Skylanders Ring of Heroes is a new free-to-play team-based gacha RPG that was just launched on the Google Play Store, all thanks to a partnership between Activision and Com2uS. Much of the game's inspiration comes from Summoners War, another gacha RPG from Com2uS. Of course, Skylanders Ring of Heroes brings along its own set of heroes that stem from the Skylanders universe as well as an original story that fleshes out its hero-collection gameplay.

Just like the majority of free-to-play gacha RPGs, you can expect Skylanders Ring of Heroes to contain a wealth of collectible heroes (80 to be exact), a ten-step story, dungeons, and a globally ranked PvP mode. You can also expect to find an "awakened" form for all of your favorite Skylanders characters, which is a feature also found in Summoners War that allows you to form all sorts of strategies out of the differing movesets available for awakened characters.

It's also no surprise to see that Skylanders Ring of Heroes is a free-to-play release. Obviously Activision and Com2uS have a very good reason to include in-app purchases that range up to $99.99 per item in a game clearly designed around a popular children's toy line (ages 6+) and TV show (TV-Y7) that are both rated for ages well below Skylanders Ring of Heroes' wholly disconnected rating of T for teens.

Skylanders Ring of Heroes is a new and highly-polished gacha game, and if that's a genre you tend to enjoy, then you're probably going to find a lot about this release that you'll like. It plays very similarly to Summoners War, which is often regarded as one of the better hero collection games on the Play Store, so at least you won't have to jump in blind since Skylanders Ring of Heroes has clearly copied a successful gacha formula.

Skylanders™ Ring of Heroes Developer: Com2uS
Price: Free
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