Swords & Crystals Online

The game is still under maintenance for a long while, the game is not even ready and the developer offers paid content for the game. A big no no from me.

I'm glad you decided to be a solo developer. This game lasted 45 seconds on my computer. So NOT ready for public consumption.

This game was created by someone with a passion. He has put a lot of effort into it and is far from finished with this game and updates are coming out regularly. The game may be far from finished, but a good foundation has been laid. PS. PUB 2 ;)

Free MMORPG with very good graphics, gameplay & sounds, also fair system requirements. There's Skill upgrades, Puzzles, Boss battles, Loot & Gear upgrades, Achievements, Leaderboards, everything is here. Support indie devs!

Where to start... 1. Game's UI is the worst I have "EVER" seen in a game before. A title previously held by the X series with competition from some mobile games. You use your MOUSE WHEEL to both access and navigate the game's MAIN MENUS and even access your inventory/skills/etc. Mind you I DO NOT mean you scroll through the menus with the mouse wheel, I mean thats the actual method of accessing them, No "I" for inventory, or "ESC" for main menu, you use the mouse wheel for EVERYTHING. It's the worse UI design choice I have EVER witnessed. 2. The graphics are appalling. And no, I'm not a graphics snob, I love old school 2D pixelart games, grew up on the 8bit NES. The issue here isn't the fidelity of the graphics, it's that the graphics are so bad you can't tell whats a floor beneath you, a wall, and terrain ABOVE you. I couldn't tell where I was supposed to go in the TUTORIAL because of this, as the game has zero representation of terrain elevation. Everything is just monotone flat 2D. Making all navigation trial and error. 3. Controls are absolute non-sense and completely inconsistent. Is left click, right click, F, or enter the activate key? TOTALLY DEPENDS ON THE CONTEXT. You'll be using all them interchangeably, oh and the game will only accept one of them at a time in each context, good luck! Then I have to bring up that damn mouse wheel again for ALL menu navigation... Seriously what the hell was the dev thinking with that? I can't even wrap my head around that decision, it's like someone making the / key the game's forward button and the ` key the reverse key. We solved this s**t two-three decades ago people. 4. No support for widescreen displays. You CAN play the game on a widescreen, but none of the mouse intractable line up with where the cursor is at, you have to point a few inches to the right of it as the game seems to have been developed on a old 4:3 CRT display. 5. Horrific load/stutter issues. The game doesn't stream assets apparently, but loads everything in giant chunks as you play, so you effectively hit walls of loading spikes, these last a second or two and are going to get you inevitably killed. Your internet speed or system specs won't make a difference, this is code/server side. (2 gigabit internet, 7800x3d, RTX 4090, yeah your going to have the same issue.) I'm sure there were many other issues I can't think of because I was so frustrated with this disaster of an experience. I realize this game was made by without a doubt, a single guy in his basement somewhere. And I am usually very forgiving in my reviews for people who solo develop games, I've made games myself, it's hard and takes a lot of time to make good ones. But the downright stupid decisions made here are frankly beyond sugarcoating them. These are things that even I knew better than to screw up back when I was 9 years old and making my first crappy game in C++.

It is very rough and unfortunately I couldn't make it past the tutorial. Screen shake is a deal breaker for me, especially with how intense it is and with no option to disable.

Fun game! Give it a try it's freee

This thing is rough. Really rough. The user interface design is clunky and very slow to use. The visuals are poor and confusing (can I walk here? nope collision). Audio is bothersome, especially the SFX. Movement feels bad, especially jumping. Combat is loose and frustrating. I'm really not trying to be mean here, but just making it through the tutorial was a painful experience. I know solo development is hard, I can tell they have put in time, and I wish them the best, but this game is just unplayable for me.

Sure, this is an indie MMO but it looks like crap not in a fun way. Even the tutorial was pretty unbearable. Why is that attack so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ buggy and awkward. Scrolling to select different menus is so odd too.