Lost Dungeon：The Relic Hunter 9+

Great game, but needs balancing

This game has the vibes of old school mobile phone rpgs like Inotia, Zenobia etc, and it’s really fun to play. But it is an morpg, so that’s the biggest difference. I really enjoy playing it, but some parts of it are getting a bit frustrating and I say this as someone who has played every single class available in the game and is Lvl 100 in Ranger.

Story: If you’re looking for a storyline like Inotia or Zenonia, forget it, there’s not much here at all.

Class balancing: If you are not a Warrior or Knight, you are squishy. You are paper. There is practically no survivability. I main Ranger, and I’m decent at bossing, because the boss mechanics are not difficult. But my class is useless at mobbing. The damage output is not enough to justify the lack of defence and heath in the Ranger. Getting to the bosses itself is difficult. There should be something more unique about each class that is worth playing, but right now as it is, I personally feel like only the warrior class is well balanced enough to be worthy.

Mana: There is a chronic lack of mana, and no potions or mana recovery available other than orbs or over time. Orbs don’t spawn nearly as enough, mana doesn’t recover fast enough, on my max level character I get to pump out 3-4 spells and I’m stuck waiting for my mana to recover. With my Ranger I can’t kill enough mobs to even have a chance to spawn orbs. It’s not enough. The mana system is screwed.

Mobbing: Why are the mobs so hard to kill? The progression of difficulty in the mobs are unbalanced. I could be max level and still have difficulty killing mobs at lower levels and at risk of dying because I’m getting swarmed and I can’t kill them fast enough. Then, paired with the problem of not having enough mana, you are stuck spamming your basic attack, and if you are a single target attack like the Ranger, you kill them painfully slowly, one by one. That is if you haven’t died yet. The difficulty is unbalanced. I have an easier time with the boss than with mobbing. And then when you increase the difficulty level, the mobs become even more ridiculous. There’s no incentive for me to increase my difficulty because I simply cannot kill the basic mobs!!

Gold: This resource is so hard to gain unless you are spending real life money in the game. Why are the gold drops so little? Gold drops for me average 10-15 per drop, little and few in between. A single upgrade would cost me thousands. A bigger upgrade would be tens and hundreds of thousands. Selling loot in the shop gives you peanuts. There are no additional gold dungeons that you can farm for gold. The gold wormhole event still only gives drops of 10s or 20s, which is barely anything. You need gold for everything, but you can find gold nowhere. It’s not even about farming or grinding anymore, it’s just impossible.

Lack of other content: When you reach the ‘max’ level (100), there is not much that opens up for you. Trying to increase your stats is difficult, and they don’t really explain what else you can do to progress. I know there’s some dungeon or something, but I have no clue how to proceed. Its like they want you to do everything again, but increase the difficulty from normal to hard, but there’s no incentive to do so because the difficulty jump is too much to handle.

Bugs: there are so many bugs. I don’t even know how to explain them all.

If you’ve read this far, thank you, but really, it is a fun game to get some nostalgia and hack and slash. But after you reach a point, it just ends up being endless grinding and frustrating button pressing while you wait for your mana to recover. I’ve reached a point where I don’t know what to do to grow anymore and it’s painful. I hope the developers do some balancing and upgrades and additional content.

Developer Response ,

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《Lost Dungeon : The Relic Hunter Support Team》