Everfall 2: Idle Dungeon RPG

A sequel with something to prove

GameDevJoey's first Everfall launched in December 2025 and immediately ran into the kind of problem that ends a small game's life on Steam: players reported the save file corrupting or disappearing outright, and the game settled into Mostly Negative territory with roughly a third of its (small) review pool giving it a thumbs up. Three months later, Everfall 2: Idle Dungeon RPG arrived as a full-priced rebuild rather than a patch, and it's currently sitting at Mostly Positive — around three-quarters of a review pool that, as of this writing, is still only in the low forties. That's the headline improvement, and it's real. It's also worth being honest about what "low forties" means for confidence: this is not yet a verdict backed by thousands of players, and a run of bad luck with one build could shift the percentage meaningfully. Treat the Mostly Positive tag as an encouraging early signal, not a settled reputation.

What makes the turnaround interesting is that Everfall 2 isn't just Everfall with the save bug patched. It's a heavier, more ambitious game built around the same idle-auto-battler shell: you assemble a four-hero party from a roster of six, send them into procedurally escalating dungeon runs, and spend the loot and experience they generate on skill trees, keystones, runes and pet upgrades between pushes. The core loop will be instantly familiar to anyone who's played Melvor Idle's combat side or a mobile idle-RPG clicker, and it doesn't try to reinvent that shape. What it tries to do is give the loop somewhere to go.

Party building and progression

Six heroes is a small roster by RPG standards, but Everfall 2 leans on making each one flexible rather than numerous. Every character reportedly supports multiple ability sets and skill-tree paths, so the real variable isn't which four heroes you pick out of six combinations — it's how you build each of the four you settle on. Keystones function as the game's build-defining modifiers, the kind of single choice that reroutes a hero's entire playstyle, while runes layer on finer tuning. Combat pets sit alongside the heroes as a secondary progression track, adding passive bonuses and synergies rather than a fifth party slot.

Loot follows a seven-tier rarity ladder — Common through Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic and finally Unique — with Unique weapons reserved for the game's toughest bosses. That's a wide enough spread to keep drops meaningful across a long playthrough, and pairing it with a real endgame is what separates Everfall 2 from idle games that peter out once the numbers get big. Vault Dungeons are key-gated, loot-focused boss runs with scaling rewards; Rune Trials are harder fights that specifically test whether your rune and keystone choices actually hold up under pressure; the Divine Arena and a climactic Pinnacle Boss sit above both as the "why you keep playing" tier, with the Pinnacle Boss dropping its own unique weapons. A rare Breach Fiend spawn — reportedly around a 1% chance per encounter — guarantees a Breach Key when killed, giving even routine farming runs an occasional reason to pay attention.

The three explorable zones reinforce that variety rather than just reskinning the same fight: Everfall itself runs longer, more attritional battles, Stoneforge trades length for speed and lethality, and Umbral Depths throws larger enemy swarms at reduced individual stats. For an idle game, that's a genuinely thoughtful way to keep farming from becoming one grind wearing three costumes.

Where the rough edges still show

None of that build depth means much if players can't find their footing early, and that's Everfall 2's clearest weakness. A recurring theme in user feedback is that the opening hours throw skill trees, keystones and runes at the player with too little explanation, so a system designed to reward experimentation instead reads as overwhelming until something clicks. That's a survivable problem in a genre used to some jargon, but it's compounded by an interface that reviewers describe as cramped, short on basic options like resolution settings, and increasingly hard to parse once gear comparisons start stacking multiple modifiers on top of each other. This is a solo-developer UI, and it looks and behaves like one.

More concerning, given the original game's history, are the scattered but persistent reports of save issues and balance bugs — including complaints about how party members level relative to each other — turning up in Everfall 2's review pool. It's a much smaller problem than the original's, and nowhere near save-corruption territory, but it means the technical trust the sequel needed to rebuild isn't fully banked yet.

The other pattern worth flagging honestly: a cluster of recent reviews specifically call out AI-generated visual assets as a quality concern, and it lines up with what the game actually looks like on screen — flat, inconsistent art direction that doesn't always match itself from scene to scene. For a solo developer working without an art budget, leaning on generated assets for backup art is an understandable shortcut, but it's clearly landing badly with a vocal slice of the audience, and it's the kind of thing worth knowing before you buy rather than discovering after.

Value and who it's for

At a shade under fifteen dollars full price — currently discounted 40% — Everfall 2 is priced like what it is: a passion project, not a AAA release. There's no IAP shop, no energy system, no battle pass, and nothing gating the build systems behind a second purchase. For genre fans who want real theorycrafting and don't mind some jank, that's a fair trade. Players who bounce hard off unclear onboarding or a cluttered interface will bounce off this one too, and anyone burned by the original Everfall's save problems is owed the caveat that this is a different game built by the same developer, carrying an improved but not spotless track record.

Everfall 2 doesn't need co-op or PvP to be a satisfying idle RPG, and it doesn't try to add either. What it does need — clearer early guidance, a more comfortable interface, and a bit more consistency in its visual presentation — are fixable problems for a developer who's already shown he'll rebuild rather than abandon a bad launch. Players who like watching a build come together over dozens of hours of automated dungeon runs will find real substance here. Players looking for their next visually polished obsession should look elsewhere for now.

Wanderer players who like builds that keep working while they're away from the keyboard will recognise the appeal of Everfall 2's core loop, even if the two games solve the offline-progress problem in very different ways.