Brighter Shores
Last updated: 2025-03-15
- Relaxing, casual, and AFK-friendly gameplay.
- Responsive and active development team.
- Generous content and progression system.
- Evokes Runescape, but remains distinct.
- Excessive, unrewarding, repetitive grinding.
- Excessive asset and content reuse.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 73%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 25%
- Protest reviews
- 2%
- 65%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 35%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 3059
- Negative points
- 3799
- Gameplay points
- 1050
- Perf. points
- 90
- Rec. points
- 1434
- Misc points
- 352
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Evokes Runescape, but distinct | The game is frequently compared to Runescape, with reviewers noting similar gameplay loops, humor, and a nostalgic feel. However, many also appreciate that it offers a modern and distinct experience, with some even considering it an improvement. The game's art style, music, and animations are also frequently praised. | 77% |
| Responsive and active development team | The development team is consistently praised for their responsiveness to player feedback, frequent updates, and dedication to improving the game. This active development and communication foster a strong sense of trust and community engagement. The game receives frequent quality of life updates. | 68% |
| Relaxing, casual, and AFK-friendly | Reviewers highlight the game's relaxing and casual nature, making it suitable for multitasking or short play sessions. The inclusion of AFK and offline progression options is appreciated, allowing players to make progress even with limited playtime. The game is enjoyable for those who like to see numbers go up. | 63% |
| Generous content and progression system | The game offers a substantial amount of content, even in the free-to-play version, with a clear progression system and a focus on avoiding 'dead content'. The episodic system is praised for keeping the game fresh and engaging, with new skills and areas to explore. The game provides a lot of content before hitting a paywall. | 57% |
| Smooth gameplay and solid foundation | The game is described as smooth, polished, and well-optimized, with a solid foundation and a clear sense of direction. The game is easy to pick up and play, with intuitive mechanics and a relaxing pace. The game is simple but fun. | 56% |
| Friendly and engaging community | The game fosters a friendly and helpful community, with players readily chatting and assisting each other. The developers are also known for being community-driven, further enhancing the social aspect of the game. The community is friendly and engaging. | 51% |
| Appealing visual style and design | The game has a pleasing visual style, with beautiful environments and detailed designs. The art direction embraces simplicity and creates an immersive experience. The game has beautiful art direction. | 49% |
| Humorous dialogue and engaging quests | The game features well-written characters and dialogue, with humor and engaging quests that encourage exploration and problem-solving. Quests often provide meaningful rewards and contribute to a sense of progression. The quests are fun and don't explicitly tell you where to go. | 18% |
| Varied and interconnected professions | The game features a variety of interconnected professions that are fun to level up and contribute to a rewarding sense of progression. The animations for these professions are also well-crafted and add to the immersive experience. The professions work well together. | 6% |
| Satisfying dopamine rush from progression | The game provides frequent dopamine hits through leveling up and seeing numbers increase, creating a satisfying sense of progression. The core gameplay loop revolves around grinding and seeing numbers increase. The game provides a strong sense of dopamine reward. | 4% |
| Reviewer is invested in the game | The reviewer is invested in the game. The game is a good way to spend time. The reviewer found the game to be 'not bad'. | 4% |
| Brighter Shores is a fun game | Brighter Shores provides a second chance at a skilling-intensive MMO with interesting quests. Brighter Shores addresses the intimidating scale of RuneScape by dividing the game into "Episodes", introducing new things bit by bit instead of dropping you in the middle of everything. | 4% |
| The game is very cosy | The game can be relaxing to play despite being braindead. The game can be treated like an Animal Crossing chore sim with basic combat. | 4% |