This game stands out as the .01% among the rest of the trash we see in the App Store these days. This game was clearly designed by someone who was not after a quick buck, and wanted to make a fun engaging experience. I was cautious when I saw “in app purchases” but playing the game I literally could not find a place where it would let me spend my money for the first few hours, then once I opened up an in game store a few hours in, there were a few purchases for buffs in the game, but nothing that seemed overly necessary, nor was it thrown in your face like many other games do. You see a similar thing with ads, where I have yet to see a forced ad, and only started getting the option for buffs at the cost of ads around the same time.It’s a shame I had to lead with that as there is so many other great things about the game. First the art style is amazingly realized, the music and ambient sounds equally lending the same experience. I think how equipment is handled is not perfect, but it is not terrible either, just a little wonky. Love the story telling and the characters you meet along the way. The sending a character on a small mission and letting him do the mission while managing his inventory/ health is a very fun approach here, I don’t think I would have liked the game so much if I was controlling every movement and attack of my character. The person who designed this game really new what they were doing and it shows.

This game is great. It’s fun, and no Wi-Fi needed. My only problem is with the games glitches. 1. When I stay in the upgrade items and upgrade, it just randomly freezes a lot. There’s an animation then you combine things and that when it freezes the most. It also happens when I try to fuse the same item together. Sometimes it freezes and doesn’t unfreeze so I have to reboot the game. 2. When I am fighting the big spider, and I switch to my bariche, it turns into a sword and shield, or other random sword combinations and I end up dying. I don’t have any of these combinations in my tool belt thing so I have no idea why it’s happening. It doesn’t happen with any other weapons too, so I am really confused. Maybe it’s because I am using a really high level weapon in a low level area but idk. I hold my bariche and sometime it immediately turns into sword and shield, other times it stays as a bariche until I fight the spider boss enemy, and sometimes it’s just in the middle of fighting the spider. These are minor problems but I grind on the spider place a lot and almost 60% of the time I am in the upgrading place. There’s also points where it’s just too hard to progress and I find myself grinding a lot and upstaging my weapons a lot.

Literally my ONLY complaint about this game, and the only thing holding it back from 5 stars imo is the inventory system in both the bag and workstation. PLEASE add an inventory filtering/management system. Progression is tied directly to upgrading items, and it’s extremely difficult to keep track of the items you want to keep with no functional organization, and extremely tedious to sort through your entire inventory every time you want to upgrade your items. I’ve only just started the icy ridge area and it’s already to the point that I don’t want to bother. I genuinely enjoy playing the game, but I’m finding I want to play less and less every time I open it and spend 20-25 minutes sorting through my inventory for that one item I want to upgrade and it’s dupes. It makes an integral aspect of the gameplay…entirely boring. If I could sort by star level, enchantment type and weapon type, and maybe a way to lock items I’d like to save(at minimum, but I’m a sucker for complex inventory systems)I’d definitely both enjoy the game more and be more motivated to play. Aside from that, this is easily one of the most creative and fun mobile games I’ve ever played(and as an added bonus ads are hardly present and not an essential part of progression or gameplay)I hope to see more content like Stone Story in the future. Keep up the good work Devs!