Leave a Review Trade Island
Events are slanted
I have been enjoying playing this game. It has good graphics and takes some logic to figure out how to accomplish some of the required tasks. BUT..... when they have a tribez festival or the recent Halloween event, as you get further towards completion, the developers have made it impossible to accumulate the items needed to progress and finish the event. they keep adding extra items so you have an multiples of items not needed. I contacted the developers and asked them to stop but was told the chance of obtaining the items varies and just to continue playing to collect the needed items.... Have paid for gems and even paid for chests I hopes of getting the “rare” items but still get the unneeded common items, i.e. have accumulated 48 common items, wasting many gems. There’s no control of the item you receive and no way to purchase it. Is taking up to 2-1/2 days to accumulate the rare item needed to
It’s an act of pure greed and becoming very frustrating. Developers are taking a good game and ruining it by making it impossible to finish the tasks. Have spent quite a bit of money on in-app purchases but not any more. You may want to think twice before wasting time on this game.Show lessCTBMBC
Developer Response
Thank you for your honest opinion and feedback! Suggestions and ideas from our players help the developers improve the game! Acquiring certain items in the game requires persistence. Try and complete the required action as often as possible, and you’ll surely get a lucky break!Super Fun, Makes the Time Fly at Soul Sucking Job
This is a pretty fun game - for now, I assume the level of difficulty will increase as I progress through the game. So far, it’s a lot of fun, I’ve only just leveled up to Level 2, mind you... However, I’m looking for a challenge and I think this is just the game, I get lots of offers for purchasing diamonds, so I can only anticipate that big purchases and upgrades may require COLD, HARD, CASH, which will be unfortunate. For now, it’s a really fun game, love the illustrations and the simplicity of it! Sorta reminds me of that city or big town farming game combined with Sim City! Will update as I progress. All in all, so far so good, lots of fun! 👍🏻Show lessBe In The Know!
Could be fun
This game could be fun if it wasn’t so obviously trying to get your money. I can’t store stuff without upgrading and I really couldn’t get the missing item without purchasing a package. Then there are too many events. The last event overlapped so many other things that it felt like I had to constantly produce items and hand them out. But I couldn’t sell them because I needed them for something else and then I would run low on money and not be able to make upgrades. I ultimately bought one package but the events require a different kind of package. You constantly need wood and food and to move people around...mobile games are not supposed to be stressful. I have hung in there as long as I could because I love a game where you can build a whole town from nothing but this one is too demanding and stressful and greedy to be fun.Show lessFlintymom
I’m mad
Well my problem is that I have spend money buying a lot of diamonds but I’ll go broke if I have to keep buying them!!!! The present boxes always cost 5 diamonds and it’s not fair!!! I have a lot of friends who have spent money and who are also really upset and are just about ready to delete the game including myself... we shouldn’t have to pay 5 diamonds every time!!!!! It’s really annoying!!!!!!! Someone needs to fix this ... I have wrote to support a bunch of times never heard anything back... I love the game as do my friends but it’s getting to the point where we will delete and never spend any more of our money!!!!! Please fix this problem!!! It’s not just me who thinks this... I would guarantee that a lot or most of the people who play say or think the same....Show lessGG fara Lee
Deleted Today
I gave this game a few days but sadly it won’t be any fun unless you plan to spend money. To develop your city you have to grow crops, sell food, and collect coins and diamonds from buildings.
The good... lots of quests, you can turn on the option to confirm before buying/ trading, and great graphics.
The problems... coins are soooo low even after upgrading buildings. Diamonds are sparse, and growing/cooking times are too long for even low level items.
The quests are literally all going on at the same time. The problem with that is you may end up building something you don’t need until later, only to find the building you need has no place to be built.
The storeroom is insane. You need to upgrade very early in the game BUT the amount of resources you need to do that aren’t offered. Soooo you’re buying those resources. If you don’t want to spend money, you’re stuck with crops you can’t use right away which means no money and no trading to increase your city.
Another issue is trying to get a good aerial view of your entire city. It can’t be done at least up to level 10. So you can’t really see all you need to do. Even in landscape you’re right up on the city. This makes it a challenge for people with certain vision impairments.
Overall this game got too boring too soon. No one wants to wait for crops, buildings, and food items at low levels in the game. This is ideal for the app developer but makes you grow weary as the app user.Show less4Qui
Needs improvement
In order to expand my land I need two axes. However there is no way to get an axe.
Also it’s easy to get into the situation where the warehouse is full but in order to expand the warehouse you need to make/collect more items. The problem is the warehouse is full so you can’t put the items you’ve collected in the warehouse in order to then expand it. It’s a catch 22. And at the same time any other items or ingredients in the warehouse don’t happen to be wanted or needed by any of the island people so you can’t get rid of what’s in there. The only option is to sell some things in the warehouse. That’s not a good option especially if you might need them again someday.Show lessCoanator
Love it but
It’s great and super cute but I’m in a predicament. I can’t upgrade my City Hall because I don’t have enough people but I can’t get more people until I upgrade my City Hall. I also am not advancing in the storyline because I need shovels, I have the option to spend like 24 jewels or I keep having to wait. I’ve been playing for a week now and I’ve been stuck on the same thing because I’m not getting the tools required and I already spent $.99 and I’m not spending any more. So I’m going to give it another week or so but if I’m still stuck I’m just going to delete it. Hopefully I’ll get what I need cause it’s a super cute game.Show lessEliLynn
Too expensive
Basically this game becomes boring really quickly. It takes hours for most things to complete, and the warehouse space is minimal unless you spend a lot of money to purchase gems to upgrade it, or use gems to shorten the time it takes for something to happen. Gems can be earned, but only a very small number per day, so if you need to use them, you have to buy them.
Over time, you can only play this game if you are willing to spend hundreds of dollars for gems. In order to build things, you require tools. Tools come from shipments or you can purchase them via gems, which cost a lot of money. And the warehouse gets loaded up with tools so you can’t store products, which are needed to basically play the game. So you quickly get into gridlock.
Which is where I am now, can’t put anything else in my warehouse and can’t upgrade warehouse without buying a lot of gems. So nothing left to do but delete the app. Pity, it is kind of fun, but not so much I would spend hundreds of dollars for gems. Sorry, I don’t like leaving bad reviews, but people should know how expensive this game is.
However, if you don’t mind spending the money, it is a cute game and fun to play.Show lessD7x7
Could be better
Cool graphics, time management is typical, but... storage space is horrible. There’s 3 storages and the goods is mixed with tools. And there’s a storage box that contains coin items to upgrade stores and that box should contain the building tools. Not with the food, I’ve wasted too much diamonds to upgrade storage and still no space. Also there’s so much going on in this game. Everyone in the game pretty much has a bubble floating above their head. There’s only 2 building guys so it takes. Long time to actually build. For gift boxes should be video ads to open after the free ones. Pretty much there’s a lot that needs to be considered in the development of this game. Eventually people will begin to give up and forget all about it. I’m not saying the idea is bad or anything, it’s a good idea but to me it feels overly cluttered and not enough space.
Edit: It’s obvious no reviewers has gotten any good feed back on their complaints just the generic response, why even respond? If you’re not even going to listen to your players. Hopefully no one is actually spending any real money on this game. I clearly see it failing, maybe no now maybe not tomorrow but I do see it failing especially if you’re not considering your players requests. I’ve seen reviews from months ago pretty much the same as me, and the game was updated a week ago and nothing has changed.Show lessaspeaks25
Developer Response
Hello and thank you for the feedback! We are always listening to our players, but it takes time to introduce new mechanics and other changes to the game. In fact, a lot of requests were completed and are available for the players to take advantage of. We hope for your patience and undertstanding.Another Good GI Game
Update: As I’ve gone up in levels (I’m at 21), the game starts to seem pretty unbalanced. Many tasks ask for the same product, so you have one factory working all the time and nothing for other factories to do. Also, the “tools” that you need to upgrade warehouses and open lands are totally out of whack. You’ll get a ton of one kind that you don’t need, and then very few of another kind that you need in a bunch of different places. It’s a shame, because overall I really like the game.
GI graphics and game play are really nice, and this game is quite entertaining. You can play it totally free, but it will move a lot slower. I’m not opposed to paying money now and again, and I like games where I don’t have to, but I can when I want to hurry things up. So far I’m still fairly low; most GI games really start to bog down when you get to higher levels; hopefully this won’t follow that pattern.
The only thing that sticks in my craw about this game are the surprise boxes you have to pay for. I will not ever spend gems to open those boxes, in any game. It’s not worth the gems, and it’s a very tired concept for all games. When real money is involved, straightforward trades are better every time.Show lessMCQR
Developer Response
We’re always thankful for any constructive criticism with detailed explanations of flaws or bugs. Thank you for your honest opinion and feedback!
