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Skilltree Saga – Strategy Game Review
Skilltree Saga is a Strategy/Roleplaying game from Headup GmbH, first launched in 10th September 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 37+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Skilltree Saga Stand Out
Skilltree Saga is the first casual RPG with Rogue-like Elements in Aventurien – the world of The Dark Eye.
Choose your race as human, elf or dwarf and battle your random generated opponents in up to 100 deep stages with numerous skill, which you can advance and enhance.
Story
A sinister spawn of orks and goblins led by the Dark Ruler Sargul are besieging the city of Griffonford.
To make matters worse, your beloved, the daughter of Baron Griffontrue, was abducted and you desperately try to take up pursuit. After being rescued from an ambush of a group of goblins by a master of the mysterious Elemental Knight you have the marvelous opportunity to become part of this alliance society.
Following the intensive training it is up to you to defeat the sinister spawn that is about to mercilessly enlarge their numbers to occupy Aventuria.
Motivating Rogue-like Elements
Random generated monsters and treasures are waiting for the brave Elemental Knight in the margraviate of Griffonford.
Pillage a multitude of gear, which you must equip to enhance your attributes like Strength, Cleverness or Constitutiton.
On the market square you can buy or sell equipment. Use astral potions to replenish your Astral Energy or invest diamonds to purchase even more helpful potions.
Round-based Duelling
Well-thought approaches are mandatory to put up a fight against the sinister spawn! Choose from a variety of skills, damage your enemy with wind and water magic or bring them to their knees with powerful fire spells. You’ll be in need of those when you come across hordes of orks and goblins. Your opponents know how to fight back as well. They use skills to make them stronger, tougher. They enfeeble your attributes or let dangerous rain down on the adventurer.
Skilltree with numerous spells of the Elemental Knights
You start as a nobody adventurer and choose your race as human, elf or dwarf. In your conflicts against the sinister spawn you will acquire experience to get steadily more powerful. Through level ups you’ll collect Adventure Points to enhance your skills and learn new spells.
Up to 100 level deep challenging dungeons, Rogue-style!
Choose between various adventures that you’ll try to master. On plenty of stages you’ll encounter dangerous fiends and you can find twinkling treasure chests or bracing healing fountains. At times you’ll come across a shady goblin merchants, who will sell you items on your troublesome journey. Should you fail your quest you’ll have to start anew, but become more experienced. Only the most mighty ones will challenge the heavy end bosses and can immortalize their name as a hero in the hall of fame.
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This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Skilltree Saga is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th September 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- fixed a bug that caused a chrash on iPhone 6
Download & Availability
Skilltree Saga is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Skilltree Saga on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We found this hidden GEM of game great job guys.
The favorite part of any RPG game we play is the leveling. This offers a quick fun experience of leveling using power and general character building.
This reminds us somewhat of a PC game named adventure quest that we used to play. The graphics are much better and we love the skill tree system. The looting is awesome as well. There are gold and diamonds in this game but here is the best part of all… They are earned in game and can be exchanged for each other. There is honestly no game quite like this for us premium gamers so thanks developers :).
App is fun to play , glad we purchased it will recommend to our friends.
A simple game with good strategy and depth.
Very cool game. Interesting skill tree and combat system.
Update They fixed the crash within a couple hours of us posting this! Coincidence, maybe, but we are still happy! Great great except we can't play the final set of stages. We can completed the first two, and still insta crash if we enter the third. We still give it 4 stars cause it's a lot of fun.
Only through the first boss, but enjoying this one so far. Quite simple to do, but each monster types requires a bit of strategy. A good fun play so far.
Nice game, but can't listen to our own audio even if we turn the game's audio all the way down.
Too bad we can't get our money back.
Looking forward to playing more.
So far, so good. Combat fun, if repetitive.
We like it. Worth the three bucks. No regrets.
Simply gameplay, but holds deep strategy underneath with ordering of skills.
Imagine a game where you don't have to pay for gems. It is such a great feeling to be able to play a game where you only have to pay once and there are no gimmicks to make more money off you.
This game is pretty fun. It makes you strategise throughout the game play. It is fun and enjoyable though we are still very early into the game.
This is one of the best rogue-like games we've seen. Need to fix the final level.
So far so good and we are not disappointed by one of our impulse buys on Wednesday release day. The star we have removed is before it is a bit grindy and needs the ability to save skill sets. The only other item that is not a true concern is it has two currencies akin to a pay to win game however we believe that the game actually uses the two in-game only currencies for different item types. We would caution the dev that using a gem and coin based system does smell of microtransaction game. Overall… Happy with the game.
We really like this game. However it locks up and boots us to the home screen every time we try to enter "the dark tower". This happens on an iphone 5s.
As previous reviews stated. Crashes when you enter tower.
This is casual yes but you do have to pay attention and strategize at times. Aside from choosing skills and equipment battles are automatic, but that's part of what sets up the strategy, and sometimes that's kind of nice. Tonight we were tired and didn't twang something too involving and this hit the spot. We just wish there was a pause button in combat to better catch what an enemy just did. Update: we can't enter the last dungeon at all. IPad Air, the gs,e crashes. We have tried this on two different saves. -2 stars until fixed.
Seems like a 2 star game at first but the game crashes after about 1 hour of play, and never works again. Apparently the devs are "working on fixing" the bug but no progress has been made. 2 star game if it worked, 0 stars as is.
This game is a lot of fun but like other's, ours crashes when we try to enter the dark tower. Will give it a 5 star review when this crash is fixed.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0
- Size: 248.14 MB
- iOS: 7.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Headup GmbH
Last updated: 30th September 2015 | Genre: Strategy, Roleplaying | Developer: Headup GmbH