Dragalia Lost

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 43 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 31 out of 43
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 43
  3. Negative: 10 out of 43
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  1. PixelBit2503
    Aug 9, 2019
    10
    Nice game, the graphics are good. The story is a little cliche but can entertain. The coop feature is awsome and the gacha rates are very good too. It needs a little polish on the performance on 2GB of ram phones.
  2. Maestrorose
    Jul 22, 2019
    10
    The artwork, music, gameplay, events, and story are great! Very easy to find characters that you connect with and a lot to do!
  3. AzzaEht
    May 16, 2019
    9
    This is truly the way mobile games should be handled, although the control can take some getting used to its overall very well done, music is fantastic with an option for voice or instrumental. The main point though is that you don't need to spend any money on the game at all, this isn't a pay to win situation like other mobile games and that's great
  4. TitaniumDragon
    Nov 6, 2018
    4
    Dragalia Lost is an action RPG gacha game for mobile phones. Like all gacha games, there are two central mechanics:

    • What characters you get, beyond a few story-related characters, is random, and more can be purchased via microtransactions. • The game involves large amounts of grinding, some of which can be skipped or accelerated by spending money on the game via microtransactions.    Dragalia Lost is an action RPG gacha game for mobile phones. Like all gacha games, there are two central mechanics:

    • What characters you get, beyond a few story-related characters, is random, and more can be purchased via microtransactions.
    • The game involves large amounts of grinding, some of which can be skipped or accelerated by spending money on the game via microtransactions.

    Many people find these practices to be predatory. And yet, the game has a very acceptable free to play experience on the whole. And unlike most games of its type, it actually has fairly decent gameplay on the whole.

    But this isn’t a game I can recommend to anyone; it’s an endless hole for your time (and if you are a whale, your money). It is a game that centers on grinding, over and over again.

    The game seems pretty simplistic at first – you attack by tapping on the screen, navigate around environments by dragging on the screen in the direction you want to go (rather than clicking somewhere and running to it), can make charge attacks by holding your finger on the screen in a stationary manner, and can use character skills (which gradually charge up by attacking) by clicking buttons on the screen.

    Each weapon type has its own attack pattern, and each character has their own set of two skills and three static special abilities.

    The central conceit of the game that separates it from other, similar games is that you can transform into a dragon by charging up your shapeshifting bar. This basically serves as a super mode, and which dragon you transform into is based on what dragon you are equipped with – this dragon gives you static bonuses to your stats, and when you turn into them, you get to use the dragon’s very powerful special ability and generally smash stuff with your powerful attacks (including some objects in the scenery, which feels pretty satisfying).

    There’s a story campaign that more or less teaches the players the ropes, with you fighting your way through stages consisting of a bunch of weak little monsters, maybe a miniboss or two which is generally pretty easily dispatched, and then finally a boss of some sort at the end. Most of these are pretty simple and repetitive, but there’s a few different boss fights against special characters or against dragons you are trying to impress so they will bond with you so you can transform into them.

    Once you beat all of the story campaign (which is presently incomplete, ending the game on a cliffhanger after only six chapters, which is about 60ish levels or so), the game dumps you out into what might be termed “the real game”. Unfortunately, the real game is endless grinding. You’ve got the “Imperial Onslaughts”, which are five levels, each with their own unique (and often dangerous) level setup and a powerful imperial soldier backed up by a small horde of weaker but still damaging foes. You’ve got the dragon fights, wherein you face off against a powerful dragon. You’ve got three super grindy areas – a money-making level, a elemental orb/crafting elements collection level, and an xp-grinding level – that are pretty trivial in terms of difficulty, but which you must play many, many times to get what you need to upgrade your characters.

    Notably, almost everything in the game can be played in co-op multiplayer, with four players each controlling their own characters, but the game can also almost entirely be played solo, with you controlling one character while three AI teammates tag along.

    Ironically, these final boss fights – the dragons, the raid events, the wave stuff, and the imperial onslaught – all are actually pretty decent. The game abandons its earlier, bland design and actually pushes things in interesting directions mechanically, with attackable body parts, AoEs that can be dodged or prevented, and interesting attack patterns. Overcoming these challenges for the first time actually feels pretty good.

    The problem is that you don’t have to overcome them once or twice; you need to overcome them dozens if not hundreds of times in order to upgrade your characters.

    And for what? To grind some more?

    It just isn’t worth it. The game just isn’t good enough. The game content is repetitive, and the story itself is rather generic. The characters aren’t terrible as far as such things go, each of them pretty much having two dimensions instead of one, but very, very few are any deeper than that, and the game, by randomizing which characters you have, doesn’t really have much of an ability to fill in more details about most of them.

    In the end, this is a game that tries to be compelling, but not in a good way. It is trying to compel you to play it endlessly, but it is all Skinner Boxes, doing the same thing over and over again. The gameplay is decent, but not amazing, and it asks you to do the same things dozens if not hundreds of times.

    Don't play this game.    … Expand
  5. modshroom
    Nov 4, 2018
    10
    The perfect mobile rpg. The gatcha elements aren't greedy so F2P player can enjoy the game just as much as the casual spender or the whale.
    - Amazing graphics that really push the hardware (and an option to lower them if you are on an older mobile phone)
    - Fulfilling grind system - Co-op being implemented into literally everything makes the game more fun - Tons and Tons and Tons of    The perfect mobile rpg. The gatcha elements aren't greedy so F2P player can enjoy the game just as much as the casual spender or the whale.
    - Amazing graphics that really push the hardware (and an option to lower them if you are on an older mobile phone)
    - Fulfilling grind system
    - Co-op being implemented into literally everything makes the game more fun
    - Tons and Tons and Tons of content for a mobile game, its crazy how much content this game had when it came out

    Negatives
    - no option to communicate with people you are doing co-op raids and missions with besides dumb "HEY" "HELLO" "NICE" and "HEAL" stickers. this is a huge fault that can be fixed by adding a parental feature.
    - nothing

    An amazing game that you should download right away, Cygames really knows whats up.    … Expand
  6. xoa
    Sep 30, 2020
    5
    It's really bad. There's an insane amount of grind, getting characters is easy but the game relies more on dragons to do endgame content and you need 5 copies the 5 star dragons which just sucks.
  7. Monchete99
    Apr 16, 2019
    10
    First of all, this is a gacha game, so the summoning experience plays a part in the enjoyment of this game. Luckily, rerolling is a thing and this is a Cygames game after all.

    Pros: + Good graphics, art style and HUD design for a mobile game. + Simple yet fun gameplay. Every character has a "mashing" combo depending on their weapon of choice, a focus attack which does well against    First of all, this is a gacha game, so the summoning experience plays a part in the enjoyment of this game. Luckily, rerolling is a thing and this is a Cygames game after all.

    Pros:
    + Good graphics, art style and HUD design for a mobile game.
    + Simple yet fun gameplay. Every character has a "mashing" combo depending on their weapon of choice, a focus attack which does well against shields and overdrive bosses, two skills unique to that character in particular (a third one if the weapon is at Tier 2 or higher) and a dragon which you can turn into later in the fight. You can also change between your characters on the fly. A good use of the skills' iframes is important as well
    + Constant QoL changes. Cygames has to be one of the best devs when it comes to listening their players. From making turns less clunky, to improvements in the AI, to a game speed toggle, to the ability to use two wrymprints at once, etc... But the best one has to be the upcoming change to summoning in which wyrmprints will no longer appear on summoning sessions.
    + Gifts every now and then for everything.
    + Most of the progression is tied to the grind rather than the summoning, which is only important in order to have a functional team of a certain element or getting dragons, which are paramount for endgame.
    + Some of the adventurer stories are great (Zardin or Nefaria are some of my favourites).
    + Almost every character is viable. Heck, you can bring Euden (aka your MC) to High Midgarsormr given that you do enough grind.
    + Co-op works great.
    + Daoko music

    Cons:
    - Pretty big in terms of space for a mobile game
    - Again, if you are cursed in gacha, your enjoyment may vary.
    - AI can be dumb as hell.
    - The grind can be pretty hard, even though skip tickets help (3 are given every day, btw) and most of the non-endgame content can be auto-ed with the right team comp.
    - Diamantium is too expensive. Bundles are the most valuable microtransaction.
    - Even with the upcoming summoning changes, sniping for a 5 star is a no-go even for the biggest whales (almost 100 dollars for the pity rate to increase to 50%)
    - Before the changes, a 5 star wyrmprint was twice as likely to show up than any other 5 star, thus getting them was way too common compared to the other more useful
    - Still region-locked

    All in all, it's a great game for anyone who doesn't have gambling issues.    … Expand
  8. RichardM
    Nov 28, 2018
    9
    The gameplay here is tight and responsive
    Hacking your way through waves of enemies has just the right frenetic pace to it
    Transforming into a dragon has that great power feeling like a limit break in final fantasy The co op play is solid and the system for finding players to play with is intuitive The raids with 16 characters (each player bringing their own 4 player team) is a dream    The gameplay here is tight and responsive
    Hacking your way through waves of enemies has just the right frenetic pace to it
    Transforming into a dragon has that great power feeling like a limit break in final fantasy
    The co op play is solid and the system for finding players to play with is intuitive
    The raids with 16 characters (each player bringing their own 4 player team) is a dream come true for this long time rpg fan

    The hate this game gets is beyond me, i wish i could downvote titanium dragons review

    people stop hating on free games trying to make a few bucks though reasonable microtransactions please, these games deserve to exist    … Expand
  9. Renkin
    Nov 12, 2018
    10
    It is a fun game that makes you spend hours and hours trying to improve your characters and evolve in main story and events.

    Main points: Fun and interesting story Charismatic and alive characters Different Dragons you can improve anytime events and raids very cool.

    Negative points: Server crashes all the time, People just do not start matches in coop rooms, High diamond prices.
  10. UmAlguem
    Aug 10, 2020
    10
    Um jogo incrível se comparado com outros jogos mobile, mas o jogo seria muito melhor num console.
  11. literallyretard
    Apr 5, 2020
    10
    Game has great music and is visually pretty. Gameplay is fun as well and story is ok.
  12. JuviWarts
    Jul 4, 2020
    9
    For a free to play mobile game you are not going to find a more entertaining game. While the UI is a circus, the gameplay is fun and can get quite challenging. I like the story and the monthly events. For a Gotcha game, it sure does give away a lot of free stuff. Love the music. Keep it up!
  13. AJCk19
    Jun 30, 2022
    4
    Could have been something great, but it got cancelled. So look no further.

    It was very anime, and high quality mobile game. Almost on the level of Fire Emblem Heroes. However, none of that matters.
  14. MurakumoMobius
    May 26, 2021
    10
    The artwork, music, gameplay, events, and story are Beautiful. One of the best overall portable games and definitely the very best free2play game. Most people giving low score are mad because a player can’t become op in 1 second and clear endgame content after getting 1 unit.
    The critic reviews are utter bs imho, like in many other games. *Looking and the good FF15 Score* . Metacritic    The artwork, music, gameplay, events, and story are Beautiful. One of the best overall portable games and definitely the very best free2play game. Most people giving low score are mad because a player can’t become op in 1 second and clear endgame content after getting 1 unit.
    The critic reviews are utter bs imho, like in many other games. *Looking and the good FF15 Score* . Metacritic reviews are worth nothing. Also funny how the “rpg focused” sites rate this game very good but the ordinary “critics” rate this low.    … Expand
  15. Zaphen
    Nov 27, 2019
    10
    A nice gacha game, the rates are good and the story is very great with nice characters and development.
  16. kit102
    Apr 5, 2020
    10
    Game has an amazing soundtrack and story is pretty good. I'm pretty sure every character in this game has a back story and dragons have stories too. You don't money to be good in this game so you can play the game without spending a single penny but you have the option. It is in my opinion the best mobile game but that's just my opinion. The graphics in the game are pretty eye pleasing andGame has an amazing soundtrack and story is pretty good. I'm pretty sure every character in this game has a back story and dragons have stories too. You don't money to be good in this game so you can play the game without spending a single penny but you have the option. It is in my opinion the best mobile game but that's just my opinion. The graphics in the game are pretty eye pleasing and maps look good too.… Expand
  17. gamrgrlbathwatr
    Apr 5, 2020
    10
    Fun game to kill time, the story is interesting if you bother to pay attention to it and the soundtrack is great.
  18. Mutta
    Nov 20, 2022
    10
    Genuinely one of the best mobile games I have ever played the story is great, the gameplay you actually have to do something and not just brain dead auto battles, the music slaps and goes harder than it should, very generous when it comes to the gacha mechanic you will usually get the character you want. Overall the game is wonderful

Awards & Rankings

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#79 Best iOS Game of 2018
6
#6 Most Discussed iOS Game of 2018
26
#26 Most Shared iOS Game of 2018

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Metascore
69

Mixed or average reviews - based on 9 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Aug 22, 2019
    50
    Give Dragalia Lost a pass for now. For the same amount of money and time, you could support a developer by buying and playing an actual, full game. [Issue #38 – March/April 2019, p. 20]
  2. Gameblog.fr
    May 8, 2019
    80
    Dragalia Lost is a pleasant surprise born from the collaboration between Nintendo and Cygames. It is not the most original game on the market nor a groundbreaking experience but it brings a very solid and well polished A-RPG to the mobile game industry. Special mention to the music and the global aesthetic of the game which reach a level of cuteness and happiness which will melt your hearts right away, be warned.
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  3. RPG Fan
    Apr 24, 2019
    80
    Dragalia Lost makes for a very good first step into original mobile game IPs for Nintendo.
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