Arrow Lord

About Arrow Lord

Arrow Lord is built around one action performed under steadily worse conditions. You drag back from anywhere on screen, watch the guide arc bend, and release. Wind is real and it acts on the arrow for its whole flight, so a high lob drifts far more than a flat shot at the same target — reading the flag before you draw matters more than aiming carefully after it.

The twenty-level story range walks you from a still target to moving ones, then to apple levels where you must hit the fruit and never the person holding it, with shield demons waiting at ten and twenty. Beyond the story there is a ten-archer tournament, a five-target duel, team arenas and hunts, an archer war fought across a front line, balloon war, mounted safari rounds, target blitz, and an Olympic line that hides half the guide and puts a clock on every arrow.

How to play Arrow Lord

Click and drag backwards from anywhere on screen to draw. How far you drag sets the power, and the angle of the drag sets the aim — a guide arc shows the path the arrow will take. Release to loose it. The arc is a genuine prediction, so if it clears the target the arrow will too.

Wind is the complication and it acts on the arrow for its entire flight, not just at release. That means a high lob drifts far more than a flat shot at the same target, and the flag at the top of the screen is worth reading before every draw rather than after a miss. In the Olympic line the guide stops halfway on purpose, which is where the game stops being about aiming and starts being about judgement.

How to play Arrow Lord's story range

1. Open the story and pick the highest unlocked level. There are twenty levels in four chapters of five: The Village Range, The Moving Fair, The Windlands and The Lord's Trial.
2. Read the range master's note for the chapter, and look at the wind flag before you touch the bow.
3. Drag back from anywhere on the screen, adjust the guide arc until it passes through the target, and release.
4. Hit the target before your arrows run out. The ring you strike decides your stars: the outer ring is one star, the middle ring two, and the centre three.
5. On apple levels, put the arrow through the apple and keep well clear of the person carrying it. On levels ten and twenty, wait for the gap in the demon's circling shield and arc the arrow through it.
6. Clearing a level unlocks the next one and pays XP and coins. Boss levels and three-star clears pay the most.

Arrow Lord tips and strategy

• Replay early levels for stars. Every extra star adds XP and coins to the clear, so taking three stars on the Village Range is an easy way to build up coins for the shop.
• Lead the swinging targets. From The Moving Fair onwards the targets hang on ropes. Aim where the target will be when the arrow arrives, not where it is when you let go.
• Calm winds is the strongest boost. It removes the wind for a whole match, and it still works in the Olympic line. Focus (a denser guide with an impact marker) and Deep quiver (two extra arrows) are switched off there.
• In the Olympic line, the clock matters as well as the aim. Each arrow has 15 seconds, the score is to one decimal place with 10.9 as the maximum, and the wind gets stronger every round. Shoot in steady rhythm and do not hold the draw too long.
• Choose your Safari mount for the payout, not the stats. Steadier animals are easier to shoot from, and faster ones pay more. The tiger pays 30 per cent more than a horse, and the donkey you start with pays 20 per cent less.
• Plan for the second shield demon. The Storm Demon at level twenty spins its shield faster than the first demon and adds howling wind. Draw early, hold the arc steady, and release the moment the gap comes round, not while you are still adjusting.

Modes beyond the story

The tournament puts you against nine other archers for three rounds of three arrows, with the rings worth 10, 25 and 50 points, and the highest total wins the cup. The duel is closer and more personal. You and one rival take turns at five targets, and each of your shots gets an answer from them. The Olympic line has two formats: Elimination, where the lowest scorer drops out each round, and Classic, ten arrows with a table of the top ten at the end. It shows only half the arrow's path, so you have to judge the rest yourself.

Everything you earn goes into one rank ladder, from Novice and Bowman up to Arrow Lord itself at 6,000 XP. The shop sells three bows besides the wooden one you start with: the Elm longbow, the Golden bow and Dragonbone. Each needs a rank as well as coins. There are also four mounts beyond the donkey for Safari, up to an 8,000-coin elephant, and one-match boosts you choose in the lobby before you start.