Leave a Review Pikmin Bloom
helped motivate me
I’ve gotten out of the house more and now my family goes on walks together. My mom loves the app and gushes over how cute the pikmin are. Whenever we go somewhere we always plant flowers together and destroy mushrooms together. It’s a lot of fun to bond as a family over this while also being active. I get excited to go on walks because I can get my steps in and grow a new buddy!
Only thing I wish they add is more decor pikmin in the future, a way to get more blue nectar, or a way to cash out nectar and petals if they’re full. I’ve come across that if you go on challenges but don’t walk and plant flowers constantly you’ll quickly stockpile 200 of each red, yellow, and white petals and nectar, but hardly any blue. I get at most 4 blue nectar and I’m not sure why.
I look forward to any updates!Show lesseggless egg
I’m in love with this game! A bug that’s been bugging me though…
I cannot stress how grateful I am for past me downloading Pikmin Bloom. I was at a point in my life where I was just looking for any motivation to get my legs moving, and boy did this deliver. I’ve been playing since early November and I’m so overjoyed with the improvement in my quality of life.
That being said, one of my favorite features of the app is that it has a daily logbook. It motivates me to take nice pictures and fill it like a tiny scrapbook. BUT… there seems to be an issue with keeping the images. I’ll upload an image and attach a caption, but after a week (or sometimes just a few days) the image gets deleted and only the caption remains. I’ll reupload the images every now and then, but it doesn’t last super long before they get deleted again (strangely enough, the caption sticks around; it’s just the image which goes missing.)
I LOVE Pikmin Bloom. I am so eager to keep growing my pikmin family and keep getting out there and exploring. I just want this little issue to be resolved so that I can look back on my daily logs and not scratch my head at wherever the images went lol. I don’t delete them from my phone, so why do they go missing after a while?Show lessHelloPrincessMoody
This is definitely good enough
This game is awesome, I’m really addicted. It doesn’t help that I love going outside and walking in nature. Gives me more reason to do so. The only complaints I have is that it has a plethora of bugs and visual glitches. These will be fixed with time though. My other complaint though, is that the coins are too difficult to get. You have to consecutively plant 500 flowers without stopping to receive 1 coin. The cheapest thing in the shop is 50 coins (50 white flower petals). That means, that in order to afford this relatively easy item to obtain, you would need to plant 25,000 flowers, or about 60,000 steps. The coin system needs some serious balancing. Otherwise, this game is wonderful, and unlocking each color makes walking the most addicting thing ever. I’m 5 weeks in and I have about 309,000 steps in total. I’m already level 30 and I am in love with this game
I do recommend, for all agesShow lessJahrfyre
Great concept, but a really long way to go
I just tried to add a note for the past day. It was limited to 300 characters and that was basically nothing to use it as a dairy. The note would be folded in the journal, too, so I think it’s definitely possible to allow multiple entries or a longer entry. I personally really like the concept, but sadly the map is pinned to your location so you can only see the flowers around you. Can there be a button that you can see the whole map, though might limited to 5 miles around you, or limited to the flowers that only you planted? I don’t like that you have to start a session in order to have your flowers planted. I think the app encourages people to take sessions of walking (fast walking, running, etc.) instead of the general walking steps. The flower planting is time-centered instead of distance/step-centered. I feel like there are not many things that you can do in the game. The flowers planted during a session were not even even if you are walking with a steady speed.
Update: today I found that part of the flowers I planted disappeared from the map… wowShow lesstheeeetreeeeee
Good game but could use more
It’s a fun game and I like playing it since I feel too late to join the Pokémon Go train. However, I would like to see more mechanics added to it, as it feels less addicting than finding Pokémon to collect. Maybe adding a mechanic like you have to gauge the timeframe to send Pikmin out on expeditions so that they arrive before sunset, otherwise they risk being eaten by monsters, like in the Pikmin games. Or like have some stops include puzzles for you to figure out with your Pikmin or surrounding players. Maybe places that have more flowers planted within them get special bonuses. I’d like to see more different types of Pikmin and for earning coins to be easier to actually buy items like the slots in the shop because I have so many seeds to plant. Just feels like it needs more. Thinking more incentive to collect or compete like Pokémon Go or more little things to do, more details added, similar to a life sim like Animal Crossing. I hope the devs read this and it doesn’t get lost in the sea of reviews.Show lessanmue777
First app to make walking fun
This app has finally gotten me excited to walk and be active. I was pulled in as I was previously a huge Pikmin fan, and while this wasn’t what I was expecting, I’m glad that the app is the way it is. I have tried Pokémon go in the past, and while it’s fun, I never felt like I had to walk anywhere or play. I could simply open up the game at the house, catch a few Pokémon, and be done. When I did try to play while walking I had to constantly look at my phone. Pikmin Bloom is different in that most of the time you’ll start planting flowers and then put the phone away and just enjoy your walk. Then, once you’ve finished, you can check in and see what new items you’ve found, which new Pikmin you’ve grown, and if you’ve leveled up. A perfect companion app for walking, can’t wait to see what’s added next!Show lessChord Lord
Good but major problem
So as a father most of my walks are with my kids or I enjoy a bike ride. Both seem to be a problem so let’s start with the first. When I go for a walk with my kids I use a stroller, this isn’t properly counting my steps or just not counting them at all (I assume this is because it’s assuming I’m in a car or something?). The next problem is bike ride, when I go on a bike ride I throw my phone in my backpack where it assumes I’m driving and also doesn’t calculate even my distance at this point. I really like this app but there are randomly spots on my map which can only be from when I took a break from riding my bike and the app decided that only that counts. Let me iterated that this app is quite enjoyable but these minor flaws missed me out on my badge today which minor, is quite upsetting. Hopefully next community day the app will consider stroller walking or bike rides as a common way to transport! Thank you!Show lessOoshma5
Play it passively for the best experience!
I’m loving this game, I just found a toothbrush Pikmin as a pet of the pharmacy collection and I was absolutely in love with the design. The step counter and day logging is fantastic and I’d love to see you expand upon that experience. It be great to see the miles walked too so I could use it as a gauge for how far I’ve gone since I’ve started a walk. I do think the friends feature needs some love. It be great if you put access to friends n the front page so it be easy to find. Maybe make a Pikmin post office and it could be coupled with your postcard collection and your “Pikmin-dex”. Also, I loved stickers in Pokémon go so it be great if you could have a sticker collection system too. It be special to have a postcard and a stamp collection and then choose which special Pikmin takes it to your friends. Maybe with stickers it can be the cost to attach a berry or two as a gift. I just really want the social features to go beyond what was in Pokémon go. I think there great. Also, it crashes whenever I open the stock camera and there’s no way to mute the music.Show lessNate88King
Can’t wait to see where it goes!
I agree with others who say in some ways this is more satisfying than Pokémon Go. I live in a rural area in a farm so unless I’m “out” there isn’t much for me to do in Go except use the AR camera or hatch eggs. But with Pikmin Bloom it’s very fulfilling to see how far I’ve walked around my farm and filling it with pretty flowers.
I really enjoy when I get to use the AR camera with amy games and I enjoy it with Bloom as well. I’ve taken some very cute pictures of my Pikmin out and about! It would be cool if they were more interactive or if you could find/buy items that they could interact with in the AR environment. One additional detail that I think would really make this app even more addicting is if the Pikmin had different personalities or anything to differentiate them and make them a little more unique.
I know it’s in the early stages though so I’m just enjoying it now and looking forward to what’s next!Show lessfloridafolk
Call me greedy, but...
The game simply doesn't reward the player enough. As someone that walks an average of 14k-18k steps a day, it baffles me that I can plant flowers for nearly 8 hours straight and get rewarded with one coin. Sometimes not even that. :(
If a planter slot costs 150 coins, and the player earns 1-2 coins a day -- don't bother with the math, because it shouldn't take more than a week to earn enough coins to get an additional planting slot; particularly since the coin planters are single-use only, unlike the Pokemon Go model of 3 uses per incubator.
The concept alone of planting flowers all over the map that other people can see is heartwarming in its own right. Pikmin are adorable, I love the little accesories (though I do wish they were a little more varied between types of Pikmin), and the music is surprisingly catchy. I want to keep playing this game! Please consider fixing the extremely sparse coin acquisition so we dedicated players can walk miles for their freemium items.Show lesscsticco
