Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Thoughts: Idle Champions of the Realms

The new video game Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms has a great logo with beholder art:


The game includes an interesting use of characters from all over Realms-lore:


It's free on Steam Games, but...

unfortunately...

Idle Champions is a click game that is an obvious attempt to get people to shell out money for a "Free to Play" game that is much better when you enhance it with purchases. Don't get me wrong - it's fun to click-click-clickety-click for hours to advance in the game and level the characters (with a coin-based style of leveling), but the fun is overshadowed by the blatant attempt to lure people in with a "free" game that really needs the add-ons that you have to purchase. Your alternative is to log out for a day or so and log back in to collect your coins for while you were out of the game. Otherwise, it's impossible to level up fast enough for some of the campaigns.

Having said all of that though, I really need to stop typing so that I go play some more Idle Champions - because where else are you going to have Bruenor, Jarlaxle, Asharra, Celeste, and Minsc (with Boo) team up to fight random monsters?

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