Dragon Traveler Review Overview
What is Dragon Traveler?
Dragon Traveler is an idle auto-battler "rom-com RPG" by HongKong Gametree where players take on the role of the Dragon Lord Fafnir (default name, changeable) as they go on a hilarious, harem-filled comedy adventure to save the world from the Final Twilight. It features auto-battling gameplay, exploration, mini-games, a PvP arena, as well as the affection or affinity system that lets players form better relationships with their Luminaries or playable characters.
Dragon Traveler features:
⚫︎ Waifus, Waifus, and More Waifus
⚫︎ Saving the World from Ragnarok
⚫︎ A Pretty Cast of Characters
⚫︎ An Affection System
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 PC Client |
 Google Play |
 App Store |
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| Free-to-play | |||||
 Steam |
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Dragon Traveler Pros & Cons
| Pros | Cons |
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 Waifu Paradise Generous Premium Currency Economy Almost Fully-Voiced Cast |
The “Romance” Is Meh Audio Issues Character Inconsistencies Visuals Look AI |
Dragon Traveler Story - 5/10
The story is just okay, decent enough to push forward the squad’s ambition and the plot. It’s your usual Chosen One tries to save the world from its impending doom, with several obstacles along the way—nothing new, nothing innovative. Nothing wrong with that, but the game’s storytelling could use some work. It prides itself on "bite-sized 3-5 minute chapters", so its fast pacing and rushed story can be a hit or miss.
Dragon Traveler Gameplay - 6/10
Its main gameplay loop centers around its auto-battler combat—upgrade and equip your heroes, strategically place your heroes on a 3x3 grid, and watch the sparks fly. Rinse and repeat…for almost all of its game modes. There is a bit of an exploration mechanic with mini-games, but it’s incredibly short and there’s barely anything to "explore." Most of your time is spent just tapping or clicking away, and watching things unfold; simple and fun, but can start getting stale the higher you go.
Dragon Traveler Visuals - 6/10
The game’s anime-inspired visual style is pretty pleasing to the eyes, both in 2D and in 3D. It’s a waifu paradise—they look gorgeous. There’s also the added touch of expressive chibi sprites that accompany their dialogue on the overworld, giving the conversation just a bit more kick. However, while it is nice to look at, it feels empty and quite honestly looks like it was AI-generated.
Dragon Traveler Audio - 7/10
The soundtrack isn’t anything amazing, but it serves its purpose in lending itself to a more fantasy vibe to the game. Additionally, the almost-full Japanese voice acting is a plus, although it takes a hit for not being consistent with it. Some characters are just plain silent despite having everyone else being fully voiced in their dialogue, making for a jarring experience.
Dragon Traveler Value for Money - 7/10
It’s free-to-play and is generous in giving away diamonds—after all, you can get it pretty easily just by playing daily. If you’re primarily a solo player that only really focuses on trying to get characters and upgrading them, then you’ll be just fine by playing normally. However, when entering competitive modes like the PvP Arena and the Wrymborne Ruins, it feels more P2W than anything else.
Dragon Traveler Overall Score - 62/100
Dragon Traveler is exactly what it says on the tin—it’s a bishoujo idle auto-battler RPG with waifus up, down, left, right, and all around. It’s decent for what it offers, and it delivers exactly that. It doesn’t have the deepest story or the most engaging gameplay in the world and it has its issues like audio and inconsistencies, but sometimes, that’s all okay.
Dragon Traveler Review: Just Another Casual Waifu Collector
Dragon Traveler is another game joining in the fray of primarily mobile idle auto-battler RPGs, armed with its arsenal of adorable, and rather blessed cast of female characters for everyone. I’ve been into those casual mobile games for a while now with how easy they are to play, anytime, anywhere. Most recently, I’ve been into Trickcal: Chibi Go, which is also a sort-of auto-battler with a bit more interaction.
While it’s no Trickcal, Dragon Traveler’s promotional material is vibrant, cute, and definitely shows those cute girls on full display from the get go. Curiosity killed the cat (me)—rom-com RPG? Bishoujo RPG?---and here we are, after several hours of going through Phantasia Mountain.
Saving Phantasia From Destruction
The story unfolds when a warrior princess from the kingdom of Midham, Siegfried, awakens the sleeping protagonist, the Dragon Lord, in a bid for assistance to take down the evil dragon, Ladon, that destroyed their home. Fortunately, the party is successful in their conquest, yet they are shown a new revelation—the descent of Ladon only marked the beginning of the world’s impending Ragnarok, or the Final Twilight.
The Dragon Lord, also known as the Ringsworn or Ring Bearer, along with their ragtag crew, is tasked with the monumental task of saving the world by acquiring the lost Ring of Power and to use it at the top of Phantasia Mountain.
Of course, the journey won’t be easy, especially with other obstacles at play and the rise of the mysterious Wild Hunt, a group of villains whose mission is to make sure that the Final Twilight occurs. It’s up to the Ringsworn to save the day!
It’s pretty cliche, "The Chosen One" is our savior type of storyline going on here. You already know they’ll win in the end, especially when you see how the rest of the story plays out—everything just works out. The whole thing isn’t inherently bad, and it’s actually pretty decent but…that’s just it. It’s nothing special, nothing innovative.
Also, it doesn’t help that the game’s pacing is incredibly fast—as said on their store pages, they emphasize that they have "bite-sized 3-5 minute chapters" that are "just long enough for the princess and dragon to roast each other silly while thirsty hot waifus chase you down." Yes, that is an actual quote. There’s not enough lore or getting to know the characters as you go from point to point, chapter to chapter, so you’re less attached to them as well. It’s been six chapters in, and I barely know anything about Siegfried aside from that she’s pretty much your standard tsundere. And keeping up with their "rom-com", there’s a lot of instances where they try to make things humorous with slapstick-like jokes, funny banter, and interesting cutscenes, but sometimes it’s a bit out of place.
Nevertheless, it does its job, and I’m not going to discount the game for it—it has a story, and it gives a story…just not a really good one.
Idle Auto-Battler Waifu RPG
Most of the game, whether the main story campaign or in other game modes like the Arena and resource farming dungeons, is played through the auto-battler combat system. Players strategically set a team of up to six Luminaries (what they call the playable champions in the game) on a 3x3 grid. Each Luminary has its own assigned role like Guardian, Archer, Mage, and more, which function better in certain conditions. Once that’s set up, you sit back, relax, and watch your waifus duke it out on the battlefield. Outside of battle, you level them up and upgrade them to the best of their abilities, fusing together dupes to upgrade their stats and their star rarities.
If you’ve played games like AFK Journey, Marvel Mystic Mayhem, and other similar games, it’s pretty much the same in that aspect. Battle, upgrade, farm for materials, move to the next node or level, rinse and repeat. It’s the perfect game for casual gamers on the go or those who want a game without too much commitment and still get results. However, you may need to swipe that shiny credit card if you’re wanting to clear the higher level game content and higher ranked PvP, as the free currency will not be enough to sustain you in the long run.
Aside from the auto-battler gameplay, there is some kind of exploration mechanic as well in the overworld, complete with mini-games like matching cards, a pop quiz, and more. There’s also the affection gameplay mechanic, but alas…it’s just okay.
The “Romance” Is…Eh
It primarily markets itself as a "bishoujo RPG", bishoujo meaning beautiful girl in Japanese—and they’ve certainly got tons of them in here. Eye candy here, there, everywhere. However, the affection or dating gameplay is…nothing amazing and is certainly added for the sake of fanservice. Also, it’s actually available much later into the story, only unlocked at the middle of the main campaign. It’s so heavily marketed in its promotional material that you’d think you’d get it pretty early.
The affection or dating gameplay plays like your traditional visual novel—a static sprite of the character, text in dialogue boxes, the works. You mainly raise affection by either taking them out on dates (which is randomized, by the way—you don’t even choose who to go on a date with) or by clearing their respective affection dungeons (don’t ask me how that ties into the lore). Gift-giving is also an option, with certain items giving more than others.
It’s standard visual novel stuff, and is serviceable for the fanservice-y aspect (as cringey as the lines honestly are), but I was expecting…something a bit more. Maybe non-standard sprites, a little more expressiveness? There are a few romance-leaning CGs but not always. Unfortunately, it’s not voiced either—a missed opportunity for those extra heart-stopping lines. I do like looking at anime women as much as the next person, but with how much they hyped up the affection aspect of it all, it was quite a bit of a letdown.
Waifu Paradise
Adding onto the bishoujo RPG, it definitely focuses on the fanservice aspect, especially because they know exactly who their target market is. If you want to play Dragon Traveler, you better be prepared (or excited) for all the waifus and the amount of boobage you’ll be treated to quite often.
Dragon Traveler also doesn’t make it especially difficult to collect at least a copy or two of them, with the amount of premium currency you can easily get just by playing. You’ll be, quite literally, swimming in them eventually—in two days, I already have a team of full SSRs with two SSR+s with minimum effort. It, quite literally is, a waifu paradise.
Inconsistencies with the Chosen Character Gender
Moving that aside, a bigger issue I have with the game is that it doesn’t even have assets for a female protagonist despite having the option to be male or female. Even if you play as the female Ringsworn, the subtitles still refer to you as a he. Animated cutscenes are also only rendered as the male protagonist—for example, in the first meeting with Bladeheart where she tackles the protagonist to the ground. It's clearly the male version in the cutscene despite the mini-sprite and the voice being all female. Other cutscenes also share this inconsistency, to the point that the voice sometimes also changes to a male voice instead. To add to that, the gacha or pulling animation only features the male main character.
They have one singular cutscene where you see the female protagonist, and it’s not even in the main story. Nevertheless, why bother putting in a female version of the hero if you're not even going to commit to the bit? Other games that have interchangeable protagonists do provide cutscenes and assets for both, or at the very least have accommodations like a first-person perspective or above the shoulder perspective to keep in the immersion.
Random Lapses in Audio
Another gripe I have with the game is that not all main story lines are voiced. To be fair, there are games where only the important events in the main story are voiced—for example, Stella Sora—and it’s understandable. However, this game has made it clear that they put in the effort to voice almost all of the dialogue, so the random issues didn’t sit well with me.
The thing is, there are instances where suddenly, a character with no voiced lines comes in right in the middle of the scene, "talks" for a few lines on screen, then the character they’re talking to suddenly starts speaking in Japanese…and it made for a pretty jarring experience. This happened during the first time you meet King Arthur—for someone who’s supposedly a character with some sort of authority, she’s…strangely silent. What makes it a little funnier (or sadder, depending on your take) is that the villain’s sidekicks are voiced, but she isn’t.
Weirdly enough, this also happened to Siegfried and the main character themselves in a cutscene at the Winterless Spring. Aside from the cutscene only being rendered as the male protagonist (another point I tackled on previously), both of them were completely silent. It could have been much more hilarious to watch with the voice, offering a better experience overall. Initially, I thought it was just a minor thing, but the more I played, I realized that there’s just way too many unpolished issues like this to be a one-off thing.
Is Dragon Traveler Worth It?
If You’ve Got Some Time, Sure
Dragon Traveler is worth a look, especially if you’re part of the target audience. It’s just okay in all aspects. Not entirely bad for what it’s explicitly offering—an auto-battler bishoujo RPG. It’s got a story, it’s got several modes of gameplay, an added bonus of an affinity or romance mechanic, and voice acting. It ticks all the boxes, but it doesn’t offer anything especially new.
You’re definitely not missing anything by not playing. However, it’s cute for what it's worth, and if you got the space on either your PC or mobile for something like this, by all means, go collect those waifus.
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| PC Client |
Google Play |
App Store |
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| Free-to-play | |||||
| Steam |
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| Coming Soon | |||||
Dragon Traveler FAQ
What platforms is Dragon Traveler on?
Dragon Traveler is available on PC through a client on its website, Android, and iOS. There is a Steam version coming soon as well.
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Dragon Traveler Product Information
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| Title | Dragon Traveler |
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| Release Date | Date |
| Developer | HongKong GameTree LIMITED |
| Publisher | HongKong GameTree LIMITED |
| Supported Platforms | Dedicated Client, Steam, Android, iOS |
| Genre | RPG, Strategy |
| Number of Players | 1 |
| ESRB Rating | RP |
| Official Website | Dragon Traveler Official Website |
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So male protagonist is canon and the girls are straight ? Nice, gonna try it, thanks.