multiplayer as well as an offline mode. It's certainly going to be very interesting to see how the game fares. You can play it starting tomorrow, on Android and iOS.

The Witcher Battle Arena screenshots (5 Images)

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