Project: Gorgon

awful, unfun garbage game with horrible drop rates the latest event is tedious nonsense do not waste your time the biggest problem with the drop rates is this unlike other mmos where if you're hunting, say, giant snails, you could get a shell, some part of the snail and maybe something else project gorgon only has 1 drop per mob so if the drop table rolled some random flower seeds congrats, that's the only item you get from that snail multiply it by ridiculously low drop rates for the item you need and what might have been a simple quest becomes ridiculous tedium and mobs are shared spawns so you can hunt the snails to extinction unless you clear the random seemingly irrelevant other mobs in the same area

Do not recommend, 1-50 gameplay is decent, but then you will hit hard wall of daily grinds that are not even remotely fun. Core gameplay loop will be doing badly designed dailies, so your progress is time gated to an absurd degree. Also loot system is basicaly like diablo 4 before gear rework times 10 in terms of badness, pretty much 99% of gear is not even worth looking at, so it just wastes your time and since there is no loot filter its really annoying.

The game is great until you get to the endgame*, at which point it becomes a buggy, poorly-balanced mess. The community is great, until you reach said endgame and have anything negative to say about it, at which point they turn on you and make it extremely unpleasant to be around. Don't get invested, it will only make it worse when it inevitably turns to ♥♥♥♥. *literally not even at the level cap, not prodigy levels, just level 90 stuff

I could write paragraphs on this game but I'll try and keep it short. This is a great game with many good points, but with, in my opinion, enough negatives to outweigh them. Like a lot of people here in the reviews have said before me, once you hit about the 50 to 60 range, the game stalls to a crawl, but up to that point, and even at that point for a good bit of time, you'll have a blast, but there will just grow to be so many time consuming skills to level that you'll come to a stand still. The game isn't really meant to be played alone after the early game if I'm judging by the balance of things as they are, but I've heard you can do it if you really, really, invest your time in the game. Carrot at the end of the stick just wasn't worth it to me once I saw how many times it telescoped away from me.

Inventory management sim.

constant server disconnects, the fast-travel system is... unwieldy (you can't easily tell where you are bound, and it's usage is not very well documented or intuitive.) storage could use some help, you pick up quests and end up needing hundreds of items, but stack size and limited number of slots kills any enjoyment. tried contacting support, but never got a response. no big deal.

As an MMO veteran who has hit max level (99s) in other major MMORPGs, I know what a patient grind looks like. Unfortunately, Project Gorgon eventually becomes straight-up boring. I genuinely had fun for the first 30 to 40 levels of combat. However, the longer I played, the more I realized the endgame loop just isn't rewarding. Here is why: * Lack of Visual Progression: Too many weapons and armors share the exact same skins. It gives the game an unfinished, "lazy" feel. This completely kills the excitement of earning unique rewards and ruins the immersion. * Broken Enemy AI: Combat can be easily cheesed because enemies do not reset or tether properly. You can easily break up groups of mobs that were clearly designed to be fought together, taking away any real challenge. * Tedious Skill Acquisition: The system for learning new spells is unnecessarily frustrating. Instead of simply buying skills from an NPC like standard MMORPGs, you have to gather random materials and find a campfire. Trying to be unique for the sake of it just makes the gameplay tedious here. * Restricted Combat: The severe limits on how many spells you can equip and use at one time feel way too restrictive. It starts strong, but the unique charm quickly wears off into artificial friction.

The game is pretty good up to 40/50. After that, it starts to transform into a massive timesink and/or money sink. The experience also stops feeling handcrafted, and is kinda just thrown together. The game has a lot of unique things going for it. it does things i've never seen other games do. You can be a butterfly. That's crazy and awesome. Unfortunately, the quality declines steeply in the midgame. at levels 40~ and beyond, you start having the option of daily dungeons. They're not mandatory, but not doing them is much slower. At Level 80 tailoring, they introduced a timegate to getting materials. You suddenly get capped at 6 per day, or you buy them from other players. (80 takes a long time to get to) Mushroom farming is basically required to get enough of any of the middle to higher end mushrooms. timegated. cheesemaking - timegated brewing - timegated industry/work orders - 1 month cooldown per unique work order The game has a relatively straightforward questing and exploring sequence through the first 3 zones. Those are fun. After that, they seem to start timegating things rather than continue to craft a naturally advancing experience. I know i'm mostly negative, but that's mostly about the midgame. if you just want a unique and weird experience that feels pretty good for a few weeks or months, it's not a bad choice.