The Grindstone

this the most challenging of all the game shane had created love the crafting and thanks to the walk through i really enjoy this game

Once again, Wolfs Moon Studios puts out a banger of a turn-based RPG game. If you are new to this developer, all of their games are short on dialogue and huge on battles. Think old school Final Fantasy with some new twists. There are a few things that set Wolfs Moon apart from other RPG Maker games. 1) The amount of gear available is tremendous. It always feels like a treasure hunt looking for better gear. 2) The bosses are hard! Too many RPG Maker games set the difficulty way too easy. Not so with this game. Heck, even the standard monsters can be difficult if strategy isn't applied. 3) Lots of unique music. The heavy metal riffs while battling a tough boss are a nice touch. I do have some cons to list: 1) There isn't an "end" to the game. I prefer to have a final boss and closure with credits rolling at the end. But this didn't have that, it's more of an infinite level up type of game. 2) There is a huge gap of leveling-up required for competing in the two hardest areas of the game. I had to grind for 10-15 hours to get leveled up enough fight in the last 2 areas. There should have been new monsters/gear/areas to explore to keep it …

Honestly this game is in this strange place for me. It works for me as a nice game to play while watching a movie or listening to an audio book, as it is very grindy and requires very little attention. I do however think the game has a lot of issues and think many people wouldn’t like it. The Dev has made it clear none of the big issues will ever be fixed, as he wants the game to be played a certain way. While commendable, it makes the game needlessly frustrating at times and honestly feels anti-consumer. If someone wants to play a certain way in a solo game, then why are they being punished? My biggest issue is the needless anti player mechanics. Your walk speed in dungeons is a crawl. This wouldn’t be an issue but the game requires you to backtrack a lot for quests, meaning you waste half your play time being forced to walk slowly through maps that you already cleared. Combined this with no ability to increase combat speed or turn animations off and it feels like the game is being made slower for no reason but playtime. You can stretch this to the entire game, with the meaningless fetch quests, having to wait for bosses to respawn, waiting for nodes to respawn to mine or fi…

The perfect game for someone like me. Minimal story and a focus on gameplay. Satisfying gameplay loop. Just a heads up for Deck users, the game does seem to crash occasionally. It's a known problem for certain versions of rpgmaker. It hasn't detracted from my enjoyment however. Highly recommended if you like grinding and number go up dopamine hits.

This reminds me of classic rpg i used to enjoy back in the day with 4 party character. Just started the game, will update again once i get far into the game*

I have rarely experienced such an uninspired game as this one. Not only does it not actually have a story... just go to this dungeon then to another to get more levels... no, it is also just totally boring. As in most other *games* of this dev, each dungeon only has one type of enemy that you have to defeat again and again. Oh yeah, then there are these great side quests from guild masters... but they only bring me xxxx from defeated enemies. Bad luck if you also chose the wrong jobs for your party... lost points that you never see again. In summary: Boring! Boring!! Boring!!!