Astral Worlds: Power of the Delev

Editorial Has potential

Astral Worlds: Power of the Delev is an ambitious RPG with a genuinely engaging story, solid writing, and a leveling system players praise as thoughtful—but it is currently hamstrung by poor design choices and incomplete implementation. Combat is punishing and opaque (spell costs scaling badly, archer builds locked out of late quests, mandatory grinding against high-HP training dummies), equipment systems are counterintuitive (torches vanish, bows can't be swapped mid-fight, arrow limits are nonsensical), and UI basics are broken (font locked at unreadable size, inventory doesn't show quantities). The game shows real promise: the character creator works, dialogue is well-written, and there's a meaningful amount of gay romance content with male imagery (though some placeholder female images remain). Most reviews come from players who can see the potential and want it fixed rather than want to abandon it—but they're playing *despite* the build, not because of it. If you love deep RPGs and can tolerate grinding and frustrating mechanics, wait for a patch; if you want something polished now, skip this.