Idle Taoist Mage Warrior

Okay, so for brave non Chinese players this is my short review

Pluses

• There are no microtransactions
• Decently translated, like 2-3 non important lines are in Chinese
• As far as i can see grind is not backbreaking

Minuses

• Absolutely no tutorial, may be overwhelming at first
• There are some elemental shenanigans that i don't understand fully, i.e. feng shui elements and formations

Neutral points

Art is AI generated (i think so)
Progress mechanic is unusual but easy

Overview

You have 3 heroes, each of them has equipment slots:

• Ontology(standard), i.e. human warrior uses human sword and gets better sword from tougher enemies
• Fighting spirit (same hero, but something like it's spirit form) find 1 sword and upgrade it to +9 throughout the game
• Fairy(?) (something absolutely immaterial like their aura idk) get new sword every rebirth (1st prestige level) and then upgrade it to +9 on next rebirth

These heroes level up when you fight, that's easy.

Fight -> Farm level -> Rebirth -> Farm level faster -> Beat new content -> Repeat -> Ascend -> ??? (not there yet myself)

Short how to start

You navigate the game through buttons on the left side and access characters by clicking their portrait

• Go to Fight button, on the map find appropriate zone level (1-5 levels zose is at the center) and fight
• Go to Explore button and click collection on everything you see (it costs money for each item, but item sells for more). Browse other tabs in the Explore windos, you will be buying all of these ASAP, focus on fighting spirit tab.
• In the Explore window open reward tab, click auto pick up
• Open any character, bottom left corner of this window has Practice button, go there and click practice on ATK or DEF
• Go to Item button on the left menu, find Automatic sale button and select everything from iron ore to purple mushroom in the second column, these are useless items (at least for now).

Basically that's it, you've got yourself idle progress, now browse tabs and read descriptions to get further info.

Reached the endgame. Very poorly designed systems throughout the game. Terrible even for a free game.

Pros:
- No MTX even though there are diamonds.
- Currency rate is kind of fun.

Cons:
- Pretty sure they use a lot of AI art. It looks ok but just throwing a bunch of portraits of the same looking characters is kind of lame. Normally I wouldn't list this as a con, but they don't appear to admit it like Steam requires.
- Very few meaningful choices. Mostly you're just equipping new items to your character an no real important choices.
- The skills are just unlocked overtime. No choice there either. Maybe if you get to advanced skills which takes awhile.
- Reincarnation mechanic is weak. Very little gets reset, which turns out to be pretty good because all you would have to do is just equip old items again.
- Pretty poor localization which makes it hard to understand the game.
- Overall just feels low effort on the game design and UI/art side. So there isn't much meat to the game.