Caravan Stories

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
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No score yet - based on 2 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
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  2. Mixed: 2 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. GameSpace
    Oct 1, 2019
    70
    hough it started as a mobile game the visuals good and it has a decent story. Some of the features from it being a mobile game make it a waiting game. Caravan Stories is MMORPG that has more of single player adventure feel to it.
  2. PlayStation LifeStyle
    Sep 23, 2019
    50
    In the end it all boils down to whether or not you are a fan of mobile games that offer you a virtually hands-off sort of experience.

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4.5

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 32
  3. Negative: 18 out of 32
  1. Nasuki
    Feb 6, 2020
    9
    To be honest, I don't get why this game has so many negative reviews here on Metacritic.
    I found it by coincidence on Youtube when I looked    To be honest, I don't get why this game has so many negative reviews here on Metacritic.
    I found it by coincidence on Youtube when I looked for reviews for anoother game and I'm so grateful that I did.

    This game is a mmorpg version of games like Suikoden, etc. where you recuit lots of characters to build your own team. But since this isn't enough you can also recruit a lot of monsters on top of that. Sure, it is a mobile game in Japan, BUT this doesn't make it a bad game at all. You can easily play it with the PS4 controller (which is what I do), but you can also decide to play this game with mouse and keyboard if it suits your taste better.

    The story is quite nicely written for a F2P mmorpg and every character you recruit has a unique story. In the beginning of the game you chose between one of 4 different stories and when you finished those, you unlock another 2 story lines. After finishing a story, it's merged with the other ones. Moreover those characters also have crossover stories. The battle system is kinda like a real time strategy system, which can be compared to games like Dragalia Lost, etc. Your characters, monsters, equipment, etc. have stars, but this isn't something negative at all. If anything, it actually gives you some feeling of progression, which is something very positve in my opinion.
    Every character can be recruited without any gatcha system or micro transactions and you can upgrade everything in the game just by playing the game. I didn't spend a single cent on the game and I don't see a reason to do so. Sure, it does have loot boxes you can grab, BUT everything you can find in them is also acquired by playing the game and they can only be used to skip some content. But to be honest even MMOs like WOW, etc. have Features to level boost your character and so on, so this shouldn't be a problem at all.

    The graphics aren't top notch, but they sure are nice to look at thanks to the cell shading effects which are used. And even though the game has those typical MMO killing quests, they feel endurable to me (I usually hate them in other games), thanks to the auto Ccmbat functions. Moreover the game features lots of other quality of life features, like a well designed UI, experience dungeons, money Dungeons, etc.
    On top there is a nice guild system, which makes it possible to help your fellow guild members with some items or whatever else they might need.

    You also build your own caravan, which is viasually customizable and even helps you in battle. You also build facilities inside your caravan, which help you to gain gold, fuse items and do lots of other nice things. The character creator is rather barebone, but it is good enough to design your own distinguishable character and on top of that you can create a character for each playable race (of which there are 6 so far) and play all of them in the same caravan.

    And if all of this isn't enough for you this game even features multiple game modes, like a lane figther and so on if you want to do something else. I put quite a lot of Hours into it already and I can't wait to continue to do so. I definitely recommend this game to every JRPG fan who loves to collect characters, Monsters, etc. You should definitely give it a try, after all this game is free :)    … Full Review »
  2. DailyMegaGamer
    Jan 20, 2020
    1
    Game was fun at the start, but then got boring. Lots of grinding, P2W and tons of Microtransactions. BP don't mean jack in this game. You canGame was fun at the start, but then got boring. Lots of grinding, P2W and tons of Microtransactions. BP don't mean jack in this game. You can have higher BP than your opponent, yet still get slaughtered. Some quests/character story quests you cannot do, because it want's you to do another character quest. This game will really make you rage. I strongly do not recommend it, if you are someone who rage breaks their things. Honestly I don't recommend it for anyone. Better games out there to play. Also another issue is the fact that there is nothing to look up if you are stuck on something. The web page does not tell you anything that you are needing to know, also there is no report option. All you can do is Blacklist. More stuff needs to happen with this game to make it a fun game. It would also be nice if you could find any type of information on google or whatever for when you are trying to look things up.… Full Review »
  3. GamerZero
    Oct 2, 2019
    4
    For the first 30 hours I really enjoyed the game, the graphics, art style and character design is well done and it's my kind of game...howeverFor the first 30 hours I really enjoyed the game, the graphics, art style and character design is well done and it's my kind of game...however once you hit the grind wall when all the free stuff stops flowing in it becomes a chore to play because you're not really "playing" so much as you're frustrated trying to figure how you can possibly move ahead when there is no consistent way outside of purchasing resources with real world money and that's something I'm rarely willing to do with F2P games because it's a never ending cycle of more more more.

    I do like the game though and if it were sold as a regular game without all the forced extreme grind I definitely would have purchased it.    … Full Review »
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