Aniimo

App Store Editors’ Notes

Love hate

Been playing since day 1 (pc, PS & mobile) and I have truly fallen in love with this game! My only complaint is that the premium shop items are wayyy too pricey (and no, I’m not talking about the outfits). The sparkling cubes & prismana orbs are ridiculously priced. 1 sparkling cube for $30 ?! Absolutely not. 10 for $30 should be the deal. And does this affect gameplay? Absolutely. As someone who is a heavy collector and strives to 100% every game, the only way I can do that is by purchasing these cubes as the free ones are scarce once you reach higher level. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy to support the devs, especially seeing as this is a free game but there’s simply no justifying the price tag on some of these NECESSARY items. The sparkling cube is the only way to guarantee you get a perfect Aniimo and also the color variants of the prismanas which obviously you’re going to want considering they are the rarest in the game. Let’s also talk about the favoritism towards APAC servers. They are constantly getting sparkling cubes in the mysterious vendor shop for FREE IN GAME CURRENCY. Now they also get a new shop feature where they get probably close to $300 worth of items for $50. How is this fair? Do I recommend this game? Definitely. Do I think it will last long? Not unless they fix their prices and stop with the favoritism. If you continue to only cater to the whales then your average player count is going to fall drastically and you’ll be left with a dead game and no player base.

Pokemon annihilator

This game is what Pokemon should have done 10 years ago. Pokemon got complacent and then got jealous when someone tried to do better than them. Aniimo has done an amazing job at taking the genre we all know and love and turning it to 11. Palmon was the first to step up to Pokemon and come out with a creature catching game that surpassed Pokemon and I do love palmon… but the whole shooting the creatures you catch with rocket launchers or plasma rifles kinda left a disconnect for me with the creatures. With Pokemon there was a love you got from the process of battling your target and trying over and over to catch it. That’s what made Pokemon so lovable. Aniimo does need to make catching a very very small margin harder. I caught most the creatures in the game by just hunting them down and launching pods endlessly at everything around. I understand that this is required to acquire a large amount of the target aniimo so you have a better shot at getting an elite or perfect. But I’ve not really had a “challenge” catching anything except maybe budclaw when he digs. Other than just that I love the game. There is a lot of menus to navigate through as well that can be a bit overwhelming but I do love how there is a lot to do and accomplish.

Great game. Still needs a bit of polish.

Love this game. Already find the basic gameplay, addictive, pleasurable, entertaining. The interface I’m sure is challenging for the game studio as they’re making it cross platform with PC, game consoles, and iOS. Yet that remains its biggest weakness. The interface can be quite clunky and non-intuitive. Instructions for quests are often anemic and leaving the User confused. I just completed an event quest in the Homeland that was completely mislabeled, and I was stuck on for the last few days. Thank goodness for Internet searches, or I would’ve been stuck permanently because the quest item was completely misnamed. That type of error should not be found in a final product. But with these small imperfections in mind, the overall game is quite polished, beautiful and fun to play. A note I do find their monetization model refreshing in that most of it is cosmetic. This is not a pay to win game model. Finally a game studio who is not out to strip your wallet clean. I wish them success as they’re finally producing a game for gamers to enjoy rather than just pad their pockets. My prediction is this is a game that will last quite some time. Their challenge will be keeping enough content to keep players engaged. I only took off one star for the interface and the errors in the recent homeland event. A shame because it should be a five star review.

Solid Creature Catcher

Been playing since the official launch, they’ve fixed and smoothed quite a few bugs since then. Those saying things are heavily monetized or blocked by paywalls are not entirely true. Most of what’s monetized are special event creatures and character outfits that are nonessential to gameplay. Game is 100% free and does not “force” you to pay for anything. All gameplay-oriented items can be obtained by questing and general gameplay. I do recognize this game utilizes AI and although I do not totally agree with the use of ai in many forms, it’s very low-key on when and how it’s used. I play on both pc and mobile. I’d like to suggest better optimization for older PCs as my 3060 has a hard time loading in heavy scenes, this makes load times when playing co-op more difficult especially during egg heists. I have played with the settings and have kept them all the way down and it does not fix the issue. I’d also like to suggest more co-op options. It does not feel like I can truly play with my friends aside from sanctums and egg heists. When you play co-op please be advised you cannot cross-progress quests on each other’s world and the game makes this known. Aside from that, this game is pretty entertaining and keeps me coming back and I have yet to spend a dime.

Great Game For Chill People

I kinda love this game!! I downloaded it as soon as it released on the App Store, and I ended up playing for 4 HOURS straight 😭💀I played with my cousin, and we explored together, unlocked new locations, and just had so much fun!! It’s honestly really fun and enjoyable for both of us!!!! I really hope there’ll be more updates in the future! One idea I’d LOVE to see is having our own island where the game gives us a free starter house, and then we can buy different houses based on the choices/options you give players. It’d also be so fun if we could decorate the inside, post our house, and let other players rate it!! 😭✨Since it’s an open-world game and we can add friends and explore together, why not add a feature where you can make your friend your “soulmate” in-game? 👀 And maybe there could be a notification for other players in the server so they can congratulate you!! That would be so cute 😭💕But honestly, the game is already super fun and entertaining. The beautiful scenery, cute characters, everythingggg 😭 I really love this game!! Thank you so much!! 💝✨

Too many updates

The game seems pretty fun so far, time will tell if it has staying power. It is plenty buggy, and there are poor UX choices (especially if you use a controller), but the dev team seems competent enough to sort this out eventually. They’ll need to do better if they want more than 4 stars from me. Lately, however, it seems they’ve adopted a continuous deployment model where every little bug fix causes them to re-deploy the whole game immediately, requiring a 3GB update 1-2 times PER DAY. My internet at home went down for a week, so each update was taking over an hour to download over 5G. Since I don’t have an unlimited data plan (I’m always on wifi, so I can keep my typical cell bill to $12/mo), each update was costing me around $15. Since I paid for the daily check-in bonus and other perks, not playing would mean losing out on stuff I paid for. So I had to decide whether it was worth straining my poor health to drag my gear to a coffee shop to use their wifi, or pay the $15 and wait 90 minutes for an update. There really isn’t a good reason for this. If they didn’t make so many frequent changes, they could spend more time testing and fixing bugs, thus requiring fewer future patches. Most bugs are not going to be blocking players from enjoying the game, so do not need to be fixed immediately. Most games have figured out how to package the game so that only a subset of data needs to be pushed to make fixes, and they only push out fixes for serious bugs, such that you maybe get 10MB-300MB update once per month. The multi-GB updates should only be necessary for major releases.

Fun for the most part

I do enjoy the game, and I’m glad Aniimo isn’t a gatcha, of course cosmetics is different rather it’s pay in store or gatcha rolled. I don’t care for the gatcha rolled much due to its extremely low percentage. I do like catching Aniimo but the holo quest is something I hate due to the many rounds and the bosses being op. I felt the same with professor lita and Cecilia whom I’m struggling against due to their constant switching even when stun, break, or sleep it feels like they ignore it but have no trouble keeping me in check. So I hate it very much. Getting upgraded material is akin to pulling teeth I have to wait for days to the energy to fill up and it dishes out so lil that leveling multiple Aniimo is very very taxing and slow. Character design is limited and I’m all about customization. The aniipod to catch higher level aniimo can be pain. As for the alpha or omega aniimo I don’t get a lot of the red aniipod to catch them and the free one only gives a 7% chance I wish that changes. I hope hair and clothes customization gets a makeover and it be nice to swap gender like Wuthering waves or at least get the clothes or accessories we like for our characters.

Disappointed with this latest update

This was not the sparkling system we wanted, and you know it. Locking sparkling re-rolls per Aniimo vs per species is a choice that tells me you guys don’t respect your fan base, our time, or what we want. Also, why does this game run so badly on mobile? Devs, go study Genshin Impact (NOT the gacha system, another thing you blundered after you promised you wouldn’t do gacha, but did it anyway) and look at how that game runs on mobile devices. That is how Aniimo should run. It’s 2026. My brand new iPhone duo should be eating this game up and it runs like dookie. Also look at the new Monster Hunter Outlander’s game. There’s really no excuse for it to run this badly. I was willing to forgive the egregious price tag you have on sparkling cubes, but with how undesirable you’ve made your sparkling system, I now truly have no incentive to play this game. 👋🏻 I’ll be lowering my Steam review as well. I’ll edit them if you guys listen to your players and fix these awful problems. You have a really good base game, don’t become another gacha graveyard that people reference as a disappointment when it had such massive interest and potential.