BOGENFREAKS

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BOGENFREAKS is a single player role playing game. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Zielen, Strategien, Absurdität! Du hast wohl noch nie so ein Roguelike gespielt！

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Role Playing

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Single-Player

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70%

Audience ScoreBased on 548 reviews

gameplay13 positive mentions

monetization41 negative mentions

Fun and addictive gameplay with unique mechanics and good art style.
No forced ads, with optional ads for rewards and fair progression without mandatory payments.
Good developer support with responsive updates and fixes.

Heavy pay-to-win elements and unbalanced difficulty spikes making progression frustrating without spending.
Frequent bugs, glitches, crashes, and lag especially in later stages or certain modes.
Poor UI/UX issues including invisible menus, frozen screens, and heavy lag due to visual effects that impair gameplay.

monetization
57 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
21%
7%
72%
The game features a monetization model with no forced or intrusive ads, allowing players to progress mostly for free and only watch optional ads for small rewards. While some users praise the lack of mandatory ads and fair in-app purchases, a few report issues with buggy or misleading ads, occasional crashes, and a slight pay-to-win element mainly limited to progression speed-ups. Overall, the monetization is considered reasonable and non-disruptive by most players.
- “A good game to kill time with guaranteed no ads during play.”
- “No ads, nice progression system, and no pay-to-win situations.”
- “The in-app purchases are not too expensive either.”
- “It's totally not worth playing and your ad rewards suck; sometimes I watch 2 to 3 ads just to claim them!”
- “Ads automatically open the Play Store, and when you return the game restarts, you receive no rewards and progress resets.”
- “The ads forcefully open the Play Store.”
gameplay
25 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
52%
36%
12%
The gameplay is generally praised for its unique blend of roguelike and archery mechanics, offering a fresh and addictive experience with fun upgrades and art style. However, some users find it monotonous due to repetitive stages and limitations like frequent delays, lag issues, and a controversial autoplay feature locked behind a paywall. Overall, the gameplay is engaging but could benefit from improvements to pacing and technical performance.
- “It's got a unique, fresh gameplay but still familiar.”
- “The game is pretty nice with the mix of roguelike gameplay with archery shooting.”
- “Great art style, gameplay is fun and I love the merging mechanics of the abilities.”
- “Love the concept and the gameplay, but having to pass 30 stages to complete a level is too much. 10 to 15 stages would have been enough. The fact that you have to fight 30 times to progress makes it monotonous and boring.”
- “The gameplay is just monotonous.”
- “Gameplay consists of spamming arrows forward no matter what.”
graphics
17 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
18%
64%
18%
The game features a colorful, cartoony art style that many find appealing, though some criticize the graphics as gruesome or inconsistent. Several users request options to adjust graphic quality or disable effects to reduce lag and improve performance, especially at higher levels with many on-screen elements. Overall, while the visuals are generally praised, the lack of graphic settings and occasional thematic dissonance remain notable concerns.
- “Fun game, great art style and colors.”
- “Good game, cool graphics, a ton of things going on.”
- “I absolutely love this game; it is one of the best decisions I've ever made to download it. I love the details, I love the graphics, everything about this game is absolutely amazing.”
- “There's no setting to reduce the graphics, and when reaching upper levels where hundreds of enemies spawn, lag and frame rate issues cannot be avoided.”
- “Maybe allow players to lower the game resolution or the graphics quality.”
- “Please give us the option to adjust the graphics or remove the damage numbers.”
stability
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The game suffers from frequent stability issues, with consistent freezing occurring during and after the tutorial or early stages, rendering it unplayable. Multiple users report repetitive crashes and bugs, particularly on the Poco X6 Pro device.
- “In every stage, after some seconds, the screen freezes and doesn't let me do anything. I am using Poco X6 Pro on Android 15.”
- “The game looks fun and plays well until I finish the tutorial. Before reaching the victory screen, the game freezes instantly, and only restarting helps, leading to the same loop repeatedly.”
- “It freezes in tutorial mode; only the music continues while the character is frozen and unplayable.”
grinding
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
17%
83%
The game involves significant grinding, especially without spending money, which can make progress slow and frustrating. While some feel the pay-to-win elements and mandatory purchases for easing grinding are excessive, others find the balance manageable and grinding still relatively easy.
- “Funny, until now seems balanced and not too grindy.”
- “There is a lot of grinding if you don't spend money.”
- “So I was kinda upset, because I wanted to play with the mad doctor and I've come to realize it takes months of grinding!”
- “They want you to pay $15 USD a month for "auto" which is mandatory for the amount of grinding this game needs to progress without paying at every wall you hit.”
story
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
60%
60%
The story progression involves daily missions and tasks that can feel rewarding initially but quickly becomes grind-heavy with limited resources, leading to frustration. Some users criticize the game for gating characters behind paywalls after requiring significant effort, while others find the game well-balanced with engaging quests and unlockables. Recent event changes have also disappointed players expecting certain rewards within advertised timeframes.
- “Honestly this is a really well-balanced game with a bunch of trials, quests, characters, and more to find out and unlock. Overall, it's very well-managed.”
- “You can actually get strong by doing daily missions, saving gems, and watching ads.”
- “Once you get to a point in the story, it gets extremely grindy real fast, but there are not enough items to keep up with the game.”
- “Once you get to a point in the story it gets extremely grindy real fast but there are not enough items to keep up with the game, so right now the game sucks.”
- “They dangled characters in front of you if you accomplish enough missions/tasks, but then right before you get them done, they gray everything out so you can't get them and have to pay money instead.”
- “They removed the first 7-day event in which I would unlock missions per day to get the poison character, even though it stated in the event that I had at least 4 more days left.”
music
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
75%
25%
The music in the game is generally praised for its quality and enjoyable soundtrack, enhancing the overall experience. However, some technical issues like freezing during the tutorial mode affect gameplay. Despite this, the music stands out positively even alongside concerns about gacha mechanics.
- “This game surprisingly has quality animation and a genuinely good soundtrack.”
- “Nice music too!”
- “It has good music, but the gacha elements persist and are a bit more predatory than I can recommend.”
optimization
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
50%
50%
The game's optimization receives mixed feedback: some users find it well-optimized and smooth on high-performance devices, while others experience frequent issues like freezing, choppiness, and crashes, indicating inconsistent performance that needs improvement.
- “It's good, fun, and for once optimized.”
- “Even with its Dimensity 9300 Plus, it's a really high-performance smartphone.”
- “This game is fun, not gonna lie, but the reason why I rate this 1 star is because it is so poorly optimized. It sometimes causes a lot of issues like freezing, choppiness, or even crashing, which makes me frustrated.”
- “Hope you can optimize the game.”
humor
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
100%
The humor in the game includes unintended glitches that players find both funny and frustrating, such as a bug causing the game to freeze between win or lose screens. Overall, the humor adds a lighthearted and balanced tone to the experience without becoming tedious.
- “There is a bug where as soon as you die in game and at the same time the boss dies too (by poison tick) after your death, the game cannot figure out either you win or lose and it's stuck at the screen funny and annoying at the same time.”
- “Funny, until now seems balanced and not too grindy.”