Smithy Wars

Still a very long way from being a polished game, feels very early access

Its not much, so little in fact that phone games offer more. It feels like a chore. very little feels rewarding. The puzzles were fun ill give it that, but the loot was underwhelming and the enchanting system was unnecessarily complex. Same with the spell system, just really unneeded complexity. Both systems felt like bloat, that should have been streamlined to make room for more interesting content. Death loses levels, this is fine and felt fair, if not for the sudden power jumps of enemies. The world map feels like one of those resource capture games. but so far i have seen little benefit to actually taking the land, exploring it yes, claiming it..not much more than a buffer zone from others.

Sory to say that but this game have no sense at all. Overcomplicated from beggining and not fun at all. It is more like a tool instead of game.
Refund.

I bought this game just to see what it was like. "Giving it a try" turned into "playing for 5.7 hours over a couple of days". When I first started playing the game, the enchanting and spellmaking systems made little sense. The same day I started playing it the dev happened to push an update that improved those systems greatly. The game now tells you what enchantments will do and what their requirements are (and if you might cursed from botching those requirements). The spellmaking has a grid and there was some text added to explain what exactly is going on there. I started playing a few days after the adventure mode and "overworld map" were added. It's clear that this dev has been listening to player feedback and improving the game. At its heart of hearts, Smithy Wars is a mobile game. Short gameplay loop, simple graphics, PvP, idle combat. The hallmarks. Yet, while I usually have less interest in mobile games than I do in my bank account (great joke, smart people only), there is something enjoyable about Smithy Wars. And that's considering that, unlike many mobile games, it cost me $9.54 with tax. It's like a mobile game, but better. Just watch the trailers, and if anything in there interests you, I recommend it.

Fun little game if you like to watch auto-battles and try to figure out the best gear and setup to advance further.
The adventure mode is very bare-bone but the puzzles are interesting (although repetitive) and it is a good way to farm for gear and money, especially early in the game.

I got over 20 hours of fun until I felt I maxed out on gear and could not push further.
But the game just got an update with new, much more expensive gear that should allow me to push my champions a little further and squeeze more fun out of this game.

Obviously, it looks and feels like a phone game but it feels polished and it runs well.
The interface could be better (i.e. no body part filter for gear equip) but it is functional.
Spell types are limited to: heal, missile and elemental damage; there are no buffs nor debuffs.
I'm not sure if using a damage dealer mage would work well, I only focused on healing so far.

Sometime it felt like I was struggling with the game itself (found a few bugs and strange behaviours) but the dev responded to my posts and fixed the issues in the latest update, great!
Also, after looking for other auto battler games on steam and reading reviews, it is clear that more expensive games also have their own issues. There's not many auto battlers on steam that are not idle nor RTS nor tower-defense.
This is a truly turn based auto battler, the game never rushes you and you can play at your own pace.

It's a fun game! Personally, I liked the concept of mixing different elements - auto-battle, puzzles, arcade (!) and exploration. It's pretty satisfying to expand your domain in adventure mode and get good loot as a reward for solving a challenging puzzle :)

Nice battle game- I like curating my team and carefully picking the best fighters, lol, and the monsters are neat, the battles are cool to watch. Dramatic music. Would be cool to see our team health on the main screen so it's easier to know when to rest. Other than that, it's a fun fighter game.

Didn't want to keep wrecking my favorite item according to the heavy-handed crafting tutorial, and in doing so broke the tutorial. Now I'm not allowed to really craft because I didn't put all three earth stones on the same item to complete the tutorial. I can't find any more earth stones either, besides the 3 that the game started me off with having.

...assuming you don't break the game, though, it seems like it could be engaging.

Absolute garbage with so many fake reviews its insane

small but well made game pretty grindy but kinda fun. enchanting stuff to make you stronger seems fun.