This game is rated ESRB: Teen for Blood and Gore, Crude Humor, Mild Language, Suggestive Themes, Use of Alcohol, Violence and Mild Suggestive Themes.
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game expansion developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released in 2020 for Windows and Mac. The expansion centers on a cataclysmic event in which Sylvanas Windrunner destroys the barrier separating the living world from the realm of the dead, pulling Azeroth's defenders into darkness and threatening to destabilize the fundamental order of life and death. Players cross into the Shadowlands, a collection of distinct afterlife realms ranging from wondrous to terrifying, each tied to the broader cosmology of the Warcraft universe. The central objective involves uncovering a conspiracy aimed at unraveling reality itself while allying with familiar Warcraft figures who have passed into these domains. The expansion introduces new zones, progression systems, and story content built around this journey through death's hidden landscape, continuing the long-running narrative of the base game.
Sylvanas Windrunner, fallen leader of the Horde, has pierced the veil between Azeroth and the realm of the dead, setting in motion a series of events that threatens to upset the cosmic balance between life and death. World of Warcraft players entering the fabled Shadowlands will find the realms of the dead in upheaval. Under the normal order, departed souls were delivered to a realm appropriate to the lives they led, but now, all souls are being funneled into the Maw, where the most wicked are damned to suffer for eternity. As they seek to right the cycle and uncover the extent of Sylvanas' designs, players will forge bonds with the Covenants who hold domain over different planes within the Shadowlands.
