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If you stick with a game for long enough, it’s pretty common to start feeling pressured to log in for hours every day. RPGs especially can feel this way. As more and more content piles up, even missing one day can make it seem like you’re falling behind.

I expected the same thing when I first started Mabinogi Mobile. I figured it would be the kind of game that wanted a long daily login. But once I actually played it, I realized even 20 minutes was more than enough. On days when I had extra time, I could take it easy, enjoy different content, and hang out with other players. On busy days, I could just knock out the essentials. And even when I felt like slowing down for a bit, I could still collect all the rewards.

Mabinogi Mobile ended up being less of a “I don’t have time today, so I can’t play...” game and more of a “I’ll just hop on for a bit and finish things quickly” kind of game.

So now, let’s take a look at Mobinogi's chore system!

< Mobinogi's Chore System >

- Daily Missions / Weekly Missions

There are daily missions to clear each day, plus weekly missions, which is great because you don’t have to finish absolutely everything that same day. If you’ve got more free time later, you can just do a bunch of it then. The daily missions also aren’t very difficult, so if you spend around 20 minutes a day, you can usually wrap up what you need to do. On top of that, the Growth Guide, Daily Mission, and Weekly Mission screens show you which chores you haven’t done yet, so it’s easy to keep track of any content you still need to clear.

- Unified Currency

For players who feel weighed down by chore-style content, the game unified its currencies starting in Season 2!

Even if you don’t finish every chore, you can use this unified currency to buy boxes and claim the rest of the rewards—!!all of them!!—so there’s basically no pressure at all!! And now in Season 2, even if you don’t buy the boxes, the game will automatically let you use currency for unfinished missions when you collect rewards. That makes it really convenient, and it even means you can take a whole week off if you want. I seriously seriously seriously love this.. As someone who’s actively playing right now, it feels incredibly convenient. Unified currency is great!

Now let’s go through my daily Mobinogi routine!

I measured my login time based on a light, casual session.

< A Day in Erin >

1. Log in and check coins and offerings

(Everything here was measured using Chance Encounter as the baseline!)

2. Run dungeons → 2 minutes per run X 3 = 6 minutes

Eat food twice while moving between dungeons / 10 seconds

3. Do one Very Hard Depths run → 3 minutes

4. Day-of-the-week dungeon part-time job → 30 seconds

5. Promote jewels → 10 seconds

6. Go to the Black Hole (once per day) → 20 seconds

+ Process items (4) → 1 minute

And that’s the end of a day in Erin!!

+ 3 weekly Abyss types → 7 minutes each with Chance Encounter X 3 = 21 minutes

+ 3 weekly raid types → Kabrak 8 minutes

Airel 2 minutes

White Succubus 2 minutes = 12 minutes

+ Weekly Vanguard 3 times → 4 minutes per run = 12 minutes

When I only did the must-do daily content, it took about 11 minutes and 30 seconds. If you add in the weekly content too (40 minutes), the total comes out to about 50 minutes. Being able to log into an RPG this “briefly” and still get “all” the rewards—that’s what Mabinogi Mobile is like.

To wrap up,

If you’re the kind of person who gets tired of the pressure to pour lots of time into a game every day, I think it’s important to find something that fits your real-life routine. In that sense, I’d definitely recommend Mabinogi Mobile, where even a short login can still give you all the rewards + the satisfaction of progression!

Make time for real life too, everyone, and enjoy your hobbies!!