Yeah, this game is pretty terrible. It advertises itself as an idle game, but you can only acquire offline resources for TWO HOURS. That’s not even enough time to sleep. There is a way you can increase the idle time but not until way later into the game. After you’ve collected a bunch of fossils and you buy an HQ room that permanently increased the idle time a bit. But c’mon, TWO HOURS right off the bat??? That’s a terrible starting point. Not only that but the way the game works is rather strange.
I’ve literally only been playing this game for a few hours and there is a birth rate and a death rate for dinos. Somehow, for whatever reason, as you progress later into the game, the death rate is HIGHER than the birth rate RIGHT off the bat when buying your first few dinos. In WHAT zoo is it more likely for an animal to die than it is for them to successfully breed? None, because they’d be shut down. If your zoo is so terribly bad at breeding a certain animal that the animal is actually more likely to die, there’s something wrong there. So already within the first few hours of playing the game there’s some things fundamentally wrong with it. I think that the death rate should be no more than half when it comes to the dinos. I like to think that in a zoo, literally in a controlled and (should be) safe environment, the odds between an animal dying or being born shouldn’t be higher than 50/50. Realistically I think that even 50/50 is too high when it comes to breeding animals in a controlled environment. Most animals in zoos live long prosperous lives and die less frequently than in the wild. Big whoop, just upgrade the birth rate a couple times, right? No. I’ve upgraded the birth rate 10 times now and it’s put me back several hundred thousands of dollars and they still die instead of breed. The easiest way to fix this is to watch a bunch of ads and then you get a small boost to the breeding rate. What’s that called, kids? A cash grab. Practically forcing us to earn them money so we can progress. Not cool. 👎🏻
Once you have 50k you can open one trade slot and you can trade one kind of dino every FOUR HOURS. And if you want to unlock another slot, it’s a whopping ONE MILLION? How did it go from 50k to one million? It’s obvious that the economy in this game is rigged and is meant to force you to spend real life money or watch several ads in order to progress at a decent pace.
To earn money from visitors at your zoo you can do things like upgrade the drink station. That’s one of the first upgrades available right off the bat, and guess how much it boosts your income per visitor? 0.02¢. Yup, less than ONE cent. Less than HALF a cent. How many visitors do you get per the first bathroom upgrade? 5. I think right off the bat the game is setting you up for failure. Since when is a drink at a zoo less than one cent?
Let’s just say you keep playing. You buy enough upgrades that you unlock the Information Kiosk that earns you 0.12¢ per visitor. A little over a dime. How much will it cost you for that first upgrade? 50k. Spend 50k for 10¢ aye? The earnings might actually be worth it if I didn’t have to sit and stare at the screen for hours waiting for it to accumulate because I can only get 2 hours worth of offline resources at the moment.
People are talking about how this isn’t an “easy idle game” and that you have to “put the work in”. What work? Sit around and wait with my screen on constantly KILLING my battery the whole time until I put 100mil worth of coins into my zoo so I can sell it for only 20 fossils? You call sitting around and staring at your phone “putting the work in”??? Every second that I am away from the app writing this review I am losing money. Hard work isn’t sitting and waiting for money to accumulate. Lol. However, I will say that more TIME needs to be dedicated to this game to make decent progress. But again, I wouldn’t call that “hard work”.
You can sell your zoo once it’s worth 100mil for fossils. You use these to unlock permanent buildings that boost your zoo. You only get 20 fossils for a zoo worth 100mil. So I’m going to spend the equivalent or more of 100mil on my zoo for only 20 fossils? Well, if that isn’t enough for you, no big deal, you can earn 25 fossils, 5 more fossils than before, if your zoo is worth ONE BILLION. If you sell your zoo for 10x more than 100mil, then you can earn 0.2x more fossils. So, 100mil for 20 fossils and 1 billion for 25? Why not just sell your zoo for 100mil 10 times and get 20 fossils each time and end up with 200 fossils? Why would that even be an option? It’s idiotic in terms of financial management.
Skip this one, guys. There are better idle tycoon zoo games out there. Like Happy Safari (they have prehistoric animals). Or Disco Zoo.
Let’s talk about how visually displeasing and boring this game is to the eyes. I, for one, LOVE pixelated art. Hence the two previous games I mentioned who do it much better. Don’t get me wrong, the dinosaurs are very detailed with all the little pixels. But it’s the lack of animation that makes the game visually a bore. The only thing animated really is the dinosaurs that kinda bop up and down, sometimes open their mouth. Things like that. Other than the flames on the little torches at the front of the zoo that wiggle a bit. Only the dinos and the torch flames move. The trees don’t move, the water surrounding the island doesn’t move, there are no visitors roaming the island, no clouds moving or birds flying over head, the entire island is seemingly dead. Zoomed out really far the dinos in the enclosure are really small and you can barely even notice them moving at all. So for the most part the game just looks dead.
I do still encourage work on this game. I believe it has the potential to be great. But it seems to me that its unfinished at this time. I realize this game is new, but I personally would not have released this game in its current state what with its fundamental issues
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