[h1] TLDR [/h1]
First off, it's a straight mobile port so expect all (or most of) the problems that typically come with mobile games. Heavy monetization, stamina systems, grinding, limited inventory space (with the option to expand it for money), and timers. Timers to get assistance from friends, 5 hour cooldown, but you can spend 50 gold coins (the premium currency) to lift that cooldown. It is definitely not the most egregious of its kind, but I still don't think it's worth the time for a variety of reasons either.
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It doesn't feel like they even tried to make a proper PC port of the game. Options are almost nonexistent, no volume sliders, just toggles for sound effects and music. No resolution or resizing the window if you want to play windowed.
Description of the game is pretty laughable, they couldn't even bother trying to convince people to download it and it still ended up kind of misleading ("3D + RTS + CCG + 666 = The Gate" apparently that's the best they could do to convince you). It's not an rts, or an action rpg or anything event remotely resembling any of those things. It's 90% ccg with microtransactions (a lot of them).
[h1] Gameplay [/h1]
The battles you see in the trailer, that's the entire level. One screen. Monsters typically spawn off screen and come towards you, you have a party of 4 so there aren't much tactics involved with the battles. Just keep healers and mages safe. Team composition can maybe count for strategy but the demons you get is RNG since you gotta buy card packs. Most battles (at least starting out) are incredibly easy to the point where you can alt tab out to do something else while the game plays itself. I did this and got through the first 2 areas without even upgrading any cards. Decided to upgrade after that because I ran out of inventory space. You also have an auto battle system where they use skills on their own too. Up until the second continent I didn't have to do anything but upgrade a little bit. Once I got there and died I upgraded a bit again and was fine for a few missions until I started dying again. At that point there wasn't a whole lot more I could do with the resources I had (playing for free) to progress. This is with user interaction and trying to position my team properly, keep the squishy ones away from enemies and focus on the tougher monsters. So by the second continent (which will take you maybe an hour at most to get to) you'll probably begin the massive upgrading/evolving grind you find in a lot of mobile ccgs.
[h1] Monetization [/h1]
There is the tedious and annoying stamina system that comes with most mobile games. Run out of stamina and you're going to have to spend real money to refill it (or wait), etc... It's about 1 dollar for two energy refills (50 max stamina). Starter dungeons use 5 stamina per run. There is a "VIP" system where the more money you spend the more benefits you get in-game. I absolutely hate this as its blatant p2w and I feel it's exploitative. It's 1 dollar for 100 "gold coins," the premium currency. It costs 2 dollars for one premium summon (guaranteed to be at least a rare), 50 cents for a equipment summon, 2 dollars for summoning "exp" cards used for leveling up your cards. The exp are what you might be spending most of your money on since upgrading your cards takes FOREVER.
[h1] UI [/h1]
UI wasn't optimized for PC either. Using the skills for example. You have to click the orbs at the top. Even larger orbs pop up on the entire screen after that and then have to click again to use em. We don't need 4 orbs taking up the entire screen because we're using a mouse. We have the ability to be precise and can accurately click on the normal sized ones in the UI. Obviously this just feels lazy to me and some of you might think I'm nit picking. Maybe I am, if it doesn't bother you then just ignore that. No way to cancel targetable spells as far as I could find either. Right clicking or pressing escape didn't work. A lot of functions you'd expect from a PC game don't exist. You have to click and drag to move up and down through your list of cards, or drag left and right to move through horizontal lists. Not the worst thing in the world but again just a sign of laziness in my opinion.
[h1] What's good? [/h1]
The only pros this has vs the mobile version is that you can control your team much easier since a mouse is more precise and quicker than your finger. And if you're someone who wants to spend money on the game it's a bit cheaper to do so on the PC.
The game hands out various gifts on a fairly regular basis, including stamina. This is pretty common in mobile games though so it's expected as far as I'm concerned. Right from the start it gives you some decent cards.
[h1] Last thoughts [/h1]
I will also mention that after a certain point the game spiked in difficulty pretty hard, I assume that's the point they want you to start spending money to get better demons for your party.
If you don't mind mobile games, go 'head and try it, but for everyone else who might be expecting a legit game with some depth, this is definitely not for you. Personally, I can't recommend it. It's a straight mobile game on PC. If I wanted that I could get an android emulator or bluestacks. That just doesn't work for me, there needs to be more to the game if you're going to put it on PC.
If you want, here's a video just showing you around the game and what the battles are actually like. No commentary but I added annotations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BNS_ikCNXc Video is unlisted, I don't make money off of youtube bla bla bla.
