Check the acquisition promise
Read the store headline, screenshots and description. What problem is the app promising to solve?
Study the storefront ↗Mario J. Gaida · iOS
Explore the ad evidence, study the storefront, and build your next acquisition hypothesis.
01 / Creative research
Read the store headline, screenshots and description. What problem is the app promising to solve?
Study the storefront ↗Explore apps with direct store-link matches. Compare their hooks and formats without assuming the same approach works here.
Browse observed advertisers ↗Store rankings and revenue estimates describe market context. They do not establish ad spend, conversions or ROAS.
Review the market context ↗02 / Storefront & product
Study the product story and store experience behind the acquisition funnel.
03 / Market context
Keep revenue, downloads and store rankings separate from advertising performance.
This reminds me of the old Spiderweb Software computer rpg games that I played as a kid. It has a surprising amount of depth in its stat interactions (e.g., your success rate gets worse and you take more damage if there is no light or your character is exhausted). I’ve already put a lot of hours into it and only feel like I’ve scratched the surface. However, that is also its major deficiency. There is so much going on that it is often difficult to tell what the correct way to play is. For example, I am currently level capped at 20. How do I lift this? How do I find a trainer who can give me more stat points to use? I found one in the start of the Tunnels, but no more even down to level 17. Is there a way of figuring out crafting and spell recipes, or do you need to wait for them to randomly drop? Early on, I got new recipes automatically (I.e., not as a dropped item) for no apparent reason, but this hasn’t happened for a long time. I currently only have one spell I can cast and I’ve never done it because it only creates light and lanterns are cheap. How do I mine? I already have a pickax. There are even apparently pets and minions and base building, but I’ve never seen even a hint of this in game. What does item combination do? It always says that the combo doesn’t do anything. Where can I find a mystic forge? All of this is getting a bit frustrating because my obvious avenues to progress (Tunnels, Fairy Kingdom, and the rat area) are gated by extremely difficult encounters where often I cannot even successfully hit the enemies. Normally this sort of stuff would be explained in a help system, but there is none. The only direction is in short snippets of flavor text, which are often not specific enough. There is a Fandom wiki, but it’s nearly empty. Please add better instructions for how the various systems work and where you should look next for progression!
This is a really fun game! I thought is was going to be a really short simple basic game, but there is some decent depth to it, I really enjoyed playing it up until I killed cranborough boss. The quest line just seems to end after the wizard tower quest and getting the flower. there is no resolution with final quest. It just says your quest ends here and that’s it. I think if you added a late game dungeon , with much better weapons and levels up to level 100 it would be helpful. After cranborough I had all this upgraded gear minus a weapon and really nothing exiting to use it on. I think it would be fun to have to option to max out all your stats late game. The end just feels very unfinished and could easily be fantastic with a few more dungeons.
I will not lie, I’ve been looking for an old-school offline rogue-like game for years, and when I saw this on the AppStore, I immediately bought it and I was pleased with what I got. I love the detail the game has and how it actually shows the armor on your character when you put on new armor and how it is slightly animated. The loot grind is a bit iffy, but it’s all so worth it when you get to go back and destroy the enemies you were struggling with before. This game is now one of my personal favorites and I am excited for what it will bring next! Also, question: Is there any rarity of equipment that is higher than uncommon?
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