Madtale: Idle RPG Reviews

by Kotngotn

I really enjoyed this game up until the last few weeks. The story was fun, the characters interesting. However, it became increasingly difficult to find people actually PLAYING. As of this week, only three guilds in my server are actually active and half of them haven’t been on in a week.

This is likely due to predatory micro transactions and the nerfing of characters. You hit a wall mid late game that frankly, all the free pulls in the world can’t get you past. You have to pay money or you just sit. I’ve finally given up. Between being bombarded by pages and pages of micro transactions and paywalled from certain features, to having absolutely zero people actively playing on my server leaving me feeling like I’m in a ghost town, this game is dead before it even really got on its own two legs.

by Pixelated150

Okay so I was really excited for this game because of the ads and everything that was promised. And I waited like a few weeks for it to come out. So I downloaded this game and while the graphics were cool, the storyline and the game were nothing like expected and were kind of boring. In addition the game is not very compatible with an iPad as it was smaller than my screen size. So I didn’t have a good experience, sorry…

by Kelotiah

I was so excited, until the game was ruined by the immense amount of “buy this” everywhere throughout the game! So sad when monetizing is more than the gameplay. Beautiful game and neat stories otherwise.

by Anatra Lesbica

The art is nice, and the story seems interesting but the dialogue is clunky and very awkward. The bad dialogue could be excused if the fighting was good; but its non-existent. Maybe I just haven't seen the button, but by default you can’t fight battles it is automatically done. No fighting would be interesting if the story wasn't so awkward and poorly written. The way characters speak is extremely artificial and its clear they are only there to explain what’s happening in the current moment. Show don’t tell, basic rule of writing.

by Iceydealer

This is just the exact same game as afk arena but reskinned. Overall art and concept isn’t bad. It seems like more work has been done on micro-transitions baiting than anything else, there are so many cash pages where you have to keep going into for things. The rates are so bad for you to get decent units let alone multiple. Save yourself the money before it’s too late.

by Fjanr Cn

This game is absolutely merciless about how uncommonly they’ll give you rewards, and about how minuscule they’ll be. It costs 2800 diamonds to summon a 10-pack of characters, and you get 10 diamonds when you level up, just to put it in perspective. You also don’t get any at all when you beat levels, and the new player rewards/ pre-registration rewards provided a collective total of around 500 diamonds. Are you serious? How scummy can you be? This doesn’t even feel like a game, it’s nothing short of a scam

by Tat2cord

The game looks cool and interesting and I love the art style but there’s a loading pause with everything claiming rewards, quest, battles and switching screens… there’s an annoying 5 second loading wolf icon with every button press that makes this game too laggy to enjoy

by PaPaClover

Game won’t even start. So deleted

by Zsenine

I liked this game at first. The design is unique. But the story is confusing and not well written, the hero skills are completely underwhelming, there are too many things to do daily for too few rewards, and they seem to be lying directly in the game since they say you will get 1024 free summons and you get 90. I wanted an idle game that would take up maybe a half hour a day, not something that has so many daily tasks that it ends up feeling like a job. I’m already have one of those, thanks.

by Kibluar

Been playing it a good bit, fun story lines, good graphics, lots of freebies to gather. Probably spent $15 on some niceties in the beginning myself, but the game seems to be designed for those who can drop $100s. Tons of $50-$100 “bargains” daily. I’d say the average level is 180 at this point, but there are already solid 240 teams (which doesn’t sound like a lot but the leveling system is on a incremental curve and the amount of resources you need can’t be “farmed” or gathered readily, only bought). Anyway, it’s not horrible in the least but it’s disappointing it’s designed for whales and the sort, they can bully you too, there are no sanctuary level breaks. If your on a server with one and your top 10 or so but you have that one whale can disrupt the entire server and you with it. If you can get around the unbalanced PvP, and the free-to-play slow grind due to lacking resources, you’ll enjoy the stories and the characters I’m sure. But be warned, you’ll not finish some stories for days as you wait for more daily freebies to build up your resource stocks to level up characters to continue.

by Hduosnrc

This game is fun for a week only if you’re free to play. Take it as a trial run. You can’t progress without having to “idle” for exp or other stuff you need to level up the characters. I’ve gone as far as I can in story and shadow thing. There’s nowhere else to farm for what I need. BUT they do have one million ways to sell you things for real money. 3 popups when you open the game. All the side panels are “events” aka time limited promotions to make you spend real money. When those are over, new events pop up. 2 stars because I actually enjoyed it while I could.

by Aarontwoodsworth

I played for a while, spent ~30$. It’s compelling because the character designs are so good. Immediately it becomes pay to play, that’s just how these games work. I had a pretty good team going, attempting higher content, straining a bit. The Cinderella “offer” pops up. She’s clearly a must have character, and I can buy her for only 50$ vs. the other 99$ offers I’d ignored. Deleted the game. If you want to pay and play, it’s nice. I don’t. It’s greedy.

by MotFRanchburger

It’s just a cheap copy of AFK Arena that’s more pay to win, and lags a lot

by YFNHM

This game is great so far!!!!

by Yamega

You got a good start on this one. Nice art style and simple and effective gameplay, it’s nice.
But one problem I found. When in combat, the fighting only takes up half the screen. To me, this is a bad design choice because while watching, it starts to hurt your eyes after not long of watching. Everything else is pretty good, but if you can fix that one issue, that would be great. If you don’t, that’s fine too.

by Danorua

Typical idle RPG genre, not something new. However, nice change of dark fairy tale theme.

by Dawna Jo

I want to play this game more than I do. Here’s what makes me put down the game, and why I’m going to delete it, in spite of the fact that I like the art and the battles and the collection and the character growth aspect.

1) My phone heats up (iphone 13 mini)

2) It feels a little laggy or unresponsive. Like I have to tap on things sort of deliberately and sometimes it takes a second to respond.

3) Way too confusing on all the in app purchases and different currencies and events. It’s just way too much to sort through and figure out, and doesn’t add to the fun of the game. I know I’m missing out on rewards in part just because it’s so incredibly cluttered and confusing

4) Way too many iaps. Another thing going on with all these iaps is that even though I’d be willing to spend up to $20 I know that it wouldn’t matter. There’s constantly “top up” events and temporary packs and so much stuff that I know I would fall so far behind and eel like I missed out, so I might as well not play at all.

by Qdama

I’ve had this game pre-registered since MARCH. I seen the promo saying I would get MIRROR QUEEN and other rewards, so I expected to have just that. However today is GLOBAL LAUNCH DAY, and there were NO PRE-REGISTRATION REWARDS. What the website or promos doesn’t tell you is that there are TWO different ways to sign up. One way will get you all the rewards, and the other way is just a standard sign up. I deleted two other games I was playing to get this game today since I PRE-REGISTERED. I WANT MY REWARDS or I WILL DELETE THIS GAME!!!

Edit: Rewards have been sent. Now I’m grinding out the game to see how fun it is.

by 🐸Reahramlove1🦊

Cute story, cute characters, cute art, that’s really all that this game has to offer. The gameplay is just ok. It gets really boring really quick.
Resources are also really annoying to grind for, despite being very important, seeing as the game seems to expect you to level up very fast at the very beginning. So, having characters levels locked behind resources you can’t grind for is very annoying.
This game is definitely not for everyone. Wouldn’t recommend unless you’re willing to invest money into it.

by Twilight Kitty Angel

I pre registered, how do I get my free rewards?? the game hasn’t given me anything

by Cujejxjxusjsjxhsjsjxjxixkgm

First off the English is sometimes a bit broken, which can be distracting. More important to me however is the fact that so far many characters appearances don’t match the ads! For example rapunzel wears a dark dress in the ads, and so far does not have that dress even as a skin. There should be more dark/goth themes in these designs if it’s going to be marketed that way. I don’t dislike cinderellas design, but she does not look like the promo images featured here. These should be available at least as skins eventually. I also noticed characters that aren’t actually in the game yet. I know they need time to ad more content, but if it’s in ads or event images for the game, it should be in the game on release or very soon. Please ad more goth/dark designs. I will be waiting with excitement.

by AriaRoar

I haven’t played long but since uploading on my phone I’ve played the game almost non stop. Characters are interesting, designs fantastic, story line is also intriguing. However, a lot of the okay through is worded oddly and I get the point of it but when a character is not polluted is that still the case? Anyway so far killer game. I’m not complaining about this last part but I also got check in rewards twice in one day and that was very nice lol

by Azuredge

I like this game a lot. Gems are easy to get. For once I honestly don’t feel like I cannot grow in a game without spending money. The reason I didn’t give this a 5 is because the message system is not very good. I’m guessing whoever designed it stares at fluorescent bulbs drooling on themselves. Could you possibly make it so it accepts more than 5 words with a 12 hour wait before you can post again? Oh how about making the filters more strict please? If you use a word with more than 2 syllables it filters you or is your target demographic people with an iq of 3? Is your iq 3 so you don’t want intelligent people insulting your obvious inability to outthink a stump? I’m guessing facebook fact checkers designed the filters.

by Karmiyah Or Mia

I really like the game so far but it keeps crashing. In the middle of my battles it will crash. It happens multiple times a day and can get really annoying. Also the chat feature is really glitchy too. And I want to be able to delete chat’s because I accidentally messaged someone and I have to scroll past them to chat with my friends on it. Also im looking forward to new updates and new characters which I assume will be awhile. I do like all the characters so far. I also like that Red Hood the girl we start with is really good. She isn’t a character that you want to drop as you move on but one you want to keep because shes so good. I also like that its not super hard to get S+ characters. I already have 5 of them. Though one of them didn’t help me much but its okay because theres a feature to put them back at level 1 and reuse the exp and other materials.

by Dou Mei

this is my first battle rpg so if you read this review, please understand that i've never played a game like this before! overall, i wasn't expecting to like it very much, but i think it's actually a pretty fun game and i want to see how long i can stick with it!

things that are great:
- the login bonuses during the first week of release are very very good! with the codes and the bonuses, i made it to chapter 8 of the story!
- the designs for characters are imo very pretty and thought out and the backstories definitely have thought behind them. the storybook aesthetic has been done very well, especially for the chapter covers; they are quite literally gorgeous and so interesting- like a pop-up storybook!
- there are a lot of game mechanisms that at first seem pretty random, but most of them make sense once you get used to the gameplay
- there is technically a pity counter for the gacha gameplay! you get to pick one character and at 120/240 pulls, you can receive it! on the topic of the gacha, it has so far (i've only done about 50 pulls) been pretty decent; i've received one epic character per 10x pull, and each time it's been a new one :D
- they are very generous with the gems used to buy pulls in the gacha, i think about 30 of my pulls were from gems earned in the first day or so of gameplay; keep in mind that gems come very easy and fast early on like in most games with this sort of currency style

possible improvements:
- when you pull in the gacha for characters, the pulls are symbolized by a card deck. for example if you have 5, when you go to pull 10, you don't use any of the 5 you already own and instead pay the price of the full 10; the only way to get rid of any number that isn't a multiple of 10 is to pull once, which personally i find a bit annoying: it would be much better if: when you already own 5 pulls and you would like to draw 10, that you use the 5 you own and pay the price of the 5 you would need to complete the 10, instead of the full price of ten and not using the pulls you own. i don't know if i've worded this well, but hopefully it can be understood!
- it would be great if there were more farming mechanisms, especially for the memory of essence. it is the one thing holding me back in upgrading my characters and progressing in the story and several other power based mechanisms. i know there's the wagon, but it doesn't really provide nearly enough- it takes 15k to upgrade one character once at a high enough level, when it gets to that point, it becomes extremely slow to pass levels and the stalls between having enough power are inconveniently long.
- it might be fun to have limited time characters, or seasonal ones that can only be won during an event to spice up the collection part of the game!
- this might just be my devices, but i have a pretty new laptop so who's to say: this game uses a lot of energy rather quickly

by UnBDay

It’s pretty fun. The designs are cute. The tutorial leads you along. Wish there were less ad popups. Most of the story characters need psychological help. Skipping the story now, wish they were funnier and less depressing.
They are giving gems for 5 star review, so I’m not sure how accurate the ratings are. I’m giving it a 5 without bothering w/gems because I did enjoy the game so far.

by D3CAPITAT3

The game is very f2p it seems which is a good competitor to afk arena. But afk arena's f2p problem is not being able to progress. This one is not leveling partners. I dont want to feel like Im getting a hard slow down because I cant level up partners. Progressing is fine, but that will stop soon if you cant level up partners. Or make the certain amount of draws to S+ and not S. Its so anti consumer.

by BØ$$ R¥ÁÑ

Some suggestions like expanding the display of the idle battle to fit the whole screen are just a few to name as well as allowing us to control who attacks; I am still not sure how the attacking fully works

by Glossyeyes926

Pretty fun idle rpg game. Only downside that makes me contemplate giving up is the battery usage. Even on normal settings phone is getting hot after short time. I feel like a game like this shouldn’t be draining as much as it does.

by YourTooSlow

Game seems fine so far but your discord link is broken please fix

by Bui Cry

I’ve been playing for 3 days now. The game is grindy as every ha ha game is but the development team seems generous in the resources they give you as you play. I saw a response they are fixing the voice issue. My one suggestion is making a landscape mode option because I would prefer to play horizontal on my iPad instead of vertical when charging my device. I hope for more characters and updates! My favorite class is the life federation. Interesting story too!

by Ibuki Berry

This game is a game that I play like almost 24/7 although it gets a bit repetitive, I love the character designs, the adventure story and the mechanics, it’s a mechanic I wish I saw a lot more in rpg games but I do wish there were more Disney characters or just characters in general and more partners, I also wish that there are like a few weeks chance to be able to collect old character designs as partners because they look so pretty and some of them are better than the new ones but it’s also for people who didn’t get a chance to get those characters old designs or for people who got them to promote them if they haven’t and the game is a bit pay to win, I wish there were less things I had to pay real money for just to have and instead get it with game currency but otherwise this game is perfect and I love it.

by K..g..s

This game has amazing graphics, a great story, plot, and amazing characters. This is probably my new favorite game in the entire universe. I love it so much. The only thing that I would say that isn’t that great is that there aren’t a lot of characters; I mean there is a good variety of them, but I would still enjoy a few more. Overall, this game is pretty good but we can always approve. That’s why I’m giving it four stars.

by Raissa-gastronoma

I’m not usually this type of game but the art style was appealing enough for me to give it a try. I loved the concept and the way it portrays the old fairytales with a dark twist is very refreshing. I’m only not a big fan of the amount of pay to win content. I think it’s pushed too much and sometimes I feel F2P players are missing out by a lot. Still I really enjoy it and the events and minigames. Have played every day since launch!

by RANDOMGUY_q

although it is a pretty much pay to win game after months I was able to climb the ranks to make it to 8th place without spending a dime I say it’s a pay to win game but it’s really just the try hard players that want to make it worse for everyone by buying absolutely anything they can buy but whatever I just wish they made it easier to get the new characters and such

by Lunashadowbell

I love fairy tales so when i saw this game - it grabbed my interest immediately. i played tales of grimm but slowly got bored of it because to continue with the story you needed to be a certain level, i don’t see that here. there is so much to love about this game and i am glad i took a chance on it.

by Mrs. Critic/Mrs. Beauty

And all of my years of playing games I never find a game that I could actually enjoy I’m 10 years old and enjoying this so much. I hope they make more games like this and I know I’m only at the introduction part of the game but I hope I get to see snow white soon. I’m just saying it’s so far because I never got this far into a game and didn’t get to the point where I got bored I can’t wait to see the ending!

by UsagizeroX

Progression is easy going, music and interface of the game are quite simple and enjoyable, but there are a few crashes here and there. It is a new game, so I’m hoping for more patches and updates in the near future!! Collect enough scrolls and just save them for some S+ units!! Also, love the free scrolls you’re getting every day when you log back in! Game can definitely be progressed as a F2P user.

by Apemerson

Ok this game is awesome no reason for me to uninstall and not give a 5 star review cause the story are entertaining and fun and the characters are astonishing and the gameplay is basically well common ground gameplay as any other game and sometimes I get frustrated not getting the characters i need but I did make quick of it and than boom got them…well most of it

by ImaBoBima

I love everything about this game. It doesn’t feel like you’re grinding for materials to level up your characters, or even get them. I started playing the game like three days ago and I have gotten 20+ characters! Everything is accessible, no money required. AND the art style is everything. I play and read a lot of fairytale retelling games/books, and this storyline has been the most interesting so far. And the designs for the characters are BEAUTIFUL! They weren’t afraid to stray from the original characters’ design, and I absolutely love it. Rapunzel is my favorite example of this. I just love this game. I would say the “critique” I have, which is more like a nit pick, is that there’s only voice acting for the first chapter. But I get why they didn’t do it for the whole thing. There are also some spelling/grammar errors, but it doesn’t bother me too much.

by Meatwad79

The game is very enjoyable, considering I’m not used to idle games, and the characters are very colorful and creative, and I love the battle system; the only issue I have is the resources are a little slower thanI am normally used to with other games, like the coin rewards could be a little better,And unless I’m actually buying stuff, which is obviously most of this game, my leveling slows down, incredibly. But other than that, a fun game — Also noticed that the characters voices during main dialogue disappeared after the first chapter; is that supposed to happen?

by Jjaws The Great

So, whenever I came into this game I was expected a fairy tale rehash if AFK arena. While the game is somewhat like AFK arena, it manages to take on its own life that makes it feel like a different game. It not only twists the classic fairy tales but it also tells an interesting story. For the most part, the only thing I would really fix about the game is make it to where I can see the power level of different heroes whenever I’m selecting them in a fight. Other than that it is a really good game and I am looking forward to what the devs have in store for it.

by Rebkhal

I have been waiting about a month and a half for this game to come out and I’m excited to say that it did not disappoint! It is the best idle RPG I have played and I love the characters,
Storyline and interaction

by Gxkhxuyocupxyo

It’s a fun game but it’s very confusing. The map layout for different places makes me confused on where things are. And sometimes a red dot would just appear next to the icons at the bottom of the page and when I click on it, nothing has a red dot in its section.

by VeridianFireflies

I really quite enjoy it, and tbh my only complaint is I wish they would move the ‘skip’ button in battles to a different area bc I find it kind of hard to press. Otherwise I’ve really been enjoying this game.

by Sky_2912

I love the game, the way the characters look, and the way the forest and things like that but the fact that it stops reading stuff out loud I don't know if it is supposed to but it gets on my nerves. But ever thing else is great so far. 😊

by RAtsrh0t

i don't get why peoples game wont load but i'm pretty sure that's just them i've been playing this game since it came out and it's great so far i even joined all the groups. i made a guild and it's a great the story is good the art is great and it's easy to level up your characters.

by Reep09

Worth a try. Will see how it goes

by Mxqwire

I’ve been waiting for this game to come out for months!!! It has a beautiful style and amazing so far!

by Xxottic_kayy

I haven’t played it yet but I have been waiting on the game since I first saw the ad!!

by Kat Man 23456

This game is great but I think there are still a few bugs I’m trying to get to mine guard but I’m stuck so please fix it

by Basildary

First time for me that play game with remix and new make story with fairy tale, excited and test my luck at the same time. good game and should try!

by UsagiHellsing

The game is very good and runs very smooth. The gameplay is your normal afk game with summons and it’s very enjoyable. So far the game is pretty overall good and I really enjoy playing it.

by Rendippidy

This game is so fun and addicting! I’ve been waiting for a good fairytale game mixed with dark tales for a long time and this game was able to do it so well! 10/10

by Rainbowwolf15

This game has a lot going on but it does a good job to guide you and makes it easy to play. Also the art is beautiful

by Ooooooooopoof

I love the game and everything else!

by TommyRiot 22

Fun so far! I like the story :)

by MIOOOO SORO

I liked the game it had a cool artstyle

by Seaksan

This game is awesome and easy to understand

by Venus367832

This game just needs better writing. Also the story did get less interesting after each chapter.

by Geirrod12

I really enjoy the game so far, you can kinda get a little stuck while you are go through but it’s honestly pretty easy to get around things with a small amount of grinding

by Starryember

There are some people in chat who are saying this is pay to play but I’ve found this pretty easy to progress my team. You just have to be patient and make sure you put a good team lineup out.

by Deadatroneum

I couldn’t tell you what this game needs more of but players! All of what I’ve seen I love the game so far and see nothing more needed at the time.

by Auswittwer

Good game so far. Starting events are nice and fights are good. Wish the skip button on the fights would show up faster when I win and get the rewards but other than that it’s great.