The town building is good, but the matching games are absolutely terrible. It's gotten to the point where I don't even play them anymore. It's literally pay to win and it's very irritating. You have to use EVERY power up just to finish a single puzzle. 15 turns to finish a puzzle that has 2 sections, without power ups going in is pointless. Not even remotely worth your time.
this is a game that's not sure what it is. by that I mean it's 50% a town building game and it's very good at that, and it's 50% a match 3 game that is among the more challenging of that genre. the only knock against the building side is some of the crops, mainly rubber, have an absurdly long wait especially because it is needed in so many different things. the big problem with the match 3 side is the total stupidity of the damn helicopters! I thought a "boost" was help u win, yet they don't !
I like the game. It reminds me of Farmville. I wouldn't mind the wait time if I could do something like build in the process. But I have building that'll never get built because I need to spend real money to buy enough fake money for the materials. I'm not gonna do that so basically my town won't grow or will take forever to grow in population. Other games seem to have figured out how to let people play without paying. I end up spending 5 mins in the game before nothing left to do.
Bait and switch is the best way to describe this game. I downloaded this because of the ad that shows people running around providing a service and collecting money. That game only pops up every once in a while, but I still played. This game is pure money grab every month their "improvements" are just ways to make you pay to play. I'm considering deleting the app. It's too stressful and time-consuming. Very addictive as well.
They just removed the feature to confirm spending cash within the game. The buttons to spend cash are placed so you accidentally press the button. Support refused to refund, and refuses to address the issue by putting cash spend confirmation back. Additionally, in match 3, it's getting more and more complex, to the point of not being fun, and many levels require you to spend cash to complete. Awards have gone sharply downhill. in game currency now worth 90x less with last update.
I've been playing this game for over a year and only recently started spending a little bit of real $$ to get cool skins and extra boosters. The recent "economy update" makes it impossible to play the match-3 game (a major tool for acquiring boosters and skins) without spending ridiculous amounts of real $$. You used to be able to play casually for free, but now it feels like a cash grab. you'll get more $$ from me if you didn't make it feel like a waste.
Incredibly boring and tedious, build it and wait clicker clone. If you enjoy that type of game, then guess what, this one is still a bad version of it. Not even an hour or two in and your waiting times are already in the hours, not to mention the absolute clutter and chaos of your town, shops and barn space after getting some levels under your belt. The board is such a hot mess, you can barely tell what is what. Best part of the game is the match-3 side mini game and it rarely ever crashed.
I downloaded the game for the minigame shown in the ad. This shows up 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦, and I'm assuming each egg/crop is coded as its own separate entity, because it lagged so badly it was almost unplayable. Also, I'd only been playing for a few minutes before I had to wait 10+ minutes before I could do anything. Match three (once it's unlocked) is often the only thing to do, and since I really don't care for match three games, it was not enjoyable.
There's a noticeable difference in how difficult it is to obtain prizes from the adventure part of the game as well as land expansion materials. It shouldn't have to play ONE regular level 55 times to get past it. And those levels are often harder than those labeled "super hard". I get that you all want to make money but this is bs. If you don't pay, you can't progress through the game. Zero stars if I could.
If you want a fun town building game where you can decorate and manage a city, don't get this game. If you want a candy crush mini game, then congrats, this is the game for you. It used to be so fun, and now they're making it harder and harder. Tasks in the regatta are basically impossible at this point, and you barely get any rewards. The graphics look like a child's game now and they've gotten rid of everything fun.
Okay so let's state the obvious 1. The ads obviously show a different game and that is why I downloaded this. it's a town building game not the farming game. 2. I'm playing this at a snail pace because there are 2 hour wait times. Throw in a 'watch an ad' option at least. Oh I need 4 bricks to finish building a post office, but my train takes 2 hours to return and really I'm stuck because I need more population. You have to pay if you want to actually enjoy this game.
The nice thing is that there are a variety of activities...something to appeal to everyone. The irritating thing is that they FORCE you to engage with the mini games every time a new one is added. Everything else freezes and you can do nothing until you've clicked through to the mini game, waited for it to load, waited for the intro, waited for it to exit and reload the original game. I personally use the app for one thing only, and I don't appreciate the manipulation.
It takes forever to get materials, figured I'd buy materials for a few buildings. Built some, played for a bit, saved and closed. Went back hours later, they were back to waiting to be built, but materials and money were still gone. Tried to chat about it, took over 4 hrs for response, so I didn't see til next day. They said it didn't update because app was open on 2 devices. I only have 1 device, never played this game before. They were zero help and did nothing to fix the issue. I uninstalled
The level of detail that's put into much of the game is really impressive. I gave it one star now due to the difficulty in obtaining "building supplies"to complete buildings. They take up too much barn space! In addition to that you can't contact a human and now they've almost doubled the cost of the Golden ticket and removed the airport icon so you have to go find the airport in your town to send planes. My barn is full when the ticket expires thanks to building supplies I can't use!
I appreciate the different story-based games to continue to try to get coins and points to further build while waiting for supplies, land expansion, etc. but after having this game downloaded for two weeks, I've uninstalled it. I hit level 50 in the color match and couldn't proceed without boosters. I cannot justify continuing to dump money into the game just to finish builds or speed up supply runs, much less pass mini games. total money grab in my opinion. shame.
This game used to be a lot of fun a few months ago. The town aspect and the players helping each other aspect were both a lot of fun, but lately the developers have been really pushing a mini game that's a lot like candy crush. They are making it basically impossible to earn rewards anymore from just playing in the town, you have to play the mini game to earn anything worthwhile. That's just not what I signed up for. hope they fix this one day, but I'm uninstalling
I downloaded this app based on an ad and the game is nothing like the ad. not only that, it's an obvious money grab game. I only get about 5 minute of game play before there's nothing else to do but wait. Most things take a long while to build, grow etc unless you want to spend real money, which is still costly. The dollars arent easy to come by without purchase but easy to spend; they removed the confirmation button so its easy to accidentally spend your hard earned money
I wanted a game that i could spend as little or as much time playing as I could fit in. the match 3 portion of this game is atrocious. absolutely impossible levels without using boosts , and even then your chances are slim to none. the "crafting" is asinine, takes you 4 hours to grow 1 tree to be used in a fudge pop that also takes hours to craft. I spent a few dollars on the pass and regret it. game is clearly a cash grab.
The game is sadly just another pay to win game. From some of the reviews I am reading, others are also having issue with accidentally clicking on the "pay with towncash to speed x up." It is so frustrating because I don't want to use it but these buttons pop up and then you waste the money on it. The other part of the game requires so many power ups to beat them and urges you to spend money to get extra moves and such to win. It would be a good game if the developers weren't so money hungry.
it's fun until it's not. I thought you were going to be able to navigate your character between harvesting and sales and collecting money and then collecting your crops to earn money but then that ends really quick and then you're back into a town building game which is fun for a while until it's not fun anymore and you don't have enough money to construct anything and then there's literally nothing to do unless you want to spend money and I don't. graphics are good. no glitches.