Last year, Square Enix announced plans to bring Dragon Quest of The Stars (Free) worldwide. Dragon Quest of The Stars is a free to play Dragon Quest experience for iOS and Android that launched in Japan back in 2015. The game has a turn based battle system with skill gauges and supports multiplayer with up to four players in total. Square Enix has been saying the game will launch on February 25th but it is available for download now on both iOS and Android. Servers will be going live sometime on February 25th though. Check out the official English website for it here. Hopefully this game lasts longer than some of the other free to play games from Square Enix in the West. Watch the trailer for it below:
Dragon Quest of The Stars also includes an optional paid monthly subscription called the Star Pass. This includes various in game items like a Star Pass Lucky Chest Draw, stamina refills once per day, 30 more Luck when the pass is active, and more. The downside to this is that auto battle and turbo mode are locked behind this paid monthly subscription that costs $8.99 going by the App Store listing. What makes this worse is that paying subscribers get exclusive in app purchases as well in the form of the eligibility to buy Star Pass Gem Packs that cost $9.99. Subscribers can buy these twice. There are other in app purchases as well like different kinds of Gems. If you’re interested in checking it out, Dragon Quest of The Stars is available on iOS and Android for free. Did you play the original Japanese release?
Remember when mobile games were cheaper than "premium" games?
All of that IAP and subscription method is disgusting. I will save my money for traditional Dragon Quest games. Not auto-playing skinned F2P apps made to continually make money. On the flip side, there are F2P games that aren’t as heavily monetized and offer enough content to warrant the occasional purchase. This does not sound like one of those.
Have you played it? If it is same as Japan version you can enjoy the game still without paying just don't expect the best of every piece of equipment early. As far as story and all that goes (ability to gain and switch jobs) this is a DQ game. I would only say play it and reserve judgement after spending some time with it. I think you will be surprised. Nintendo is doing the monthly with all their games too and I don't care for it and I won't subscribe but I can still play the game. The battle system isn't quite as auto as you may think once you gain jobs etc it has an auto element to it in some respects but it is not full auto battle. I have spent countless hours on the Japan version and recently deleted it so I could play this english version. I never spent a dime on it but I did do some grinding here and there to build myself up but that just makes it feel even more DQ to me.
HELLO, fyi>>> You can buy the pass with in game currency...600 gems
Try something before passing on it
Exactly! I played the Japan version many hours and it was great for a free to play game... the spending money is really optional you can still enjoy the game and pay nothing I did and I can't wait to now play it in English!
Soooo glad to hear that! Dragon Quest is THE reason I am the rpg lover I am today..and I adore the franchise. I played some hours in the Japanese version myself but not enough to really dig in. I can't wait!
It`s a great game! I`ve beem playing for more than 10 hours now, and im loving it. Very adictive, lots of stuff to do besides the main story, the multiplayer battle its very fun. I haven´t played much for the main story so far, but it´s good. i have spending a lots of time grinding my jobs - Sage, Battle Master, Monster Master. For enyone who loves DQ , it´s worth your time, and that story of spending money to have fun - bullshit! It´s fun, trust me.