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9.1 hrs on record
Its been a lot of years since I played this game, when I saw it on steam I though it would be possible to have the nice experience from back then again when it was fun to play with friends or others online and compete. But as it turns out nothing is really like before, the game changed to the bad side and started to become pay to win.

I can understand that its needed for a free game to make money to be able to afford the server costs, I absolutely have nothing against skins being able to be bought in the shop to help finance the servers costs. But if the game basically is just built on the fact that players spend huge amounts of money just to be able to buy battle passes and other stuff to always have the newest weapons and destroy everyone else is just not the way you should go.

The way the microtransactions are handeled is just the worst you could do, with all the free weapons basically being useless, the weapons you can buy if you play long enough (in this case way too long when taking into consideration that weapons cost sometimes over 400 to 500 gems and you only get 2 per game if you are lucky [one game takes around 5 to 10 minutes]) This already is ♥♥♥♥♥♥. But then it gets worse, as there are weapons that are locked behind a battle pass and stuff that destory everything that they come in contact in, then its just the worst case imaginable.

Thank you for destroying one of the games I loved in my childhood but now is infected with greed like all the other games of this type
Posted 19 January.
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5.3 hrs on record (4.5 hrs at review time)
A really nice game demo, i saw a video on youtube and decided to give it a try and i must say, it really makes a lot of fun. There are just some tiny points that may be fancy to be added in the final version, stuff like automatical sorting mechanics, but that is something for late game as in the beginning its funny to do by hand, but just later with huge masses of money a bit of automatisation would sure be great. For now the game is in a very good state and i am sure it will be a good addition to the simulator series.
Posted 26 December, 2024.
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63.0 hrs on record (62.1 hrs at review time)
First look at the game

Story

When first starting to play the game, it looked like a very nice shop game where you also have story elements build in. For all the Quests you do and big achievements you get a little story dialogue that talks about what happened and a bit interactions between characters. So the first looks is good

Gameplay

For the Gameplay you mostly craft items and sell them to level them up and unlock new blueprints, reduce the ressource cost and upgrade rarity grade for higher selling price. You also send your first adventurers to get rare ressources and start to get more artisans to craft higher blueprints. Its very fun at this point of the game as there is always something to do

A bit further in the game

Story

The Story progresses normaly so there is nothing much to say other than the dialogues get a bit longer and there are more interactions over time now.

Guild and Adventures

This is where stuff is going down, as you now unlock guildes and have the possibility to work with others you also unlock a new shop where you can redeem guild coins, this already is a thing... because you get very low guild coins for what the price is for the items. You can also buy ressources there but that would be wasted because you get ressources over time by the stacks you have. Prices for blueprints there are so high that you need to grind at least for weeks to get one. With that we also get to another problem of the game. The idea of crafting something very often to reduce cost and upgrade rarity is really a very good one, but there is the problem that it will take a very very long time between the last achievements there, maybe it would have been better to just add more to them and maybe make the last ones a bit further the. because this at least won't demotivate that fast. Also for items that need rare ressources that is a huge reason to not even level them but just level them as fast as the new blueprint gets unlocked and forget about them for good. (this sadly is not really a good option as the later crafts all require them)
That also gets us to the next problem as for the rare ressources you need to send you heroes on adventure, those take depending on the ressource 5, 10, 20... minutes and you will need stronger heroes for adventures with higher item value. this would not be a problem but you will have about 2 to 4 heroes that will be op and mostly forget about the other ones or at least not upgrade them as much as the others as the game gives you good items over a long period of time and you give the most leveled ones the best equip. The real problem tho is that those 10 or 20 minutes or higher will really push down the fun, because not only do you need to wait those to get the ressources, but after that you need to wait another of same time for the to rest, that means if you have 4 heros that are compatible for a 20 minute adventure and need to send 2 of them each time because they can't single it, then you will wait for 40 minutes where you do not get any ressources.

Crafting and Contracts

When you further progress in the game you will most surely have advanced artisans or high leveled ones, so they can craft very advanced armor and weapons etc. this also means that the beginner stuff will be crafted almost instant, as the time needed scales with the level of the aritsans abilitys. Sadly when you start to get to the middle game items crafting will be a real pain... as for some recipes you need to craft its previous version before crafting the better one (this can be circumvented by buying advanced slots which let you skip this step but add the time for that item to the total time so with that you at least not have to run the next thing and lose time on that. but this will lead to normal items taking up a craft slot up for 11 minutes or more. This really ruins the fun of the game and is one of the main points why i can't recommend this game. Some say you can just run this game in background and play something different instead, but trust me, you will forget about this game if you play something else, even if you have 2 screens and have it on a different one does not work, because as soon as you tab out, it will minimize itself by force. This leads to losing not only a lot of time crafting but also forgetting to add new items to the crafting. In total this is the main reason the game does not make really fun after progressing to this stage.
I mean there is the option to allocate points to the artisans to make it faster but even with that the time does not really reduce by much, i mean if you have an item that takes 11:45 and then only takes 11 that does not really make a difference at all.

Currency's and Item Selling

The main currency's are coins and diamonds, there exist some other like the guild coins but those have been talked about earlier, so i will only talk about the coins and diamonds.

Coins
Coins are used for almost everything in this game, from upgrading crafting station up to paying npcs for them to do something and upgrading the shop. For the first section of the game the prices are pretty balanced to the value of items selling you get. But with time prices will increase by a very high number and the selling prices will not really increase enough to compensate so someone will be stuck selling more and more to progress. This would be fine if the gap between both would not be that high, it is at the moment. Later you will have to almost exclusively sell the most expensive stuff you have to be able to afford. then already comes again the problem of the crafting time and after a bit of time you will also get problems with ressources as they deplete faster than refill again.

Diamonds
The diamonds are the premium currency in the game that can be bought using real money and can be used for almost everything. Boosting speed, instant crafting, skiping the resting of heros, unlocking crafting bot and others,...
Normaly premium currency's in free games are often forced to be used, that is a bit different here as you are not really required to use them, with them you can buy cosmetics, but as in most of the games you really do not need them for anything, they just look fancy. Also the game gives you enough options to get them without buying, from completing quests and stuff to doing daily tasks and requests to receive them. The prices for the diamonds are a bit high, but as this is not really required it is fine.

Summary

To summarize everything, the game in its core is a nice game that surely makes fun to play, but there are some huge bumps that will with time make the experience very lame cause of very high waiting times. If this would get fixed, with the issue of the guild currency being so rare, then the game surely would be very playable also over a very long period of time.
I am open for feedback, positive and negative. Feel free to write a comment
Posted 7 June, 2024.
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3.7 hrs on record (0.4 hrs at review time)
The Game really has very Nice Graphics, also it is very easy to understand and fun to Play, please everyone play it, its one of the best free games i ever saw
Posted 10 March, 2022.
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1 person found this review helpful
232.4 hrs on record (29.2 hrs at review time)
Early Access Review
Perfect Bot Builder

It's a really good Discord Bot Builder, it has all features needed to make a good Discord Bot.
Discord Server Support helps out if there is something wrong and Custom Blocks are no Problem because they can be added Easy.
There is also a really big number of Blocks available (+ very many custom blocks) and I got a good and helping feature: Block Search. With this feature its possible to search blocks by their name (did not found any other builder which has this cool feature)
For those that want to customize their programs is also not a problem because everything can be changed at will.
It also runs smooth and without Problems under Linux wine.

Its really worth a try <3
Posted 30 September, 2021.
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4.4 hrs on record (0.5 hrs at review time)
Ich habe das Spiel zwar erst ungefähr eine halbe Stunde gespielt, aber ich muss sagen, diese Spiel ist wirklich extrem gut gemacht, die Grafiken sind wirklich perfekt und der Hintergrund ist wirklich sehr spannend zu erforschen, würde mich extrem auf dlc's freuen oder einen 2 Teil, diese Spiel ist definitiv seinen Preis wert
Posted 31 December, 2020.
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2 people found this review helpful
48.4 hrs on record (31.6 hrs at review time)
sehr gutes spiel
Posted 19 April, 2018.
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