Warshovel: Idle RPG

The main thing I love about it is that it’s really accessible with voiceover and has so much to do. I normally get kind of bored with RPG‘s but this one keeps me coming back.

The game has some genuinely interesting mechanics, but the economy and progression systems feel increasingly distorted because multi-accounting is effectively normalized. There are rules meant to limit direct interaction between alts, yet players can still indirectly funnel resources and gold through market systems and coordinated production chains. The end result is that some individuals or groups scale XP, crafting, and wealth at levels that normal players realistically cannot compete with. At some point it stops feeling like an MMO economy and starts feeling like competing against private industrial networks. The issue is less about any single player and more about a system that unintentionally rewards account scaling far more than actual gameplay balance.

I’ve been a dedicated player of War Shovel for a long time, but I can no longer support it. Over the past two years, the game has become increasingly exploitative, with every essential feature locked behind massive paywalls. The developer has also completely turned a blind eye to player concerns—no bug fixes, no balance changes, and just complete silence on in-game issues. My name was censored for 2 years from a bug and the devs responds to me talking about it on the discord was perma banning me and when I spoke of leaving on in game global chat I was banned from it too, I have a few friends receiving the same treatment some just guilty by association