AFK Journey for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By MuffinFeelsStrange

  I love this game, but…

  I play this every day. I wait all day until 8 pm for the day to reset, and instead of immediately jumping to social media, this is what i go to! I love the art style of the game, and being a learning character designer and writer, I adore the designs. They’re so inspiring and makes me even consider one day applying for Lilith or Farlight! Despite how much I love the game, there are a few things that are a bit unfortunate. I’m in Act 3 of the story at the moment, back in Holistone, and the only section of the story that I found truly had depth was Act 2. Watching the character development was very nice, and I loved a lot of the cutscenes. I only wish the same depth was applied to other parts of the story, and I wish there was more “show not tell” as the characters have a tendency to say exactly what is happening instead of letting the player analyze. In the realm of the money-involved aspects, I think that everything is WAY too expensive. While the game is very rewarding, some people enjoy spending money. However, the money spent on this game is arguably extremely expensive. One ten-pull is $50, which is absolutely outrageous. Not only that, but some of the bundles can get up to $100. Other gacha games like Cookie Run Kingdom offer much more inexpensive options, and given that, it makes me not want to spend anything on AFKJ. The only thing worth it to me is the Classic Gazette (300 gems a day). While I love this game, there are a lot of things that can be improved. I hope that ask the game ages, it changes for the better. :)

  
  
• By StacMak

  Wrong language, consistency

  I’d like to point out that at some parts of the story (the characters dialogue & dialogue choices for Merlin) are not translated into English. While the untranslated bits are few and far between, & may not have had any particular significance to the story, it had occurred enough for me to be bothered by it. I hope untranslated parts could be fixed (or just not happen at all) for both the sake of future chapters & new players. On the other hand, there were times where a character that was initially referred to as “he” would later be referred to “she” & vice versa. For example, when talking to a NPC about a goddess, they had originally said “she” but then switched to “he” before switching back again. The lack of consistency in either of the things I’ve mentioned above is what bothers me the most. Putting aside these issues, the game has surprisingly been a lot more enjoyable and interesting than I had expected. The story & the voice acting are both quite solid. The design of both characters & the world are both interesting & great to look at. I also like how the environment changes depending on what part of the story you’re at, as well as what the NPCs say before & after said changes occur, making exploring & then re-exploring fun. (Not to mention being able to pet some animals here and there). I also appreciate the general generosity of the game when it comes to resources, whether it be in-game currency or things to improve the strength of our heroes. Hope the game continues to be enjoyable as it is now, if not better, in the future!

  
  
• By 6Wanheda9

  Good but game modes are off

  First let me say this I absolutely love this game storylines with each story stories are amazing now there’s clans you can increase your friendship with them and the ore you interact the more gains I’m just so immersed into this game but the only thing that ticks me off is arena and honor duel (mind you it says fair play top left of it too) but as you play this it just gets aggravating I just got done with a arena battle because I needed arena points and that’s only reason why I play that game mode anymore but I had a total power of 697,000 almost 700,000 and the opponent I faced was 523,000 and they still beat me how does that even happen they are practically a whole 200,000 power below me and they are still able to beat me just feels diminishing like I put all this effort into upgrading and someone lower than me with less levels less rank ups wins?? And honor duel just put that fair play portion out because that’s a lie I had my whole team maxed out last fight still 3 lives all I needed was one more win and I lost 3 times in a row last fight and that’s just one situation I’m not going to babble about more but either take the fair play out because it’s 100% not or fix the power system because I don’t even believe it anymore because that’s clearly a lie too if I’m losing to someone 200,000 power below me

  
  
• By Kojaoriginal

  Good, but play to win basically

  I downloaded this game November of 2024, and it has been very good, but I have a few suggestions. First, the starting story was the most detailed, and that’s what kept me playing but we need longer seasons or at least more main quests. Also, I would love to have old heroes back in a small side season where you can talk to them or something. I have not spent a single cent in the game, thought tempting with the most horrible wait to get enough supplies to recruit and build heroes. The homestead feature is nice, but boring because it’s not really important except for little crossovers. The crossovers are just not really good. You have to learn a whole new system for basically rewards that you can get from anywhere. The hypo-cele building system is so trash, I have most of my heroes at this point at supreme or supreme plus, and only recently got to paragon. The game should at least have two upgrades with the acorns instead of the copies you get from recruitment. Also, I feel like the game has dropped off in general, and it just feels like too much in too little of time, and at the end of the seasons, it’s just grinding for the highest scores in battles. Whales and pvp is way too hard even for someone who has been playing for a year and a half at the game. There is also way too many types of currency and the outfit items should come back once a year for a resell, because there are some items that I really want, but since there is no trading or resells, I cannot get them and I have to improvise. I’m not sure if I would suggest this game, as it is basically an off brand gooner game, but I still play every day so… idk

  
  
• By Ataridorito

  This game is a joke and a lie

  The idea that anyone can call this an AFK game is delusional, you have to spend an insane amount of time actively playing the game and doing all these tasks nonstop every single day. The only time you are ‘afk’ is when you watch the game auto battle for 30 seconds. The rest of the time you need to position units every single battle, do 10 different daily tasks, keep doing stupid events that are only available AT CERTAIN TIMES A DAY. Don’t even think about spending money on this game since the prices are ABSURD. Every time you do anything the game vomits offers at you to spend more money. You may not think it’s so bad since when you first start playing they throw so many free things at you then suddenly that just stops and you are just dragging your feet around to do anything while they continuously plan to add more units that are EXTREMELY difficult to obtain unless you spend money, then even more to get the 10 copies needed to make them usable. Even deleting your account is a chore since they require you to go through customer service and post an obscene amount of information like where you live and a ton of billing information. This is a phone game for gods sake. There is no reality in which a game styled as an AFK game requires so much manual effort and tedium that requires you to actively play hands on. The game also overheats your device extremely quickly and will just crash at seemingly random times. It was a fun game at first but you quickly get disillusioned.

  
  

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