Good game but stale in content

This idle game is great if you need something to do for a little while. It’s fun and just cool to watch all the workers get lumber set. Still requires your attention to set goals and complete orders so you have to be active to do that but your income from the NPCs running the mill gives you income. Downside though! And this is why they get 4 instead of 5. Season passes are $9.99 I’ve played idle games before and this is robbery. $4.99 would be better but lower than that is always preferred. $9.99 is just bad. Second you have events every 2-3 days that las for 48hours. This is great because you get extra for reaching milestones but it seems the devs have something against the player here. In order to make your machines go faster the supervisor at that station needs to be leveled up with cards you get from crates and while you can get a lot of crates and all supervisors at the station are the basic cards you get. You’ll find that you will get more of some then others making it impossible to reach certain milestones in income for the event. Basically one station can have a maxed out speed due to your supervisor level but in another you won’t have a single card to upgrade them and it clogs the work load. The events are pay to win but the rest of the game doesn’t seem to be a required buy in unless you want the $9.99 ad-free boosts.

Managers

It’s a solid game but having to wait 30 minutes to watch a 30 second ad to get manager cards that has a low chance of dropping the manager card you need is annoying. Not to mention that the only time you really make profit is by staring at the game 2 hours straight instead of going idle. To make matters worst the only way to get Sales managers AND Workshop managers is through gems. 300 for Sales and 150 for Workshop. But you earn 10-15 gems for completing task. This game essentially want you to drop 20 dollars in order to make some actual progress but in reality it’s probably not worth it seeing how I was able to get to the second to the computerized sawmill with more level 3 managers than anything else. Manager levels in my opinion should be capped at level 4 and to buy workshop and sales manager should be decreased dramatically seeing how hard it to get manager cards for your actual sawmill forcing you to waste gems on the cards if you want to make some kind of process. The last problem I have is the orders you have to stay on for 2 minutes of the game to get an order drops 9 biz points, 4 tool kits, or 4 paint buckets, it’s extremely inefficient. We do have a manager that completes idle orders that give you more money tho, but if you want to make actual progress you have to be active on the game and deal with ads and terrible RNG and you will be punished if you rush your saw mills cuz then you have more manager cards you have to try and unlock.

New update

Its nice to finally see some change, especially the fact that Larry, Gary and Samuel can exceed their max level caps. Although I find it hilarious that all the cards i have gotten for them before this update have still gone to a waste. It was a disappointment when you stopped giving diamonds for cards that couldnt be used and it felt pointless when you started giving bizpoints instead. I have over 300k bizpoints, getting useless cards and being given bizpoints doesnt seem right. Also it seems every other event, the final card you earn is for Evelyn. I have not needed one of her cards ever. I have all the little forests unlocked and i have the lumberjacks and tree planters maxed out. I havent run low on tree’s in forever and getting an Evelyn card feels like a huge disappointment and a massive waste of time after spending 2-3 days on an event trying to complete it. Especially the event that just ended where it claimed I didnt complete it (the final challenge is make 50ac and i had over 10ad when it ended) so it gave me the option to purchase the final mystery card with 150 diamonds, which i did just to get an Evelyn card and regret it. On top of that the diamonds are far too expensive its really ridiculous and knowing i wasted 150 on that one useless card was annoying. Thats $5 worth of diamonds if i were to purchase them. I hope this new update changes some things because as i get to higher levels its feeling less fun and more of a waste of my time.

Game Is Fun but Frustrating

Generally the game is fun enough but frustrating when it comes to certain points, especially in the events. You have to get achievements of upgrading machines and in order to optimize the speed on certain machines, you need manager cards. But the cards required to evolve are so rare that you end up with thousands of biz points but not enough manager cards. So your production slows to a crawl and takes ages to get the money to upgrade the machines. Also the support messaging system is practically useless. My game stopped working, support messages wouldn’t go through, and I had to write a 1 star review to get a response. (Also tried sending a request for help outside the game and got no response at all.) Found the fix in the Facebook group written by another user days before getting a reply to the one star review. After the fix, I reached out to support about lost time due to the game glitch and falling in rank on the event (meaning I missed out on rewards). After explaining the issue, they just stopped responding. Didn’t even close the message so I can’t start a new support inquiry about anything else even if I needed to. So overall, when it works, it’s a fun idle game, but when it doesn’t work, it’s frustrating at best and useless at worst. And don’t expect much help out of the support feature.

Save your Time

While this game is a lot of fun in the beginning (which i feel like is exactly how they hook you), it just seems too easy in the beginning and then as you progress, the less things are actually automated.. the more mills you purchase the more you need to upgrade your managers. Well you better hope that when you actually watch the ads to get the boxes or you actually buy the boxes with your gems or whatever that you actually get the cards to level up the actual manager you need… don’t even think about trying to use the actual gems to just purchase the next level manager because that’s gonna cost you 400 gems eventually. it is very fun in the beginning i’ll give the game developers that but why would you require me to have higher level managers the more i upgrade the saw mills. i understand maybe for the equipment, but it doesn’t make much sense for me to be at the 6th saw mill and have mill workers doing things by hand again and everything getting backed up, and truck drivers falling asleep and forklift drivers falling asleep. don’t even try to leave the game on over night or anything because again, the drivers just fall asleep.. so save your 4-5 days of time of grinding and watching hours and hours of ads just to make it impossible to level things back up. thanks but no thanks.

Requires constant active participation

The game starts off fun and progresses quickly enough. The mill interaction with the workshop and village are good and not overwhelming. The game collects money for short durations while your away that you can use to upgrade some things. However, after a few factory upgrades and opening of the workshop it becomes apparent that the only way to progress is to complete “orders”. This is how you upgrade supervisors (which control production speeds) and how you get tools and paint for the workshop. The supervisor upgrades start taking a ton of cards and those are given in orders only sometimes and only with ads. And only a couple at a time and which ones you get are random. So the real problem. Fortunately, orders come through every ~2 minutes and take <1 min to complete. Unfortunately, the orders have to be accepted manually AND that is 1-2 minutes is of active play. If your phone goes idle after a minute the countdown stops until you are actively playing again. And so the only way to progress is to sit with the game open and active waiting for the next order and then actively clicking on it and repeat. Not really an “idle” game at all. Needs to be updated with some ability for passive play progress.

Not an idle game

The game is pretty good and fun but the “idle tycoon” part is pretty misleading. To truly progress in this game you need to complete orders. You build wood and sell them through these orders to get money and materials. If you aren’t completing orders, all of your tools get backed up and eventually stop because there is a storage capacity (which is fine). But this is where the problem comes in. The orders are manual so you have to accept them. They don’t take long to complete and take about two minutes to refresh. They don’t refresh if you are idle, which is issue. The two minutes only refresh when you are playing the game which is garbage. My battery gets drained and this game now becomes a non idle game and I am now forced to sit here watching nothingness just to make sure I can progress. Now you can unlock managers to help run orders that earn the money in the game, which almost makes it idle. But the orders needed to progress earn materials. Money only helps to a certain point and then you need materials to unlock challenges that help you love forward. Now I have only been playing for about 5 days but this is kind of upsetting when I leave the game for a few hours, to come back and see that I still have 110 seconds left on the two minute timer. It’s honestly a turn off and doesn’t live to the true name of idle tycoon.

Good until you see all the micro transactions

Enjoyed the first hour of the game and wanted to give it a real chance. Spent $20 to receive no ads vip. Boy was that the most lackluster $20 I ever spent. Game was stagnant still after spending the $20, no real help with speeding things up besides getting orders sooner. You have to watch the screen meticulously to ensure you don’t miss bonuses and flash sales that disappear within 5 seconds, not much of an idler if I have to sit there and stare at the screen to progress through the game(A lot of stuff you need to do on your own in order to progress farther). I figured $20 on an idler game with a turnover rate of a day or 2 would of given you everything the game has to offer in hopes of you enjoying the content longer but soon found out my $20 would of been better spent elsewhere. Progression is slow and doesn’t have much incentive towards progress. Tips to devs, make it more of an idler and less of sitting on the screen constantly filling orders the entire time you play the game, very boring. To developers response: there was not mention of an ad in the entirety of this review, I’m fine with ads for developers to make their deserved money. I was okay with spending the money to remove ads but $20 for an idler should get you a lot more bang for your buck then a 30sec ad skip.

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