On the store page of the game:,,NO pay to win!''

From the community manager here on the steam forum:,,If you want to play competitively and be in the top 100 of thousands of players buying mushrooms is required''

Alright then...

Not a bad game for passing the time in between other games, but in all honesty this review is just to earn the 5 free mushrooms.

Shakes and Fidget is a free to play animated web browser RPG with asynchronous multiplayer and everything RNG. It is an international web browser and mobile game, so it will be populated with many other players. This game is translated into many languages, so there will be many Non-English reading players. It worked on Win 10, looked ok, sounded ok, played ok, was understandable.

I have played the older Shake and Fidget from Steam store. This game is the exact same with a newer UI, added sounds, graphics upgrade. It even found my characters on my old server. Just going to cut and paste and update my old review to here. Not sure why or how they listed the same game Twice on Steam store.

Has funny quest text and gear descriptions. The artwork is cartoony and funny. Has varied weapon sounds. Has some animation. Has a manual and official wiki in English. Pretty Easy to play.

The level cap is 600, but it will take you long time to reach it, very TIME consuming game. (At my current hours, i have a 144 scout and 135 warrior) Quests and other things take an amount of real time to complete or cooldown reset. More time you put into it, the higher you climb on the leaderboard.

Mushrooms are the store currency, but you can earn some from quests rewards and gambling. Some gear cost mushrooms, but you might find the same and better later for gold only or quest reward. You can spend mushrooms to skip waiting on timers or add time to questing endurance and the best mount. There is hourglasses that you can buy with gold for skipping the travel time on questing.

It has PVP and PVE. It is RNG combat where better stats and gear will give you some edge, but RNG is a fickle goddess, you still can lose to bad rolls. Difference in Level between you and target is a factor of success. You can make 2 characters per account, picking one of 4 classes ( warrior, mage, scout, assassin). Has an PVP Arena where you have a choice of 3 players to attack for gold, honor and xp.

You can raise your all your stats with gold and use potions to temporary improve a stat. Gear you can buy or get from quests can now be modded in the blacksmith shop and in the tavern watercloset. At level 75, you can collect Pets that improve your stats and you can fight other players pets. There are many other things that you can do to improve your stats.

It has 31 dungeons you can unlock and raid. Finishing Frost Blood Temple Dungeon, you unlock The Tower which gives you three companions (Mage, Scout, Warrior) to raid with through 15 harder dungeons that unlock with the Tower. You have to outfit your three companions with gear to improve their stats. But ends up having to wait for your level to catch up to the dungeon level.

You can make your own Fortress, with some buildings that improve your character and other building for protecting your fort or raiding others forts. You can raid other players forts for resources and pour your gold in to defending your fort. There is an Underworld dungeon that you can build and lure other players to their doom. It has Guilds and guild wars, where guild members all attack other guilds or defend from other guild's attacks. Guilds have stuff they can build that increases gold and xp gain for guild members. But above level 25 guild upgrades require someone that Buys mushrooms. You can increase your guild level also by completing guild house raids.

The 35 plus servers are located in Europe somewhere (Central Europe time zone). Devs keep adding more servers, which pulls active players from the older established servers. Leading a guild is easy but hard to get enough active dedicated players to reach the very top of the guild leaderboard.

Try it, maybe you might like it. You can play this game for free, and it keeps you busy several hours a day.

For more info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxB3akHTwk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09uN1BUHlN8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CySxFXxiPk

https://mmos.com/review/shakes-and-fidget

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/shakes-and-fidget-27249202/

http://www.mmosquare.com/games/reviews/shakes-and-fidget

http://www.gamingobserver.com/shakes-and-fidget-pc-review/

Trash, I thought these energy games died with the facebook games store. This is your usual cut and paste. Watch a load bar. Pay to win, energy based "MMO" Dont waste your time. The only thing it has going for it is its pretty.

It's pretty bland and boring. I don't know why this is rated so highly. It more or less is a text based game where you have an attractive overlay, but it isn't more than that. You just send a unit out to do something and you have no control whatsoever of how it goes. You just do stuff, level up, get better gear and that's about it. There is no strategy involved, just mindless sending them out and wait for them to get back.

Had fun with this game for two weeks and then it stopped letting steam players log in. Have had this issue for over a week now and no devs are responding to anyone about a resulution so im deleting it. Do not install this game on here, go to their site to play.

It's a decent time consumer, you run out of energy pretty fast tho :/
So without spending real money it won't waste many hours of your day ! ^^

World of Warcraft for people who don't want to play World of Warcraft, or anything at all.

The ten(!) year old browser-based MMO RPG known as Shakes and Fidget has a rebuilt client.
Original game review here.

After a few days of using the new client, I notice:
*** Better handling of the daily server reboot and other disconnects.
*** An annoying dropping of buttons. Pets are now accessed through the Stables and the City Guard hangs out in the Tavern. Everything still has multiple access points, though, including through the City map.
*** Tavern and Dungeon art has been reworked to better accommodate features added in the last few years.
*** New Tavern quest NPCs, and they won't all be at the table now.
*** All the art has an HD makeover, mostly mild tweaks in the conversion.
*** Voice acting!

Aside from moving some stuff around, this looks so far to be a solid update to the game client. Most of the negative reviews here seem to be knee-jerk reactions to a buggy beta. I hopped in only with the official full release alongside their latest Easter event, March 20, and think I can safely delete the older client.

I found it very bad, slow and repetitive to satiety. The game has two resources: gold and mushrooms, but the resource that uses the game the most is your time, making you lose too much.