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70%Audience ScoreBased on 465 reviews
story5 positive mentions
monetization56 negative mentions

  • Enjoyable gameplay with rewarding gear mechanics and challenging boss fights.
  • Simple controls and graphics providing a nostalgic old-school RPG feel.
  • Offers a variety of classes and an open world feel encouraging exploration.
  • Excessive and intrusive advertisements, including forced ads during map transitions, causing frustration.
  • Frequent crashes, long loading times, and performance issues especially on lower-end devices.
  • Pay-to-win mechanics with very slow progression for free players; grinding is excessive and monetization is aggressive.
  • monetization

    63 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    6% positive mentions, 5% neutral mentions, 89% negative mentions

    The game's monetization is heavily criticized for excessive and intrusive ads, including forced advertisements during map transitions and basic actions, which frustrate players and disrupt gameplay. While some appreciate optional ads for extra rewards, the overwhelming frequency, lack of a straightforward ad-removal purchase, and aggressive in-app purchase pushes make the experience feel more like ad farming than gaming, often leading to uninstalls.

    • “No ads unless you want extra diamonds, etc. Game is kinda grindy but not terrible.”
    • “No ads unless you want extras and no autoplay to ads which is amazing.”
    • “And no ads!”
    • “Hyper monetized, predatory advertisement practices; they force you to go to Playstore during ads before you can go back to playing the game, and even then they hide the X button to exit the 'download this game' prompt until you click elsewhere on the screen.”
    • “Updating my review, definitely made me uninstall; not only the ads between maps are a joy killer, but will glitch your map, and if it happens on dungeons it will burn your entrance. Nope, bye.”
    • “Every few minutes the forceful pop-up ads come out.”
  • story

    22 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    23% positive mentions, 63% neutral mentions, 14% negative mentions

    The story is generally appreciated for its adventure and RPG elements, offering a decent and enjoyable narrative with open-world exploration. However, players frequently encounter frustration due to frequent game crashes, insufficient and unbalanced quests that force excessive grinding, and challenging enemy levels that impede smooth progression. Improvements in quest variety, stability, and better reward systems are needed to enhance the overall story experience.

    • “The story, the multiplayer, the dungeons, and the crafting is all so good and simple.”
    • “Simple and fun, I am liking the small stories and PCs so far along with the open world feel.”
    • “Good storyline too.”
    • “The biggest complaint I have is a lack of sufficient quests to keep up with the leveling requirements of the main quest.”
    • “This forces the player to grind mobs for multiple levels in order to progress a few story points.”
    • “You start a level 7 quest that requires you to kill a level 15 boss. How would you go about doing that? I guess you can watch tons of ads and grind for weeks. Why even have dungeons at level 10 if the bosses do one-hit kills?”
  • gameplay

    19 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    47% positive mentions, 37% neutral mentions, 16% negative mentions

    Gameplay receives mixed reviews, praised for rewarding gear mechanics, engaging boss fights, and solid map design, but criticized for lacking core MMORPG features like player trading, slow progression, repetitive mechanics, and limited skill variety. Performance issues, fixed controls, frequent ads, and a costly upgrade system further detract from the experience, though some players see strong potential and enjoyable moments in the gameplay loop.

    • “The gameplay is fantastic—the gear mechanics are rewarding, map design is great, and boss fights are excitingly challenging.”
    • “The classes could look cooler and there's a lack of aesthetic customization but gameplay loop is solid and enjoyable for 'mobile mmorpg'.”
    • “I enjoy the challenges of leveling up and extensive gameplay.”
    • “It has some positive sides, but the negatives are too grave: extremely monotone gameplay, little to no skill required, very slow progression, getting good equipment takes way too long and is not satisfying, every upgrade, even the worst one, requires excessive farming, abilities are fixed which means unless you change your character, you won't get other abilities to switch, and everything is very expensive both in terms of real money and for free-to-play players.”
    • “But it lacks some of the core mechanics of an MMORPG game: trading with other players and real time players on the open world map.”
    • “If I could actually get gameplay, my rating would be higher.”
  • grinding

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is a significant and often frustrating aspect, with inconsistent gold and XP drops making progression slow and expensive. While some players enjoy the challenging grind for rare drops, many find it overly repetitive and reliant on either long farming sessions or spending money. Overall, the grind-heavy design splits opinions, leaning toward tedious for those seeking a less time-consuming experience.

    • “Farming gold and materials to upgrade gear is far too expensive, especially since the gold drops from monsters are so inconsistent—sometimes you get gold, but more often than not, you just get a measly amount of experience points.”
    • “From there you'll always be behind on experience and gold, so you'll have to spend money or multiple days farming bosses that spawn 2-3 hours apart to get gold and experience, not to mention actual decent equipment drops.”
    • “3 stars for now until some changes happen: the game is super grindy, loot drops are terrible, and classes are unbalanced (some are super overpowered and others very weak). If you don't like grinding for a super long time, this is not the game for you.”
  • graphics

    11 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    55% positive mentions, 18% neutral mentions, 27% negative mentions

    The game's graphics are generally praised for their simple, cute, and fitting art style, though some users note occasional lag when many characters are on screen. While the visual quality is decent and enjoyable for a mobile MMORPG, there are requests for clearer NPC names and greater aesthetic customization. Overall, the graphics are considered good but could benefit from minor enhancements.

    • “Not too far into the game but it's been great so far and the graphics are fantastic.”
    • “The art style of the game is good and simple and I think it was similar to their other games.”
    • “Great game, fun to play, decent graphics and smooth gameplay.”
    • “Graphics are decent but the game gets laggy when there are a lot of people or NPCs in the same spot.”
    • “Just the graphics quality, everything else is fine.”
    • “Blurry names of NPCs make it hard to navigate, especially when crafting weapons and rings.”
  • optimization

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 50% negative mentions

    The game shows great potential with its unique concept and small size, but suffers from poor optimization, causing glitches and performance issues on lower-end devices. Users suggest the developer improve optimization and add settings for low-performance devices to enhance playability.

    • “Please optimize the game to run smoothly on lower-end devices.”
    • “The game's concept is very good and it's so rare seeing games like this in the Google Play store at such small size, but it does need a bit of optimization because it constantly glitches out on low-end devices. Otherwise, the game is very good and everything else seems nice given the size of the game, and I hope the game's developer will look into this.”
    • “It needs some optimizing or an option for low-performance devices; it's quite unplayable. It has potential but needs to support low-performance devices.”
    • “The game's concept is very good and it's so rare seeing games like this in the Google Play store at such small size, but it needs a bit of optimization because it constantly glitches on low-end devices. Otherwise, the game is very good and everything else seems nice given the size, and I hope the developer will look into this.”
    • “This game is awesome and ambitious in its gameplay but suffers from bad performance and very few control or HUD settings (like fixed joystick or button adjustments).”
    • “It needs some optimizing or an option for low performance devices; it's quite unplayable. It has potential but needs to support low performance devices.”
  • stability

    4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game shows promise with a unique concept and small size but suffers from frequent bugs and freezes, especially on low-end devices. Stability issues like constant glitches and loading screen freezes significantly impact the gameplay experience. Optimizations are needed to improve performance and reduce these disruptive glitches.

    • “The game is so buggy it gets stuck all the time, glitching and everything.”
    • “It constantly glitches out on low-end devices, requiring better optimization for stability.”
    • “After hitting level 5, the game freezes and gets stuck on the loading screen upon entering the starter town.”
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3h Median play time
3h Average play time
3-3h Spent by most gamers
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Hunters Origin is a role playing game with fantasy theme. Common tags for Hunters Origin include magic, exploration, pixel graphics, cartoon, dungeon crawler and others.

Hunters Origin is available on PC, Mac OS, Phone, Windows and others.

On average players spend around 3 hours playing Hunters Origin.

Hunters Origin was developed by BoomBit.

Hunters Origin has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Hunters Origin for its story but disliked it for its monetization.

Hunters Origin is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

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