AFK Journey Reviews

This game cements this company as my favorite mobile game developer. I love the afk format and the combat, while not the most engaging, is still definitely enjoyable. To have all the dialogue, at least that I’ve heard so far, be voiced even for minor characters is something that I would expect from a triple A game priced at $70 not something on AFKJourney Store for free. However, my main complaint has to be the micro transactions. I’m fine with them and understand there necessity for being in the game, but the pricing of them in this game seems to be more hostile even compared to AFK Arena. For some items, the price will be just barely above the lowest priced bundle of in-game currency, so you’ll either have to purchase two of the lower priced one or go for a more expensive bundle, which for some reason the game actually explicitly recommends. I hope going forward they can tone down the micro transactions.

I’ve played the game for a little bit and I really enjoy it!! The style is unique and the characters are interesting with a nice variety. It’s super easy to collect the characters so very F2P friendly with lots of log in rewards to wish with. I really only have two complaints one being character customization. At the beginning you can pick what your characters looks like and you only have two body types that are basically the same for both male and female. Please add bigger bodied characters!! There’s only 4 skin tones and little hair variety add lighter and darker skin tones with hair like dreads and braids to have more inclusion. My second complaint would be the voices they sound kinda bored when they speak but also it’s grainy and glitchy. Overall though it’s a great game though would recommend!!

The ads may be like every other cringe mobile game add, but don't let those fool you. Ive been playing since release and honestly I find it absolutely ADORABLE and entertaining. Its easy to collect new characters, and offers plenty of log-in rewards to do so as well. Unlike AFK Arena where most beginner characters don't get special treatment or are lacking, you start off with a good selection and theres already cute costumes for some characters.
As a fan of the franchise, I can only say it gets better from here.

Were you looking forward to playing this game with friends? If yes, BE CAREFUL of what server you start the game on. The game does NOT warn you that servers are permanent and doesn’t even give you the option to pick which server you play on first launch- it’s a small, easily missable menu on the very first screen.

If you pick a different server from your friends you will not be able to add them or join their guilds. After speaking with support over discord you also cannot be refunded for any purchases you make if you try and switch over to a new server. This feels predatory! No other mobile game has ever blocked me from adding friends that live in my region like this before.

Will not be playing until this is addressed. I was excited for a month to play with friends and now I would have to lose hours of progress and IRL money to do that.

I can’t express how much I love this game. It is so aesthetically pleasing and all the characters designs are great! And the mechanics? Super simple and easy! And don’t get me started on how good the rewards are. I usually don’t write reviews but I just had to this time because the game is that good! I also love how you can explore and customize your characters to your liking. So, if you like that sort of thing and you like relaxing games, this is definitely the game for you. I can’t recommend it enough. :)

I’ve played many a many a phone game, from angry birds to Honkai: Starrail and lemme tell you that this game does it all right. The characters, the art, the gameplay, the ease of access, the story and especially I mean especially the little details they put into the game. I played the moment it came out and I’ve been on it for a straight hour. It’s fun, interactive and definitely worth your time if your a fan of mobile games at all.

This is just another soulless “rpg” with the bare minimum storyline and with an overload of characters thrown at you with absolutely no back stories. You get invites and hope for strong characters. Then you get a bunch of stuff randomly given to you even though you have no idea what they are for or how to best do things. They just throw you in and you click on the button with notifications and they give you bottles coins money equipment etc etc and they give no tutorial on the menus or strategies. The graphics are good. But if you’ve seen one of these you’ve seen them all.

So far the game has been a lot of fun, but I’ve run into a bug where upon completing certain battles, namely in the Arcane Labyrinth, it tells me that the battle result data doesn’t match the data on the servers or something to that effect. Restarting the game, uninstalling, waiting a day, nothing has fixed it thus far and it’s permanently slowing my account progress. If this error were to happen on a required portion of a story battle then you would be genuinely hard locked out of progressing through the game. Hope they fix their server issues and compensate players for this cause it’s really frustrating.

AFK Journey has actually exceeded my expectations. The sounds and visuals are satisfying, and the voice acting is excellent! I enjoy being able to explore the world and feel appropriately rewarded for doing so.

However.. despite their generosity by gifting all heroes to those that log in consistently, I do find that the packs and bundles and individual items available for purchase too pricey. I would definitely be more willing to spend money if they came down in price.

Overall a wonderful game!

I really like roleplay games but for a while I haven't been able to find a game that has a good story or a game that doesn't take forever to get into the story but this game got into the story and it didn't take forever! It also has great character designs and the voice acting I also love the powers and how easy everything is to control personaly if you like an adventure game or roleplay game with a good plot this is the game for you

This game is awesome. The story so far is amazing, I really enjoy the gacha system, the animation for attacks and the quality of the world around you in game is great. (If your graphics aren't good, go into settings and change them, my game started out on the lowest but it goes a lot higher.) The only thing I have to complain about is the voicing. It's just a little low quality, but I think it actually adds to the game. Overall great!

I found this game before its release on a TikTok ad and I have to say it’s great! If you’re a fan of gatcha and team building this is the game for you, it also as an interesting story to it and a different playstyle. So if you want something fresh and new you should try this out! I also like the gatcha system because of the fact it tells you how many pulls until you’re guaranteed!

This is my first time writing a review but like.. I just started playing this release, it’s genuinely so fun. the style is gorgeous and the character designs are amazing. i love the open world aspect and basically everything about this game! One thing i really want is a different language voice over like Japanese or Korean. I played like the original afk arena and it really enjoyed that style too, but i feel like the open world and then amount of character customization is amazing.

Beautifully designed characters and story, and very fun to pass time with, but definitely meant for quite high-power and processing mobile devices. Extremely laggy unless using the lowest graphics possible, sadly. I don’t mind bad graphics, but it may be very important to others. I love the tie-ins from AFK arena and how many elements are taken from there, but despite this, it still is a game that can stand on it’s own and is well orchestrated.

It’s a charming, wonderful game. It’s very F2P (Free to Play) friendly so far, and the characters are charming, as well as the MC (Main Character/Player Character). You end up wanting to learn a lot more about “Merlin.”

I recommend it, it keeps me more invested in the story then other mobile games I’ve played and the character design is great. Especially great if you’ve played AFK Arena ^^

I love how this is set up it’s really simple in getting characters and the game mechanics aren’t that hard to learn I have another game from this company so already knew when I seen this on AFKJourney Store it was going to be good definitely a game to check out. It’s highly entertaining and the AFK part of it is really good unlike some other afk games

Hello, I am loving this game so far. The graphics are amazing and the soundtrack is very lovely. I pre registered and was told I would get them in the game when the game finally came out. It is out and I’ve been playing for awhile now but I cannot find the mail icon to get my Pre-Registration rewards. I’m hoping game dev can help me! Also keep up the awesome work!!

Been playing for a few hours and I’m enjoying it so far! Was a bit confused by all the different systems but got used to it pretty quickly.

One thing I’ve noticed (why 4/5) is that loading times are pretty long. Like when creating your character and switching looks or when closing and reopening the game.

Hopefully this will get better in the future.

Based on the tutorial of the game alone it’s obvious how much care and effort was put into the making of this game! Character customization, voice acting, and cutscenes with an immersive story as well! Not even Raid Shadow Legends can do that! I hope this game sticks around for a long time and the developers continue to add on and care about it.

In my opinion, I’ve been play AFK Arena for years but this one is a little less complicated and is way easier to throw yourself into for hours!! If you like AFK arena and certain mobile open-world rpgs, you’ll love this one. I love the fact we can customize our character too!!

This game has very high potential, but coming from a writer’s standpoint, I need to offer critique. Storytelling- The story is good! But it’s the way it’s told that is the issue. The story is very spoonfed, and leaves the player no chance to use their head, leaving a very dull experience. A lot of information given can in fact be inferred with context clues, rather than it being right there. The dialogue has the same issue, and leads to unrealistic and awkward interactions. For example, Atandra’s “I am Atandra, an exile.” No person would open with saying that they’re an exile. That is information someone tells you after a lot of interaction. Character design- The characters are cute, but I wish there were more body types and diversity. Sure, there are dark skinned characters like Atandra, but they’re portrayed in very skimpy, tribal clothing. If you added just one or three other dark skinned characters, things would be a little better. I also have issue with the grugglins being portrayed in tribes, which is often associated with natives and the stereotype that they’re “feral”. Voice acting- The voice acting is cute! But, sometimes the inflection makes things sound disingenuous and dull. All in all, the game has very good potential, and if those minor details were fixed, it would be so much better!

So, I started this game a few days ago and so far, it’s been quite nice, I love the character designs, the story has been interesting, it hasn’t been extremely difficult, and has been an enjoyable experience so far. The only thing is.. the game is quite buggy and slow at times. I can understand this because it’s a large online game, but the main issue is it keeps crashing. I can play for around a total of 10-15 minutes before the game closes out on me, or it just stops and freezes and I have to close AFKJourney and restart, So far it’s hasn’t done anything too drastic, like removing my progress, but it does get annoying. And despite what I’ve done to try and help the game move along better, like getting rid of stuff and updating my device, it doesn’t help much. I can completely understand if the game developers aren’t able to do anything, and I applaud them on their work, but I would like to see if there’s anything that can be done about the game crashing and see if there’s a possible fix or make it better at least.

Fun gameplay, beautiful visuals, mediocre storyline. Overall, very enjoyable game at first. Initially you will accelerate the storyline quickly, receive lots of freebies, and grow your heroes rapidly. However, within day four or five you’ll hit a wall. Progress will slow dramatically, freebies dry up, and it will take days of grinding to advance your heroes even slightly. The addict you to the growth and acceleration then yank it away so you’re more tempted to pay real money to keep the rapid acceleration going.

Not a bad strategy and I typically don’t mind supporting devs for fun games. However, the packages are extremely overpriced. The $1-$10 packages get you very useless or limited returns. Only when you’re willing to pay $30-$50 do you start getting meaningful stuff. Even then, you’d need to purchase several to keep growing your hero base and to keep advancing the heroes you have. You could easily spend hundreds of dollars and still not get the heroes out advancement you want. Think about it… hundreds of dollars… for a mobile game.

An otherwise stunning game, ruined by greed.

So- the game is beautiful, don’t get me wrong. However, I have a pet peeve with games like this that hit me again with this game, and it stems from years of world of Warcraft and other RPG’s. And that is unlocking PURPLE AND ORANGE/YELLOW characters within my first hour of playing the game!!!! What is the point of giving me end game characters at the beginning when I should be slowly progressing and enjoying my climb to the top?!? Now I’m level 8, joined by who I can only assume is the god of nature and a little boy who’s the son of the wealthiest man in the land (excuse my possible lack of knowledge over his family history) who are both ‘end game’ yellow characters that turn every fight into a hack and slash battle that’s over in a few seconds.

What’s frustrating is that I see this in other games too, and I’m tired of it. Please end this… I don’t want a daedric sword as I’m exploring my first dungeon in Skyrim, I just want a little steel dagger that makes me go, “aww it’s not a sword, but it’s better than my current iron sword… soo… hmm guess I’ll be trying out daggers for a bit…”

I’ve played AFK Arena for a few years now, I really enjoy the art style and the character designs. I was so hyped when they announced AFK Journey (I saw on TikTok). I’m really enjoying the game so far. It exceeds my expectations and is wonderfully designed for a mobile game. My only complaints is that I can’t move my character to a new server without creating a new player character. I found put yesterday that my sister also plays this game and I want to play with her. Unfortunately I’ve made too much progress in my main to restart. (I have a legendary Vala and an Elite Silvina) And I don’t want to risk losing them to start over. I know its not losing them but you get it. I am really hoping they have a way to change servers without starting over, or adding friends from other servers. I don’t even mind if we have to pay diamonds to swap servers I just want to play with my sister with my main character. Please help. At least think about it? Please 😭

I've recently delved into AFK Journey on iOS, and it's been a visually stunning and enjoyable experience thus far. The painterly graphics are captivating, complemented by engaging cutscenes and colorful animations that keep me hooked. However, I find the gameplay mechanics during combat to be lacking dynamism and involvement, which detracts from the overall experience. Adding a clearer perspective that focuses on the party, or giving us direct access to battle as the characters, could greatly enhance the visual appeal and immersion during fights. Introducing controller compatibility along with these mechanics would also be a welcome addition. Additionally, the vertical format on mobile devices feels somewhat limiting for an open-world game. Having the option to play in landscape mode, similar to PC users, would be fantastic, catering to players like myself who prefer that orientation. Despite these minor drawbacks, AFK Journey is a great new game with potential for improvement.

I don’t typically write about stuff like this, but there’s just been a lot of inappropriate and creepy stuff happening in the public chat, and it just making me uncomfortable. Idk, how old these people are, but most of them seem to be men. In these comments, these men talk in grave detail about how the woman body is disgusting, and their preference in men and how they like to be pleasured. They also encourage other people to degrade them, since that seems to be a kink, and report and block people who call them out. There’s also people who, don’t participate, but make light of the joke and almost treat it as if it’s a tv show. Please, creator, put more effort into blocking these people, cause it didn’t matter how many times my friends and I reported, they were still online, being disgusting. Children are also in AFKJourney, and we don’t know if they have other means of communication with them.

It’s yet another idle type p2w type game but that’s pretty much all there is anymore anyway. I do like the open world pve aspect though. Overall I do love the game, but it has some pretty bad lag and force closing problems right now. Hopefully they’ll deal with this when they update as it’s just been released…if they do I’ll update my review as well.

The reason I took off another star is that user names, avatars, and chat in general have no moderation. People can say all of the most awful and disgusting things they want with no consequence. There is a report button but it seems to do nothing. You can block people, but there are so many that I’m sure my block list will get full soon and it shouldn’t have to be this way. As it is now I just have to mute the channels, which I don’t want to have to do in the first place…but that resets itself every time you reopen the game, throwing you back into the cesspool.

The game is easy to understand and play. It also has nice graphics and a decent storyline. Though, it also has its problems: preregistration reward wait time (154 days), game crashing (got worse recently), tons of pay to win players, hard to get purple powder (needed to level up max lvl), and hard to continue story (beating miasma/boss to get to next map). It’s okay in the beginning but it quickly gets harder and harder. Enemy lvls go up quick on each map and it’s hard to beat afk stages. Also, the chat rooms are awful- not only to they crash the game more but there are no moderators, so people say a lot of inappropriate stuff (keep your kids out of it). By that I mean people joking about rap3, CP, grooming, terrorist events, fat shaming, etc. Some of those people aren’t joking, most are but they are sick for joking about that stuff. Reporting basically does nothing but you can block people or switch chat rooms.

I wanted to give this game a shot after seeing how much was being put into it, but I was immediately put off by how there was an in game reward for going through with a full download. My experience was hurt from there. I like that they made a more complex battle system, but what does it matter when everything can be auto’d and it usually comes down to which number is bigger? While yes only having to level up 5 characters is nice, what’s the point of slowing down the upgrade rate to show off special skills when everyone else is automatically upgraded? What’s the point of an armor system when you effectively equip armor to a class concept and not a character? What’s the point of random fancier ult animations when all it does is slow you down if auto battling? My feelings are overall mixed, but while others might enjoy it just… don’t waste your money on it.

I love the game in general, the ambience, the music, and all of the visuals are amazing. The play style is fun, the battles are frequent, and the levelling system is quick. The characters have interesting designs and the backgrounds are lovely. The only thing I dislike about the game is the voices. The voices don’t feel right to me, and that could just be a me thing, but most of the voices, even the characters that are supposed to look and act more villainous seem to have softer voices. This could just be me being petty, but it’s my opinion.

I’ve been playing for a while, and I love the game still, it’s just the hero essence. I don’t get nearly enough nearly as quickly as I feel like I should. I’m trying to level my characters and I have two of them to level 110 before I can even evolve the other three to 101.

The game is pretty fun, I enjoy the grind aspect and am excited to see new cosmetics and heroes in the future. There are some aspects that need attention like the voice acting/editing (I play with sound off but if I decided to play on pc I would be very annoyed) and some more accessibility options are needed, for example larger text options would be great. These are things I can understand since the game is so new but what I don’t understand is the lack of diversity in the character creator. I do feel like on release there should be more than two natural skin color options and a few more hair types. Other things I get can take a little time but I would like to see added in later such as more color options for hair and eyes, as well as different body types. If I do see some improvement in diversity I will gladly bring up my rating.

This game has great polish and production value, but at its heart it’s still a gacha game that pits you against other players through daily damage rankings, arena rankings, tower clearances rankings, etc for better rewards. Like many games if this type there is a correlation between money spent and your rank because you can keep buying timegated resources to improve your heroes.

But how about just the staying for the story? Well it’s gated so you have to get achievements and power up your heroes enough to continue it. It’s so banal, you’d probably have a hard time staying for it beyond 2 weeks. Nothing like making you lose interest in the story by forcing you to afk or buy more resources.

It’s unfortunate, because the game isn’t compelling enough beyond its polished look, which lays bare the fact that its there to take peoples money.

I’ve been playing since release and i must say it’s a very exciting game. They made it so all characters are viable in the game and you have access to all of them. Equipment grinding is no longer a thing because they all share, tank set applies to all tanks etc.. I’ve never been one to listen to storylines but this one is pretty cool and the voices are great. My only gripe is the “honor duel” which seems very wonky. It’s rng based but the preset groups to choose from in the beginning will either get you absolutely destroyed or barely make it.. not sure but they should look into it.

other than that i will be playing this for the rest of the year for sure.!!!!!

I’ve never been one to play games where you collect heroes and fight battles like this, I usually think it’s really boring and just not my style. This however? This one’s pretty fun. The storyline and lore is pretty interesting but I mostly play for the mini battles like the Dream Realm and Honor Duels. I love the character designs and how diverse every one is- though it would be nice to see a few more body types and people of color. In the end, it is a bit of a gacha game, but in general you can play the game without spending money on anything. There’s a few “spend $20 for a 6000% value pack!!!!” which is kinda irritating but if you just ignore it you’re all good. Overall, storyline, gameplay, and characters average out to an 8/10!

I used to love playing Genshin Impact (F2P), but the storylines got boring quickly, the rewards/ascensions were too difficult to obtain, and there was honestly too much content to understand when coming back from a playing break. AFK fixes those problems - the storyline is definitely similar to Genshin in some ways, but it’s still new and unique. The fighting mechanic in AFK is much more strategy based than fighting ability based, which I really like. The characters are cute and relatively easy (but still challenging) to build. Really excited about this game! My only negative would be that the graphics aren’t super sharp on ipad, but still a pretty world!

Gameplay: For PvE pretty brain dead but I haven’t done any PvP yet. What it does do well is give you that monkey brain neuron boosting satisfaction when clearing waves.

Story: Haven’t gotten that far can’t really say. What I will say is that surprisingly this game is fully voiced which has made me want to play it out of respect for a free mobile game that isn’t lazy.

How will it hurt your wallet: So far the game has really been dishing out gems, I got 1000 for just filling out a survey. Plus you find tons through completing quests.

Horny level: 5/10, we’ve seen the TikTok ads, the females are definitely well endowed. But it’s not a game I would be embarrassed to play in public, of course that depends on the person so see how you feel. Maybe avoid global chat though, English 12 I’m talking about you.

Overall worth some time when you’re sitting alone with nothing else to do, or waiting somewhere or maybe you’re just bored. I’ve found myself going out of my way to play it sometimes. I’m not a big mobile game guy but this game surprised me with the amount of effort that was clearly put into it. Definitely worth a try at least.

Just another money grab app… I will say that the graphics look pretty good, with some cool characters. But once you’ve played for about a week you will surely hit a huge level cap. They will make it seem like it will be easy with enticing you with free draws, but they don’t actually get you very far into the game. They use it more so to get you hooked on trying to get that one card you need. They don’t even really implement a easy way to earn more diamonds maybe a few here and there but not enough to continuously keep playing the game. But they sure have plenty of purchasing options with just outrageous prices 99$ for you to get 7 of the 10 pulls and you may only get once or 2 gold cards but it won’t do much for you overall. After about a week of playing I’m already to the point where I log in do my daily challenges, collect my rewards and get off it within about 15 mins with noting to exiting happing. It might help me clear one or 2 new stages but unless you have a huge wallet there’s not much for you here, because there’s no skill to it

THe game overall is super fun and rewarding! Though I personally have found a problem, while this may be unique to me, I don’t play this game for girls with big breasts and men with six packs, I want cool animals on my team and while there are many animals, from a strategic stand point I’m greatly limited. I need support characters and the only GOOD support animal characters is hammy but I prefer having two or more support characters at a time. While there is the weasel guy I personally don’t like his design and his abilities leave MUCH to be desired. So I’d really like to see some variety in not just the animals but also their aesthetics! I would also personally really like a a tall girl character because every girl character just feels the same especially in build.