Mythscroll

I started writing this review, then realized I was playing on a character I'd had since the demo and decided to make a new character just in case. Having done that and played for about two hours, I can confirm that there are no meaningful character interactions or quests up to level 18. There are jobs, but none of the quests I've encountered seem to be chained into further quests. Talking to people doesn't actually give you any lore or information: the game simply tells you that you "stopped to chat," and from there your options are to stop talking, ask for free stuff (which I highly recommend, huehuehue) or ask for directions. No matter what incredibly obscure language you need to know to speak to this creature, no matter how interesting you imagine speaking to a carnivorous plant would be, you get the exact same text for every single conversation partner. There is zero lore/flavor/plot/story ANYWHERE in the first two zones. (The higher-level zones seem to be the same from what I can tell with my demo character, but I'm not strong enough to risk a more thorough search, so that should be taken with salt.) As such, Mythscroll at release is currently a Number Goes Up game with neither the emergent storytelling potential of Dwarf Fortress's procedurally generated Adventure Mode, nor the depth of a specially-handcrafted adventure like Roadwarden. It's a combat game with a couple random encounters and checkpoints in between. It DOES do that very well, I might say (I mean look at my playtime. I had no qualms spending this much time starting over!) and it IS a fun, chill text-based game for its price, but I'm not seeing much difference between version 1.0 and the demo I played before release. I don't mean to accuse the dev of doing nothing: there are absolutely improvements and more content besides just bug fixes and it's a much better experience now than from day 1 of the demo! I'm just saying that it still feels like a demo as opposed to a version 1.0 game being sold commercially, especially given the way it's described on the store page: [i]40+ JOBS & QUESTS TO COMPLETE Immerse yourself in diverse quests ranging from small favors for villagers to epic, world-changing adventures. Solve mysteries, help (or hinder) characters, and delve into storylines that branch based on your decisions. Each quest offers unique rewards, deepens the lore, and provides new opportunities to shape your character and the world around you.[/i] Like this part of the description is just not true. I've found a grand total of three (3) quests that aren't just jobs given by the job board in the City, with one being the Innkeeper's Request and another being the fishing rod quest. As said before, job board quests are given no dialogue or flavor text whatsoever besides the quest's name, and the non-job quests I've found aren't much better. It may well be that all the interesting content is lv 30+, but man, it took me two hours to reach lv 18. And it WAS fun, but even knowing there isn't a main questline I'd expect to have found SOME flavor text SOMEWHERE. There's a good foundation here, and I happily paid the price based on the demo, but it seems like all I bought was the removal of the demo's level cap instead of... you know, the rest of the game.

When I started this game it seemed pretty cool. A text-based fantasy game with some similarities to D&D and an open world. After a couple of hours though I started to realise that it's very limited and boring. GOOD: - Sandbox open world. - D&D-like gameplay style is a cool idea. BAD: - You keep running into similar random NPC's over and over again. It's very pointless. - Frustrating fights. You'll be level 6 and run in level 20 opponents that crush you. They used to take your stuff if they killed you but I think there's an option to disable that now. - Lifeless world. Random NPC's that aren't really random don't do much. There's little variation in anything. - Quests that are unclear or you have to find super rare legendary enemies. - Boring soundtrack. This game should probably be free or only, at most, a few dollars. It is lackluster in pretty much every way and the 2-3 good things that it has going for it doesn't make up for this.

I enjoyed the demo so much I got the “max level pointless to continue” message. Added to wishlist, eagerly awaiting it's release checking Steam for updates - I haven't done that for years. I purchased it on day 1, and have enjoyed it's calm, methodical approach to adventuring. The music and visuals are enjoyable- a rare game where the imagination is used.

TL;DR: Game is unbalanced and feels hollow. If you want to stare blankly at a screen and read 100% uninspired text and fill in all the interesting bits your self (i.e go write a book or something is what the dev wants you to do since they couldn't be bother to based on their comments to others) then sure the game is okay otherwise hard pass. Enemy levels are entirely too high too fast (I.E. not very far from the start) and generally there is a lack of information as to what any of the stats and skills actually do for you or what your armor values mean (went from starting value of around 10 to over 25 and enemies were hitting for roughly the same so no clue what that means). Random encounters with people feel hollow because A. random merchants only sell you one item before the encounter ends abruptly B. random merchants that want to buy something from you randomly pick an item from your inventory to buy and give you no option to convince them of some other item (they often pick what you are wearing). C. The non-merchant non-hostile encounters are 50% of the time a language that you don't understand and the ones that maybe do don't want to talk to you 50% of the time (in my playtime I got to around 10 charisma but have no clue if that means anything because the game does not tell you, does that increase the odds of people wanting to talk to you? ♥♥♥♥ if I know). D. those people will have "stop talking" "ask for free ♥♥♥♥" and "ask for directions" as options if they want to talk to you 90% of the time they do not know how to get where you are going which is also pointless because where you are going is literally just click the map and go. Presumably they mark a location on your map but since they have never "known where I am going" I have no clue.

Runs on the Steam Deck with Proton compatibility enabled just fine however the games only font size is far too small and fuzzy on the steam deck screen and there are no options (yet Im assume) to make it easier to read on smaller screens. Im keeping the game because it seems like alot of fun and I look forward to playing it later.

Wow- what can I say - this game is so charming and entertaining - behind the scenes there is a surprising amount of interwoven parts and pieces but they all work seamlessly and effortlessly but in a good way. I haven't really played D & D but my kids love it and I feel like they would love this game - it is challenging but also very chill - it is full of so much content and detail and it is just fun to spend a couple minutes here and there progressing and leveling up - I need to keep playing to experience all the game has to offer but wanted to leave my review- highly recommend!

As a forever DM, this is the closest I can get to actually playing

Has some potential, but doesn't take very long to run into what feels like all the random encounters that they've set up. The quests seem pretty limited. Can't really get motivated to play into the 3rd hour.... Hope they can add some more variety.

Just happened to stumble across this game and decided to give it a try since i like dnd. So far this game is good. I will update more later on after playing many more hours.

D&D text adventure meets Oregon Trail. Super chill time, good vibes images & music. Great for a relaxing afternoon (until you get cocky & a bandit steals your sword at the start of a playthrough, but thats on me xD). I streamed this game on Twitch & it made for a fantastic stream game as well.