A Real-time Strategy RPG
Ratings
Age
13+
Category
Roleplaying
Languages
English
Tue Feb 10 2026
Bug fixes
Path To Nowhere is a thoughtfully designed mobile game that blends accessible mechanics with steadily increasing challenge. Players place and manipulate objects to influence in-game elements, solve levels, and progress through curated stages. The experience favors experimentation and polish, with simple controls and satisfying feedback.
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Ratings & Reviews
A 5/5 for artistic viability, but the game wasn’t meant for me
Mon Mar 04 2024 Efence101I was very much drawn to this game for artistic elements. The music can’t be matched, the character art is terrific, and the character concepts are terrific. The writing I did not find to be competitive with legitimate visual novels, as in events and the main quest it often felt like a strange set of excuses to lead you into another battle. This is why I say the character concepts are good rather than the writing, because if you get a good sprite, with good VAs, and roughly approximate the beats of a stellar story writing-wise, it will still be pretty easy to appreciate a character. I say the game isn’t for me because a lot of gameplay elements weren’t appealing… having to put time into progression every day felt like a chore. A major game design I disagree beyond incompatibility is the the fact that you get boxed into playing the same 6-7 characters (6 deployable in a normal game) throughout what appears to all of early-mid game. Leveling up any more characters than this is considered a strategic misplay. Sticking with the same loadout every game significantly decreases the impact of strategic planning and turns the whole thing into a level grind. I personally feel like some re-balance is needed to encourage use of more units. All in all, I still quite love it. The soundtrack I will keep, but have burnt out of playing in 3 weeks.
Arknights but different
Thu Oct 27 2022 friobThis game is very similar to Arknights in a lot of ways and is inevitably going to draw comparisons. The tower defense gameplay is similar, you rank up characters and skills, dupes are important, the gacha rates are awful and you aren’t guaranteed to get the banner character if you pull an s rank. But I think it does enough to differentiate itself that it’s worth a shot. Instead of starting with no one on the field, you start with all your characters deployed. Instead of having to remove characters from the field and wait for a long cooldown to be able to reposition them, you can move them around at will. I find this to be a more enjoyable experience as you can adjust what is happening on the fly, rather than having to quit out of the stage and restart because your vital character died. The same thing might happen here as once characters die they are gone, or you might start the stage with the wrong characters making it pretty much impossible, but the fluidity and speed of being able to move my characters around makes this more fun to play for me. Also, I like being able to understand what characters are saying so I very much appreciate English voice acting. The voice acting is nothing to write home about but it’s not bad either.
Path to nowhere
Sun Feb 12 2023 Frozen_Fan111I’m going to go ahead and give this game a 5 star review. I’m liking the graphics so far, that’s what does it for me, good graphics for me always make a game more enjoyable, then probably the storyline or any other side activity would. A+ for that, the game design is Interesting as well, not sure if I’ve come across a game like this before in the past, if I have it hadn’t been like Path to Nowhere. Storyline is okay, could be better. Dialogue is okay, sometimes there isn’t a VoiceOver for the characters, and the player must read the dialogue manually, not sure if it’s a problem with pre - recorded voice lines, or they just weren’t added in. Combat is okay as well could be better. Right, what i mainly wanted to ask about in my review is this. Will there be a plan to add a way to revert sinners levels back to zero? I don’t like that there isn’t a way to get those resources “ ONE” has spent on a sinner, or multiple sinners and not end up using much or at all. That’s what has happened to me, wasted tons of resources on random sinners with no way to get them back. Please add a way to revert sinners back to level one, and get back all spent resources.
Great Story
Tue Nov 14 2023 SädisticaThis game is truly a hidden gem. The story is dark, mature, and well written. The characters have unique personalities and depth. Through the interrogation and mirage system you’ll learn more about their past and motivations. The pacing is good and you’ll want to learn more about the world and it’s inhabitants. The events rerun and provide story progression or world building. The gacha is fair and the game provides plenty of currency to pull at least one copy of each new character for free. Shackles (or dupes) are impactive if you care about the ladders, but unnecessary to clear high end content and get the best rewards. No direct PvP either so you won’t have to spend unless you want to. Some of the best units are low rarity and easy to max out. One of the best S class units is also free from the beginner event. The upgrade system can be a grind but you’ll have enough for your main team by doing dailies, events, and using the exchange shops. There are plenty of ways to gear and there’s no annoying RNG upgrade system with multiple substats/main stats. If you like tower defense strategy games with good storytelling, give it a shot. It’s quickly become my favorite side game. It doesn’t require a massive time investment to progress, and it doesn’t use FOMO for retention.
Kinda mid Arknights
Sat Oct 29 2022 RemovePassMy first impression of this game was very good- the art is beautiful, the story is good if you’re into that, and the game is fairly generous in what it gives you even if the gacha rates are average. My main qualm, however is over gameplay. Compared to a another popular tower defense gacha game, Arknights, the gameplay experience of Path to Nowhere is bare-bones and flat. In comparison to the DP system of Arknights, you begin stages with predeployed units and cannot redeploy them after they die, although you can move them. This battle system is not particularly dynamic or deep, and this problem is amplified by the lack of niche. All the units in this game do relatively similar things, and from my experiences in the first few chapters, level of units (over skill or unit choice) seems to be the defining factor in success, which I find problematic. Overall, this game seems like one which I could play for the art and story because they are undeniably good, but if you’re looking for something that’s also good gameplay-wise, I would just play Arknights. (Keep in mind I don’t have too much experience with this game so things might change)
LISTEN UP
Sat Oct 29 2022 MoyaLyubovDownload this quality game now. If you’ve come here to check it out in the first place just do yourself a favor and install it. This is a gacha game that’s EXTREMELY f2p-friendly, and boy does it come packed with some excellent features. I normally skip stories in 99% of gacha games because I find them to be dull or repetitive but this one is blowing me away. This is the kind of quality and detail in a story you’d expect to find in a popular console title. I spend equal time playing the battle stages as I do watching cutscenes, learning more about characters while building bonds with them and enjoying the myriad of other features the game has to offer. The interface and visuals are gorgeous as well. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for Path to Nowhere.
Unique story and good gameplay..a few bugs
Sun Jan 08 2023 U no notI’m still pretty new to this game but so far I have enjoyed the story and gameplay. The character drops aren’t bad I’ve but probably could use a little better drop rates. The gameplay itself is excellent in my opinion a good mix of enjoyable and challenging. My main problem is there are some critical bugs I have noticed. Some missions are loading in with nothing but a black screen maze missions in particular. Also the missions for the mania crystals you need for upgrade will start working sometimes but then the screen will freeze up. Oddly enough the fighting will continue but you cannot tell what is happening. I hope that the developers will look into these bugs because these two missions are critical in the game progression.
Get good or miss out
Tue Nov 29 2022 Nageki_I enjoy the story and gameplay even if it takes me multiple attempts to clear stages. But I don’t enjoy the— I’ll call it the “beginner event” where you can acquire Nox for free. You have a certain amount of days to complete a large checklist of items to get Nox. And like I mentioned earlier I’m not very good at this game, so it took me a while to unlock the features I needed to complete the items on the list. Because of that I have 64/65 items completed for Nox but I literally cannot finish the other items in time. (Checking in for the Guild feature, or finishing dispatches). I wanted to have fun with this game but that’s killed my vibe. Maybe I’ll come back one day. Also this game is stingy about the amount of stamina you get. That also hindered progress for me. Raid to get resources then end up having to wait to be able to even play the campaign.
