Curse of Aros 9+

I played for a while then dropped it. I’m just getting back into it. The controls are simple and easy, and it feels pretty rewarding to level up. You can even distribute stats how you want, best part is, it only costs some gold to reset them; rather than bought currency. Which I thought was nice, since a lot of games similar to this require real life money to reset stats (as in buying the special currency, EX: Gems, jewels, or in this game, shards.). the only difficulty I had was with navigating through the map, it took a while to know where to go. I got lost a few times lol. I’m only level 35, so there’s probably more to the game, so I most likely excluding a lot of info. But when I got back on I got a message asking for a review, since a lotta negative reviews are from people who were unhappy with the game. but they are also from people who want to see the game grow. Just because others aren’t complaining about that specific problem doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem they are facing. Some players who are giving an honest negative review, could just want to see this game evolve, since they enjoy it so much. But it could also be from trolls lol. Great game so far, I really enjoy it. Good job.

It’s a decent mmorpg style game with old school graphics. It’s easy to figure out how crafting and other functions work even though there’s no tutorial of any kind. This game does need some balance tweaking however. So far accuracy seems to be the most useful stat because my character is apparently blind as a bat. Smithing is incredibly slow to level even at low levels. Mining goes up very fast but the rocks run out of ore very quickly due to the amount of players. Haven’t touched fishing or woodcutting yet but I would imagine the wood crafting skill is the same as smithing. Stackable drops should really be a thing especially with a small inventory and how much crap drops from mobs and each smithing bar being a single space. Either make it stack or make it worth more and drop less. Stacks for craft materials would just be a good QoL idea. Lastly, this game really needs some kind of a map. I can tell there are at least four area not including dungeons but finding them is unnecessarily difficult. Trees, rocks and random brush make the paths difficult to see let alone get through. There doesn’t seem to be any real rhyme or reason to it. Some of the transitions like to the left of the starting area where you use the rock to change to the other side of the fence are not intuitive at all. Make them more distinct somehow. I really enjoy this game but it has some glaring flaws. Good start, but keep tweaking please.

To all the haters/1 star reviews: this is an early access game, obviously not everything is perfect, they have more stuff being implemented. There are definitely bugs and problems with the current content though. Forcing to register with a google account isn’t the best, I even had bugs at one point trying to log in where the keyboard wouldn’t show up. Account in use bug when your player is in game when you aren’t on your device is a problem. The only time it happened to me is when I switched from WiFi to data, so I recommend not switching networks when in game. The grind for smithing is extremely unbalanced. 3000+ ores for 10 levels is absurd. Level 40 to 70 in smithing requires 9000 ores. Considering you have to walk all the way to the ore just to be able to hold 36 at a time (assuming your inventory is empty) and then craft so few at a time just makes the matter worse. Make the boxing method able to work with crafting or somehow ease the amount of running around to craft/dump materials. I’ve seen other reviews claiming they were false banned, and I certainly hope that is false because the amount of grinding in this game would kill me if I lost my progress. There are multiple anti macro methods such as filling inventory quickly and ores running out and you move to a near ore to continue instead of waiting. Maybe include proof of something they did wrong or temp ban first.