Black Desert spin-off Shadow Arena is now in its final closed beta phase. Publisher Pearl Abyss announced that its closed beta phase will go on from now until 20th April for Asian servers.

Shadow Arena is a 40-player battle royale PvPvE game, where you also have to deal with enemy mobs to upgrade your character in a match while also dealing with a shrinking map and enemy players. New features in this battle royale beta include an improved matching system, character balancing, and normal/AI match modes.

I’ve played a couple of hours of this game so far; while the latency could be improved, the entire idea and execution work just great. You have a plethora of playing styles to choose from -fast melee, ranged, and all-out brawler with buffs- and its upgrade/leveling-up system is intuitive enough for anybody to jump in and be the last man standing.

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