History VideoGame / RWBYAmityArena

The goal of the game was to destroy the enemy structures while protecting your own (2 turrets protecting one big tower, the destruction of the latter being an InstantWinCondition). Each player had a ManaMeter ("Aura") [[RegeneratingMana progressively filling]] as the match goes on, and a deck of 8 cards prepared before the match and appearing in a random loop 4 cards at a time. Each card cost a set amount of Aura, with usually the most powerful ones being the most expensive to play. After 3 minutes, the player with the most remaining buildings won; if the players still have the same number of structures, the match went into SuddenDeath for 1 or 3 more minutes depending on the Arena.

** [[WhipItGood Sienna Khan]] (5 Aura)

* FakeBalance: Eventually {{averted|Trope}}. Initially, a lot of matches boiled down to "ZergRush the turrets and towers". Since many {{Mook}}s are in the 2-3 range, it was easy to wait for a player to make a small miscalculation, then launch a swarm of enemies too numerous for characters like Ice Weiss or Scythe Ruby to take out with their AreaOfEffect attacks effectively. This was eventually counterbalanced with the addition of more low aura AOE characters namely Cinder, Mercury and especially Zwei, the later being an extremely fast and easy to use ZergRush killer.

* FightingWithChucks: Neon ''technically'' fights with [[InstantChucks two Ice Dust glowsticks chained together]], but she is so weak that the enemy turrets and [[DrawAggro the army of units she aggroed]] will likely take her out as soon as her invincibility drops after landing a single hit.

** The Old Man Shopkeep was initially, well, [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the game's]] {{shopkeeper}} before being eventually included as a playable card. The developers claim that he paid them in exchange for ProductPlacement.

''RWBY: Amity Arena'' is a PlayerVersusPlayer mobile phone-based video game released in 2018 by NHN Entertainment. It is based off of the popular web-aired animated series ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' by Creator/RoosterTeeth and Creator/MontyOum.

It starts prior to the events of Volume 3, you're confronted by Ruby Rose and her half-sister Yang Xiao Long over the brand-new game "Amity Arena", using people participating in the Vytal Tournament. Thanks to Ruby and Yang's help, you're given the basics over how this new TowerDefense game works and you set off to climb the ranks in your own way.

The goal of the game is to destroy the enemy structures while protecting your own (2 turrets protecting one big tower, the destruction of the latter being an InstantWinCondition). Each player has a ManaMeter ("Aura") [[RegeneratingMana progressively filling]] as the match goes on, and a deck of 8 cards prepared before the match and appearing in a random loop 4 cards at a time. Each card costs a set amount of Aura, with usually the most powerful ones being the most expensive to play. After 3 minutes, the player with the most remaining buildings wins; if the players still have the same number of structures, the match goes into SuddenDeath for 1 or 3 more minutes depending on the Arena.

The game also features a HackAndSlash single-player side mode added post-launch in March 2019 in which the player directly incarnates Ruby or Weiss[[note]]more playable characters were planned[[/note]] to defend a tower from several waves of Grimm and members of the White Fang.

As an AllegedlyFreeGame, ''Amity Arena'' contains its fair share of {{Microtransactions}}, LootBoxes, and other RevenueEnhancingDevices, though the ranking system (usually) makes BribingYourWayToVictory useless (outside of having your favorite characters quicker than the rest).

On December 27th, 2020, the servers were announced to be shutting down on January 28th, 2021. All the in-game data has since been saved by fans in the [[https://www.amityarenalibrary.com/ Amity Arena Library]].

On December 27th, 2020, the servers were announced to be shutting down on January 28th, 2021.

* ExcusePlot: There's only one cut-scene/tutorial where Ruby and Yang introduces the player to a new Scroll game featuring participants in the Vytal Tournament and... that's it. Don't question why the makers of this GameWithinAGame also included renowned (or sometimes even unregistered) Vale criminals. [[TeamPet And a flaming dog too.]]

** '''Weaker than canon:''' Both Blake cards are surprisingly weak in this game compared to the other main characters as they mainly serve to distract units and/or sneak out in the enemy base. Cinder, though powerful, is similarly very frail despite her role as TheDragon and dies in a few hits.