Subscription only now
So here’s the skinny on GameClub. They make you pay a monthly subscription to play the game (and others, sure). You can’t buy it anymore. You get 15 minutes of play before you are expected to commit to a one-month free trial period. No thanks.
Please add a mode
I love this game. Played it as a kid on my C64. Got the sword once then but didnt make it back. Was thrilled to find it in the app store and have gotten back into it again. Yesterday i realized it would be really great to an add a game mode that saves the state of your last temple visit. Then if you die the game is restored to it. Please add this! It allows still for consequences for dying, but doesnt send one all the way back to the beginning (people have less time nowadays)
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Best game ever
Loved it as a kid, great strategy and simple entertaining as an adult.
Can no longer play game
Game throws a full-screen popup requiring me to register an account. I do not wish to, but it will not let me play the game otherwise, effectively making it a useless piece of software. Breaking the game like this after I paid for it years ago is unacceptable.
Bought subscription only to be told I didn’t
I bought a subscription only to be told I didn’t. There is no ‘restore purchases’ button and when I try to resubscribe it bombs out. :/
No path for previous purchase
I am an original owner of Fargoal on IOS and MacOS. Love the game and the original developers. However, since the game was sold, ALL previous versions broke with iOS updates. This version has no restore option for previous purchase. I am a big believer that if you buy something, you own it. Don't waste you money on a subscription. Before you know it, you will be spending hundreds of dollars on subscriptions a month with nothing to own at the end.
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Great game
If you are a previous purchaser of the game, they still support people who perpetually purchased it. Great move and a great game!
Thank tou
Thank tou
Crap
This was an excellent game yet GameClub has killed it. I would pay a one time price of $50 if they could actually fix it and just keep it fixed. Cannot name character.
I’ve firmly decided to avoid anything associated with GameClub after my experience. Good thing I have an old outdated iPad that has the original on it that works perfectly.
I’ve firmly decided to avoid anything associated with GameClub after my experience. Good thing I have an old outdated iPad that has the original on it that works perfectly.
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Does not work with iOS 14
App does not work with iOS 14
Great game even better, but now with ads??
Update: WTH?? I'm now seeing ads in the game even though I pay for the service! That better be a bug and not a change in the platform, because I'm not paying a monthly service fee to see ads!
A great game just got even better with this latest update - lots of cool new additions that have added great depth to a fun dungeon crawler.
A great game just got even better with this latest update - lots of cool new additions that have added great depth to a fun dungeon crawler.
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Love this game!
Classic and great dungeon crawler style gameplay. I bought this many years ago and love it. However have left just 4 stars because on this iPhone 7 after the update two days ago, it crashes loading my save game! Not happy. On final iOS 14 release now. Please fix! Thanks. Previous version of the game worked fine on the iOS 14 beta releases.
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Fantastic game... ads are annoying
I bought this game years ago and absolutely love it. It has ads now which are super annoying. Still a great game, but a bummer that it’s polluted with that garbage.
Very cool game
I love this game .
Requires you to give personal info to 3rd party.
I bought this game with money many years back and recently reinstalled it. It’s now asking me to give my email address to some random third party company to play it. This is very untrustworthy and I feel people are better off finding something else.
Waste of money
At first I was thrilled to see again the Sword of Fargoal. I loved the old app and was heartbroken when it was no longer updated to work with later versions of iOS. Too bad this version introduced glitches — screens that freeze, inability to stop the player from walking in a particular direction, and action that can some stall when picking up objects are trying to access one’s sack of belongings. After a call to Apple to preclude the problem was not systemic, I decided to cancel my free month. It’s just not worth it playing a game that does not work properly. Sorry. Rogue, RIP. This app is a dud.
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Previously Purchased? Don’t Need To Join
If you’ve bought this or any other GameClub game, you don’t need to join! Just create an account, then download your purchases straight from App Store. Your registration info will be used to verify previous purchases, then you’re off and playing with no subscription necessary. This is not an exploit or a workaround.
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Meh
I first played this on my Commodore 64. I miss the text version.
Here, too few opportunities for upgrade to character, and too many restarts from getting killed, even when a level. Retreat and regeneration takes too long. May as well get killed, regenerate fast, and stick to getting experience points by killing vermin and hope the next level provides enough of a buffer to survive something bigger.
Gets boring.
Here, too few opportunities for upgrade to character, and too many restarts from getting killed, even when a level. Retreat and regeneration takes too long. May as well get killed, regenerate fast, and stick to getting experience points by killing vermin and hope the next level provides enough of a buffer to survive something bigger.
Gets boring.
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Not Free with adds
They make it sound like it is free with adds, but when you try to keep playing it won’t let you with out a paid game club.
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Sword of Fargoal has long been missing from the App Store—an unfortunate casualty of not being updated as iOS advanced. Many games have disappeared like that, but none stung quite as much as Sword of Fargoal. I have spent so much time on this game over the years. BUT WE’RE BACK, BABY! Sword of Fargoal is finally returned to the App Store and I’m poised once again to sink uncomfortable amounts of time into dungeon exploration.
At first Sword of Fargoal seems simple: Enter dungeon, explore, beat enemies, rinse, wash, repeat until you either win (which is really freakin’ hard) or die. But that initial impression gives way as you start discovering all the little details that make exploration so fun: hidden passageways, hidden doors, trap-laden labyrinths with treasure (or nothing?) at the center. Battles are dice rolls based on stats; once you initiate they unfold automatically—although you do have choices if it’s not going well: Attempt to disengage by running, or teleport away (if you have a teleport spell). That’s how I die—believing I can save that teleport for a better time, then all of a sudden my health is nil.
The variety of settings and treasure make pushing through the foggy dungeons a true joy. Watching the map reveal while descending the various levels required to get to the bottom. Yes, this is a rogue-like, a genre that has had many entries, but none are as strong, as engaging, as compulsively replayable as Sword of Fargoal. I’ve played this game since its original iOS release and I still feel like I could turn up something new and incredible as I push forward in the randomly generated dungeons. It’s what makes Sword of Fargoal so incredibly compulsive.
At first Sword of Fargoal seems simple: Enter dungeon, explore, beat enemies, rinse, wash, repeat until you either win (which is really freakin’ hard) or die. But that initial impression gives way as you start discovering all the little details that make exploration so fun: hidden passageways, hidden doors, trap-laden labyrinths with treasure (or nothing?) at the center. Battles are dice rolls based on stats; once you initiate they unfold automatically—although you do have choices if it’s not going well: Attempt to disengage by running, or teleport away (if you have a teleport spell). That’s how I die—believing I can save that teleport for a better time, then all of a sudden my health is nil.
The variety of settings and treasure make pushing through the foggy dungeons a true joy. Watching the map reveal while descending the various levels required to get to the bottom. Yes, this is a rogue-like, a genre that has had many entries, but none are as strong, as engaging, as compulsively replayable as Sword of Fargoal. I’ve played this game since its original iOS release and I still feel like I could turn up something new and incredible as I push forward in the randomly generated dungeons. It’s what makes Sword of Fargoal so incredibly compulsive.
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Fargoal
I love this game! Been missing for years. Love killing monsters and going exploring.
