Riot Games’ League of Legends-based tabletop card game, previously known only as Project K, has received a final name and international release date.
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Recall that Project K was presented last December and was planned to be launched in early 2025 in China. The game was supposed to be called Rune Battlegrounds.
Project K is actually called Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game, as it turns out. The final title was teased in a five-minute video on the game’s official YouTube channel.
Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game will debut in China this summer, with “many English-speaking countries” coming in October and additional regions throughout 2026.
The game launches with over 300 cards in a set subtitled Origins. For those new to the genre, Riot has partnered with UVS Games to release Riftbound: Proving Grounds, a set with a number of entry-level decks.
Battles are available in 1v1, 2v2, and Free-for-All formats. Following in the footsteps of the digital card game Legends of Runeterra, Riftbound will feature champions as powerful cards to build decks around.
Legends of Runeterra fans in the comments on YouTube and Reddit still can’t get over the fact that Riot shut down the development of the PvP component of the game in order to release a tabletop variation, and predict Riftbound will fail.