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Skilltree Saga
Developer Silent Dreams
The Dark Eye: Skilltree Saga (German: Das Schwarze Auge: Skilltree Saga) is a role-playing video game developed by German studio Silent Dreams and published by Headup Games for Microsoft Windows, Android and iOS, and released in December 2014. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
122 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Jul 8, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
26
Rotten
32 positive · 90 negative
95% range 19–35%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Negative
64 of 198 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 122 · most liked firstWhat is Skilltree Saga? First let me say what it is not: Skilltree Saga describes itself as a Rogue-like game in the Dark Eye universe. It is indeed a genre-redefining experience. And by genre-redefining I mean the type of "Skyrim is a First Person Shooter". Yes, it has two aspects of Rogue-likes: You can fight monsters and you get loot and experience for it. But there is no such thing as dungeon maps to go through, nothing you would commonly associate with the name Rogue. Or with its likes.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cons: - This *not* a rogue-like game. It's just a sequence of combats reminiscent of about a gazillion generic flash games. - After a while it degrades into a grind of one-hitting until the opponents get so strong that you have to retreat and start the next grind. - "The Dark Eye" universe is far away. Maybe a thing or two taken from there but that's about it. Pros: + Graphic style is quite nice but not contributing to the gameplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad facebook quality game. I'd write a longer review, but honestly, think "facebook RPG" and you've got this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While Skilltree Saga seems initially compelling, the novelty wears off when the game reveals its true face. As other reviewers have noted, it feels like a mobile game. The storyline is extremely sparce; you're rescuing some girl from some monster or other, some stranger suddenly decides to train you in magic, and off you go. You'll perform the same battles countless times, marginally increasing your stats and abilities, slowly looting or buying your armor and weapons, and crawlingly moving…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alas, I must confess that this game is almost certainly not worth your time and money. First off, let us be clear: this is NOT a rogue-like, in any sense of the word. Your character is immortal, and if you are defeated in combat you get a tiny slap on the wrist (which may not be anything at all, depending on how many items you found on that particular adventure). Speaking of "adventure," the game has only one mechanic: click to start the fight. Each fight is automatic, with zero input from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is extremely simple with very little depth. The skill tree is the same for all characters and the combat is automatic. I found that i just ended up using blitz skill first to one shot every enemy with no semblance of strategy. If you cant beat an enemy then just go back to town and start over, one shotting enemies until you get bored. I made it to level 20 before i gave up.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →IN A WORD: MAYBE IN SHORT: WHAT TO EXPECT: Set in the world of The Dark Eye. Ample campaign content. Colourful side-on 2D graphics. Basic audio. Well-designed, somewhat deep combat RPG mechanics. Slow, turn-based, repetitive gameplay. Focused enemy A.I. Very grindy. Lots of dying and restarting. Single-player only. ACHIEVEMENTS: VERY GRINDY. A BEAST OF A FINAL ONE. STATUS: COMPLETE. WHEN TO BUY: DISCOUNTED. Depending on your preferences for this genre. More info below.... THE LOWDOWN:…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Summary: Simple stats based game, turn based combat, minimal story, progression through random rewards and levelling. Would be good as a mobile game. Story: Its a randomly generated sequence of fights, with a boss every 10 monsters from what little I've played. Theres a bit of dialogue but nothing that drew me in (could be wrong, I've not even finished the first area). Gameplay: Pick a sequence of moves at the start of each round, which I guess is intended for you to memorise the monster types…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I dig this game. You level a human, elf or dwarf by entering dungeons with randomly generated encounters. Leaving a dungeon without dying means you get to keep the loot you earned, so fleeing to fight another day is a good idea. The goal is to complete all dungeons and rescue the local baron's daughter from the villain. Kind of a classic theme and gives you something to work towards aside from filling up your skillset and upgrading your gear. Gear seems to be also randomly generated, so you get…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Skilltree Saga is fun! I was just fighting a boss and only had 2 HP left. The boss buffs itself and misses with an earthquake blast. Phew. Just barely made that one, but it was intense and worth it. I got a mythril plate of the tiger for my troubles and then retreated to town to heal and gear up for another dungeon run. It really makes you sweat sometimes because if you die, you lose all the loot you collected in that dungeon instance. Worth playing!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoy all of the games set in the world of The Dark Eye; except for this one. Why? Well, there is almost no story to speak of, and the game seems to be only superficially related to the world of Aventuria as far as I can tell, but the main problem with this game is the excessive degree of grinding required to reach the end. By level 50 or so, you have to literally fight dozens upon dozens of battles which don't give you ANY experience (enemies 10 levels below your character don't offer…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game itself feels incomplete at this stage, given that a lot of animations are broken or missing, model designs are low quality as well as enemy designs. Skilltree Saga is reasonably entertaining, although very repetitive and grindy towards the end of the game. You will find yourself sitting down for a decent 6-10 hours just to finish the last map alone depending on what class you choose. The name itself is deceptive, in that the skills in the skill tree are very limited and there are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really? This should be a The Dark Eye (TDE) game? I play TDE (pen n paper) for over 20 years now. So even though the genre (roguelike) is not really my thing, I needed to have this game. Happely I bought it in a sale and didn't spent too much money on it. Still, it was a waste of good money. There are very good TDE games out there. This however, is *not* one of them. Apart from hardly being a game, this has absolutely nothing to do with TDE. It could be set in any setting. It is a game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Skilltree Saga is certainly a game that played with my heart. Whenever I hear the word “Rogue” my heart skips a beat, and right on the Steam page it advertises itself as such. If done right, it could be an extremely immersive experience. There isn’t a thing in the world I love more than dwarves and magic. I’ve sung the virtues of scraping stats on many occasions. Those new pants aren’t just shiny, they’re soaked in endorphins. It’s not as gross as it sounds. Well, it is. But at least it feels…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was excited about this game, becausse it gave off the false impression that I would be exploring dungeons, in a typical rogue style. Unfortunately, all you get to do in this game is equip things and watch your hero do exactly what you told him to in advance. For 100+ 'dungeons' which don't even have maps, because you can't explore them. 0/10 stars. awful gameplay, awful art, awful music. awful.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Turn-based combat with not a lot of depth. It felt too tedious to keep playing longer. Okay if you paid less than 2 euros or so.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very light RPG with a little dungeon crawling mixed in. Essentially, you'll choose your race (human, elf, or dwarf) and embark on a mission to level up your character by picking a dungeon, get as far as you can, and retreat back to town to heal up and buy/equip new loot. You don't have control during combat...rather, you can assign skills from your skill tree into a que and the system will rotate through this que in sequential order. It's not a bad game, though the player won't have a lot…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall: I enjoyed the game, however I did read all of the other reviews first and knew what I was getting into. NOTE: It is NOT what the vendor has described it as, their are no rogue-like components, it is a simplistic flash game that has some elements of gameplay that are fun. It was also on steam sale so very cheep. Pros: Simple flash game Easy fun, play it with a pen and paper to write down the combos that work for each mob Short to play though Some interesting ways to deal with mobs…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is hard for me to do this review, cause on the one hand it is good for what it is, a fun little Flash type RPG, with classic point and click style adventure game graphics,on the other hand, it really is not worth the 9.99 for a game the likes of which you can play free through other sources, when you move around the world map, it costs so much gold, when you encounter a enemy, the graphics are like a point and click adventure(on the map too, as well as in the city) . When you have a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →addictive gameplay, has that, 'just one more go..' feeling. I'm nearly finished - It needs more content and more achievements to drive the game; otherwise it will fall into the grind category. trading cards?? 7/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty weak flash RPG. The combat seemed lame and bored me quickly. The art style is ... not great. It all just feels low quality for a 2014 title. Hard pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Grind Grind Grind.. Repetitive grind... With very little story line (Women kidnapped, train up to save her, save her, done.) But I'm gonna recommend it as something to pass the time, nothing more.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a game for lazy people who don't mind or even like repetition. From the very beginning I was interested in this title and its climate and probably because of that I liked it. The game itself requires from us to have a mouse, keyboard won't be useful. Although the price itself is a little overdone compared to the content, it's a simple game that fits perfectly as a break from the larger titles and it fulfill its role.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would chime in and say that this is nothing but an old school flash game. I got this as part of a bundle, but still do not consider it to be worth it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun and casual RPG-lite which is also quite good looking. You don't actually control your character during fights, instead you set him up beforehand based on your next opponent. When you reach an opponent that is out of your league, you simply click the retreat button and go back to town to buy better gear. The caveat being that when you retreat from a dungeon you will have to start from the beginning of it next time you enter. But battles are fast so it doesn't really matter that you have to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Skilltree Sega labels itself as a “Rogue Like RPG” as so many titles do nowadays. In this games instance however it isn’t entirely truthful. Skilltree Sega seems as if something that would work better as an iOS game rather than a PC game. You play as a warrior and go through different environments and fight randomly generated enemies to level up, learn new powers and progress further. Now as far as the game play for doing all that though goes, there really isn’t any. Battles are turn based and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most borring games i ever played... + The only thing i liked is maybe the graphics - The translation at the beginning is horrible - sound is just... no comment. rock screaming like cow... - tipical grind to win type of games. - there is almost no content
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i absolutely hate whoever got me to buy this game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is really pretty bad. I guess it's a good way to waste time, if you don't mind the fact that it is really, truly, a waste of your time. Click click go into automated battle click click level up click learn a skill click add the new skill to your active abilities in whatever order click click more monsters click oh look a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ item click ok back to town click click look for better equipment sell off bad equipment click click nothing much happening click click fight some more monsters…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was not what I expected. The word "Rogue-like" is being thrown everywhere these days. This is a bad flash-port of a game that you somehow ended up buying because you read the words Rogue-like and TDE... I've given it a few hours in hope that there would be something interesting here, but when i saw that the three classes were the same (very minor differences) I figured these guys are just some greedy people who put words in the description to lure people like me into buying their game...…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The people giving this game bad reviews are not doing it because the game is bad, they're giving it bad reviews because they either didn't read the discription or read it and descided that it was going to be something other than what the description said. This is a decient game, but it's not complex. It's lack of complexity is what singles it out as something worth looking into depending on your needs and wants in a game. It's a good game as an introduction to RPGs (roll-playing-games), if…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are a Dark Eye universe fan, this still isn't even nearly worth playing. Perhaps the most basic, boring, tedious combat system I have seen in a game. Hearthstone is more action packed, and that's all cards running into other cards. In this game strategy is set up, then you have about six turns of your guy wailing on them. Rock paper scissors, where you have to guess or know what they're going to do each round to best hit them, and neither guessing nor knowing is fun. "Battle randomly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was fun at first, but it quickly turned into a grind at the Dark Tower. It sucked all the fun out of the game when it became 70 levels of 0 exp just to die and have to start over with no way of skipping levels or anything.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Guys, I absolutely love this game. The design and mechanics are simple but super addictive. It makes you think back to the days of ICT & Business lessons where you would just sit and play browser games except this is finely polished and much more entertaining. You can get this over at Bundle Stars with a number of other titles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHwMSswbj2Y
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Amazing little game :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very shallow gameplay and content, even free it ain't worth your time. Everything from gameplay to graphics screams flash game about it. It pretty much revolves around preparing spells before you enter a battle, and that is pretty much all the challenge because you have no control of anything during the battle. It might be ok if you like to micro manage stuff before battles, but even so this game offers way too little even for someone who enjoys that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As many other reviews have stated this game is fun for maybe the first hour before it turns into a miserable grindfest. If you don't want to spend hours basically clicking next until you eventually beat the game and finish the achievements then I would avoid this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As others have stated, I would avoid this game. There is very little interaction beyond setting the order of your skills before the fight, then sitting back and watching the outcome. If you had been able to choose your skills, it would have been a much better game. But as it stands, it quickly becomes a boring slog of " click fight, click loot, click fight, click loot,... repeat ad nauseum". Avoid.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't remember anything about this game except that it was a massive grind. That said, apparently you can complete it in under 12 hours...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is like some of those free web rpgs, except it isn't free. The graphics seem good enough from far, but when you play and see the skills animations, you'll rethink. The sounds aren't good either, this screeching fanfare poping up whenever you complete an achievement is really annoying... If you like this style, there are tons of free-to-play alternatives out there.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, the game is not the worst thing I've ever played, but it's definitely not worth the trouble/cost. In the beginning, there seems to be some promise of better, deeper combat and gameplay, but by the time you get mid-way through the second area, you realize that the concept falls completely flat. The core mechanic is fighting through "dungeons"(?), killing a block of enemies and looting new equipment until you are strong enough to beat the area boss. That fighting is extremely repetitive.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Imagine the 2002 flash game Andventure Quest but with 3D graphics and a large skill tree.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I found this game to be very relaxing and enjoyable for a calm afternoon. It truly is casual and some may even say repetitive, but it is enjoyable for the price. I purchased in a bundle this week so I basically got for it for 5 bucks. I would have easily paid the 10 bucks. Basically you improve your level, skills, and armor to fight increasingly difficult monsters. There will be alot of grinding, so if you don't enjoy this, stay away. You have been warned. Overall it has charming graphics and a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →was really looking forward to this game https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3016607748 and it only gets worse
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I regret getting this. Even though it was in a bundle. Skip this. It is pretty terrible, boring, and repetitive.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →whole game is simply grinding and just in the end you need to change your skills. Some guys like it, some don't.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game might have some minor flaws, but it doesn't deserve the negative reviews. Before playing, expect it to be grindy, especially when going for 100% achievements. It is still doable, you just need patience. The artwork is pretty nice actually and the music pleasurable to listen to. Just dont expect too much from this game and also I'd recommend it to buy in sale (which is barely 2 € there). The reduced price is appropiate for the simplicity of this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a really bad one( I thought it might be fun. But I was wrong. It could be ok if they added "save game" and some free combat-system. 3/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →***WARNING!!!*** Make a profile first thing, or try exiting the game after the tutorial. Whatever you do, DO NOT click on "Options" and then "Profiles" if you have NOT made a profile yet. See the picture below: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=435057768 You might be able to "Exit" the game from the "Options" menu and it might ask you to save, but if you accidentally go into the "Profiles" menu without first making a profile, you are out of luck! Now that I made a new…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty to look at, addictive gameplay, the sort of game that is great to play while doing something else. good fun all round.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This looks and feels like a browsergame. A Pay2Win browsergame. But I think the publisher knew that it was to bad even for a app , even a facebook-plugin... Maybe it failed apples quality-testing?! Whatever, now it´s on steam. YEAH! DON´T BUY! Watch the video and you have seen EVERYTHING this game offers. Stupid automated gameplay, mediocre animations and it has absolutely nothing to do with DSA / TDE ´cept the name in the title. WORST "GAME" since.. well..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is not related to The Dark Eye in any way. Don't know, how they got the license. It's not a rogue-like, but a stupid mobile game. Not worth the time - not even if you would get it for free. --- Schrott. Kann man nicht anders sagen. Es hat absolut nichts mit DSA zu tun und es ist auch kein rogue-like Spiel. Es ist ein stupides, repetatives Spiel, wie man es für Mobiltelefone erwarten würde. Nichtmal kostenlos und ohne Werbung wäre es wert, dass man Zeit investiert.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is awful, I cannot explain how bad the combat is. It is terible, I cant believe they thought it would be acceptable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This suppose to be turn-planning dungeon crawler. In fact, this game is completely opposite what it claims to be. Your goal is to beat all dungeons and dungeon floor. Before every fight, you need to select order of abilities. The selection suppose to be based on enemy type. There is not much enemy types, so game gets quickly repetitive. In addition with lower number of dungeons (just three to be precise), game quickly turns into grinding simulator you spend hours in. You need to repeat fights…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In Skilltree Saga, you grind auto-battles in a couple different areas. Enemies drop loot/gold and give experience for you to get stronger between grinds. The "roguelike elements" aren't really present at all - if you die, you keep all your gold only losing the loot you picked up. You use experience to purchase/upgrade various skills, some of which were pretty interesting and useful. I've used the word grind a couple times now because that's the word that best describes this game - a highly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Boring and repetitive, would not reccomend
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1 One shoot the monster / loot / next. 2 One shoot the monster / loot / next. 3 One shoot the monster / loot / next. 4 One shoot the monster / loot / next. 5 One shoot the monster / loot / next. 6 Two shoot the monster / loot / next. 7 Two shoot the monster / loot / next. 8 Two shoot the monster / loot / next. 9 Be one shoot by the monster / restart the level / Goto 1. Wast of money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →https://youtu.be/GHO272wWPHw The Saga of the Skill Treeman is filled with constant grinding for duckets and experience by killing mushrooms and wolves. Player interaction is limited to selecting the order abilities will be used by the AI and watching the battles unfold. The lack of animations and oppressively slow progression makes this game a joyless time burner.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very grindy but fun.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →you can play similar games like this for free from gaming websites. No need to spend money on this game
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