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Auto Chess Meets RPG - Mythic Legends Review

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If you’ve read more than a handful of my previous TapTap game reviews, you’ll understand how much I love strategic games. I enjoy challenging my brain to develop rapid-fire solutions or conceptualize interesting or odd tactics to win matches. Recently I tried out Mythic Legends, a strategy game that combines auto chess and RPG mechanics, and kept my brain buzzing.

Mythic Legends is a free-to-play strategy RPG featuring auto chess gameplay. auto chess games are similar to chess, but instead of moving your pieces, they automatically move each turn. In Mythic Legends, you collect cards featuring characters of different factions and assemble your ideal battalion.

Image Credited to Mythic Legends | Hyper Dot Studios Limited

Mythic Legends may look slightly different than most auto chess games, but it’s pretty similar in gameplay. Matches play out sort of like an amalgam between Clash Royale and Teamfight Tactics. Of course, Mythic Legends doesn’t feature towers like Supercell's Clash Royale, but its art design and card-collecting mechanics are similar.

Gameplay is relatively simple in Mythic Legends. There are only two game modes: classic and ranked tournaments. However, unlike some auto chess games that are usually live and timed, Mythic Legends matches are asynchronous battles against AI, so players have more control over the match’s pace. To win games, you’ll need to utilize your legends and champion cards to overthrow your opponent through strategy and careful choices when building your battlefield. It's your goal to win against the enemy in combat to deal damage to their legend’s health.

I found Mythic Legends to be not as tricky as most auto battlers. There was still some strategy to a degree, maybe not as intuitive as Teamfight Tactics, but I had my stumped moments. I’d say I had more trouble working around placements on the battlefield than anything else in Mythic Legends. Compared to most auto chess games, Mythic Legends follows a much simpler formula but isn’t oversimplified to an extent that it’s boring or, at minimum, not challenging.

Image Credited to Mythic Legends | Hyper Dot Studios Limited

Character cards in Mythic Legends are earned through playing matches, as well as opening chests and acquiring in-game bonuses. It’s important that just playing the game earns you what you need to progress and expand your team as well, because playing matches is also how you gain medals. The more medals you have, the greater your league standing. And the greater your league standing, the more rewards, including champion and legends cards.

The stars of Mythic Legends are, naturally, the legends—characters that represent your leader and come equipped with passive and ultimate abilities. You earn your first legend the first time you play the game. After completing enough matches, you'll venture into new areas, unlocking new legends and their character cards. You can upgrade your champion cards and legends to strengthen them, and leveling up your legend allows you to place more units on the battlefield.

Each legend belongs to a faction, providing a boost to units on the field that are members of the same group. For example, Empire champion cards receive more defense, while Desert characters boost attack speed. Factions comprise most of the game’s power curve, considering gameplay depends on the level of your cards for you to win the match. Some factions are better than others, which might feel a little unfair. But I never felt absurdly outmatched in Mythic Legends.

Power gap is definitely prevalent throughout the game, which may make newcomers feel underpowered. However, Mythic Legends attempts to match players whose chosen legends are around the same tier. After dedicating an afternoon or two to the game, I reached a point where I didn’t feel like I had a major disadvantage against opponents with higher-leveled legends.

Image Credited to Mythic Legends | Hyper Dot Studios Limited

Mythic Legends’s gameplay didn’t offer much beyond classic and ranked tournaments. There are events, artifacts, and other more minor aspects that attempt to add some variety to the formula, but none of these elements grabbed my attention for long. And though the league system is meant to encourage continued play, I actually found it rather disheartening. I’d have to play an endless number of hours to reach the final league, where I could collect the strongest legend. If anything, I was pushed away from the game by the idea that I’d need to devote months of playtime just to gain access to the most interesting and powerful characters.

Dreadful grind aside, Mythic Legends is a completely solid auto chess variant. It has its own tiny twists on the formula established by games like Teamfight Tactics that help set it apart just a little, and the visuals and sound design are polished enough to warrant a second look. I can’t see myself sticking with Mythic Legends for the extended stretches of time necessary to really make a dent in the league system, but it feels like the ideal casual title for indulging in over coffee on a lazy afternoon.

SCORE: 3 STARS OUT OF 5

PLAY IF YOU LIKE:

• Teamfight Tactics. If you enjoy Teamfight Tactics auto chess experience and its champions, you'll also enjoy Mythic Legends's gameplay and card characters and legends.

• Clash Royale. Like Clash Royale, Mythic Legends's card-collection system is quite similar to Clash Royale's. If you're interested in leveling up your battles and using your units to defeat even the mightiest of opponents, you might enjoy Mythic Legends.

💬 Have you played Mythic Legends? Let me know what you think of this unique strategy RPG in the comments down below! And if not, let me know your thoughts on the auto battler genre and if there are any other titles in it that have stuck out to you!

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