Paladins
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
Rotating limited-time events, seasonal battle passes, and login-based rewards create optional time-gated purchase incentives.
Stylized first-person shooting between fantasy champions using guns, bows, and magic; enemies vanish on defeat with no blood, gore, or dismemberment.
A handful of champion skins feature revealing or form-fitting attire, but there is no actual nudity.
Faction lore touches on world-consuming alien monsters and a shadowy underworld, presented through a colorful fantasy lens rather than graphically.
The store sells cosmetic skins and previously offered randomized chests that grant random cosmetic items for premium currency.
A few champions and alternate skins have flirtatious quips and pin-up-style designs, but nothing goes beyond mild suggestion.
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What it is
Paladins is a free-to-play team-based first-person hero shooter set in a colorful medieval-fantasy world called the Realm, where two teams of five choose from a roster of 50-plus champions and battle over objectives across modes like Siege, Onslaught, and Team Deathmatch. Combat is fast and stylized: players shoot and cast abilities at enemy champions who simply drop or dissolve on defeat, with no blood or gore. A few champions wear revealing outfits or use flirtatious dialogue at a mild level, and the game's lore references dark forces like world-devouring monsters. Because it is free-to-play, monetization is prominent through cosmetic skins, a battle pass, limited-time event items, and previously randomized cosmetic chests. It is played online with other people, including open voice and text chat with strangers.
How it's framed
The game frames its conflict as a factional war between the ruling Magistrate and the rebel Resistance over the control of magic, with players cast as heroic champions competing in matches; violence is treated as bloodless competitive combat and objectives, and mature subject matter stays in the background lore rather than being dwelt upon.
Details
- Developer
- Evil Mojo Games
- Publisher
- Hi-Rez Studios
- Released
- May 8, 2018
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