Skaldsong

I'm just gonna say a few things right out of the gate before getting into the review proper. First, yes, the store page says this is free, and yes, when you go into it and start running through a campaign, you'll see stuff about tokens and such, and will eventually be told that you have no more tokens available to use to keep going, and then likely see the subscriptions and stuff. That's because AI are not cheap to run if you're not a multi-billion company, meaning the dev is the one paying in order to keep the AI in it running, let alone keep working on the game and, you know, survive. Meaning, yea, it's not TRULY free, but if you have a problem with just that, then don't worry, you can hook up your own AI into it for free and use THAT if you want, the dev himself or anyone else in the discord will help you set it up, and it's not even that hard or time consuming, I managed to do it, plus, it's FREE. Anyways, second, there are a large number of negative reviews that simply seem to boil down to "It's not REALLY free" or "AI bad", just ignore those if you see them, they clearly don't really know what they're talking about, And the third, less important thing, I'd probably just repeat what a lot of other positive reviews have said, so I'll try to keep what I say to more specific things that others may not have said, or something unique to myself. Now, review time. As you can probably tell by my hours, I've been quite enjoying my time. I loved being able to play things like D&D with my friends, and with us living in different time zones now, but now it's kind of hard to really get us together to do any longer-lasting campaigns anymore, either in person or otherwise, and this, while it doesn't help THAT problem, because of course it won't, it DOES help me scratch the itch of playing ttrpg's, of which I have a lot built up. Even ignoring that, I honestly LOVE the current official campaigns that the dev has made, and I personally think it's worth just simply taking a look at the campaigns, especially if you are a more creative kind of person like I am. You can even make your OWN campaigns if you want, and the dev is even going to add an easier way to get your start in creating one in the future, which I am personally excited for. Along with that, the dev is honestly just super chill and willing to help out with any problem someone has, like with me and my weird ghost bugs that only I have been having for some reason, and is quite active, both in terms of interaction on discord, and in terms of updating the game with bug fixes, tweaks, QoL, whole new features, all of that. Now, to circle back to what I've mentioned before, yes, it's not TECHNICALLY free, in a sense at least, you have 40 free tokens that reset each day for you to play around with, and are honestly moreso for someone new to this to see if they like it, and if they do, they can either do one of the two paid subscriptions the dev offers, OR, you can have a quick pop onto the discord and get a quick little tutorial on how to set up your own api key and hook it into the game, all for FREE (provided you pick a free AI), and honestly little hassle. I figured I'd mention that TWICE to make sure it would stick into peoples heads, as some people can be stubborn, or maybe have undiagnosed hearing problems, which I hope they get sorted for their sake. TL,DR; This is very fun, the discord is there if you need help with ANYTHING, and honestly, just simply give it a look regardless, maybe you'll get inspired by it in some way. Edit: Fixed some spelling mistakes, and tried to make sure what I wrote came off the way I wanted, as I don't word very good sometimes.

This is a solid wrapper around text LLM generation that handles a lot of "paper work" you'd see a GM handling in a TTRPG: maps, location and NPC descriptions, and so on. The negative reviews are from people who don't realize that you can get a Gemini API key for *free* and it works with Skaldsong just fine. Update: [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198010441160/recommended/3808550/]Three[/url] [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198407056754/recommended/3808550/]of[/url] [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198032330780/recommended/3808550/]them[/url] have since updated their review to disable comments. Those now-hidden comments? Pointing out (a) their lack of effort in figuring out how to get a Gemini API key for free or (b) misrepresenting Skaldsong's payment structure.

You know me Saakra To be honest, the prices are fair and people who don't think so are bums. The game is great and peasants who defy me can eat the fireball I will cast

I have such mixed opinions on this. On the one hand, the game has a lot of promise. However, it under-delivers. I can only get a little bit into campaigns before one of two things happen. 1. Suddenly the narrative text devolves into text with tags, attributes, etc. The fights appear in the chat but aren't really happening. The quest rewards aren't being given. New quests aren't being tracked. Reloading doesn't fix it. The campaign just becomes unplayable. Or 2. We wind up going in circles with repeated text over and over like we're going to two different rooms back and forth. I can't tell if the language is just limited or if we actually are going to 2 different rooms without progression. It goes on so long I do an AI meta request to progress it, but that level of troubleshooting feels cheap and ruins the fun. Up until the campaign breaks down (unfortunately relatively quickly, maybe 1-2 quests?), it's really fun and seemingly impressive. Unless this gets fixed, though, I absolutely cannot recommend it.

A storytelling playground. It's basically a tabletop rpg engine that uses AI with many impressive features. You just type things and it embellishes like regular AI but in addition it makes combat and ability rolls. It has a quest engine and tracking. I play it every day seeing my characters grow and adventure. THe biggest problem that you are limited to how many prompts you get per day just like all AI sites but you can buy more. So if you want to use this for your multiplayer rpgs (WHICH IT DOES!!!!) you have to pay for it. Best part is that it has an acting dev that listens to suggestions and problems and fixes them :) rare these days

If I could down vote this into oblivion I would. the ai locked me in endless darkness with no way out. I started the game getting bit by a werewolf and I was locked out of making any choices within the first few message and I missed every skill check given to me even though my character was trained in those skills. The only time I saw results is when I broke the game by creating a character that could rewrite reality, and rewind time. I then put all of my points into int (20) and still got my ♥♥♥♥ beaten in. even though I was killing everything around me.. do not waste your time because the game is broken and youre limited to only a few responses because its free, but you cant pay for it so get ♥♥♥♥♥♥.