Guardians: Unite the Realms 9+

Feel it could help me through depressive episodes but needs a bit of work. Although I enjoyed playing it until I couldn’t any more.

Can’t seem to feed my pets “s’mores” as I can’t seem to get any to give them I’ve had one so far and I need 30?! Completed all other tasks on the first chapter.

Also the bit about doing tasks needs a little more motivation for me as you can literally just say you did it (I know that’s not the point and you need to be honest with yourself) the custom task thing is fine but I’d like to write in what I want to achieve (maybe more like a small Journal feature?)

Really appreciate the intentions that lead to this game’s creation. With a bit more work, I’d give it 5 stars and recommend it to my fellow spoonies. Unfortunately, as it is, it’s a audio sensory overload for the first 10-15 mins of game play, and completing the first personal adventure was a kick in the nuts.

Dev: Please make the speaker symbol in top left more visible; or better yet, make setting up the sounds part of the initial game play to give the user a sense of “this is what I want to hear”. The speech sound is really awful and way too loud compared to the nice mellow background music. I noticed the speaker symbol too late and seconds later it vanished. I then had to wait a few more minutes, through a load more speech, before I could change audio settings. Leaving it to “turn your device volume down” should not be an option.

The first personal adventure options are good. Though I’ve a partner whose autistic who struggles to get up and eat regularly, so “Eat a snack (10min)” would be good... hoping it turns up soon!

Completing the first personal adventure didn’t change the way I felt. But the message I received afterward did... it made me feel worse, like ‘OK, no point in showering again then!’, which is rather crap :( Great that it says “You’re a winner” regardless, but the message really needs to be “though you may not feel different right now, you achieved something that nourished you and that’s amazing. Keep it up and try different things each time”.

Lastly, when I returned to the game after showering, I collected the rewards and got 3 new pets. Tapping the button to see them didn’t work. Maybe it was a timeout issue? (1 hour after starting adventure). Anyway, I ended up having to close and relaunch the app. This took me back to dialogue to start the first adventure... but the giant shining button was missing. So I feel like I lost my first adventure and can’t even to another one. Kinda deflating :(

This game will be awesome and just the thing I and many people I know could enjoy. But it does need a few refinements

EDIT: 1 month later and following both this review and an email to the developer... not even had a response! Have described my experience to various friends who experience problems with depression, executive functioning and a couple of therapists. All agree, so much potential, but this is an outright AVOID til some responsibility is taken and we see an update

EDIT: Another 3 months on. No response. No update. No point downloading this folks 😞