As part of Riot's plan to take over the month of November in honor of Arcane's arrival on Netflix, the League of Legends publisher has decided that they're going to make a whole slew of announcements all month long. First it was Arcane, naturally, and then it was collaborations with Epic and PUBG, and then an even weirder collab with Rhianna's beauty brand.
Now we're in the thick of November, it's time for Riot to get serious. Rather than announce an even stranger partnership, Riot is just announcing a whole new game set in the League of Legends universe.
It's called Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story, and it's a rhythm runner where you play as a mad bomber trying to build Runeterra's biggest bomb.
Ziggs the yordle stars in this casual game, coming soon to PC and Switch. According to Riot's press release, "Players must perform bomb-jumps and bomb-attacks to the beat of a toe-tapping soundtrack, to avoid obstacles, disarm enemies, and light fuses for satisfying and explosive chain reactions to achieve maximum mayhem."
The game takes place in Piltover, one of the twin cities featured in Arcane and where Ziggs first meets Jinx, a kindred spirit in their shared love of explosive fun. Ziggs has to evade the not-so-fun scientist, Heimerdinger, who wants to stop Ziggs from exploding everything and everyone.
Hextech Mayhem: A League of Legends Story arrives on Nintendo Switch and PC for Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store on November 16. It’ll also hit Netflix’s mobile app sometime “soon.”
Riot isn’t finished at just Hextech Mayhem. Yet another League of Legends-based game is coming called Ruined King: A League of Legends Story, which promises to be a single-player turn-based RPG that delves into the mysteries of Runeterra. Expect an announcement on Ruined King in the coming days.