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Dawncaster: Deckbuilding RPG
Rick van der Wal · 897 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 17 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
11 negative reviews mention this · 65% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DLC expensive. The game itself cost and then you have to buy all the extra dlc which is more than $40 in my area which they don’t release free content" - Alphaqsogood
2
"work"
4 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Nah…. This game is terrible. Work on balance before asking me to buy more content. Hoping for a refund…" - kaneshiro612
3
"card"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unable to playcard set bug. I purchased the app and haven't been able to finish making my first character. The card set alert won't go away when activating the okay button. Tried the fixes. Nothing worked. I'm a busy person and I've already spent too much time trying …" - TheRattyCat
4
"already"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Unable to playcard set bug. I purchased the app and haven't been able to finish making my first character. The card set alert won't go away when activating the okay button. Tried the fixes. Nothing worked. I'm a busy person and I've already spent too much time trying …" - TheRattyCat
5
"update"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Sunforge broken/ game freezes. I’m writing this review because the game freezes in Sunforge and I can’t even submit a bug ticket. This happens repeatedly in Rogue/ arrows build. The game is unplayable since the last update." - Likujhytgfrdvbj
6
"cards"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Two days and bugs prevent any play. I cannot take any actions. I’ve tried to restart the app and in every battle the cards don’t play and/or I can’t end my turn. Stay away from this useless app." - Usersixtynine69
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DLC expensive
The game itself cost and then you have to buy all the extra dlc which is more than $40 in my area which they don’t release free content
Nah…
This game is terrible. Work on balance before asking me to buy more content. Hoping for a refund…
Unable to playcard set bug
I purchased the app and haven't been able to finish making my first character. The card set alert won't go away when activating the okay button. Tried the fixes. Nothing worked. I'm a busy person and I've already spent too much time trying to fix it. This has been a big waste of my valuable time.
language
🇨🇳the chinese font not working！ i love this game，it used to work now the font doesn't
Sunforge broken/ game freezes
I’m writing this review because the game freezes in Sunforge and I can’t even submit a bug ticket. This happens repeatedly in Rogue/ arrows build. The game is unplayable since the last update.
Two days and bugs prevent any play
I cannot take any actions. I’ve tried to restart the app and in every battle the cards don’t play and/or I can’t end my turn. Stay away from this useless app.
Doesn’t Save Progress By Default
What kind of modern mobile game doesn’t save progress to cloud by default? I lost a month of progress after reinstalling the app. Cloud saves have to be manually enabled in some hidden menu. Awful decision.
Too much
Not unless you want to do research do you want this game. I love complexity but to succeed in this game you need to have so much info beforehand to make wise choices that it felt like punishment. If they would give you a refund, I’d take it, but they won’t, cause, well…because. Card quest 4tw
New update ruined my data
Lost already downloaded language, also my 100+hours data gone.
This whole game is just “replay”
The cards are pretty but other than that, most of the game time is spent replaying the game. How is that supposed to be fun?
Unbalanced
Some characters automatically lose against some enemies.
Repetitive - luck based - misleading
This game is equivalent to a bad video game knockoff of the movie groundhogs day.
You will find yourself in an endless loop of repetitive dialog.
The card “collecting” is not actually collecting and means nothing. It simply logs that you have encountered that card at some time in the game like a Pokédex.
The leveling requires gems earned through challenges and by completing game runs. This would normally be okay, but being that you only get a few on runs that take half an hour or more of your time seems more like grinding.
People comparing this or even saying it’s better than Slay The Spire are out of their minds.
You will find yourself in an endless loop of repetitive dialog.
The card “collecting” is not actually collecting and means nothing. It simply logs that you have encountered that card at some time in the game like a Pokédex.
The leveling requires gems earned through challenges and by completing game runs. This would normally be okay, but being that you only get a few on runs that take half an hour or more of your time seems more like grinding.
People comparing this or even saying it’s better than Slay The Spire are out of their minds.
Sunforge Update - Thumbs Down
The problem with Dawncasters is the fix problems that aren’t broken. I liked that sunforge let you turn on random restarts on the draft. I loved sunforge that way. They decided I am not important by making the game their way after YEARS having random seeded news apply to sunforge.
I deleted the game and regretted paying money for it. Thanks for the downgrade…
I deleted the game and regretted paying money for it. Thanks for the downgrade…
Sound not work on my ipad
Why????
Too repetitive.
You see several times through the reviews about same enemies and this and that, but this games repetition is seriously underplayed. It’s a long, shallow story that sees you in the same areas on every play through, with the same enemies on every play through ( not to mention it’s the same 3 or 4 enemies per area every time). The setting from beginning to end is dark. Dark colors, poisons, burning, bleeding. Your typical dark rpg stuff. Not a bad thing, but when it’s all it offers, over and over again, it gets old fast. I’ve made 3 or 4 decent runs that failed towards the end, and 3 full runs, and I’m already so bored. Your skills get old after a few runs, the enemies get old, all the events become quickly predictable, idk, I just feel like they put a lot of work into a few dialogues, some of the art work, and then just copied and pasted everything else. Worth playing if you come across it for free anytime, but the fact it’s a paid game and then sells add-ons to even make it replayable more than a few times, isn’t really something I have an interest in supporting and hopefully you wouldn’t either! Also, the pictures they show on the App Store, the naked mole rat warrior and the snow level, those aren’t in the free version. I’d have been happy to see that much color and level variety in the base game, but the art choice did not impact my review, that’s just personal opinion.
Fun wears off fast
Very fun game at first until you can never get past the 3rd zone. You’ll think you have an unbeatable deck and get randomly smashed to death and have to start completely over after an hour of grinding. If you like playing the same 3 zones and dying over and over again this is the game for you.
Potential wasted
The balancing is bad, the progression is slow, and it throws monsters at you that double their hp inexplicably, into the ten thousands, leading to a pointless and drawn out attrition. The theme, weapons, and cards are cool. There was a lot of potential here. I like challenging, but only if it’s fair. Back to Balatro for me.
Sentiment summary
90%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
6%
Negative (1-2★)