Tales of Yore

It is much more fun than Diablo 4

*Good Game, Little to no bugs with a developer who cares and plays the game themselves.
*Community is very nice.
*Game doesnt hold your hand and its hard to find info on a wiki/fandom, This is a plus+.
*Game has a ton of content with a major update coming soon as well. Probably 150 hours of content as a casual and easily 500+ as a hardcore player already in-game.
*Quests are tied together very nicely.
*There is no P2W that i can see in-game, everything in the packs available are cosmetic or can be obtained in-game as a normal player. The quests obtained in the pack have just cosmetic rewards.
*Quite a few people have issues with input lag when moving with WASD, so just move with your mouse instead, Theres only 1 server.
*Edit* Just 2 days after this review the developer has added several more Access Points to try and reduce input lag and stabilize ping.
But its free so quit looking at reviews and just give it a try already.

Tales of Yore have a skilling system of both combat and craft very chill like those hours on Runescape with missions where you have to put attention to knowing what happens to end them, the game reward you to explore the world, and talking with NPCs also you can read books who grant you lore but unlike most games don't only give lore also open new conversations with the NPCs opening new missions.
Combat there are no classes you spend your points on what you desire but has 3 main archetypes :
Mage - this small man on a bathrobe is a master of all kind of magic healing, utility, and damage that distance just take into mind you will need more mana that zeppelin need helium and if you get hit your hp will fall faster that stock market.
Ranger - do you want to cheese and chip away the health bar of anyone on sight and have better armor than magic man? then the ranger is for you, ranger you can equip bows and throwing devices just remember to carry ammo to not run out at the worse moment.
Warrior - you go melee and carry plate armor to sustain your required need to approach a single or group of mobs like Jotaro to Dio on that street, sadly such chadness comes with the cost of you will get damaged a lot bringing as many hp pots you can also the enemy have the upper hand aint much you can do to retreat and come back later stronger.
Craft you will need to unlock the blueprints called plans buy them in shops and do some quests to be able to craft that specific item sometimes you will need a refined item to use on another crafting, craft has wide open skills that are :
lumberjack - Chop Chop, get logs for making stuff you will normally do with logs directly associated with the next skill.
Carpentry - Now you got the logs you could give them good use as chests, working stations, barrels, paintings, etc.
Fishing - if wanna capture Nessie you could try it but mostly you will get small fish, fishes have some uses as resources for cooking and oil.
cooking - you cannot spect found a delectable turkey dinner already cooked on the roads must make your food
from raw meats and founds, been feed are importantly been hungry lower down active gathering and combat proficiency, or you could just buy at home cities that will do the trick too... (sad master chef noises)
mining - "I don't know what I mining but I mine it anyway" Get rocks, coal, different ores (iron, mithril, gold, silver), some dust minerals, and finally uncut gems like diamonds, rubies, and sapphires majority of those items are used on the next skill.
smithing - fine armor and weapons within reach of those who are patient enough to train up this skill for a good reason Bilbo gives to Frodo a mithril chainmail.
foraging - allow loot many tiny items on the map used for the rest of crafting skills, foraging is the 1° a cleptomaniac wanna get to fulfill his loot desires.
fletching - you only truly need 5 words to describe this skill that allows you to make arrows and those 5 words will be... Ranger Self Sustain Ammo Factory.
potions - grab those nasty monster parts liquified them make them go different colors, flavors, and effects, and just drink them to sustain more nasty monster killing, this wheel is just too perfect.
tailoring - congratulation you become the master of vanity and bathrobes, after leveling up this skill even Gucci will be jealous of your divine clothing.
taming - I gotta catch them all! you can buy pets you battle alongside your side and command them at will but take in mind that pets and mounts can die when they die for good, leaving you with an emotional and financial breakdown (they are quite costly).
riding - this skill is leveled to wandering the lands of yore like the wind at begin you only access the horse but with enough riding (and taming) you can ride a mighty boar.
the game is pretty good you could play it very calmly or go dashing slaying everything the goal and the way you spend your time inside the game are entirely that your will, also can be played on the browser, mobile, and on the apart launcher with cross-play.
right now aint many people but you can count on those guys, the experience is like a single-player game but sometimes you could team up with fellows, at least give it a shot it won't kill you, and are free to download Also if play it, and found someone called yacoide that will be me so feel free to talk out if need a hand, if aint online you can still ask for help and mostly sure someone will respond.
the only stuff this game needs is more people and you can help with it.

I wonder how people who are complaining about the controls are able to write a refiew. It has a manual and a tutorial. It might feel a bit strange at the beginning, but you can get used to it, like in most new games you play.
Anyways, you don't care about graphics or even enjoy pixel style? You like grinding and versatility? Maybe you remember and liked Ultima Online?
Just give it a try, it's free!
Respect to the creator for this one-man-project. He's quick at helping, if got in trouble and the small community as well.
I got addictet!

The 2 hours playtime is just for the steam platform, I have over 100 hours spread between the mobile client and the standalone client.But this MMO is pretty amazing, especially for a single developer working on it. It has the steam client, but also a mobile client for on the go play. An optional monthly sub to help out, and a couple cosmetic items are the only available purchases, no buying gold, items, or exp buffs for real life $.For the game, it has multiple combat paths with varying skills that you are not locked into, dozens of quests in multiple locations that do not hold your hand. Actually paying attention to NPC dialogue will let you know of secret areas and other such stuff hidden in the game! Has gathering skills, and crafting skills that help you progress your main characters level as well, for those who don't like combat. A housing system that actually has a purpose, letting you use it for storage or crafting stations. A recently implemented pet system that lets you have mounts or your own little battle buddy. I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff, but there is always something to do.On top of all that it has an amazing community who has always been helpful for me if I ever need assistance, and a very active dev who makes appearances in the game and the games discord daily, making daily fixes if any bugs arise and working on content constantly.All in all, I totally recommend. I have spent the past few years bouncing around games that have mobile clients because of my work schedule and home life, being able to play on mobile is generally more convenient for me. As is standard in this time thou, they are all plagued with P2W tactics and daily reward systems that make me do things I don't want to do in order to keep up. Not with Tales of Yore though, it is truly a diamond in the rough!

This game caught me by surprise! At first glance, I was questioning a lot of things but once you get all your tools and figure out that the inventory is endless, the game opens up to be something more than what you would expect from the first 30 minutes.
(If I were to offer feedback to the dev, I would really showcase the tools/inventory space asap. It would help with new player retention in my opinion. First impressions are everything and as a new player, if I didn't stumble across the tools/inventory, I would have a assumed the "Crypt" was how the game played out entirely.)
Once you get your tools, the game becomes a sort of open world "skilling" game similar to games like Runescape, RPG MO, or Curse of Aros but it also offers adventure which at times feels like a Zelda game. We are left to figure out where to go next with NPC dialogue, find items that NPCs need in order to unlock access to the next quest to discover more parts of the world which in turn makes the open world even bigger.
While the game isn't finished, I see massive potential with this game.
The video below is random gameplay of me starting the game on hardcore mode. (Only one life)

Great little game that is kind of a mix of Zelda, Runescape, and Stardew. Lots of fun to be had for free.