Tomscape Reviews

Unfortunately, as much as I was looking forward to slapping things, this game appears to no longer work. Once you get through character creation you will be stuck on a black screen.

Boring and grindy, with permadeath. Not much variety in enemies or locations. A hard pass.

Kind of like runescape if there were no inventory. This might as well be a tech demo, and based on the quality of SokPop's output after this, it is a tech demo. Really, based on the amount of content, it’s barely a game. I got this after buying a huge bundle of all their games, and it entertained me for a little bit, but I definitely wouldn't buy it on its own.

I was very excited to try this one the most out of my Sokpop backlog but there really isn't much exciting about this one. I can't say I even found it as a chill experience because it takes me literally 7 seconds to heal one health point at my current level (which isn't very high I admit). Wish there were more Runescape shoutouts in here such as logging/fishing. The experience I'm sure was better when people were playing this online but I'm not sure it would have been much better. There isn't much to this one. I really like the concept though and I hope Sokpop revists this idea and gives it a little more love

lack of gameplay, you just slap frogs and the fact no one plays this ruins the whole social aspect of things

I love the minimalist art style even if the contrast between bordering colors can make it difficult to make out features occasionally. I also understand this wasn't a big budget MMO or even one individual's personal passion project MMO. I'm completely okay with permadeath as well, even if it's not a personal preference. The issue with this game is the complete lack of meaningful gameplay. You heal in water and hit stuff to upgrade stats. If others played, you could all do this together. The battles are your standard time-based RNG style with no real interactivity. It's an experiment of "can we create an MMORPG in an extremely short # of weeks" with a $2.99 pricetag. Chatventures, another Sokpop MMORPG, embraces the time + resource limitation by embracing classic text-adventure mechanics. It's not uncommon for your character to continue moving despite passing the place you've clicked on, animations not playing despite being engaged in a battle, and other relatively minor bugs. If you want to support Sokpop or are curious what a talented team can produce in the MMORPG/MORPG space in an extremely short deadline and relatively few resources, the $2.99 tag might be worth it. As an game to actually play -- it's definite pass.

[h1]Sort of like oldschool Runescape, if it were prettier. And empty. And bad.[/h1] The core gameplay loop for this game involves having slap-fights with the enemy of your choosing, then healing very, very slowly by standing in a hot spring. There's no progression save for four numbers that you can increase by winning enough slap-fights - presumably with NPCs, as there's no one else playing (because why would they?). Not great. Not recommended.

Game has been completely broken and unplayable due to server issues for months, maybe even longer. Sokpop does not respond to or acknowledge this problem, and the game stays up.

Literally dead. I was able to create a character, but was never able to actually log into the game proper. Every time I boot it up I just get the title screen then a black screen. As far as I can tell, the server seems to be down and thus the game is completely unplayable. As such, this game shouldn't even be available for sale in its current state.

At the time of writing this review, the game is currently unplayable (opening to a black screen). Apparently it has been in this state for months, so it should be pulled from the store if there is no intention of fixing it.