Frozen City

My only tasks left are to get a amount of survivors. Most of them died but none of them are replacing them. I have max dorms. Please fix this so i can get on

I loved this game at the start, but at one point you have to pay in order to progress or else spending weeks grinding without any good progress. The new update made this even worse: instead of indicating which buildings you can upgrade, it shows which ones still had unlocked hero points for you to buy.

Funny game till world 2 then you need an old guy (which you only can get when you pay up) to progress at a normal rate and not like me as a snail. If you accept very very very slow progress you will be okay if not move on. This game is all about the carrot that is just not there to be eaten by you. And if you pay there will be a next carrot you have to pay for.

It’s Fun

Hunter’s Cabin is broken and doesn’t work as it says. It says it adds x amount of meant per work-hour but most I get is the x amount per shift. My people are perpetually hungry, strike all the time and I can’t continue in my city due to this stupid bug. Please fix.

Just not that good of a game. Both in the idle aspect and active aspect. Nothing really happens whilst you're offline, you just collect materials and leave the game until you can upgrade again (there's no benefit to going offline). The battles get quite tough quite quickly. There's little interaction, you can't really move around the positioning of your heroes aside from pre-determined spots. And any "offline" actions just gather star points which remain mostly useless as upgrading heroes is extremely expensive (can't ever have enough of the red orbs). The adventure is a cool idea, but it's very difficult for some reason. I can't really choose where my heroes/units go and I can never seem to make it past stage 7/8 despite having a great team composition (healers, tanks, damage dealers, buffs). Pablo running head-first whilst everyone else stays a good distance behind him is very annoying. Active aspects such as storms, food, sleep, etc, can all be avoided by going offline. There's little benefit to caring about those, as there's nothing to "care" about. Dead survivors are quickly replaced, you can't control the food if you can't upgrade your hero, and you can just go offline and forget about sleep/rest. One of the most annoying aspects is how everything is locked behind hero levels. If I don't have enough levels I simply can't play the game. And the only way to get hero cards is through chests. So it seems like this mechanic was made purely with money in mind. The chests are random, and the only thing this affects is how quickly I get through the game. So it would just take me more time to get through, turning the game into a grind rather than actually playing it. Overall, this game has a cool setting with some interesting ideas. However, the fun seems to be locked behind paying for chests for a chance to unlock heroes. The survival mechanics of food, sleep, and temperature were thrown in there without thinking as I can completely ignore them and still progress. Survivors dying means nothing, and there's little challenge to keep one of the other aspects high. The player has few interactions, the idle aspects aren't idle, and there is little reward for spending time on the game. It's just a bad game

Since the last updates I can’t see how many food I have and how many meals got prepared. Also I can’t see how much sleep they need. I miss that function.

This is an updated review as since a couple of months or so, a lot has changed. As the title says; This game is becoming more and more pay to play. It wasn’t like this before and good progress could be made by playing the 3 day events with some dedication. All milestones during events that gave you the rewards to progress could be reached. But not anymore without spending serious cash. You’d think game studio’s would learn from their games dying out when they’re turned in to nasty cash grabbers, but alas :( Then another thing: Lately my game on ipad and iphone are completely out of sync. I’ve experienced problems before with roll backs in events (being set back hours or a full day worth of progress), which could occur when switching devices and not properly closing down the game on one device. But now, i could be well underway in a running event and when i properly close down the game on my iphone to switch to Ipad, it has no records of me even having started the event. Have to start over from the beginning? Like WHAT THE F…?! These money grabbing changes are sadly enough to be expected. But the complete failure to properly synchronize players progress between different devices is flat out preposterous. It’s 2023, c’mon get your act together. Congratulations, you went from 5 stars to 1…

It’s nice and different so far, but it has one flaw. When I came to city 3 it became boring. Not the game, I want to play on. But there’s nothing to do but wait or spend. Now, I’m willing to spend, but not to press some buttons and then wait or spend again. It looks like the game is balanced on spending 15€ a month and then I prefer to buy a whole game where you don’t have to wait. Hope they adjust it a bit. I understand that they need us to spend money to continue making the game, but the mobile games are just to price to enjoy. Not sure why they don’t understand that the big money comes from a lot of people who spend a bit and not some people who spend a lot. Like everywhere, greed and shortsightedness is ruining it all. Will be looking for a new ps5 game to play and I’m done with mobiles. A shame. 3 starts for the originality and design, -2 for greed and shortsightedness. (Update: removed some typos.)

It has potential. But it’s not a game Just some idle tap tap tap what am I doing with my time app. Removed it as it has no gameplay.. just hoping for people to spend their money on useless speedups and powers as any developer nowadays