Warcraft III: Reforged

Moderate overall intensity

Highest flag: Dark themes — intense

FantasyRPGStrategy

What's in it

Violence realistic

Moderate

Fantasy real-time-strategy combat where commanded armies of humans, orcs, undead, and beasts kill one another; units burst with blood when slain and cutscenes show battlefield deaths and impaling.

Dark themes intense

Moderate

The campaign centers on plague, corruption, and betrayal, including a mission where a prince slaughters his own infected townsfolk and heroes fall to demonic and undead corruption.

Horror & psychological spooky

Low

Undead ghouls, abominations, skeletons, necromancers and demons populate the world with grim, eerie imagery.

Occult & ritual occult imagery/references

Low

Necromancers raise the dead and cultists summon demons and undead through dark rituals as fantasy story elements.

Animal combat combat mechanic

Low

Neutral wildlife and beast creatures can be attacked and killed as ordinary units on the map.

Who can reach your kid

Chat with strangersDirect messagesUser-created contentStranger friend requests

What it is

Warcraft III: Reforged is a remastered version of Blizzard's 2002 fantasy real-time strategy game and its expansion, with updated graphics and modern online features. Players build bases, gather resources, and command armies of humans, orcs, undead, and night elves, leveling up hero units in RPG-style battles. The story-driven campaigns depict warfare, a spreading plague, undead necromancy, and demonic corruption, with stylized on-screen blood during combat but no strong language, sexual content, or substances. Online play through Battle.net includes matches and text chat with strangers, private whispers, and a large library of community-made custom maps built with the game's World Editor.

How it's framed

The game frames its conflict through a fantasy lens of nations and factions at war, treating heroism, sacrifice, and the temptation of dark power as central themes; a prince's fall to corruption and his slaughter of plagued citizens is presented as tragedy, and necromancy and demon-summoning are depicted as the villains' path rather than something celebrated.

Details

Developer: Blizzard Entertainment
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment
Released: 2020-01-28

Metacritic 59critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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