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I'm only going to mention points that I don't think most people will bring up. --- The community overwhelmingly voted/showed their support for a certain design for the angel goblin's evolved form on discord. When asked why the devs chose a completely different design, a dev basically politely responded, 'We heard you, and we decided not to listen to you.' This sums up their design philosophy and why such an incredibly beautiful game consistently has a roughly 6/10 review score. They refuse to do what the community wants if it's not what *they* want. I can't recommend any game run by devs like this. --- Speaking of the angel goblin's evolution, they wanted it to have a cute design but I don't think a 1 foot long strand of snot or vomit or any other disgusting bodily fluids are cute. Maybe I'm the only one who feels this way? Vote on this review to let me know if you agree or disagree overall with these points. --- The last update was 1.0.30. They jumped straight to 1.3 with this update, 2 months after the previous patch. To me this feels deceitful, like they're trying to make people think the game has had far more work done on it than it really has. "Wow, it's gone through a 1.1 update, a 1.2 update, and now it's on version 1.3! I should buy this extremely polished, content-rich game!" Nope, it's v1.3 in name only. Don't be fooled. Also most people, both fans and critics, said v1.0 felt like the game was still in early access. Version over-naming seems to be a pattern with these devs. --- It's almost like they want to abandon this undercooked game and move on to a new game. That'd explain why they're making it seem like it's near the end of its lifespan with the v1.3 label. Wait, what's this in their latest news post? "we are going to be announcing some new projects soon!" I hate it when I'm both critical and right. There are a lot more drawbacks worth pointing out but other people have already done so in existing reviews and will no doubt continue to raise them in new reviews.

This should be early access. Bugs, unbalanced features, lack of QOL features, and the list goes on. Should not have released The art however is fantastic

I really really really want to like this game, I really do, because it is so gorgeous and goodlooking and cute. The art, visual and sound, is easily 10/10. But it is not enough to carry this game to greatness yet. The tutorial does a crappy job about explaining 1% of what's going on in the game, and the rest you've gotta figure out for yourself. Story is nonexistant. Too few game modes. I don't know how much more patience is in me for this game...

I want to recommend this game because I seriously think it has potential. It has an amazing art style. Cute characters, voice lines, music, animations. Not to mention its whole premise is something that is completely my kind of game. But I've been struggling to understand the game despite carefully reading what information is available to me and what I learned from the tutorial. Add in the fact I just had the worst experience with one mission where despite exploring the map and expanding it. Dealing with the threats and preparing good defenses. I couldn't find the objective, I couldn't expand the map after literally quadrupling the size of the map, the raids were intensifying to a point by the time my troops dealt with them and rebuilt what was destroyed the next raid was starting. Then out of nowhere a million pillars and enemies spawn in available space all over the map crashing my game and ending the run. I can't currently recommend the game. And until either a major update happens or a complete overhaul of at least how information is provided in game. I don't imagine that will change.

Game is labelled 1.0, but doesn't feel 1.0. Numerous bugs, devs at least acknowledge bugs if mentioned in community area. Once I had an adventurer house spawn and then another and then they kept spawning until every point on the map had one and then the game crashed. Adventurer's decison making seems very odd, especially with combat where enemies will swarm and the adventurer will stand there and take massive damage, maybe they decide to flee when they have a sliver of health, which is pointless because by that point they just die. Be cool if adventurers could make a decision based on how overwhelmed they are. Ostensibly they can form parties at the Inn or whatever it is called, but they seem to only do that for quests and only occasionally. Most consistent is for doing the dungeon dives. When the massive swarms of enemies are on your base, your adventurers will be sure to actually refuse to take the defense job, or actually flee for once, but they definitely seem unwilling to party up to take on large amounts of enemies. I've watched certain adventurers jump between rooftops on a loop, so save and restart to fix though they will eventually do it again. Difficulty is going to depend on each person, but it definitely ramps up quick. Some maps can be labeled easy and be incredibly difficult while some that were labeled as very difficult were incredibly easy. Huge lack of any kind of explanation, which can be super annoying when choosing rewards. Sometimes after using a structure I'm still not sure what it does, or what makes it actually different from the other defensive structure. Game art is great, voice acting is good if highly repetitive, not much variety to the adventurers (each class looks like every other member of that same class so it is difficult to differentiate at a glance). I enjoy the music. But music and art don't make the game. Overall, I am hoping it is improved as I want to like the game, but as it is I would be embarrassed to call it 1.0 and not sure why that decision was made unless it was just so the devs can say they are done with it.

Game was doing pretty good while in early access and had a pretty bright future. Right now it's hard to recommend this game. For some reason they just randomly decided to push to 1.0 with not all the features completed and tanked all their good standing and reviews. The 1.0 patch also didn't really add too many features, it was just basically another patch. I can only assume this is also killing their game sales as well.

Very good and unique artstyle, the gameplay is also ok-ish if a bit messy. The game is really lackluster in content. The two gamemodes are really similar and extremely repetitive, if a 22 bucks game runs out of content in 3 hours, then it's kind of a scam. I have no idea WHY there isn't a hero building/dungeon diving gamemode instead of having the same RTS twice with footnote differences (literally just campaign and endless mode, the later of which the game REALLY isn't designed for), feels like poor game design choices to me. To sum it up, the game is a waste of potential and priced WAY higher than what it's worth.

I really wanted to love this game, but I sadly can't in its current state. The game has a lot of heart and a great art style, and I genuinely want to enjoy it. Unfortunately, it's missing some important fundamentals. Lack of Stability During my time with the game, Conquest mode broke after I completed a stage. I was sent back to the stage select screen, but the map was locked and I couldn't select the next stage. Restarting the game didn't fix it, and because there was no save state to reload, I lost all of my progress. Lack of Information The game doesn't explain many of its mechanics clearly. Some buildings force you to permanently choose a single upgrade path, while others allow you to take multiple upgrade branches. There is nothing that clearly communicates which buildings lock you into a choice, making the upgrade system feel inconsistent. Even after choosing an upgrade, you're often left wondering what it actually does. For example, the Market upgrade "Farming Economy: increases the income of all Farms" never tells you by how much. Is it 5%, 20%, or double the income? The player has no way of knowing. The same issue appears elsewhere. When trying to recruit new units, the game tells me I need more buildings, but it never tells me which buildings are required. Frustrating Enemy Spawns The enemy spawn system often feels designed to frustrate the player rather than challenge them. Enemies regularly spawn in the middle of your city. To deal with this, you naturally build walls and towers around the sewers to slow them down so your adventurers have time to respond. The problem is that every wall or fence destroyed by monsters has to be rebuilt manually. There is no drag-to-build tool for placing walls in straight lines, and there is no quick repair or rebuild feature for walls like many other city-building games have. As a result, you end up repeatedly rebuilding the same walls over and over, this quickly becomes tedious.

It took me 26 minutes to play through the tutorial. It took so long because it is really easy to sequnce break it by accident so i had to replay it over and over.