Dragonspire
- July 14, 2023
- Lionheart Games
Get on Steam"Dragonspire is a 2-player co-op Role Playing Game, offering a wide range of content in its Early Access stages. Players can expect to unlock characters, battle bosses, and explore new biomes across multiple difficulties in the first three phases. Later stages introduce mini-raid dragons, 3v3 real-time PvP, and a pre-season leading to a global release. The game's development progresses without a set release date for each phase to ensure thorough testing and high quality."
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The character designs and art style are charming and vibrant, adding visual appeal to the game.
- The game has potential with its roguelike elements and unique character abilities, making it interesting for fans of the genre.
- The developers have shown commitment to improving the game, transitioning from an online-only model to a single-player experience.
- The combat feels unresponsive and floaty, lacking impact and making it difficult to enjoy the gameplay.
- Progression is heavily grindy, with a lack of meaningful rewards and a frustrating economy for leveling up characters.
- Many players have experienced significant bugs, including loading issues and unbalanced enemy design, leading to a frustrating gaming experience.
- gameplay14 mentions
- 14 % positive mentions
- 43 % neutral mentions
- 43 % negative mentions
Gameplay has received mixed reviews, with players noting issues such as repetitive mechanics, rough and unoptimized performance, and limited controller support that forces reliance on mouse navigation. While the art style is appreciated, many find the overall experience frustrating, particularly with boss encounters and online server stability. However, there is some optimism that future updates and server improvements could enhance the gameplay experience.
“Overall, the game feels good and it'll probably be even better when more servers come out as well as having the mechanics polished and fine-tuned.”
“I'm playing with a controller, but since there's only partial controller support, I have to use my mouse to navigate the main menu and when choosing power-ups during the gameplay.”
“The art style is lovely, but the gameplay is somewhat bad, especially the boss.”
“Gameplay feels horrendous; things don't look or feel right.”
- stability8 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game's stability has been criticized for frequent freezing, crashes, and buggy menus, making it unplayable for some users. Additionally, the reliance on online connectivity has led to server issues, causing lag and disconnections. While these problems are expected in early access titles, they significantly impact the overall experience.
“Then, it freezes on the loading screen and crashes, causing the game to be unplayable for me.”
“The menu is already buggy, showing me indicators for quests where nothing is available.”
“The map is inaccurate; even after playing only 30 minutes, I already found the map to be buggy.”
- grinding6 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect of the game to be tedious and unbalanced, particularly in singleplayer mode, where the initial boost to level 5 is quickly followed by a harsh grind for gold and upgrades. Many express that the combat lacks enjoyment, leading to a frustrating experience with insufficient rewards for the effort put in. While some improvements have been noted, the overall sentiment remains that grinding is still a significant and unenjoyable part of the game.
“Even worse, it's still not balanced as a singleplayer game, and their solution is giving enough coin to level to 5 with one character, then it's back to grinding and the upgrade costs are brutal.”
“Plus grinding is not fun, because fighting is not fun, and you don't get rewarded enough.”
“By the developer's own words, it was meant to have equipment, a pet system, and the list goes on. Currently, the only way to move your character forward is to grind gold and level them up, and it's still pretty grindy, but a little more bearable now.”
- graphics6 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 17 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
The graphics feature a lovely art style, but overall quality is described as decent yet unoptimized, leading to a rough and unsmooth gameplay experience. Many users express disappointment with the graphics not fully compensating for the gameplay issues, particularly during boss encounters.
“The art style is lovely.”
“The graphics are visually stunning and immersive.”
“The attention to detail in the graphics is impressive.”
“The graphics and gameplay are not smooth; they're very rough and unoptimized.”
“The graphics are decent, but not really good.”
- story4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game lacks a coherent story, primarily focusing on combat against monsters and mini-bosses. Additionally, players have reported issues with a buggy menu that displays misleading quest indicators.
“The game has no story; you just fight some monsters and then face a mini-boss.”
“The menu is already buggy, showing me indicators for quests that don't exist.”
- optimization4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game suffers from significant optimization issues, with players reporting rough graphics and gameplay that lack smoothness. There is a consensus that further optimization, extensive playtesting, and improvements to combat responsiveness and bug fixes are necessary for a better experience.
“The graphics and gameplay are not smooth; they're very rough and unoptimized.”
“I think the game needs more optimization, more playtesting, they need to fix the feel and reactiveness of combat, and all of the bugs in the game.”
- character development2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
Reviews highlight that while the character designs and the mix/match passive rogue-like elements are well-received, they feel overshadowed by the challenging combat mechanics, which detracts from the overall character development experience.
“Only positives are the character designs, the map system, and the mix/match passive rogue-like elements. I wish they weren't buried under all that cheap, oh I mean 'hard' combat design.”
- humor2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The humor in the reviews reflects a lighthearted acknowledgment of the game's early access issues, particularly the buggy servers, with some users finding it amusing that players complain about expected problems. Despite these frustrations, the overall sentiment is that the game is enjoyable and worth playing, encouraging others to embrace its imperfections.
