Realm Grinder

Game Details:

Title: Realm Grinder
Platform: PC
Developer(s): DivineGames
Release Date: May. 2015
Genre(s): Idle (slight medieval theme)
Online/Single player: Offline
Rating: 4/5

Gameplay:
Entering the game, a game screen approaches us (see the first picture). The first thing I did before anything was first make a quick overview and try to understand how this idle game was setup, but without fully understanding, I started clicking the chest. The chest is where the basic coin gathering happens. 

Starting out
Each click gave me a coin each. After gathering 10 coins, I could buy my first "building", the Farm. Unlikely other idle games, the first building gave me a decent amount of cash regeneration. That is what many idle games miss on, the first upgrades is too weak, and it gets boring after a short while. So a quite decent first building was a plus, and it did not take long until I got more and more money, buying many Farms and Inns. 

As you go on deeper into the game, you realize there are many different kind of coins involved into the game. These are coins that are possible to achieve only by clicking the treasure chest. It is the same chance to get all the different coins, it is 2% for all of them. The different kind of coins are:

• Demon coins
• Undead coins
• Goblin coins
• Angel coins
• Elven coins
• Fairy coins

Mana

On the top left, there is a mana bar that allows you to purchase some powerups for your game experience. Your maximum mana is 1000, and in the beginning it regenerates 0,5 per second. Later on with several upgrades, you can make the regeneration go faster. The abilities you can buy are limited to two at the beginning of the game. They are:

1. Tax collection: It costs 200 mana and you instantly get 30 seconds worth of cash. 
2. Call to arms: It costs 400 mana and gives you 20% extra coins for 30 seconds. 

Later on, you will have access to other awesome abilities too. 

Achievments

Realm Grinder has an achievment system. It is very basic and keep track of your progress. Nice to check sometimes!

Upgrades

The upgrade bar is very messy at times. You can not decide what upgrade is what, so you will have to go through every single of them and read. There are many different kind of upgrades, everything from making buildings more efficient to making the clicking more useful. Some upgrades even unlocks new buildings to buy. 

The Important Choice

You know those special types of coines, which appearently belongs to a specific race or group of creatures, such as angels and demons, those coins are very useful later. After collecting 20 pieces of the same type of coin, you are one step further out into the game. With twenty of them. you are now able to purchase a new "route" on how the game should be. By choosing the upgrade of your choice, There is an upgrade for every single type of coin, and every different upgrade gives you a specialty. I chose the elves, which gave me a boost on treasure chest clicking. 

This purchase cannot be undone without a reset!

After purchasing the race you wanted, that type of coin will be the most important one. All the other types can be used to purchase upgrades for overall gold gains. 

You will get new kind of upgrades directing against the course you chose, and they are almost never ending. 

At the cost of 100 coins of the specific coin you chose earlier you can buy a mysterious upgrade that unlocks new upgrades.

Reset 

As in almost all other idle games, there is a reset button that will reward you with bonuses if you have come far in the game before resetting. 

Conclusion

The overall conclusion of this game is: It is fun to play when you got some spare time. Since it is an idle game, you do not have to spend every single second of playing it looking at the screen, after a while, it gets very automatic. The concept of the gameplay is a bit advanced for someone, but just a regular internet user would fully understand it well. Personally i think it is a great game and i gave it a rating of 4/5. 

Graphics

The first thoughts of the design and graphics is very positive. It is calming and clean.
First I notice is the coins, besides the beautiful drawn chest of course. The graphics of the game is very smooth and matches everything. The color of the coins is very symbolic for the creatures. The navigation bar is very nice and simple, and the setup of the upgrade bars is nicely done. The only thing bothering me is that the icons of upgrades and such is a bit confusing. 

Latest Updates

Latest update added 28/5 - 2015:

• Added Hotkeys for Spells! 1: Tax Collection, 2: Call to Arms, 3: Alignment Spell, 4: Faction Spell.
• NEW UPGRADES: each building now unlocks a new upgrade when you build 200 of them. Farms, Inns and Blacksmiths follow the increasing rule set in a previous update, granting them a further bonus of 500%. All other buildings get a 100% bonus while Halls of Legends get the 50/0.5xTrophy as usual.
• God’s Hand base cost has been increased to 1000 mana, up from 900.
• Call To Arms effect has been reduced to 0.3% per building, down from 0.35%.
• Added visuals for Assistants! A small, flying, faction-themed dot will be stationing beside the treasure as soon as you have at least one assistant, providing a useful tooltip when you hover it. If you wish to disable assistant graphics, there is a new checkbox in the Options tab.
• Grinding Dedication now remains unlocked and available to purchase through soft resets.
• Added an option to disable Trophy Popups.
• Fixed an issue that could lead to a crash and grey screen.

Full change log can be found at kongregates game page: http://www.kongregate.com/games/DivineGames/realm-grinder?haref=HP_HNG_realm-grinder


If you are bored and has nothing else to do with your life but staring at your roof all day, i highly suggest you to try this game.

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