Anvil Saga

Item: Anvil Saga
Rating: 37
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-03

Summary

Enjoyable core blacksmith business simulation gameplay
Charming pixel art style and humor
Repetitive gameplay and content issues
Widespread bugs and unpolished experience
Developer abandonment concerns reported
Poor value for its price

Emotions

Frustration28%Disappointment27%Satisfaction17%Enjoyment5%Boredom3%

Reviews (sample size): 252
Helpful reviews: 85%
Unhelpful reviews: 12%
Protest reviews: 3%

37%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
63%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 351
Negative points: 765
Gameplay points: 460
Perf. points: 17
Rec. points: 131
Misc points: 119

Point	Description	Importance
Enjoyable Core Gameplay Description The game offers a fun, engaging, and often addictive management simulation experience with interesting mechanics, character interactions, and a generally positive initial impression. Its core idea and minute-to-minute gameplay are widely enjoyed. Importance 65%	The game offers a fun, engaging, and often addictive management simulation experience with interesting mechanics, character interactions, and a generally positive initial impression. Its core idea and minute-to-minute gameplay are widely enjoyed.	65%
Charming Pixel Art Style Description Players consistently praised the game's visual aesthetics, specifically highlighting its stylish, beautiful, cute, and adorable pixel art design. Importance 13%	Players consistently praised the game's visual aesthetics, specifically highlighting its stylish, beautiful, cute, and adorable pixel art design.	13%
Active Developer Support Description Developers are highly responsive to feedback, actively fixing bugs, introducing updates, and showing continuous care for the product, indicating a solid foundation for future expansions. Importance 11%	Developers are highly responsive to feedback, actively fixing bugs, introducing updates, and showing continuous care for the product, indicating a solid foundation for future expansions.	11%
Humorous Pop Culture References Description The game features numerous enjoyable Easter eggs, cameos, and references to various pop culture, film, and other video game universes, often adding to the humor. Some reviewers noted these as potential copyright infringements. Importance 11%	The game features numerous enjoyable Easter eggs, cameos, and references to various pop culture, film, and other video game universes, often adding to the humor. Some reviewers noted these as potential copyright infringements.	11%
Strong Initial Engagement Description Reviewers found the game's beginning to be very promising and enjoyable, often providing several hours of engaging gameplay. This positive sentiment, however, sometimes tapered off later in the experience. Importance 10%	Reviewers found the game's beginning to be very promising and enjoyable, often providing several hours of engaging gameplay. This positive sentiment, however, sometimes tapered off later in the experience.	10%
Balanced Difficulty & Pacing Description The game offers a well-adjusted difficulty curve, with a relaxed story mode and challenging options, ensuring it caters to various player preferences without being too taxing. Importance 7%	The game offers a well-adjusted difficulty curve, with a relaxed story mode and challenging options, ensuring it caters to various player preferences without being too taxing.	7%
Enjoyable Faction System Description The game's faction rivalry system, including the "tug of war" dynamic and the rival "boss," is a well-built and highly appreciated feature. Importance 6%	The game's faction rivalry system, including the "tug of war" dynamic and the rival "boss," is a well-built and highly appreciated feature.	6%
Engaging & Branching Story Description The game's plot is described as unpretentious yet interesting, offering variability and branching paths that make it enjoyable to follow without being overly text-heavy. Importance 6%	The game's plot is described as unpretentious yet interesting, offering variability and branching paths that make it enjoyable to follow without being overly text-heavy.	6%
Future Blacksmith Sim Potential Description Reviewers see significant potential for the game to evolve into a truly great smithy management simulator, especially with the full implementation of mechanics like hiring apprentices and creating a bustling smithy. Importance 5%	Reviewers see significant potential for the game to evolve into a truly great smithy management simulator, especially with the full implementation of mechanics like hiring apprentices and creating a bustling smithy.	5%