I picked up this game for about $10-$15 on a sale, and I will say that is about how much it is worth to play.

Please note that this is NOT a card-based game. Think of your standard turn-based RPG, but if the same mechanics were portrayed as cards and dice. That is what this game is--it is a turn-based RPG just with the flair of a TTRPG with cards.

The story is on the basic side, but the characters are fairly interesting. The queen of a country has issued a decree stating that she will handsomely reward adventurers who successfully take care of a dragon that has been terrorizing them recently. You are Ash, an gold-digging adventurer who jumps onto this opportunity for the sole purpose of getting rich. You, your beloved partner and mascot Mar, and a strange magician girl who agrees to join you set off to find this dragon. You visit various villages, deal with the incidents in each of these villages, pick up some new party members on the way, and search for this dragon while accidentally falling into a mystery that surrounds this same dragon.

The story is a bit bare-bones and after like 3hrs, you can see the same story formulas over and over again. The combat is fun, but can get very repetitive and frankly very very easy (until the final boss, then the difficulty level randomly spikes up out of no way). The main party has some fun banter and makes them memorable (especially Bruno--Bruno Best Boy).

What makes this game charming for me and frankly is what keeps the game engaging is the Game Master. Imagine you are a sole player in a TTRPG, with the GM handling everything down to the storytelling. The GM is the only voice actor in this whole game, reading everything from flavor text to dialogue. It really drills into you that in this game, you are a TTRPG player who is playing this story and world that the GM has created for you. He even has some funny quips every now and then that has made me chuckle. The fact that this game is designed this way makes it stand out, and really added to my experience

I beat this game in about 10hrs and felt like I did maybe like 80% of the whole game. I say this game is worth like $10, not really $20, and definitely not full-priced. Overall I enjoyed the game and am glad that I did it. However, I will not be playing the other three games in the series (btw the second game is not included in the Trilogy bundle, no idea why). It does make me a bit sad because I've read that the story in The Forgotten Maiden is the most interesting but its the very same mechanics as Isle Dragon Roars and thus really boring and tedious to play through since they do nothing to change it up. But still, I am glad I checked out Isle Dragon Roars.

The fact that you have to click the next button to do anything makes the game slow and boring. Heard a line of dialogue, click for the next one. Won a battle, click to find out what you got for winning and through all the new skills. Want to play a mini-game, click for an event, click to draw cards, click to listen to the rules, click to make a set, click to discard cards, click to end your turn.

The developer needs to cut out all the pointless clicking and let the player play the game, instead of having to alternate between playing and clicking go to the next thing.