Scytale

Its Pay-To-Win. Its a flash game where you build a small town and do text adventures - all in the naming and style of the books. You have a little town, you build building, you hire some people that do adventures for you. Everything takes time, so you have to keep coming back - because farmers cannot work out that you want 10. Its not Unique, its all been painful and better done before. The adventures are above-average and you feel that someone has read the books though the consequences of your decisions make little difference. Underlying all of this is Pay-To-Win, pay money to get Gold because only gold can actually make the game worth playing. Pay gold to unlock the really good features or get bonuses that would otherwise take hours of play time. What is annoying is a painful user interface - it manages to provide a lot of information but still leaving you to scroll and click you way around it. The main center of the playing screen is a view of your town which you will never use. In conclusion, only play it if you want to keep spending real cash on it.

I recently bought this via the Humble Bundle and whilst my expectations were not high, I was thinking there may be a few hours of enjoyment ... Oh how I was wrong, oh how this game despoiled my meager hopes. This is a 5v5 MOBA (hero fight with elements of tower defense) done at it bare minimum basic features, with a tiny arena which lacks any depth. What is worse is the actual game itself terrible UI with little-to-no feedback, unresponsive or confusing interactivity, broken mechanics, horrible hit boxes for selection+targeting and unbalanced gameplay all of which lead to an experience that is just pure frustration. Oh and if you didn't get it through the Humble Bundle then then are you to make you pay, pay again and pay some more.

The game wants to be great and falls short. The story is so ambivalent that even after 20+ hours of playing, running through the motions of quest completion, you still don't feel motivated to complete it. As many people state, combat is a very uninspiring affair. Seek other alternatives.