The Honor of Kings becomes the Most Trendy Mobile Game Globally: Everything to Know About it

Here's the whole thing you need to know about Honor of Kings, the world's most admired MOBA game for smartphones.

The honor of Kings is the world’s most well-liked and rewarding mobile game. The game lately celebrated its fifth anniversary at which, Tencent proclaimed that it has crossed 100 million everyday active users globally.

The company will soon be launching two fresh untitled derivative games, growing the genres.

The honor of Kings is the most victorious game Tencent has ever made with nearby to $240 million in user expenditure.

What is the Honor of Kings?

The honor of Kings is a well-known multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game created by Tencent Games contributory TiMi Studios. The game is quite alike to DOTA 2 and League of Legends on PC.

The game is accessible on both iOS and Android platforms. It is among the world’s most well-liked and one of the highest-grossing games of all time.

The international version of the game, dubbed Arena of Valor was released in October 2017 with a similar game engine and UI design.

The game only had some minor changes which comprise the change of the hero designs and changes to some elements that could have been potential intellectual property violation.

The game is very easy, as you have to control a character with special abilities and slay non-player characters and opponents to grow experience and gold. The experience and gold can be used to update your character to receive more power.

It has many game modes to keep players entertained. These comprise Valley of Kings, Ranked Matchmaking, Battle of Changping, Mohist Mechatech, Infinity Skirmish, Dreamland Clash, Chess, and more.

All of these modes have diverse environments and a set of rules. Players can decide to battle AI players and real opponents.

One of the inquisitive thin about the game is that it enables players to select from a wide variety of heroes, all of which have unique abilities, special skills with a back story.

The game has six kinds of heroes, which comprise Tank, Warrior, Assassin, Mage, Archer, and Support. All of these have unique abilities and are useful in various fights.

Arena of Valor

Arena of Valor is the international version of Honor of Kings, presently available for Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch. This edition of the back in September 2018, grossed over $140 million in income.

It is also been one of the display video games played at the 2018 Asian Games, 2019 Southeast Asian Games, and 2021 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games.

The game's look and play style are quite alike to the MOBA game League of Legends from Riot Games, which is presently an auxiliary of Tencent Games.

Garena also helped in the improvement of Arena Of Valor. They helped vary the environment of the game and the look of the characters and made the game look more western than Chinese.

The look of the in-game characters was used from the character designs from the Heroes of Newerth, an opponent MOBA game that Garena owns.

India ban The Honor of Kings

The Indian government currently applied a ban on 118 apps over national security. These apps comprised games published by Tencent Games in India including PUBG Mobile, PUBG Mobile Lite, and Arena of Valor. None of these games are now accessible on the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.

Tencent also lately shut down the Indian servers for these games, making them unreachable in India.

The game has been forbidden in the country under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act. The government states that the ban has been implemented due to the app engaging in activities that are hurtful to dominion and integrity, defense and safety of the nation.

Arena of Valor was not as admired in India, compared to other Tencent Games like PUBG Mobile and Call of Duty: Mobile. By the way Call of Duty: Mobile is not prohibited in India, and this could be because the game is published by Activision in the country.

The company has not made any declaration regarding this as of now. We will have to wait to see if it will be making a reappearance or not.