I'm not usually a gamer, but I stumbled upon My Hotpot Story and found it quite enjoyable. I've been playing it for months now, and while leveling up was slow, I found there were enough daily tasks to keep me engaged. The option to watch ads and earn diamonds was helpful, especially for the little arcade game that rewarded me with training books. However, the recent update has removed the option to watch ads for diamonds, making it almost impossible to progress without spending actual money. As a result, I find myself bored and resorting to changing furniture back and forth just to pass the time and because of how much I love(d) this game. This seems like a greedy move by the developers, especially considering that the majority of players are kids who likely won't spend money on the game. I agree with other recent reviews, particularly the detailed one by StrawberryroseG, and urge the developers to revert to the previous system. If they do, I'd be happy to rate the app five stars. Until then, it has become a disappointment. Additionally, it would be very helpful if they're also active on social media regarding news and updates. They only have 1 post on Instagram... Please fix all of this. Thanks for reading.
I love idle games. This one is a lot of fun. Easy to lvl up everything until I got to Silver3. That’s my one complaint about this game. It’s taking me forever to reach Gold. It’s the employee training books. You can only get so many a day. It’s been almost 2 months and I still have 370 more to go. When you lvl up someone it gives you 8 points. I think you should change how many points it gives out cause at the rate I’m gonna either get bored and delete the game or just give up. Other than me being frustrated with that, the game is enjoyable and if you have time to kill, is a good option.
The new update really wants you to spend money. The game was really great since I felt like I could progress without spending money. I’m disappointed in this new update as now it’s way harder to progress and since I’m silver 2, everything is way more expensive than it originally was. So I’m progressing slower than ever. And with the feature 1 point=1 ad, i have to watch 600 ads to get to level one of the cumulative rewards!!! And there’s only two ways you can get ads which is 1. Opening the app to collect offline rewards and doubling it by watching an ad or 2. Doubling your rewards with the lucky cat statue you get by staying in the app and waiting for 40 orders. So the quickest option is by paying for items in the app that give you points. This makes it impossible to progress in the game like I was able to before.
EDIT: Since this last update, you can’t watch ads in exchange for diamonds anymore. They reaaaally want you to expend real life cash on this game. So for that, I am knocking down one star. The game is slowly turning into a pay to win scenario. Which baffles me because each time we watch an ad to get diamonds, the devs get money so… the idea that they delete that extra income for them in the hope that people will cave in and expend RL cash, makes no sense to me. Unless they have data that we don’t have showing them that a lot of people are sinking RL cash on this.
I deleted my last review because I didn’t noticed you could hide the UI. Anyways! I love the game. I despise that after you reach silver 2 stars, the game gets considerably difficult. Every upgrade costs more and more and more (over 300,000) which makes the game a grind. We all know why this is. So you can buy microtransactions. Also I wouldn’t call this game a “game”. You hit 1-2 things and then close the game. The “game” plays itself. That’s not very entertaining now, does it? The little fish you need to upgrade dishes? Yeah, IMPOSSIBLE to get. Unless you buy them with real life money, play the lottery game which drops just 2 fish and that is if you get the fish at all. Characters don’t drop them, the create a pot creator doesn’t drop them like it does with journals to upgrade characters and getting them with points it’s expensive.
I love hotpot. And this game somehow satisfies and intensifies that cravings at the same time!!
I really enjoy upgrading my facilities and helping my little staff members with their tasks.
When you get to silver, the game progression does slow down. To progress faster, you do have the option to watch ads to get diamonds and spend on whatever resources you need. Which I don’t mind doing since the ads are not very in your face and you can choose when to do it and where to spend your rewards.
With that being said, the newest update ruined the game for me. Like I and many reviewer said, once you get to silver, it becomes increasingly difficult to level up and you’re relying on watching ads to get diamonds and spend them on resources. The new update takes away that option completely and made the game heavily reliant on ads with not worth it rewards imo. Now instead of watching ads and deciding what mini games to play to get which rewards, I feel like I have to be an ad bot to watch 600 ads to get vip1 reward of a measly one time 100 diamond.
Unless this system is changed in the future, I will no longer be playing this game.
I want to preface this by saying I love this game and I was obsessed with it when I first started playing. I think it’s so cute, and it’s so fun upgrading your restaurant and the dishes. While I love the game, I’m at a standstill right now. I’m having such a hard time leveling up from Silver 3 to Gold 1. In my opinion, it takes way too long to upgrade your service rating. I’ve been stuck at Silver 3 for literal months now. I don’t play nearly as often anymore because I can’t progress. If upgrading your service rating progressed at the same pace as upgrading your food or facility rating, I’d be able to give the game 5 stars.
Don’t get me wrong I love the game but it is very annoying how hard you have to work to get all the stuff to make a dish just for it to come up with a dish you already have and then get no points. And I mean your getting little over five or so points when you update the food so when you make a dish and it’s already something you have then you get screwed cause nothing goes up. It’s like they want you to waste your money on a chance of going nowhere and then later you have to get the fish to upgrade the food even more which isn’t cheap so you try to make dishes so you aren’t stuck then bam get the same dish after all your work makes me feel Anna not play I don’t wanna waste money getting nowhere
It’s a beautiful cute game and very entertaining and i really enjoyed it but once you hit the silver level it goes downhill fast. You take weeks and sometimes months to level up and you run out of people to hire so the only way to get your staff rating up is with training books and it takes FOREVER. You also need to buy everything in the store to get your facility rating up and i still don’t know if I’ll make it to gold. I refuse to pay for packages and this is the sort of thing that makes me abandon a game. It’s too bad because I found it very addictive and calming in the beginning and now it’s just a chore.
The game is fantastic and easy to understand to continue upgrading your cute lil restaurant. That is until you reach Bronze almost Silver 1-2, and then it’s only meet a requirement of unlocking the theater and the buffet. Which takes you to upgrade 2 almost 3 ranks to pass these. The upgrading from 15,000 facility rating to 39,000 rating takes an absolute eon and too much money with little income. Service rating is extremely difficult to upgrade because of the train books which is only acquired by the mini game and redeeming them (just farm diamonds). Food rating is the most annoying and tedious part of them all, for it has duplicates at times. Lastly, the the cooldown on the flavor trees is exceedingly irritating. The tap on the trees 10 time, then wait 3 minutes to 60 minutes is an additional barrier with the 30 energy bar of 2.5 minute cooldowns as well! Remove one of these cooldowns and maybe it could be more manageable!
I gave 3 stars bc to get to Gold 1 is impossible… I have never been so committed to a game like this one and this is a concern that is valid when playing.. I am well above the level of Silver3 in every category except staff.. Everytime I upgrade a staff member I’m only getting 6 to 10 rating points and I’m at 1800 but I need 2400.. All my other categories I’m exceeding the ratings by at least 4k or 5k.. it doesn’t make sense bc the ratings don’t compare.. it’s hard to get training books also and you can only get soo many a day and the higher the upgrade the more an upgrade costs but you don’t get an fair rating score for the effort you put into retrieving training books… I loved this game up until I realized after I advanced my characters fast just to be trumped by staff ratings.. I’m literally on Gold 2 with every other rating bc staff only gives you measly amounts of points but they require the same level as other categories.. IT NEEDS TO BE FIXED!!! Do BETTER BC NOW IM NIT GOING TI OKAY ANYMORE BC ITS POINTLESS AND IMPOSSIBLE..
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