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Great game, has bug

On the new iPhone, when I switch away from the game and back, I can swipe menus but can't interact with any buttons. Makes playing a bit of a pain right now.

Love the game, one of the best idle game experiences on the market for any platform. The systems are complex but not overly so, the pacing is really well-done, and it's designed in such a way that you don't need to consult a guide which I love.

The apprentices system is a great way to give the player a way to automate the game, and the way it's designed means you're always building toward something (adding a new buff/boost, improving your resource collection, etc).

Researchers are a great way to passively improve less important or hard-to-train schools. Not having to actively train evocation on weak enemies each run, or constantly enable buffs to slowly train enchantment, makes it far easier to focus on the interesting parts of the game loop.

I'm a sucker for games that provide an in-game mechanic for gaining meta-information. Spells to reveal quest requirements or game tips are very cool and provide an important avenue later game to progress without being tied to a wiki page.
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Perfect

Excellent jeu, le 2 est encore mieux, vivement le 3.

The Best Active Play Idle Game

I just completed the main game (have not 100% it yet) and have spent over 56 hours actively playing. This game is an amazing incremental which holds your attention through. It requires active play, but gives you “time pieces” as you are idle, which allows you to speed up gameplay, or do time warps. This allows you to constantly feel like you are actively playing, while allowing you to speed through some grinding parts. Highly recommend the game, easily one of my top 3 mobile games ever. Now onto the second game!
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Finally a fun idle

This is a really fun idle game. You can do both idle and active play, [active being faster than just idling] the actual boss fights are a challenge when you encounter them for the first time and you really have to take stock of your resources and see what items you can craft and spells/buffs to try and beat them. Give this game about an hour, if you like it after that. Buy the 2nd one because it’s more along the lines of a remaster rather than a 2nd game. Very fun stuff. NEED NUMBER 3 😄
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Great timesink

Well priced, feels like something I’ll reset and come back to in a few years.

First time 🥴

Lowkey, my first time playing this kinda game. I’m addicted, I haven’t stopped playing it. At some points, I’m not even having fun but I’m still playing. This game changed me

Fun, great replay value

Smooth and streamlined from beginning to end. Couldn’t take it out my hands for weeks

Me and my best friend beat the game!

This game is insanely fun. Me and my friend played at home, work, in the bathroom… everywhere. Whenever you think you’re halting and there’s not much to do it opens up again and you get tons of stuff. So much fun how they have combat in addition to building your schools. 10/10 would recommend

Great game

Great game but I have come to a point where I need more stone to build another warehouse but until I build another warehouse I can’t hold more stone.

Perfect Game for me just one suggestion

A Little Bit of Background Music, something relaxing, would be nice

Great Game, Poor Execution on iPad Pro

First, the good: this is a great, deep, and detailed game. Have been playing for 2 weeks, retired once, and only just scratching the surface.

The bad: the UI layout is awful and really affects the gameplay, especially for a grind-type of game. Here’s a few examples:

1. The right hand side panel with “Magic Research” at the top contains the main options, sometimes the time speed up section, your resources, your experience, your stats, and your buffs - it’s super annoying to have constantly scroll up and down this long list to find what you need.

2. When in Exploration / Combat, the Items tab shows a cut-off view of the inventory with a huge blank space below, when it could clearly show all of the inventory.

3. In the Cast Spells panel, you can add spells to the top in Favorites. However, that panel can only be scrolled up and down when clicking on the “By Schools” section at the bottom. If the Favorites section becomes too large, it’s annoying to locate the small section of “By School” just to scroll the panel

4. The Event panel is largely useless and takes up way too much space that could be used by the other panels.

It’s a shame that such a great game engine is let down by a poor UI layout.
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Un super jeu

J’ai adoré ce jeu, qui m’a accompagné pendant 15 jours. J’étais dévoré par l’envie d’essayer plusieurs écoles de magie, optimiser mes builds, progresser dans le jeu.

Très bon jeu

J’ai découvert le jeu grâce à Reddit /incremental-games.
50h dessus plus tard, je peux dire que le jeu m’a vraiment occupé l’esprit et rythmé ces 2 dernières semaines.
Il y a une trame et un univers cohérents, juste assez pour permettre à la mécanique du jeu de s’installer doucement.
Le charme du jeu se dévoile à chaque fois qu’on découvre une nouvelle compétence, un nouveau bâtiment, ou bien une nouvelle approche pour progresser.
Il n’y a pas de multiplicateurs x1billion comme dans certains jeux du genre. Ici on progresse organiquement au fur et à mesure de ses découvertes. Une pépite à mes yeux.
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Perfect

The best couple dollars I’ve spent on the App Store. Really well thought out progression and resource management. I’m a long way from finishing but I definitely will!

Awesome

The only game I’ll go out of my way to review. Truly worth the cost, genuinely entertaining, respects its players enough to not be chock full of ads or microtransactions. Love it!

Best Mobile Game

An RPG with base-building, crafting, and an amazing number of storylines.
10/10, one of the only good mobile games.
Currently at 98% completion on main run.
But I have started other runs just to feel that early-game rush again, of course.

Almost perfect imo

The best pacing of any incremental game I’ve ever played, so far but I’m not done yet. As someone else said the auto battling is my only gripe but it’s still fun

Absolutely must play

Finally a proper incremental game. Good and satisfying progression, interesting story, engaging gameplay, no mtx. Good stuff! Thanks, dev!

One of the best

I’ve played nearly every idle game on the app store, and I can happily say that this is one of the best. It lacks the fancy graphics that some other idle games have, but it makes up for it with gameplay and passion.

There are a lot of interwoven mechanics and resource dependencies that make the game mentally stimulating to play. The combat, while simple, can also be challenging and require real thought and attention to progress. The random storylines were always fun to discover and left me excited to retire and try the other options.

And the best part? NO OBNOXIOUS ADS OR MONETIZATION!

This is one of the few idle games I felt empty after finishing because I was having so much fun progressing. 10/10
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Decends to auto-battle

Easy 5 star if they decreased the auto battling 10x. Im on my 5th retire and just dreading the monster essence grind. Got my $5 worth at least.