Dragonhold

I really appreciate that the devs took the time out of their day to respond to a review and clarify what's going on. I am happy to recommend this game now knowing the devs are still active and communicative with the community. Much love to you devs. It is a damn good game with a lot of potential.

Cool concept, fun mechanics, just needs polishing. Also hopeful for controller support down the line. Looking forward to following this games journey/

Got to play a little last night and really liked the game overall. I hope they continue to push forward with this really fun with the seamless dragon to on foot combat. Will update when I've put some more hours in.

the game is great. Runs very good so far. sure there are a few bugs but the seamless switch between ground and air combat is amazing. having trouble with an enemy on the ground, switch to your dragon an roast them! very fun so far.

Needs work.

GG

This game is awful. Truly just awful. Other games might be worse in many ways, absolutely, but nothing about this game is good or exciting in the slightest.

tl;dr: play divinity 2: ego draconis instead. the *concept* is cool - be a dragonrider but also fight badguys on foot; with all gameplay aspects having progression systems! unfortunately...dragonriding sucks, the camera is super wayyy too close. Your primary ability is "shoot a straight, slowish moving projectile" ...but your wings/head will be in the way more often than not, making aerial combat annoying at best. Luckily, the dragon part is -from what I experienced- a relatively minor part of gameplay; i mostly used the dragon for map traversal (which is mildly annoying cuz the dismount/mount animation takes a while and is disorienting). However...the on-foot gameplay isnt much better. Combat in incredibly simplistic: you have a "spam left click" attack (does a very simplistic combo) and a couple of janky af "special" skills that have a way too long CD to be fun, and frankly...not enough impact to be particularly worthwhile (as knight at least. I briefly played ranger/sorc and quit after being so dissappointed by their incredibly bad models/animations). Finally we have the actual "explore the map, fight badguys, get loots" gamplay loop. Welp...most of the time you will instead be hunting down the chests that always spawn at the same general locations because that's the only way you get base materials to upgrade your stuff/build more gear...so each map is "spend 5 minutes unlocking dragon form cuz badguys spawn hella slow" -> "spend 10 mins going to the city to grab all the chests/get levels" -> "spend 5 minutes doing the quest; or longer if i wanna farm specific materials". i.e. 10-15 minutes of every session is boring ♥♥♥♥ I don't wanna do. atp I just, don't think the game is very fun. Would recommend the devs add basic resources to enemy loot tables/remove them from chests/remove overworld chests (or maybe add temp weapons/consumables instead? idk), make the dragon camera not suck, make combat abilities cool/useful (and ffs, get rid of the spam LMB combat, do "hold to combo" or something...sorc is incredibly painful to play). And actually make some decent models for all the classes other than knight (more than 1 female playable character would also be nice). Will come back and give it another shot after some more updates (assuming the game gets more...), as the concept is cool, but is a pretty hard pass for now.

4/10 Ultimately this game is incredibly rough around the edges. The controls are awkward and the camera is too close to the player model which often obstructs the players view of the enemies. The enemy AI is very basic. Even the unbeatable tutorial boss is easily cheesed by staying behind a pillar, that is because she is just a stationary turret that throws one of two ranged attacks at you at a time. Even with polish this game could only ever hope to be a 5/10 experience. It's just too generic in it's story and gameplay to be anything else.

Game is good, needs some bug fixes and polishing/quality of life, more content like classes for humans and dragons, bigger skill trees, but for now its very enjoyable and to be honest something unike, its early access, so give the game some time and let it grow, for now i can say try it and enjoy it and dont cry about some bugs. And if there is stuff then you can always join the discord server and report that, devs are nice and put a ton of effort in it and are always there to help and they appreciate every help they get also.