Fight The Dragon (Awesome Diablo-sandbox game)

Did you get paid to put this crap up?
Sorry but that ain't close to worth $15, you can play Path of Exile for free if you liked Diablo, you can buy Grim Dawn for high quality ARPG if you like it, there's Marvel Heroes for semi-casual but still well balanced ARPG (also free), there's Diablo 3 if you're looking to spend money on 'Quality' (and shit market/uniques dropping like water).

What does this bring to the table other than a price point that's too high for it? It looks like someone turned Cube World into an ARPG :/

Maybe if it actually ever gets enough content it'll be worth the $15, but as it stands it barely looks worth the $8, no disrespect to the devs, it's just that there are more ambitious completed products in the same market of higher quality, so the niche it's pretty much non-existent, people who want to pay for an ARPG, but don't want to pay $40+, and want quirky blocky graphics.

Oh and I guess Van Helsing 2 is actually around that price range, kind of cartoony, and probably way better (based on videos and some reviews I watched of this game, versus actually playing Helsing).

(Half the games I listed work on Linux/Mac as well, so even that is already taken care of in the others).

 

The community created content sounds like the only thing it has going for it, in an ARPG if that's really what you're looking for, that's the only niche I suppose it actually fills, IIRC Torchlight2 had something similar but not as robust though.

Spoiler: On the Other Games

As for 'microtransactions' as stated above GGG is the only company in the last 5+ years that doesn't sell anything AT ALL in their store that can be p2w, the only things are excess bank space (which you don't need, it's just nice), and cosmetics. If the game you were talking about was free it might be able to contend in an ARPG arena, but the thing is given your knowledge of other ARPGs I assume Diablo 2 was your first, and this game is your second.

Marvel Heroes is actually a pretty decent game if you bother to get far, their model however is nowhere near as player-friendly as Path of Exile's when it comes to mtx, but the endgame and midgame is pretty fun, the characters play differently enough minus a few, there's a new class that's fairly different every 1-3 months (There is one coming out every month July-December with an almost entirely new kit). It just suffers from very poor inventory management and having to buy more space for how little you get. Everything can be acquired otherwise but most of it is too much of a grind.

As far as Fight the Dragon goes, if it was free it'd be something to try for a day or two, outside of creating content (which isn't for everyone), that looks like what you'd get out of it, when for $10 more you can get Grim Dawn which will probably give you 2+ weeks of good midhigh quality content.

The only reason I can see for getting into this game over those at it's price point is if you can't do Gore, but honestly if you can't do Gore, how did you get into the genre? D2 was full of it, leaving only maybe Torchlight as an entrance.

It would be like getting into Dota 5 years ago and saying you don't like RTS.

 

I was referring to (similar to Torchlight) it's more cartoony style, making the gore not as big of a deal. If I see gore in Minecraft it's not that big of a deal, in CoD it's a lot more shocking.

Guess we'll see how the game progresses, it's still in Alpha so it has the ability to become much larger, when it was just 2 acts PoE wasn't super amazing, but has become much better, likewise this game can definitely grow into it, we'll just have to see how well of a job it does with official content and perhaps community picks. As far as online multiplayer ARPGs go honestly I don't think more than a dozen even truly exist, much less 2 dozen. If you're only counting single player it's not quite the same (given how large the genre can be, similar to how vague RPGs themselves are). A lot of them are just barely not there and considered instead simply MMORPGs instead of MMOARPGs[Doesn't exist]/OARPGS (What most people mean by ARPGs in the last ten years).

Honestly depending on who you ask Zelda is an ARPG instead of just an RPG. Specifically what most people mean by ARPG these years however are Diablo 2-style ARPGs, of which perhaps 10 exist.