Victor Vran ARPG

First of all my recommendation only comes with the caveat that the game is on a sale for 5€ or less otherwise I would not recommend it. Now let us dive into the reasons why. At the first glance it is not a bad ARPG, the action combat seems very well done and for the first few hours it can draw you in, but after those intiial hours the gameplay starts to show some serious cracks. Firstly it is very obvious this game was not designed for a PC, the combat is weapon based (different weapons have different skills), but there are only three skills for each weapon and chaining combos may possibly be done at later levels, but it is very limited compared to the number of key you have available on keyboard, thus the design itself does not reach its full potential. Secondly the leveling and power fantasy looks to be very mild, you leveling up provides some bonus, but it is not very substantional. Thirdly what I call the mobile game design which the devs themselves may not even be aware of and it has become industry standard. I have touched upon it in the first point already, but not fully. The game provides you challenges in each of the location you visit, now these challenges provide the most gold and experience and done in a way to give you big dopamine rush, after completing a challenge, on ornate chest falls down and gold or experience falls out, however if you were expecting a one big chunk to fall out then you will be dissapointed, many small chunks containing a sliver of experience fall out so you can collect those and see the numbers on the screen go crazy. This chest does not enhance gameplay in any way, it is done very indisidiously to keep you playing the game. And that is not even touching upon the challenges themselves, some of them are done to purely waste your time, make you abandon your chosen playstyle of forcing you to switch a weapon or artificially encouraging exploration. Good game design would have made you do those things naturally (organic exploration, because you get a reward just by finding a secret; making some types of enemies more resistant to certain weapons etc.), the fact that these challenges exist purely for artificially extending the time you are encouraged to spend in the game makes it leave a sour taste in my mouth. Overall it is a few hours of mindless fun, which I recommend under circumstances mentioned above and there are some elements which are designed well like UI for example, but nothing more than that.