Gothic Survival 12+

First off great game! Art is great, overall gameplay is hard but fair.

That being said after beating every map on gothic I have some gripes with the balancing:

This game shoe horns you into specific builds and skills… I.e. it becomes clear that some skills you always take (Solaris and smite) and some you avoid (grasp and ice shards)… this definitely becomes apparent as you upgrade skills. I spent the better half of my gameplay experimenting with all the skills leveling them up to 10 just to see if they get some huge upgrade. Some do, some don’t. Some are just as useless at lvl 10 as they are at lvl 1 and others get super op: (I.e. smite goes from 1-4 bolts and has huge damage)…

Overall I suggest reworking the skill upgrades to make each one more balanced and definitely make these more powerful: torrent, sparks, tornado, ice shards, shuriken, grasp, fireball, slash….

And LVL 10 ON A SKILL SHOULD ALWAYS GIVE A HUGE UPGRADE TO THE SKILL… again this seems to be the case with some skills but not all.

Secondly defensive skills should be instituted: phase (become invincible for a second or two), shield (get a boost to defense, similar to empower.), Health (gain max health), shove (every few seconds your character pushes mobs back in movement direction)

Third: add another difficulty level AND make the charms upgradeable… maybe add 3 ranks to each charm that can get them more powerful for the higher difficulty.

For what it is, this game is way too fun. I thought it looked meh at first glance, but I’ve been playing it off and on all day and I really like it a lot so far. Kinda feels a bit like an indie soul knight with a classic arcade feel that I’m super into. It’s actually hard, but not in a particularly unfair way. It is for sure a little Grindy but I enjoy it enough that it doesn’t bother me at all. Only met one boss on one of the levels so far, haven’t beat him but for starting out I’m really loving it and hope the dev shoots out a few content updates here and there because I’ll play it forever if that’s the case. Only complaint is that the joystick should be a little better and the explanation for items could be a little more specific. Sorry to ramble, but I really do like it. Give it a try! And hey dev, if you wanted to throw more ads for some extra power ups I wouldn’t complain. Maybe daily gold ads? I’d watch an add for 50 gold everyday.

Need way more skills and better skill visuals. When u max a skill it should be big and bad. Solaris is literally the only thing to take no matter what character you pick. With out it you will not beat the anything. Need more viable options. No point in maxing ice shards when it is completely useless even at rank 10. More new skills would be great with bigger and better effects. Maybe if you max two certain weapons it evolves to a super weapon. Other wise good time killer and temp replacement until either vampire survivors comes to mobile or a better game comes along.