9th Dawn II

The story is... average. I LIKE the idea behind the game-play. That said...
There are a LOT of little things that add up to this just being frustrating and eventually the fun evaporates because of it.
You have one save that automatically gets overwritten regularly. BUT you can quite easily move a fair number of quests into unsolvable positions. No way to undo this without restating the entire game. No thanks.
These guys do not, apparently, know the unwritten rule about not spawning monsters where the players can see it happening. And the lesser known (but far more important) version of NEVER spawning a monster on top of the player character.
The controls are so wonky that I ended up using a controller in one hand and my mouse with the other.
Folks. For the monies you can do better. Yes you can do worse on Steam. But you can easily do better, And thus I can not recommend this game. Sorry devs.

It's a pretty fun game, but it didn't take long for the flaws to start adding up.

Things I liked:
● Nice graphics, although somewhat simple.
● The music is alright.
● There's a pretty large world to explore, with lots of dungeons.
● I haven't encountered any major glitches.
● Using a weapon or spell type will increase your proficiency, and in turn you can learn new spells.

Things I didn't like:
● Typos, grammatical errors and strange punctuation are abundant.
● Lots of stuff just isn't balanced well at all. Things like gear, spells and enemies.
● Managing the inventory is a bit clunky. There's no fast way to sell items as far as I know, instead you drag them one by one into the shop inventory.
● Most NPCs don't update their dialogue after you finish a request of theirs, instead they just keep repeating themselves.
● Traversing the world is a very slow process, and there is no easy fast travel to help mitigate this.
● Most dungeons are like mazes, and there are no maps to help navigating them.


It could have been a really good game, if it had a few tweaks here and there. Perhaps the third title is better.

If this game had come out 20 years ago, it would have been my most favorite game of all time. However, it was released in 2016. It bears the hallmark of a really good retro game, possibly designed on a budget. It's not perfect, and some things that are supposed to be in the game (like the "poisoned" condition, and the NPC that lets you respec your stats) are simply absent altogether. That said, it was engaging enough for me to complete it start to finish, and to get 100% achievements, as well as complete all quests in the game. A fun romp, and definitely worth it on sale if you're into these sorts of games.

This game is awesome. First played it on mobile but the PC version is FAR superior offering controller support. A huge world with smooth scrolling Ultima style graphics and clever writing, you could get lost in this game for hours

I don't know if I have played this more on mobile then here. Its a decently fun game overall. mostly simplified mechanics but some good ideas thrown in there. Its a older game so expecting reliable multiplayer is a fools errand. Its aesthetic is cool but strange at the same time. It feel like you are moving paper dolls around at times. Overall not a bad game and for 6 regular price you can't really complain a lot.

Awesome game at an awesome price. Gameplay reminds me of zelda mixed with runescape. Skills level up as you use them. Very fun loot based game.Love the fact that it's co op and cross platform. Please at this information to the page developers as this will increase sales.

I am a huge fan of 2D-RPGs with pixel graphics. 9th Dawn II feels a lot like an oldschool cRPG from the 90s.

The open world is filled with lots of things to do. I really liked exploring the whole map. There is a huge amount of equipment you can find, lots of different enemies to encounter and challenging boss fights.

Dungeons (and there a lot of them) can be really challenging. Enemies respawn somewhat very quickly and there is no minimap.

The soundtrack is super enjoyable!

the unprecise and mega super turbo I want to punch the guy who the idea jump puzzles ruin this game despite the nice Ultima clone approach.l Play the 3rd, that title is way better.

The original 9th Dawn is one of few RPGs on Android that I go back to time and time again. So I was excited about 9th Dawn II and found it completely unplayable due to the controls. On Android.

On PC, on the other hand, it plays quite well. But this is a patient man's game. The world is vast and peppered with numerous dungeons - so much so that the game can arguably be considered open world. It's tempting to push yourself into harder areas - you level up faster and get more and better loot. It's also REALLY easy to get killed this way. But then you just respawn at your latest save point, so no worries. If only real life were like that.

There's a lot of these dungeons, and they're vast and complicated. Plus monsters respawn fairly quickly. Getting through these dungeons involves a lot of finding a specific switch or floor tile somewhere that you need to move a weight onto, so that you can unlock a gate somewhere on the other side of the dungeon and down two levels. If you find yourself facing a locked gate or a platform on the far side of a chasm that isn't moving, you have to go back and somehow find what it is you've missed. Have fun. I've logged something like 78 hours on this game as of this writing, and overwhelmingly it's been on one single game.

And you get to the end and, well, I won't spoil it but you don't end up being the hero you thought you were. I'll put it to you that way.

None the less, 9th Dawn II for the PC is a fun, if challenging little game and worth the few dollars you'll end up dropping on it, and then some. Doubt I'll give it a second run-through to the end, but I don't regret my first one. Recommended.

This game is a lot of fun with a bunch of small things holding it back from greatness. That being said you should buy it because it's a bunch of fun and I've spent more time playing it on mobile than I care to admit.

Things holding it back:
1 - Overworld map is really small and doesn't mark every cave you find.
2 - Random dificulty spikes (I think it's intentional and designed to get you to explore rather than grind)
3 - No maps in dungeons/caves
4 - Quest log is not sorted into uncompleted/completed
5 - People will say stuff and if you don't remember it then you miss the quest becuase there is no other record of it.
6 - a bunch of other really small anoyances

Things making it so fun
1 - Tons of content
2 - Level up system
3 - Hidden loot
4 - cross platform multiplayer on almost every platform in existence

Outstanding amount of work and content for such a low price.
Combat is a little dull and repetative, could use some better lighting and sound design, but ho-man fantastic value. Fun multiplayer, and good progression. Recommended.

This game is very fun and is a steal for $2.

I played as dual wielding melee and finshed at level 75 after about 22 hours. By the last couple of hours I was one-shotting almost everything.

A few of the dungeons can be very long and confusing. There is a lot of "find the switch to open the gate", and a couple of places get tedious with the number of enemies. Even with the respawn set to slow they sometimes start to respawn before I have cleared an area. This may not be so bad with a magic user or archer.

I played with a controller and had no technical problems.

Pros:
+ low price
+ lots of places to explore
+ map design
+ great music

+/- simple combat system and game mechanics

Cons:
- graphics
- no maps in dungeons (you can get lost easily)
- terrible journal (no way to distinguish between completed/not completed or main/side quests, sometimes you have no idea where to go)
- story (almost non-existent so far, although I haven't completed it yet)
- no explanation of the game mechanics (what do stats/skills do?)
- no in-game pause
- graphical glitch in fullscreen (white flashing at the bottom of the screen, fixed by playing in a window)

It isn't a "don't ever touch it" not recommended, just "almost recommended, but not quite". Exploration is a biggest advantage of the gameplay (imo), so no maps and the journal cons are a serious arrow to the knee. But feel free to give it a try, you might like it.

EDIT: I changed my mind. Despite all its flaws the game was fun after all.
PS. I finished the game by now, so a little update is due. Saying that the story had its moments would be a lie. It had literally one. At the very end. Still better than nothing though.

Simplistic, annoying, and ultimately boring RPG. Graphics and art design are retro and quaint, but are also over-used and monotonous. Simplistic and annoying combat, with opponents whose primary defense is randomly and quickly moving around you, staying just out of your reach while keeping you within theirs. (Your sword should have a better reach than, or at least the same as, a rat's teeth, but no.) Simplistic level-up system, with limited skills acquisition. Lots and lots of stuff on the ground, 99.99% of which you cannot interact with. Too many annoying levers & moving platforms puzzles, forcing you to backtrack and wander around, searching for a way to proceed while dealing with re-spawning opponents. Way overpriced equipment, e.g. a normal pair of cloth gloves costs over 1,000 coins, but the most you can accumulate, for many levels after 1st, is less than 500.

Un-installing this at just over an hour of game-play. I want my $2 back!

This game is really, REALLY poorly made. Well, scratch that, the beginning is poorly thought out. I want to be an archer, so I put points into dex. Can't buy a bow, because it costs like 500+ silver, and it starts you with 200. Can't fight enemies, because my weakass sword mix with my weakass STR rating makes it so I hit for just this side of nothing while the enemies can chew my ass down in seconds. Can't run, they never stop chasing you.

Sorry, can't suggest a game that locks you in to a certain path and brags about "Choice". Apparently, somewhere, you can reset stats, but it's hard according to the tutorial. So it's just not worth it to HAVE to play a STR until some undetermined time that you can stat change after you actually get the gear for the class you want to be.

Poor 9th Dawn II. It really has a lot of heart. I enjoyed the music in the game, as well as the scrappy feel of the whole thing. I can tell that it wasn't created by a large team or created by committee, and this lent it some charm. I played a mage character alongside a friend playing melee.

One issue the game has is in the respawn rate of enemies. Enemies respawn very quickly, to the point that if you die in the middle of a dungeon, you can count on pretty much clearing absolutely every enemy a second time.

Secondly, I had issues with the way that my spells were equipped. The way I wanted to play was to have a low-cost damage spell equipped in my right hand and a staff equipped in my left. This way, my character rotated between attacking with the spell and with the staff. My other spells were mapped to 1-9 quickslots. Some of the spells worked as I wanted, casting once as I hit the associated key (1,2, etc.). Other spells, when I hit the associated key, actually equipped themselves as my main attack. If I attempted to use two such spells in succession using the quickslots, the second would equip itself in the alternate hand and I'd need to open up my inventory to re-equip my staff. I actually began choosing which spells to use by seeing which ones didn't mess up my equipment when I used them.

Lastly, it's difficult to figure out where you're supposed to be going in the game. Not only is the map fairly useless, but many areas in the game were sprinkled with ridiculously tough enemies. One such example was a dungeon on a coastline (there are many of these in the game). We actually backtracked to find the dungeon because we were running into really tough enemies in the other direction. Once in the dungeon, we made quick and easy work of most enemies. Coupled wih my co-op partner, I felt like I only needed to hit each enemy with 6 magical projectiles to put them down. On the third floor, there were fairy enemies (again, only taking about 6 hits to put down), but they spawned these mobile rock enemies that cast extremely painful earth spikes, spawned an area beneath your feet that kills you in a matter of seconds, and doggedly pursued you through the dungeon. These enemies seemed to take, for me, something like 30, maybe 40 magical projectiles to put down.

What killed the game for me was the combination of not feeling like I could use the spells that I had unlocked as efficiently as I wanted due to bizarre quickslot issues, and the fact that the random difficulty spikes were so punishing due to the extremely fast enemy respawn rate.

SPOILERS BELOW!

This game was mediocre at best, but it wasnt a bad way to kill a few days with some friends. The game isnt balanced very well, and if it weren't for a friend playing an archer with a rapid fire macro, (they are the only ones who can do this), we'd probably still be grinding away until this game became too tedious to continue. This is somewhat forgivable, and my friends and I finished the game despite these minor annoyances.

The big problem comes from the end of the game. It becomes obvious (at least in my opinion) that this is just a cash grab.

Game ruining spoiler (SERIOUSLY: Ending shown below!):
This game ends with you destroying the world and a vague promise that your adventure will continue in the next game. It was a cheap game, so I find it almost comical, but it still feels kind of like a big middle finger in my face.

Considering how much I paid for this game, I won't tell you not to buy it. But knowing what I do now, I will not recommend it.

This game is beautiful. It reminds me of when I used to play Fate: it's a simple dungeon crawler, and yet it feels like so much more.

The artstyle of the game is fun, and it makes you enjoy looking around, even if there isn't much to interact with (from what I've seen so far). And the music is stunningly wonderful. While repetitive (which of course it will be, if you're in an area for long enough), but it's just so good. Some of the dialogue is entertaining, and a little of it got a chuckle out of me, while other bits tugged a heart string or two. The game has different times of day, as well as weather, from the looks of it. Which makes it pretty immersive. You, every NPC, every enemy, and every torch give out a radius of light around them (as does your mouse when you scroll around the map!). So you can see where everyone is even if it is dark or you're in a cave.

Leveling up is quite simple: just accrue enough XP to level up and it does so automatically. You get to customize your character as you see fit (though I'm not quite certain what everything does yet). Even earning the currency (Silver, in this game) is pretty simple, if not a grind. Simply slay monsters and sell the loot you get (so far, that's all I've been doing).

The only thing I am slightly put-off by is the lack of a map scrolling. The only way of looking at the map is opening it up (the button on the right, right below the minimap), and even then you cannot zoom in or out. The combat is wonderful, but it will take some getting used to for some players.

Overall, I have definitely found a good game, and I'd like to congratulate the developers on a job well done! If anyone remembers playing Fate, you might very well like this game too! And for this price, it's a steal!

So far I am enjoying this game a lot. Feels like a mix of old zelda and diablo 1.

The combat can feel clunky at times if the mobs attack at a 90 degree angle on top of your character, you just have to move so you can hit them. Otherwise combat feels good.

If you do not like to read quest you will not like this game. There is no quest tracker ( I could be wrong but havent found one ) so you must write down or do the quest as you find them in the wild. Usally involves going into a dungeon nearby or hunting down a nearby NPC.

The world map, I wish I could zoom in on it, you are so far zoomed out it's almost useless. So far I have not found any other rarity weapons other than white, not sure if there is any other kind.

Some tips to help you when you start off are:

1. Invest into Con
2. Do not buy items, you will find them
3. Level up all the weapon types
4. Explore everything
5. When over max weight it does not seem to do much to your character till you are 50+ kg over weight.
6. Sometimes you will need to shoot arrows at levers to open pathways
7. There are grappel hook locations? I am at the second town and have not found a grapple hook yet.

I wish there was a hardcore mode, I have not tried multiplayer yet.

There are boss's and areas you can go to a hour or two in that you should not go to because you will die.

Overall game is a must buy for the price.

It's a very fun game for my friends and i, we had fun exploring and grinding together but since it's early access, alot of things can be improved on.

General
- Fullscreen is unable alt-tab out
- Items dropped are hard to tell or see
- Minimap is abit confusing and not clear enough
- Items price not listed until selling it, only when confirming it the price is revealed
- Too little spells for warrior and rogue, mage gets tons of spells to play with
- To add on the point above, mage weapons has different variety of attack while other just plain
- Having more character customization would be great
- Unable to tell which npc has quest for me
- Spells place in the usebar sometimes reset, have to put the spells or use items again

Multiplayer
- Map should display other people in the server
- Only the host is able to sell or buy anything in the game which is annoying for others
- Going rogue (PVP), mage weapons don't damages other people
- Sometimes when a player dies or fall to a hole, appear invisible or just a skeleton (Going into another portal fixes it.)
- Other players can't see the dialog when the host talking to an npc
- Quest rewards are taken from the rewards tab when pressing C (Having the rewards comes up automatically is better.)
- Quest if completed by host early, other players won't get the animation again (Such as the npc you follow to be guide to the town.) Can be proved quite confusing and not sure where to go.

These are some of things i think can or must be improved on. Otherwise it's really a fun game. I hope the developer see this and take it into consideration to improve the game as i like it alot. The price is cheap enough and if you really unsure about it, buy it on sale. Note that it's still in early access and there are alot things not completed. If you are planning to buy it for multiplayer, wait until the things i listed are fixed so to have a much better enjoyable experience. Singleplayer is okay and has lesser problems since you do not have to consider of other players.

9th Dawn is the most fun game I ever played on my phone.

Now, here's 9th Dawn II on my PC and it's been a lot of fun to play. The game maintains what was good in the original game:
- open world
- lots and lots of loot to find
- varied game play with Fighter, Archer, Mage skills that you can either focus on or mix as much as you want

And now this sequal adds: (that I've noticed so far)
- more interesting AI behavior in combat as they bob and weave around you
- jumping to get past traps and pits and moving platforms

The early access version is very stable and complete at launch. I played several hours on launch day without any stability issues. The one bug I noticed was fixed 39 minutes after I posted my thread in the bugs forum!

EXCELLENT... Lots of fun, a great game so far!

I had a problem with the mouse and video sync and received fast and friendly support which in the end we were able to resovle. The issue was not with the game but the display scaling in Windows.

Now for the game...

So I got to play some and the next thing I know its a few hours later and I'm level 10. Excellent game so far. I like the look of the game but then again I'm an old school cRPG player who grew up on Ultima I-V so I love these tiled games. 9th Dawn II does a GREAT job of keeping that old school aka Ultima-like look and feel, but with all new and modern improvements to pretty much the entire concept. Many games like this have limited upgrades in the form of equipment and such, not 9th Dawn II. Lots of items to find and or purchase in various shops, lots of little things that as of my current time in the game don't seem to be part of the main or any side plots, but just the same they are there and fun to explore. If you like exploring the unknown to find treasure, monsters, and of course ancient caves and dungeons then you'll love this game. The main plot so far is pretty good, but I really haven't played enough to see much of it, although I saw the word Hydra during a NPC conversation and sooo hope there are Hydras or is it Hydrae ;) in the game as they are my favorite fantasy beast.

Anyhow, let me sum this up. So far so GREAT! Lots of fun, can't wait to play some multiplayer with my brother and some friends. I played the original 9th Dawn years ago and loved it. 9th Dawn II so far seems to have improved in all areas and that is a great accomplishment considering how good the original was/is.

If you like tile-based RPGs such as the early Ultimas, Deathlord, Demon's Winter, etc... then you'll love 9th Dawn II. I would definitely recommend this to any old school gamer especially those who grew up with the Commodore 64, Apple IIe, or Atari 8-bit computers as you most likely played and enjoyed some of those games I mention above. If so, I think you'll really like 9th Dawn II. Pick it up as the price is a steal!