Winds of Valen

Game needs a lot of work, so much so that a subscription shouldn't exist. Avoid.

no instructions or tutorial in the start no directions or anything and it plays awfully bad in my 8GB RAM laptop, still the game has potential

Trash

Some of the art is quite nice, lots of it is pretty ugly. The lighting is really horrible, making it quite difficult to see in a lot of scenarios (notably during the day.) The world is very small, and despite that is quite empty. There are some potentially interesting system concepts demonstrated here, interacting with which is burdened by some awful netcode making pretty much every interaction feel clunky on its surface - and if that wasn't enough, the control scheme in general is just roughly implemented. Seems like a passion project by a runescape fan, maybe a beginners programming project, that could have been built in a weekend, and definitely should not be charging $5 a month for 'membership' fees to play it right now. Clearly more work than that has been put into this project, I am being a bit facetious, but ultimately for the value delivered to the player this might as well be true. Utterly uncompelling. Needs a huge amount of work.

The game is alright alittle rough around the edges that could be fine tuned as it is a newer game, generally like a 7/10 game but it is heavy pay to win and buying a membership makes you expentionally stronger than someone without it. i agree that supporting the creators of a game is important and necessary to keep a game running but to make a free to play option with almost nothing to do past a certain point is wild. you want to level up fishing late game, good luck farming elder trout for a billion minutes instead of going to farm carp (a membership fish), you want to train any of your combat stats good luck farming level 27 skeletons or the small amount of bosses. I truely believe that if the game was less membership focused and instead more on the general game, it would benefit this game tremendously. might eventually change this review though because the game isn't bad as long as you're willing to spend $5.99 usd a month or are just starting

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This game is in early phase but offers some fun things to do, right now subscription is 5$ a month, which is totally fine. Also it works fine on Linux.

MMO's are my favorite style of game, and Winds of Valen really scratches an itch for me. It is a small game with frequent updates to add content to the game. I personally loved that you could figure the game out for yourself and leveling up one skill leads to you another skill. There were no quests up until the membership update, which I personally preferred, as quests are my least favorite content in an MMO. A couple points that I feel other reviews have not touched on: - The amount of playtime to reach "completion" heavily depends on your definition of completion. If you enjoy the grind of getting high levels, you can easily put hundreds of hours into this game. If you don't enjoy that level of grind and only want to go until you've unlocked everything, this game is still new and growing. The devs have a roadmap in the discord of what they intend to add to the game, but you might be disappointed by the amount of content in the game as of right now. - The people who play the game regularly highly requested a way to monetarily support the game, and as a response the devs created a membership subscription. All of the content prior to the subscription was left f2p, which allows you to explore the game and level up decently high before needing to pay $5 a month, if you decide you want to do so.

Good alternative to OSRS