Heartwood Online

Theres no game here yet. no balancing of any kind. early levels get absolutely nothing and each level only happens by committing woodland creature genocide. I estimated it took me somewhere in the ballpark of 80 animals to level one time from level 7 to lvl 8. meanwhile crafting or buying equipment you still get nothing until lvl 10-11 except the quest rewards which are 1 per 2-3 levels. everything is a pointless grind and the game itself holds you back to such an extent that to level a skill requires many copies of stuff you dont need at all paired with the inventory stacks seem to be fully unaware of what it takes to make anything. example: stacks are 20. to refine any resource takes ~5. that means 4 refined per stack of collected. want to make something out of that? costs at least 5 refined. meaning 2 full stacks gets you 2 finished products which sell for like 10 gold. to level a skill takes at least 10 finished products. wanna do the math? your inventory cannot hold 1 level of materials.

They banned me from community, just because I said: "other games like Grind Hero have the same scale and a single developer and they have updates nearly every week, how you guys can't release at least every two months?" That's why this game is not going anywhere, because the developers itself. Well done folks!

This game is abandonware now, they have been promoting their new update for over 2 years at this point with nothing to show for it. The lead dev lives in one of those European countries where you only have a 4 hour work week or something and clearly doesn’t care that his game will never get an update. Found this game a few years ago and wanted to love it but it’s truly just never going to reach its potential with multiple year long update cycles. Can not recommend until it’s sold to a more competent team at this point.

This game was a scam from the beginning, im actually glad the game died becouse the devs didnt deserve to run such a game and have such amazing community!

You might as well grind school IRL than to play this game because of how absurd the grind for levels.

zero feedback from devs. halted updates and no information on state of the game for months. devs are abandoning the game as of 2026. The shadowfang update we were promised is not coming, events are all canceled. they recieven alot of money for this game that lead to zero updates.

Guys, it sucks that you get butthurt over single dev teams being better at keeping their games actually updated, but.. Maybe taking money for months before finally letting your community know that your game is basically dead in the water.. is scummy. Also, apparently they delete reviews? They sure deleted my previous one, so.. triple thumbs down. Take criticism, maybe you'll learn something.