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Deja vu is real
As extensively noted the developer has created a frustratingly obnoxious way to handicap gameplay—which these days is par the course, altho the costs do seem especially ridiculous in this particular case. Beyond that, the bonus items available are pretty much useless & the only actually desirable items aren’t even available apart from buying roulette-style spins for bonus items, meaning there’s no guarantee you can even get what you’d like—not to mention the energy handicap is really the only reason the bonus items even exist anyways. To add to yr likely frustration, the game also starts from the 5th level or so to blatantly re-use maps from earlier levels, which hardly makes it reliably fun since you’ll start to justly wonder why it looks familiar.
Obviously the level maps must have a solution so can’t be randomly created but it’s incredibly lazy & unethical for the developer to try their worst to get players to pay then turn around & not even invest in ensuring the game has sufficient unique levels to cover all its stages. There’s other issues here also such as traps that are plainly odious & impossible to totally avoid, but along with the constant ads, the game gets bogged down in unpleasant details & they pretty much negate the fun of it.Show lessGeorge Cluster
Fantastic gameplay, but there are other issues
It is confusing to me that there is no way to pay for unlimited energy. That is usually what “VIP” means; all the limits and ads are gone. But here you only slightly increase your energy max, and not with a larger one-time price but with a subscription! Not to mention the ridiculous additional option to pay multiple dollars for “unlimited” energy every two hours.
I likely would have paid for a full version of the app if that one purchase meant unlimited energy and no ads. Even if it didn’t get rid of the $.99 retry on ticket levels. But there is absolutely no way it’s worth it to get the VIP subscription or that two hour energy option.
I also don’t understand the point of the piggy bank. You can’t use the money in it, not to mention how confusing it is that it’s the same currency as what you CAN use. And what happens if you unlock it? Does the bank just go away and all coins are added to your regular coins now? There’s already a huge incentive to be watching ads and paying for energy. The piggy bank to access your own coins is bizarre.
The fact that coin-bought legendary eggs can be duplicates is also incredibly disappointing to me.
I adore the gameplay but the money system is very strange and I definitely will not be putting any money towards VIP or two hour unlimited energy.Show lessI_Blonde
The best game out there
I can say, with no doubts, that this game is one of my favorite games in apple store. I often download new games, but I delete them in a few days, or few weeks. This is the first game that I’m enjoying for so long. I’ve been playing for 3 months now. It’s getting harder which is good, because I don’t want to get bored, which happens when game doesn’t progress, and it’s the same thing all the time.
About bugs. Yes. It has some bugs that I hope they gonna fix in season 13. But overall, game is great. It’s challenging, it’s fun, it’s worth watching some videos to keep playing and earn some energy. And it’s good that you have to wait a little bit for more energy. Because you can get sick of the game very fast if you play it for 2-3 hours non stop. And those who complaints about it, guys, read a book, get active, do something in real life. Don’t be stuck in a game for 3 hours. It’s not healthy.Show lessAsya is my name
Great Deal, Excellent Nostalgic Game
I love, love this game. It’s relaxing and fun, just like the original.
Firstly, this game is not like trashy freemium games because It’s insanely fun and you CAN play it without spending money. You just have to have self control and only play 2-3 levels at a time. Freemium games make it impossible to play without spending. This game doesn’t do that at all.
That being said, I will be honest and say I myself wanted to play more levels. So I bought the subscription and my energy is 120. I think it’s like 5 bucks a month or something? It’s like the price of a cup of coffee. For something I enjoy regularly, I am willing to pay that!
Secondly, this game actually earns my subscription because it’s constantly growing and changing. The types of lemmings change seasonally and the levels feel infinite. I also love the challenge levels you get with each new tribe of lemmings. Those are my favorite.
You have to decide. Do you want to pay $50 up front so we can pay the developers to continue to keep the game engaging and bug-free, or a small subscription fee? Or.... do you want to crap all over this game and then move onto another freemium game that is far inferior to waste your time with? Nothing good is free!
I’m sticking with this one. LOVE it.Show lessMorey.stephanie
Great game ruined by greed
UPDATE: Now the game constantly crashes! That’s if it opens at all. And quit with the exploding Lemmings with blood stains! What’s wrong with you?!
ORIGINAL:
This is a great puzzle game. It’s a modern day version of the lemmings game you may have played in the 90s on a PC and it’s done well. However, the developers or other deciding beings have begun taking 1 minute advertisements. It’s just greedy and they are ruining the game. I close the game immediately when they appear. Just as bad, they allow the advertisements to override your silent mode on your device. Some of the advertisements blast at full volume despite having my phone in silent mode and also have all sounds turned off in the settings of the game itself. Advertisers probably pay extra for them to allow it to happen.
In addition the items you can purchase through in-app are massively overpriced for the items they are selling. The price for value is just not there. They need to lower the prices or put together better item bundles...they would probably sell more. The money is the always in the volume...they are greedy, they should know this.
Get rid of the 60 second advertisements!!Show lessKingKole38
Deleted it
Deleted it!! Loved this game for quite a while but when they added exient to their credits list, the game suffered. I got bored. The challenge levels are the best but you need a ticket to get there and those are super rare to get - especially when the ad-induced extra spin doesn’t work (which is more often now).
Several little things within the game just pile up to too much negativity. Starting with “sad puppy”. Also, the ‘blood’ of dead lemmings remaining on the level (a fairly new change in the game) even though you retry the level. Why? Today I opened my first egg of the new season and the subtitle read, “just die already” (or something close to that. I’ve deleted it so I can’t check). Who needs that when you play a game to escape life’s real struggles?
Shame on you, Sad Puppy. Bring something good to this world. The game play is good and building a world (like the hot cocoa or the disco/music/boom box) is super cool and imaginative - well done!! - but overall, I feel more frustrated and down when/after playing than energized and up. You bum me out. I’m don’t need that. Done.
Btw, Are the ads exient’s fault? Since exient came aboard those ads take too long to load - IF they load - and then you don’t get what you’ve been waiting for anyway! Ugh!!!Show lessdecafTea
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback, we're sorry that you've fallen out of love with the game. Your feedback will definitely be taken on board and help us make the game better for more people.Feel like a lemming, looking for the exit.
This was a good game, sacrificed to click bait advertising and tasteless character naming. I played it from the start. I feel like one of the lemmings, going through the motions only to be subjected to some cruel ending by having to watch more and more bad ads to continue, or having the game crash and losing something it took too long to earn. I understand needing to be paid in some way for your work. I will not pay money into this game. This game was hijacked from what it originally was to become a click bait revenue stream. It is obvious this game was never intended to be anything but a tasteless series of ads and pay to play surcharges. It could have been a pay to play game through purchase, actually been made to be something positive. That seems to not be the trend on app stores. The recent addition of the $1.99 piggy bank and the flying body parts when the lemmings explode is near the end of this games exploitation. Some of the lemming character names are tactless, distasteful, and personal attacks on real people. Not funny is not funny. Not fun anymore is not fun. Take a hint from the game, seek the exit.Show lessFrostbiteFalls
I was so in love.
I love this game, but not nearly as much as i did before they updated their tribes/challenge setup. Before, challenges were optional. Each lemming tribe you completed gave you rewards.
Now, those rewards require you to beat the challenges. Most just require a lot of forethought,
something you often don’t have the luxury of doing before lemmings start to die. But before you’d get rewards for completing a tribe, and for finishing Each Challenge. Now, for each lemming you finish, you need a ticket, and can face a challenge, tied to that lemming. Which for me means i can spend money collecting every lemming, but only get rewards for maybe 2-3 tribes, assuming i don’t pay more money to buy extra tickets everyday, since on average i would get 1-2 a day, and even that wasn’t really daily. If a challenge was really hard, it could easily eat five tickets while you try different approaches.
So please, please make the challenges optional again, instead of forcing people to beat four challenges for the tribe’s rewards. Really, I took two stars off because of this update.Show lessMr.ToddT
Don't bother installing
Let me start out by saying don't bother installing this game.
That said, the game play is excellent. The puzzles are engaging but not impossible, the graphics are good albiet a bit repetitive, and it captures the essence of the old PC game but adds a whole new dimension. It was easily my favorite game on my phone, but like me, you will come to hate it.
First, the game is glitchy: not the game play, but the bonuses. There will be a lot of situation where it will not award you the bonuses you've earned. This is problematic because are an integral part of progressing in the game. Second, the screen glitches sometimes if it goes sleep during an ad. You have to quit the game and restart it, losing your bonus. If these were the only issues, I'd be able to deal with them.
The biggest problem is the ads. Initially, they were 15-30 second ads between bonus windows. They gradually got longer and more obtrusive until they are now up to a full minute (or more). Now they've introduced back to back ads. I'm starting to spend more time in the ads than playing the game. On top of it all, some of the ads override the silent setting on your phone and blare their audio when you least expect it, like at work or at church. I find this development very disturbing, that an app can override the silent switch on your phone. They've taken an otherwise fun and appealing game and turned it into an ordeal. I'll be deleting the game from my phone as soon as I post this.Show lessHateLemmings
😤😡 commercials
I really enjoy playing the game, but the daggone minute long commercials, repeatedly, and cannot even mute them!!
I can deal with ads for bonus things, but commercials! I quit watching TV because I don’t like commercials. And I don’t know where y’all cone up with the “targeting” commercials. I have NO major medical issues of any kind - and continuously seeing these medication commercials is extremely annoying! This is going to be the first game I delete for commercials!!
And as far as the other ads - cool, but highly irritating when they cutoff your music and when you cannot mute them.
Other than the commercials and the odds of getting duplicates is too high (I only had one and got a duplicate), I really enjoy the game. The game itself is awesome - I can even deal with the annoyance of the ridiculously high odds for duplicates, but the commercials 😤😡 !!!Show lessangela72g
