Leave a Review Trade Island
It’s a fun game, but...
I have enjoyed playing this game immensely. My issue is that I have reached a point several times where I have to sell my upgrade materials in order to make room for stuff I’ve created. Then of course when you want to finish upgrading something you don’t have anything left of what you previously had plenty of to finish it. They have purposely created a scenario where you need to spend money in order to keep an enjoyable experience. I have a lot of patience and have played games for free for a long time but these guys are pushing my patience to the limit with selling my upgrade materials to make room, then having to wait through several days, one time two weeks of game play to reacquire the needed materials. Not everyone can afford to just buy gem deals to keep enjoying the game, but they have patience to play at their own pace. At some point if I have to sell a bunch of my upgrades again, I’m just going to delete the game and find something else that I can leisurely enjoy which is a shame since this is a really good game that I’ve told many people about.Show lessSchim7
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback! Suggestions and ideas from our players help the developers improve the game! You need to be persistent in order to get certain items. Try to carry out the required action as often as possible, and sooner or later you’ll get the item you’re looking for. There are a lot of ways to get free gems! You should complete quests and get achievements. You should join our official community to get great bonuses every Friday: https://www.facebook.com/TradeIslandGame/Decent and fun
It a decent and fun game. I like games like these where you get to build. It has pretty interesting story lines and characters. What I don’t like is the materials to upgrade are stored in your bar. With them being there it takes up way too much space. I don’t like the small island u start off with. The builds are too big for the locations and you can’t rotate the buildings either for better organization. Trying to reorder your town is completely stupid. You hav to move each building 1 by 1. make sure that you have buildings in the right areas cause you can’t see through others to know if your placing right. Another thing that I don’t care for is how low the coins your receive from rent, and if your going to keep rent so low you should have it store up from the time that your logged so that way u come into the HOURS worth of rent then just that simple time u logged into it.Show lessDreamer 24
Still New
Okay, everyone. I’m still very new to this game. I just downloaded it yesterday. However, I’m greatly enjoying the format of the game. I’m a very picky gamer, I get bored quickly and cycle through games because of it. I was beginning to feel like I’d played all the good games in the App Store to their fullest potential (by that I mean I played them for, like, two days and then got bored) until I downloaded this game. It has kept me entertained in the few free moments I have during the day, but I don’t have so many active quests that I feel drowned and give up on those. It has a lovely balance of “pay attention to me” and “live your life!” My only struggle so far has been making room for all of the things I’m building and having enough resources to acquire. I imagine those kinks will work themselves out as I expand my little island.
Altogether, this game may not be perfect for everyone, but I’m VERY pleased to have found it when I did.Show lessDearMeridian
Developer Response
Hello! Thank you for your review. Enjoy the game!I love it but…
Now I absolutely love this game. But the reason I didn’t give it five stars is just because of one thing! When you go to upgrade your warehouse mine went from 50 to 60 and it fills so fast!! Now I didn’t know why, but when I looked as to why I couldn’t hold anymore after JUST upgrading it I saw that you guys put the upgrade materials in with the Goods you create. Now I honestly haven’t had a game that does that. Like, ever. And I play tons of farm games and stuff with barns you need to constantly upgrade etc. But at least in those games they keep upgrade materials in one part of the barn and they don’t stock it up with the goods you make to hurt you when trying to grab stuff you made to finish orders. Like, I had to sell a TON of my upgrade stuff so I could finish orders to make more money to use those materials in order to upgrade places but that hurt me because now I don’t have those upgrade materials anymore because I HAD to sell them to have space. But that’s the ONLY thing I suggest you guys fix. I get to upgrade the warehouse I honestly do but you shouldn’t stock your goods you make with your upgrade materials. Like the fruits you get aren’t in the same part of the warehouse as the materials you should put the goods we make in that part so it won’t hurt you when you need to upgrade or finish orders. But other than that great work!Show lessLuthiel92
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback! Suggestions and ideas from our players help the developers improve the game!Needs lots of improvement
Fun game overall. Nice graphical update coming from Tribez which is nice. However, there’s no rotating buildings which is a HUGE minus for me as well as building sidewalks not matching up which makes them look weird. I can already tell they designed this game in a way that almost makes you purchase in game currency since I can’t even break 500 gold (which some things are already costing 1300). I’ll most likely be deleting game and come back later to see if any updates have come out. As of right now, the other farming and city building games are much more generous with their currencies.
Also, $8 for an extra worker is a little steep I think. And the fact that I have to pay gems to open a gift give to me by “friends” is absurd and was the straw that broke the camels back. Hoping to see some improvements, updates and for the devs to be a tad less greedy.Show lessitsjewlian
Absolutely Love It
I love the graphics & how entertaining the game is. I only gave 4 stars out of 5 because I would love if I could rotate the objects that I’m able to move around in different directions. It would also be wonderful if I were able to interact with neighbors who also play this game to ask for help with goods to complete missions. And it would be better if I was given an option to store items that I buy for a later use of them vs having to sell them & repurchase when needed again. Other than that it’s my #1 game to play!Show lessJBoo52
GREAT GAME!
Let me start with the good things about this game. It’s a fun game. Storyline is fun. Characters make me chuckle especially the battle between two bakery owners. Great graphics, no ads, no “you gotta connect to Facebook” or “get connected with your friends”. I get to play independently and I love that.
I love this game so much I forget to do the things I gotta do in real life lol
I actually don’t really have bad things to say. I do have some requests though.
I would love to be able to rotate the buildings as I wish.
I would love to have “storage” function where I can store buildings and other miscellaneous things. Right now, I’m trying to move things around the city so I can make enough space for new buildings to spend the tools in my City storage, but I have to demolish the existing buildings to create new buildings and that’s a little frustrating.
Other than that, this is seriously one of the best cell phone game that I have ever played!! I really thank the developers for creating such a fun game :)Show lessZo3Da4
Running out of money quickly 😡
I have just started my game and I am already running out of money so quickly. The things that the islanders request are easy to afford but then they ask to frequently. Some of the items that they want I don't have yet and I have to build a store. If I do have the store and I run out of materials it cost diamonds. This is starting to happen to me a lot already in my first 20mins of playing. And it's not just 1 diamond it cost it cost, 6, 12 etc. I was really looking forward to this game since one of my favorite YouTubers promoted it
(Fredo and Jass) this was a downfall to me and I was expecting more!
Although on the bright side the storylines add a great twist to the story. But in those storylines I have to add more buildings and more of those buildings take up some room so I don't know where to put them. 3/5 is the best I can give you I'd like to see some more improvements on the game.Show lessAbuk1970
Developer Response
Thanks for the comment! We take all feedback seriously because it helps us make the game better.Fun but needs improvement
Lets start with the good; the graphics are great, the story lines are fun, and it's an easy go as you please game that doesn't pressure you. I really enjoy interacting with the guests and having"conversations" with them. I love that there isn't an abundance of ads, there are a few but it's very manageable.
Now the "bad"; there is no order to the events, They are kind of all over the place. You don't always have the money, materials or space to complete the tasks you are asked to do. Currently I am stuck on a few missions; upgrade the houses, build a house for a new resident, build some businesses but I can't build the businesses because I lack the materials and money and I can't upgrade the houses/build a house because I don't have enough population (which I could increase if I could build the businesses) it's like I'm stuck in this catch 22. You get gifts by leveling up your relationships to the guests and they give you presents (which is nice) but I've come across one gift (that I get rather frequently) where I'm expected to pay 6 diamonds to "unwrap" the gift. I don't know about you but having to pay for a gift just isn't right.
Improvements I'd make; There needs to be a centralized list of all tasks, an easier way to gain tools/make money because 4/5 coins per house just isn't very helpful.Show lessSparklySp
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback! We’re always thankful for any constructive criticism with detailed explanations of flaws. Suggestions and ideas from our players help the developers improve the game!Great BUT
I love the game, don’t get me wrong. But #1. I do hope you can rotate the houses to how you want it - it’s only facing one way. #2. There are gifts that you have to pay crystals to open - isn’t a “gift” supposed to be free? #3. What about other option for roads? Dirt road is a little too simple for me. #4. Is there any option to add neighbors? That’s it from me for now, I’ll be back when I see some progress or a new suggestion.
EDIT: Okay, I just reached level 18 and the dirt road changed into highway. Doesn’t look like a real “highway” roads but it’s better than dirt road, I guess. So, aside from concerns #1, 2, & 4, game is good and fun!Show lessdy3rika
