Merge Dungeon

 

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Merge the cogs together into a machine and take it into:  Merge Dungeon

 

Today we have a post-apocalyptic merging game that has mostly idle mechanics with a lot of active merging. This is a very interesting RPG that uses merge mechanics as a form of equipment upgrades. Each equipment has sever different levels of rarity similar to Borderlands. There are two main currencies, gold which is used to buy equipment or upgrade storage space. The second is a premium currency that is used to upgrade everything else. You can earn a lot by playing or watching videos quite often.

If you look in the Shop tab, (the Treasure chest icon on the bottom), you can move to the last place option and watch several videos to gain boosts that slowly decay over time. It says that it decays 10 points every 3 minutes but this seems to be a typo as you only lose 1 point every 3 minutes.

If you click on the cardinal rose at the bottom of the page you can see the level select screen. If you clear an area with different challenges you gain purple diamonds which is the premium currency and is used to upgrade a lot of different kind of things needed to progress.

Here is where you will spend most of your time. When you click on the middle button you force a new item. it takes mana, the blue circle on the right. You can merge the same item to create the next tier up item which tends to be the next armor piece along the hp bar. You have not only 1 character but 3 you have to try leveling up evenly by merging and getting them good equipment. The merging can be tedious and max rarity items automatically lock so they don't accidentally get merged. Even if you merge two separate items that are max rarity the next item's rarity is completely random. Note, each of the characters share the same inventory limit so this makes it very hard to focus on all 3 until you expand that stat.

If you click on the gem on the merge board, you come to this screen. Here you collect and merge gems similar to that of Diablo games. Along the way you find a dwarf that can put the gems into an item, upgrade the items further or reset the item.

Here, back to the compass button you can also go to special dungeons twice a day to collect special powder used to upgrade each character abilities individually.

Here is the sample of the micro-transactions You get a fair amount of premium currency for the price but it will not buy you many upgrades at all.

You click on the anvil and it shows you every item you've found so far from merging. As you collect higher tier items, you gain permanent boost to that character. Also note, across the top of the screen you also gain many small missions that give you a boost of gold or items. These seem to be very random and not a source of premium diamonds.

If you click on the book to find all the big power upgrades. This menu is where you go to get the biggest boosts to progress you game. Here is where you will spend all your hard earned premium currency.

Overall:

 5 of 5 cogs.

 

 

This game has a lot of interesting mechanics with how merging works. Every so often you get a rank updated based on how far you have traveled across the map. Number of deaths do not seem to deter your placement on the list, only the floor number you reach.

Story:

0 of 5 cogs.

 

 

Zero, none at all.

Amount of ads:

 none, all optional.

 

 

 

 

 

Every ad is an optional and could potentially be avoided to play this game without issue as you can play offline as well.

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

The ads and screenshots on google play store hide nothing and are not click-bait. This is a straight forward game.

Graphics:

5 of 5 cogs.

 

 

 

HUD elements remind me of Diablo 2. The rest of the graphics have a slight cartoony aspect that takes big influence from the 80s.

Gameplay:

5 of 5 cogs.

 

 

 

This is a very simple and easy game. Merge and merge and merge, then buy upgrades. I was able to quickly rise up on the server I played on as it seems many people may get bored with this game very quickly. It's easy to pick up and play for as long as you want.

Free play:

💯%

This game is very generous and you can easily play just by watching optional ads all day.

Fun factor:

💎 Purple Diamonds are for Merging.

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Idle On MMO

 

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The robots are idling like: Idle On MMO

Welcome to Idle On, a different kind of MMO. There are many AFK elements  You can make several "slave" characters that idle and collect crafting materials while you sleep. Each character has to complete all the quests on their own as several of them help you to increase carry capacity. You could potentially leave a character farming creatures for exp for a month and return with several levels.

This is the main town. You get basic quests here that get you started. Then you must explore around the world very slowly as each portal tends to have a requirement to open to progress. Enemies become massively stronger every time you cross a portal. 

You can click on the yellow exclamation point to start a quest. The exclamation point will turn green if you completed the quest. Every quest gives great rewards that help you advance faster. There could be thousands of quest to discover in this game.

The hint tab has a lot of things you will discover as you play. If you forget how a mechanic works you can always come back here to refresh yourself.

This whick ref tab gives you a visual link to some of the important items you will use in the game. This is just reference and not really used much.

The card's tab is where you collect random card drops that can be used to upgrade a large number of skills for bonuses once you get more you can upgrdae the cards for better bonuses.

I never got to figure out what the family tab is about. I think it may be either a friends list that may give you bonuses.

This is your friends list. Not much to see here.

Guilds are also in the game but I never got a chance to find one during my time in this game.

Here is the massive map. It appears to be divided into chapater. You can walk along the hardway to get to a new location or you can teleport a limited number of times a day. There's a lot to explore and I hope to return to this game one day when I am not reviewing other games.

Starting off you have only a limited number of stats available. All of these stats stop at lv 100. As you level up or raise skills from resource collecting. There are hundreds of skills you can unlock as you progress further in the game.

You can also learn very secret skills as well. As you can see, I could not find any during the time I played the game.

The last thing I will go over is the menu. You can adjust the volumes here but they seem to reset on a relog. You can click on AFK info to see how many items or experience you will get per hour if you AFK while doing a task.

Overall:

 5 of 5 cogs.

This game is surprising. This is a blend of two games that works fairly well. Though it's an MMO, you can not interact with others that I know of. It may be possible you can group with friends to take on stronger enemies.

Story:

 4 of 5 cogs.

There is a lot of random story in this game. So many NPCs have a lot of things to say to you. Many inside jokes and comedy.

Amount of ads:

 

 None!

Zero ads. No optional ads.

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

I've seen many video ads for this game and so far each one has been accurate. There are no shady or silly click bait things to get you to play this game.

Graphics:

 3 of 5 cogs.

The graphis are reminesent of the stick fighter games. Most of the art starts off simple pixel art until you really get into discovering things.

Gameplay:

5 of 5 cogs.

The game play is very limited. You spend a lot of time idling and waiting to collect stuff. You have to manually pick up the items. Even if you return you have to pick up everything from the ground as well.

Free play:

💯%

There are some microtransactions but you can gain everything from playing the game a lot. The game is very generious with the items they give you. Luck also improves your chances of gaining better items.

Fun factor:

💞 Endless Idling.

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Idle Mythos A.K.A Genesis of Gods

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Today's game is: Idle Mythos

Idle Mythos is an AFK idle game. You get 12 hours of idle time which means you have to check-in at least twice a day to collect rewards and experience. You have to manually level up your heroes and manually challenge new levels to get stronger.

One possible hero here is Daji. She is a Chinese Kitsune that has a lot of lore behind her. This game appears to have many different people from all corners of mythology, each working to some goal.

This is the basic idle screen. It loops endlessly unless you click on next stage and go into the actual battle. There's a lot in this game and the tutorial does a fairly good job explaining what to do. There ware two main currencies. The first is a purple diamond that is the premium currency. You obtain a large number of these as you play through. They allow you to summon new heroes among other things. The second is gold and it is used to upgrade hero levels and merging equipment.

Here is a quick view of some of the heroes you may encounter starting out.

This is the basic map screen. You will unlock more places as you level up and you can do more types of quests or events to further power up your heroes. There is a PVP arena along with several other game modes that will take around an hour to complete each day.

The last screen here is an example of the equipment you can find in the game. The red equipment is the strongest in the game and requires you to merge 3 of the previous item together. Each item ads a large portion of power to each hero.

Overall:

 4 of 5 cogs.

There's a lot to this game and far too much to cover in this blog. The game makes you feel like you gain power quickly. I play AFK arena and so far this game feels fairer than the aforementioned game. You can do every daily events within an hour of play.

Story:

 0 of 5 cogs.

There is no story at all in this game except small snipits about each charachter. 

Amount of ads:

 

None.

Accurate Advertising?:

💯%

As far I can tell from the few advertisements every component shown matches. Except, the part claiming the first top up was only 1 penny. That was no where to be found and I wonder if it was a limited time offer.

Graphics:

5 of 5 cogs.

The graphics are very highly detailed. Each asset is very defined and clear to make out on the phone screen.

Audio:

 3 of 5 cogs.

The audio files sound very familiar. I feel they are possibly open-source sounds found elsewhere.

Gameplay:

 4 of 5 cogs.

There is a lot of different things to keep you playing every 12 hours. Progression feels fast so far but I have not reached a point of any difficulty walls.

Free play:

💯%

This gave is very generous with giving you premium currency to buy more heroes with. You can progress well without paying anything.

Fun factor:

😏 better than expected.

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