Refantasia: Charm and Conquer
Simulation
Ratings
Age
18+
Category
Simulation
Languages
English
Sun Jul 20 2025
Fixes for known issues and feature optimizations.
In Refantasia: Charm and Conquer, you are transported to a magical realm to take your place as a powerful Lord. Manage your city's resources, recruit a diverse team of legendary heroes, and wage war against dark forces. Beyond the battlefield, cultivate romantic relationships with beautiful consorts to strengthen your lineage and unlock powerful bonuses. Your choices will determine the fate of the empire.
Dinsun Expert Review
Our Expert Score
Refantasia: Charm and Conquer is a polished JRPG/Kingdom Sim hybrid that leans heavily into the 'Isekai' fantasy genre. You play as a Lord who must build an empire while managing a roster of powerful heroes and romantic interests. The art style is typical high-quality anime, and the character designs are very expressive. The kingdom management side is surprisingly deep, requiring you to balance resources and research to stay ahead of rivals.
The 'Charm' aspect involves building relationships with various consorts, which adds a social-sim layer that many Kingdom games lack. While it definitely encourages consistent play (and has the usual gacha elements), the sheer amount of content is impressive. If you like anime-style storytelling mixed with strategic base-building, Refantasia offers a very comprehensive package that keeps you busy on multiple fronts.
Features
Deep kingdom management mechanics
Stunning anime-style character art
Romantic social simulation system
Epic hero-based RPG combat
Tips & Walkthrough
Focus your resources on one hero for each 'attribute' (Strength, Intellect, etc.) early on. A specialized team is much more effective in the Arena and for clearing high-level campaign stages than a balanced but weak team.
Gameplays
Visit your consorts daily to increase your 'Intimacy' levels. High intimacy not only unlocks new stories but also provides significant stat boosts to the heroes associated with those consorts.
Screenshot
Q&A
Yes, it features hero summoning mechanics, though many powerful heroes and consorts can be earned through gameplay events.
Ratings & Reviews
Good, but could be great.
Sat Oct 15 2022 IntimidatingFrogThis game is definitely not bad. I personally enjoy all the things there are to do and am having fun with the game. However, it could be made even better. This game is similar to all the games in its genre In that the games progression mostly relies on building towards stacking numbers just in a more advanced and convoluted way. All games of this genre including this one lack a meaningful main mode that utilize the characters you collect in a unique or strategic way out side of just stacking their power level. Raid Shadow Legends, while kind of a meme, managed to do that rather well actually, making certain characters have differences and feel unique because of their unique abilities. I realize however thats not what this game is centered around and I’m not even asking for that complex of a system. It doesn’t even have to be combat related. Something that would give me a feel of input and strategy with my characters rather than just making their numbers higher to beat others would be much more satisfying and very welcome.
Enjoyable casual game, but…
Sun Feb 09 2025 JeseungI’ve been playing the game for just over a year now and have been enjoying it. Problem is, recently after my family internet was changed (at the end of January 2025), Refantasia has been suffering from horrible connectivity issues. The game will constantly freeze for a few seconds every ten~ish seconds or so, and resetting WiFi, using cellular data, and restarting the app/phone does not help at all. I would have assumed the problem is because of the new internet except for the fact that literally all of my other apps and games on my phone have no connection issues whatsoever; ONLY Refantasia is having this issue. Please check this if at all possible. Otherwise the game is something I hope will be able to play for a long while. Thank you! Edit: nevermind, uninstalling and reinstalling solved the issue.
I hope you read this before downloading
Wed Jul 20 2022 player hotboyI got this game the day it came out, and don't get me wrong it was a really fun play for a while, but after a while it's the same thing with no noticeable change (also it's not a gatcha). The worst thing about the game though is that is is VERY PAY TO WIN, the game has a VIP reward system; for context i spent about $20-$25 in the game and was in VIP 2, almost VIP 3. Most of the high power levels in the game were VIP 5 or higher (probably at least $100-$150) the highest i saw was VIP 7 (probably around $300??) and they were at the top of the leaderboards. This power creep is because of the limited amount of heros you get to fight with, but if you pay, you can collect up to 12 or so extra heros, all insanely strong along with insane amounts of resources to level them up with. The worst part is that no matter how smart you play the pvp games, it's all up to luck, unless you pay. If i spend money on a game i would like it to be because i want something in the game or am excited for it, not because im sad and angry that the only thing holding me back is how much money i put into it. Now that the long rant is over, the rest of the game is actually very enjoyable, truly. the art is gorgeous and there's a wide selection of designs for the heros and love interests, i also liked their battle system (mechanics wise) and their other small features. but that should show you how much the pay to win aspect crushes this game, in the beginning i couldn't put it down, now it's a bother to play it because there's no gain anymore for me. I don't know when you're reading this but it's possible some changes have been made since my review and i urge you to check the game out anyways, just think twice before you spend because it's really not worth spending anything unless you spend about $100 or more on it.
Fun, but the future is a it worrying
Sat Feb 04 2023 Picakcarson13The game so far is fun for me, it’s nice to just relax a bit and tap away and I currently enjoy the story. Besides that I have put in a bit of money so I’m probably having an easier time then others due to that, but I currently I only have two problems. 1. Light connection issues where it has trouble loading the game properly and is a bit slow in areas. 2. Paywalls on things, right now I’ve only found a costume event that was paywalled and to me it doesn’t really feel right, while I’m fine with an easier pathway if you do spend money in the game, it should never be impossible unless you pay money. If you do everything in an event you should have a fair chance at minimum to get what that event entails, but it was completely impossible without spending 50 bucks for just that single costume. (That’s if you did everything possible in the event as well) Overall I plan to stick with the game, I just hope they don’t increase the paywalls and ensure a fair chance in the future.
Wondering how we can ask for new improvements
Wed Sep 07 2022 harleydmaI like the game so far. I do have a few things for the developers I’d like to see in the future if it’s possible. For example, I’d love the option to have Lady character instead of the Lord. I love games like this and I never see the option to have a female character to play as, but I understand the demographic lol. However, the more I’ve been playing, the more I realize that you should not be wasting that much into the game. It’s incredibly unfair that the same exact people in my server are all the Paragons. They spend a lot of money just to obtain the Paragon rights or Titles as soon as they see another player get 1st place or close to it. I was almost Paragon and spent a good amount of money just to obtain it - only for someone to spend a larger amount and ruin anyones chances of getting it. I realize this game is meant for the money players, but it’s really frustrating and disappointing to the rest of us where we aren’t able to even obtain any rewards or get a chance because the same person keeps winning every single ranking - obtaining the titles, Paragon rights, and outfits.
Low Effort Shovelware
Sat Aug 05 2023 AbjectHaterPlaying as a free to play player means constantly having content far out of reach. Playing for 10 months at a relatively dedicated rate I still never acquired the items necessary for a single Norse companion. Each new update that introduces new content pushes the total required number of items for the additional content, i.e the Egyptian companions/consorts requiring twice the total number of items as previous updates. The developers may introduce new things to entice players but then they create insane requirements that are far beyond what anyone can hope to reasonably achieve without spending large sums of money. If the gameplay was remotely interesting it might not be an issue but the game comes down to just being one giant stat check with mini games that are reskinned bargain bin games that have existed forever. It’s either a reskin candy crush that’s somehow more boring than the original or a reskin of a matching game. They even have a reskin of their own reskin of a game (bartender battle/chocolate whatever). It’s a shameless money grab masquerading as a game that is entirely dependent on people liking anime girls too much. I deeply regret spending anytime on this game.
Great game, skin events are deceptive
Tue Jan 10 2023 AndeatheraGenuinely love this game. I like the pacing of the events (never last so long that you grow bored or cant avoid events you dislike), general ease of play, the art is (for the most part) stellar, and seems like it has consistent updates and changes. I like that there’s a lot of little mechanics to help shake things up. My only gripe with this game is honestly the skin events. I’m not a F2P player, but I cannot justify $50 for a skin. ESPECIALLY when the skin events for the game never make it clear what is necessary for you to get the skin. It’s presented as “do these tasks and then you can get these items you exchange for points towards the skin….” But what they don’t tell you is that to get the rest of the points (as there’s a set small amount of tasks) to get the skin, you must do those tasks AND spend $50. Or just spend up to $100 for the skin. Additional to that, the items you collect for the skin event don’t carry over to the rerun event for that same skin. So you can never actually just “work” your way to collecting the game or minimizing the overall cost of the skin. If the skins slowly became cheaper with each additional rerun, and the newest skins being $50+, I would understand, but they don’t. So I’d honestly recommend playing the game, but ignore the skins entirely. They are NOT worth your time unless you have the spare cash to throw around for every skin that comes out (and there’s no static skin store so you HAVE to get them during their 3ish day event). Great game poor skin pricing/deceptive skin event.
Good game with a problem…
Sun Oct 30 2022 destroying Miley cyrusCould’ve been great, could have gotten a higher score from me. If the event to get the costume didn’t cast you an arm, leg, and your very soul. You literally have to spend over 50$ dollars to get ONE decent costume. Black desert charges you half this much and is better than what you get here. Like 20$ just to get 5 candies and you need 270, and this looks like a daily charge so 20$ every day just to get 5 candies. Even if you do the event it’ll give you at best 15 candies, leaving you with 255 more candies to get. I did the math and if you purchase the minimal of the 5 candies per day you need to charge a total of 1020$ for again, only ONE costume. This is bull crap for what you want, and if you don’t care about the materials gained from charging the vip awards then it’s even worse. You’d get 1020$ worth of items that you don’t care about all for just that costume that looks pretty good.
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