The Slormancer Reviews

Has it really been 11 days only and - at the point of writing this review - I racked up 130 hours?! Yes. Yes I have. (Help?!) - (If you send help, I will refuse.) TLDR: [u][b] Get it.[/b] [/u] The game took over my brain with so many cool combinations and things. Seriously, it is amazing what variety and fun this game has. The humour also is really nice.

Great game so far that looks simple and pixel cartooney, but has a surprising amount of buildcrafting and depth.

Really cool game. Scratches my ARPG itch without being so deep and complex that I’m forced to follow guides or look stuff up on my phone every ten minutes. You can pick up and play and not have to learn a bunch of different trees and stats and systems.

Top tier ARPG. Definitely one of my favorites of all time. Made me slorm all over the place. After almost 300 hours of gameplay, I still get moments where I'm saying to myself "Wow I love this game." Pros: The game makes things simple to understand and learn, but gives the mechanics so much depth which makes for insane build creativity The builds you can come up with can be so insanely game breaking that your FPS drops to 5 and you cant see anything on the screen Unique take on the ARPG genre. This might be off-putting at first, but it all works really well together and I really like the new approach to loot and equips, as well as passive skills. Cute and charming art style, and a story that doesn't take itself too seriously and doesn't feel too disrupting to the gameplay. Good for the ADHD. Lots of loot, gold, and "Slorm". Make dopamine feel good in brain. Big number make happy. Neutral: Definitely a grind fest. I like it, some might not. Purely singleplayer; I personally don't mind this, but a lot of people might. No cosmetic options, aside for some of the skills that give you a slight aesthetic change. Not a big deal to me. Cons: There are some parts of the game that feel like you hit a brickwall. One of the main mid-game bosses is really hard, and unless you have a strong build optimized JUST FOR HIM, you will likely struggle, and it's hard to figure out how to get past this sometimes. The Shadow elemental status effect is ASS to fight against. It takes a while to get to max level, and the early game is pretty slow. Finding an efficient early game build helps with this. This also makes levelling a second character a huge drag at first. You eventually learn the efficient methods to help with this, but it still takes a long time. In conclusion, this game is amazing and I anticipate any new content to be released. I hope this game gets more attention. If you like loot filled ARPGs, game breaking builds, and grinding endlessly, definitely give this one a try.

Fun game for a bit with a lot of options - only 3 classes with 3 subclasses each, but each one has dozens of weapons that can play very differently and tons of skills to further try all sorts of different weird builds. The graphics are ok and the game can be a little choppy dependent on your build, but still fun for a while. Story is silly but not really the point either. Pretty much bug free, but a lot of the details of the game are not explained well and confusing. That being said - once you get to a certain point in the story, it really sucks. You get a giant list of things that amount to grinding the 3 game modes for a long long time to prove that you are good enough to beat the boss. I goofed off a bit with it and forced myself through most of the first of 3 sets of goals, and just gave up after that. They could have just made a boss fight and then let people decide if they want to grind forever if that is there thing for NewGame+ mode, but instead they kind of forced you to do that for finishing the story. Leaves bad memories of the game, and hope they change this at some point.

I REALLY want to like this game, but it's just too complicated for its own good. It could probably use a cut in the amount of crafting and grinding required to feel like you've done everything. Not to mention, The final boss is currently locked behind A LOT of grinding that I just do not want to do. The humor of it is cute at first, Then it just gets a little too meta to be enjoyable. I honestly think this is such a well made game, But I think it could use a few adjustments.

Extremely fun game must play for people that like action RPG's and loot loads of loot!

As many other reviews I just found it got old pretty fast. At about 10 hours in you've seen literally everything the game has and it's just the same enemies and environment over and over and over while being forced to grind out to fight the final boss. Meh. I guess it's worth it at $10, but for any more it's kind of a waste.

If you have time to kill, go for it. It’s a really good game. Hopefully, they’ll add some additional endgame content because with the right build, you don’t even have to min-max your items; you can just blast through everything. The loot filter and item bonus tweaking work well. It’s still RNG, but you don’t have to spend your entire life farming for that one specific item to be insanely strong.

TL;DR: I'd say it's a Slormancer is a solid 6.5, but with how many great games are out there, that's not really good enough. My main gripe with the game are boring enemies, combined with the game suddenly placing a big gind-wall in front of you after 8 hours in. In detail: Slormancer is a a classic Hack and Slash ARPG along the lines of Chronicon, Nobody saves the World or Into the Necrovale. Its story is intentionally not serious as at all and intentionally pokes fun at common RNG tropes. Gameplay-wise Sloremance is smooth. Overall there's a large amount of "illusion of choice" going on, with the game visually offering a lot paths, just for you to realize that most skills are build around each other so that they become literally useless unless you pick certain combinations. The easy re-skilling does compensate this, and there is a good amount of build variety, but enemies are very basic, not very interesting to engage and the game does become really grindy around 8 hours. I don't mind grind, but here it's really neither rewarding or fun. Overall, I'd say play Chronicon instead, then Nobody saves the World and for the last title pick either Slormance if you enjoy lategame grind or pick Into the Necrovale if you're more a "one-and-done" fan.