Realm of the Mad God (often abbreviated to RotMG) is a massively multiplayer game originally created by Wild Shadow Studios (acquired by Kabam in June 2012) and Spry Fox. It was in public beta from January 2010 and the browser version officially launched on June 20, 2011.[1] On February 20, 2012 the game was made available on the digital distribution platform Steam for Windows andMac.[2]
The game has been described as a "massively-multiplayer cooperative bullet hell shooter" with a pixelated art style.[1] Players control characters who have been transported to the realm of Oryx (the titular Mad God) to become food for his many minions and abominations, which the players must dispatch. Central to the design of the game is the fact that character death is permanent. Upon death, the player's character is lost along with all carried equipment, although the player may store a number of items for safekeeping in an easily-accessible vault away from danger and possibility of death.
The game is free to play with optional microtransactions. Items which can be bought with optional transactions are features such as Tier-Boost potions (potions, when drank, that allow defeated monsters to drop higher-level equipment) and other in-game equipment varying from low-level equipment to the highest level weaponry, available through microtransactions.[3]
This game client is written in Flash and can be played in browser, or downloaded from the Google Chrome Web Store, on Steam, and on Kongregate.
