One of the most popular TV shows in the last decade has definitely been HBO’s Game of Thrones inspired by the novel written by George R. Martin’s “Fire and Ice” novels. The TV show was filled with characters that everyone could identify with, fantasy, drama, and most of all dragons! Of course, the show took a dramatic and painful turn in its last seasons when the shows producers ran out of source material… It feels like the same situation came to the development of the Game of Thrones: Conquest mobile app game.
What’s the story behind Game of Thrones: Conquest?
I keep asking myself how many times I’m going to let this license hurt me? It’s taking me quite some time to get through this game and unfortunately I was not impressed. I unfortunately found the game to have several glitchy sections that required a restart. On top of that, exceptionally long loading times to even get into the game really took the wind out of my sails. I had to put my phone down sometimes, loading was so long, that I forgot that I was even playing and moved on to other things. That being said leveling in this game can be super slow and tedious.
As far as story goes I didn’t really run into any type of narrative that immersed me into the game. I didn’t feel like I had my own character in the game even though I was allowed to pick an avatar and apparently equip this character with different items. Those items did not come easily by doing random daily quests. However, the game is taking so long to get through I haven’t even really been able to sample this portion. Yes, after a month I haven’t received one item for my avatar. This game has lots of microtransaction bundles to offer to help this along, but I was not motivated to contribute to such an unrewarding game.
What’s the gameplay like in Game of Thrones: Conquest?
The gameplay is repetitive and sadly very boring to say the least. The building times for structures are unnecessarily long once you build past level 1. Harvesting farms and lumber mills have become a common action in games like this but somehow GOT:Conquest has managed to make it even less interesting and more complicated than it needs to be. The same goes in regards to requisitioning and training soldiers or defenses for your town. It’s not clear what the individual battlements do, what the units do, or what the benefits are from having them paired with different armies when engaging other players in PVP combat.
What is player vs. player like in GOT: Conquest?
Players can attack other peoples villages with your armies with impunity, and you can also be attacked in that manner. You’ll get a notification, if you’re not online, that you have been scouted and that someone is trying to attack you and vice versa for your opponent. The success of the attack depends on the armies and soldiers that your attacker has sent and the defenses of the player has been able to build around their city.
The game has running events that take place over a set periods of time. At the time that I was playing it was known as “outbreak”. Again, not much narrative was put into these events to draw the player into participating nor would you know an event was even going on aside from the change in the graphic on the loading screen and the Raven notification located at the bottom of the screen.
One of the biggest draws for me to the game was the promise of being able to command your own dragon! A cool idea but a mindless task when actually put into practice. At first, The player is given an egg to take care of. The player has a set amount of feedings he can give to the egg in a 24 hour period. In the three weeks of feeding my egg nothing really happened. I still don’t have a dragon, there’s no indication as to when the egg is going to hatch, and aside from assigning skill points to the egg, it feels like a thankless and non-productive endeavor.
Overall the game is graphically pleasing to look at, when it loads up. The faces of the actors from the Game of Thrones TV show are used quite liberally throughout the entire game. The soundtrack from the show lends itself to the game as well, but even that isn’t enough to make this game worthwhile. I would definitely wait until winter is over before I played this game again. I can’t recommend playing Game of Thrones:Conquest, even if you are a die hard Game of thrones fan, we’ve suffered enough.
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