Grim Soul: Survival Craft RPG 12+

Wow okay first of all this game is amazing. I love the difficulty and it makes the moments when you take down a boss so much more satisfying. A few notes I have. While I do really enjoy the difficulty I feel like the game has some pacing issues in terms of the campaign story stuff. The bird cage quests are way too hard based on a persons level. This leads to some weird pacing issues where I am able to knock out a few of the quests over a day but then am grinding my levels for months until I am powerful enough to take on certain enemies. I am also concerned about the amount of pay to play I see within the game. I have been playing for about 2 years off and on and I am still fairly early into the game. This is without paying a single dime. I think it’s frustrating for a lot of players who don’t want to pay to see all of these different ads promoting weapons when they just died and lost all of their stuff they worked so hard to get. I realize the app needs to make money I just think changing the way monetization is done may help the app. Besides my problems I still really love this game!!! For some reason I haven’t been able to join a clan and I wish the players I see in the forest were actually real players and not just bots

Hello.

Thank you for your thoughtful review and suggestions to improve the game. We will take them into consideration.

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We recommend you to join less popular order.
You can find new mates here: https://discordapp.com/invite/grimsoul
in our Discord community. The channel where you can leave application for joining your order is calling "orders-spotlight".
Hope you will succeed and enjoy the game.

If we could get live meters showing your status without having to open the backpack that would be nice and a status for when you’re gonna throw up there’s been too many times I’ve died because my character needed to throw up. While you’re on the battlefield if you run out of bandages you eat whatever you come by I know you’ll throw up but if I could see how close I am to doing it I won’t eat that last bit of food in the middle of a fight I’ll run. Second stop with the fake player bots they come attack me leave grab no loot and the work with the all the creatures attacking you if it was a real player we could probably team up seems impossible when all you see are killer boys that the AI makes run straight after you relentlessly. It’s annoying having to fight one but you have to fight them on top of whatever creatures are chasing you it’s not even a challenge it’s just depressing. Dying your loot disappears your hard work out the window you don’t even get looted you just sit there and rot and realize that you just wasted your time because the game is built to make you lose. Also why do we have to get to such a high level before we can get the better backpack having such low storage seemed like you just had to play it safe but when you realize how long you’re gonna have to keep going out and coming back (if you make it back) the task seems more tiring than fun especially with the energy reload time

Hello.

Thank you for your review.

Unfortunately, we don't clearly understand your first issue. Could you please specify this issue more detailed? What do you mean?

The other exiles are part of the Grim Soul world too. Their main goal is to interrupt you in your adventures whatever the circumstances.

If you died on a self-updated location, for example, on any skull location or quest location, your body will disappear after death, since this location will be reset after your leaving. But if you die at locations such as ruins, event, enemies' or your stronghold you will be able to find your body there.
Note, that only last body of your character is saved. If you die again, the previous body will disappear.
You can lose your items in any skull locations. And for the first entering in these locations, you had a pop-up warning about it.

This game so far seems one sided. Runs very well and the mechanics are on point but the level of difficulty is way out of balance. That’s fine and all that you lose your stuff when you die but as a beginner with limited weapons, I can only fight one mob before I have to heal so I can fight again. Let’s not forget how almost impossible it is to maintain a source of food to heal because of this. I’ve had to run around and collect berries just to heal so I can continue to play and wait until the next day so I could get the holiday cake to heal to full health. Why make bandages available only at level 15? This seems odd as a basic bandage should be available right at level one so we can keep playing for more than 15 minutes at a time. All this goes to my title “pay to win.” You got to buy weapons and gear to be able to play... but don’t die or you’ve potentially lost your spendings.

Please lower the difficulty just a little bit but not too much so that it’s too easy. Just give us a way to be able to heal on a more consistent basis so we can keep exploring. I’m level 15 now and still using the basic club, it’s still better than what I can craft based on my dps and the dps of the mob, this needs fixed for sure. It’s also quite quite annoying that it takes a stack of 20 wood to make 5-7 steaks (forgot the exact number) and it also takes forever to cook!!

5 stars for giving us what I’ve mentioned.

Hello.

Invest to boost your character development or building your own strategy without investments is your choice. You can freely play by your own decision.
The main purpose of the game is surviving. In order to survive, you should adaptive to the world.
That's why some things are not available at the beginning of the game.
Thank you for your suggestion, we hope your opinion about Grim Soul will get better.