Recent reviews by SimoneMonster

Listen.

I bought this game for ♥♥♥♥♥ and giggles.

And then the lore gripped me.

This is not a joke, okay. Listen, the person who made this game took their game very seriously while still trying to make the gameplay lighthearted and child friendly. But the game isn't talking down to your kid. It's treating your kid like they have smarts and like they're able to understand complex emotions. In the game you will find lore books that are even narrated and that's where a lot of the heavy emotional impact lays. Reading Aquilla the Wise in that game... that's some heavy stuff (you get the book as part of the main quest.)

Listen I understand that this is a silly unicorn game... but the story is legit good. Yes, I was surprised too.

Seriously buy it.

Awful game. This game literally made go "AAGGHH!" and rage quit out of frustration.

The game's world is terrible. It's messy and clogged with visual stimuli. There is no sense of direction or reason for anything. Most of your day is spent looking endlessly for vendors who will buy the ♥♥♥♥ you find (but you never do) so you end up having to go home with all the crap in your inventory.

The first quest tells you to go buy "smut" but won't tell you which one and when you buy it the quest arrow won't update. So you have no idea if you bought the right one and you have no way of easily finding the ♥♥♥♥ who asked for it in the first place.

This game gave me a headache. It's absolute ♥♥♥♥♥.

I've worked as a game designer and studied game design for quite a few years now. It's through my years as a designer where I've learned that technical skill is not nearly as important as the execution of ideas within a game. It's the difference between someone being good at creating grammatically correct sentences and someone being good at bending the rules of language to create a good story. The first is expected to simply be considered competent, the second is needed to be actually good.

Dragon: The Game, and by assertion its developers, is neither.

If the refund option had been available when I bought the game back in 2014, I would've refunded it the very first day. But it wasn't, so the game remained in my library. There is nothing special about Dragon: The Game. It has no real design or purpose. Its listed features are game fundamentals that even in 5 years time has not been finished being implemented. Dragon: The Game feels like someone's mediocre homework. It has no artistic pride or identity. Seeing it being sold on a alleged professional game store is like going into a book store and finding Sonic the Hedgehog fanfiction being sold next to the Hunger Games trilogy.

While the developers are game developers in name simply because they have created something they call a game. I would guess quite firmly that these developers are primarily gamers. Gamers who mistook their love for playing games as competence at and a love for creating games. A mistake many players turned wannabe developers make, before the wast majority of them fail.

There is nothing of value in this game, only hobbyist level attempts at learning coding and design basics. Attempts being the key word. Do not buy it for it will only make you angry, or if you're a game designer like me, sad.