Afallon

Feel's like an introvert's WOW. A lot of potential here. I hope this game succeeds so that the dev will add a lot more content.

This or Erenshor? [b]Erenshor[/b]: - More focus on the interactivity of sim-players - More classes - Grind is literally that of an early MMO: even with XP multiplier put to the max, it still takes tens of hours to get 1 level when you're lvl. 35+ - Great modding community [b]Afallon[/b]: - Basically no grind, you can easily get the lvl. 30 mob cap super easily by just doing the quests - Better and more frequent world events and "challenges" that are basically horde modes with a "survive for x amount of time" goal - More modern quest design, with super simple quest makers to hand-hold you - World Ascension: you can upgrade the world to "heroic world teir" which makes the game way more difficult, but you get better rewards. - way more class skills and abilities, to the point where multiple playthroughs of the same class is viable because you can unlock multiple different skill paths. Unlike erenshor where you need a wiki just to find out where you grind the scrolls for the class abilities... after you get to that level. If you're an experienced MMO/CRPG player and just want that "social" feeling without being social, go with Erenshor. If you want the gameplay experience of a MMO without the social aspects and the harsh grind, get Afallon. If you're like me, and enjoyed Erenshor but felt like it could be a little more casual? This is perfect for you! They're both really good games in their own right, regardless, and I'll be playing both!

Excellent game so far for what has been implemented. I only have two minor complaints. The first, being a lack of ability to sort your inventory. The second is a lack of a bank or storage system. RPGs and MMOs have many items to grind/collect and that players like to store too. I find the absence of a system like this in the game as of yet a little puzzling. With all the updates I have seen, the game gets better and better so I imagine it will only be some time before the two things I mentioned are hopefully implemented to some capacity. Would recommend to buy even now.

I really want to leave a positive review since the game has potential, but it is way too raw even for Early Access. Afallon features a really beautiful world, decent quests (written fine), and pleasant background music, but that is about it. I played under an hour and already have a ton of complaints about the game. The UI is senselessly terrible: buttons and text are all different sizes and styles, while the quest list, other windows, and map are disproportionate and cannot be hidden. You can adjust the size of these windows (though not transparency), but since the fonts inside are all over the place, the UI still looks like an eyesore and lacks consistency. When party NPCs hit enemies, damage numbers pop up chaotically, and as soon as you turn away, these numbers flash across the screen. After selecting an NPC, their stat bar stays on screen even if you walk far away. Some actions require pressing E, while others trigger with a simple click, breaking interaction consistency, or even trigger automatically on their own as a bug without any click. There is a loot window, but no hotkey to pick up everything. There is a basic inventory, but it has no sorting or filters, and you cannot tell item rarity from the icons. Loot tooltips are semi-transparent with hard-to-read fonts (and yes, every paragraph there is mismatched too). These UI issues show the game's core flaw: no clear structure or system. Instead of a solid foundation, features are just thrown together randomly. Gameplay is average at best, but there are strange flaws that make the game feel weird in a bad way. Of course, it is EA, so it is completely understandable why the game lacks many systems and features common to the genre it tries to emulate. That is not what I am talking about. For example, the combat notification does not always show up, falling from a height also triggers the combat message, and there is no aggro sound effect. Summoning spells cannot be canceled manually, and it is unclear if there is a countdown timer anywhere (I did not see one on screen or in tooltips). I played as a necromancer, and if you summon two skeletons, you cannot unsummon them outside of combat and just have to wait. Waiting sucks because these skeletons constantly make super annoying sounds. The AoE targeting effect looks like a cone, which made me think at first that it was a directional attack, not an AoE. I figured it out later, but aiming with this effect is still uncomfortable (you usually expect a circle on the ground near the cursor, not such a bulky opaque volume). There are just plain weird decisions. For example, the spell bar is locked by default. This means you can drop spells onto it, including replacing them, but you cannot remove them. To be able to remove them, you have to go into the settings. The same goes for the A and D keys, which default to camera turning, so you have to dig through settings to change it. Obviously, not all players are used to this, and it would make sense to add this choice directly to the character creation screen. Speaking of character creation: why the selection of assets is so bare-bones is beyond me. The faces barely differ from one another anyway, so why they couldn't add more options is completely unclear. To make matters worse, the character portrait just displays a generic face and hairstyle that don't even match the character you built. Honestly, having no portrait at all would be much better than this. I want to mention the map separately. Sure, the world looks beautiful in terms of effects and assets, which are done quite well. But when it comes to functionality and logic, questions remain. Mob habitats are located way too close to settlements, and in one village, friendly NPCs and vendors are literally mixed together with aggressive rats in an active combat zone, which looks bizarre. There are also issues with mob placement logic and the overall layout of zones, including climate zones, but expanding on all of that would take too long. I will just add that invisible walls appear in unexpected places throughout locations, which is another odd decision. While you can tolerate the issues above and generously forgive the flaws because of Early Access, the constant stuttering really ruins the experience. The game freezes for a couple of seconds if you walk a bit, probably to load areas, but overall FPS also drops and micro-stutters appear depending on the number of summoned skeletons and, to a lesser extent, invited NPCs. My setup is slightly below recommended, but I set the graphics to medium and it did not help. Afallon left a very mixed impression. It feels like someone took a nice-looking world with interesting creature design from somewhere, while everything else was made haphazardly without understanding basic UI rules and game UX. I do not feel like the game was made poorly on purpose, but at the same time I am not confident it will be polished in the future. I hope it reaches a proper, non-fake release. Time will tell.

13 Hours played, (Now 15) I feel like I can give a proper review now. (I will update this review as time goes) The good: - Npc bots now have levels that scale around yours. So progression feels real. - World modifiers! And they work on existing saves now! - Affixes on keys! No shot! - Gearing is extremely addicting, and spells are very simple but very fun to use. - Gems are easy to get and to put into your gear. - Mounts are easy to get. - The world quests are really fun and quests are simple enough to be enjoyable. - Leveling feels like it respects your time. - I LOVE the heck out of the Corruption system. It's so beyond fun and makes every key level push truly worth it. - Keybinds are easily customizable! - Armor, spells, weapons, and the world feels very cozy to me. I've been playing WoW for 21 years now and feels somewhat familiar. Maybe even a bit of Kingdoms of Amalur feeling. - You can now buy property and gain money every 5 minutes for owning it! - THERE IS NOW AN ADVENTURE GUIDE BUILT IN GAME! You can actually see boss spells and such now by default. You can also see loot they drop and the drop % chance of items to help with target farming. The neutral: - The max player level is 60. Not good. Not bad. - The bots are functional, but sometimes fail to avoid mechanics properly. - There are a total of 4 dungeons currently. Not a whole lot of variety, but it's okay. - A lot of the map is still inaccessible. It's fairly large currently, but it just abruptly prevents you from going far north or south. - The UI is customizable but sometimes frames do not remember the position you moved them (Like the corruption timer ui) - You can enchant gear with Enchantments you buy from vendors. The location of these vendors are never told to you, and based on my findings the enchantments are very limited. - Enemies when they die have a white puff of smoke. It's not terrible, but its also not very satisfying. The bad: - BOTS ARE TIMED. Every bot has a timer and when it runs out they are automatically booted from your party.(Patch 0.15 made bot timers default to 60 minutes AND you dying no longer totally fails a dungeon. HUGE W CHANGE!) - There is a whole ton of WIP features that the game heavily relies upon (Like talents are even WIP. That's how you build your character!). - Bots are cool but fighting for loot in a singleplayer game feels terrible. There's no way to force bots to auto pass on loot I need. I need a Master Loot option! - There's a lot of camera and movement jank. - There are no healer or tank specs. You must be self reliant on your own lifesteal / health potions, and you often do far more damage than bots, so expect to tank just about everything all the time. - You cannot de-stack items. Inserting a Heart of Corruption into a corruption altar will consume however many items are in that stack. It's really nasty. - Stats don't explain themselves to new players. There's no description of them when creating a new character. (A mouseover option would be nice) Extra notes and the verdict: The game is extremely addicting. In my first 24 hours I had 11 hours on it. That speaks volumes to how fun it actually is. I want this game to succeed. I cannot wait to see what the Dev does. This game is made by one person and they seem very passionate. The dev even said playable Healers are coming, and communicates very often with the community. You can even post in the discussions if you don't believe me. I'd be willing to buy a soundtrack or something to support development of this game. I'm really enjoying it so far. Please consider giving this game a chance. I made guides for Corruption and Dungeons to help new players!

I would describe this as a middle ground between Erenshor and WoW. It tends to play closer to WoW with dynaminc movement, dodges, and leaps. It also has better graphics than Erenshor. It is earlier in development though the world isn't quite as flushed out. It does have a scaling dungeon / gearing system.

I'll probably update this review later with more detail. But as it stands, there's too many very ugly and cheap and crude-feeling fake offline MMO games like Erenshor and Gedonia, with graphics so trash looking it detracts from enjoying the game. Afallon is NOT totally out of the woods with that yet, in that character design/customability is aweful and some building, dungeons and designs are awful too, like those games. HOWEVER, it's loaded with tons of bells and whistles to enhance the graphics like you wouldn't believe, some of the environments, where clearly it seems most of the graphic work went into, are utterly amazing and brilliant. Very creative and feels INSPIRED, as opposed to just tacked on. The different environments really sell the game and do it justice. It makes it tolerable to play. As for a fake offline MMO, it's one of the best I've seen so far, definitely a tier above the aforementioned two games. There's a lot of unwind here, like the classes and talent/skill options, the gear/loot system, questing, world quests, dungeons, towns, player "NPCS" running around doing their own thing (no chat-box yet but you have some dialogue options including temporarily recruiting them, inspecting their gear and inventory), and crafting! (I hear housing is planned.) The game world itself seems OK in size. I like really big worlds. This one is reportedly about the size of Skyrim, for those interested. I feel this game has huge potential, it's already shining pretty good. Just keep in mind it's going to feel "cheap" and "janky" at first and in some areas, but as you "get out there" it's a lot of nice eye-candy given the lower-poly style. Really good, the dev(s) should be very proud, they're going in the right direction. WIP of course being Early Access, but there's some good fun to be had here and I dig it. Definite thumbs-up here anyone interested in a higher-quality indie "offline MMORPG" type game.

Game needs a LOT of work. It's beyond barebones right now, and honestly kind of insulting to charge for it atm.

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