Fantastic game, with one caveat
The game itself is awesome. The concept, the execution, the UI, the breadth of avenues to play the game in a variety of ways (mini-games, so to speak). It’s a GREAT game. The AI renovation is a little wonky at times (I asked it to reno a dining room that was an empty space clearly meant for a dining room; it put a pool table in the room in one photo and a living room in another photo of the same room). Regardless of these minor setbacks, the AI creates a lot of cool rooms and does a good job of not subtracting major things from the original picture (like removing a window that was supposed to be there from the original picture)
My main gripe is the inevitability of having to buy a subscription for the convenience of collecting passive income from houses you’ve purchased. I understand it shouldn’t be free, cause that wouldn’t be fair to the developers who did a great job building this game and want to continue improving it. Having said that, when you reach a certain point, collecting incoming from each neighborhood in each city becomes a very cumbersome task. Does a feature like this really need to be locked behind the paywall of a yearly subscription? Perhaps they explore a one time purchase price? Or even just add an option to watch an advertisement to collect all at once in a city and limit the availability of these ads to 2 per day and they can be used at the players discretion? Or maybe they even add other ways that you can advance yourself faster (3x multipliers on tasks, more frequent travel pass access, increased team contribution scoring as a premium member so your team has a better chance to hold territories, etc.)
I’m not advocating for a game bogged down in ads because I really appreciate the fact that this one does not do that, but it feels like there is only so much progress you can make before it becomes entirely pay-to-win/pay-to-advance. That makes it a game that’s pretty easy to walk away from when that fork in the road comes.
My main gripe is the inevitability of having to buy a subscription for the convenience of collecting passive income from houses you’ve purchased. I understand it shouldn’t be free, cause that wouldn’t be fair to the developers who did a great job building this game and want to continue improving it. Having said that, when you reach a certain point, collecting incoming from each neighborhood in each city becomes a very cumbersome task. Does a feature like this really need to be locked behind the paywall of a yearly subscription? Perhaps they explore a one time purchase price? Or even just add an option to watch an advertisement to collect all at once in a city and limit the availability of these ads to 2 per day and they can be used at the players discretion? Or maybe they even add other ways that you can advance yourself faster (3x multipliers on tasks, more frequent travel pass access, increased team contribution scoring as a premium member so your team has a better chance to hold territories, etc.)
I’m not advocating for a game bogged down in ads because I really appreciate the fact that this one does not do that, but it feels like there is only so much progress you can make before it becomes entirely pay-to-win/pay-to-advance. That makes it a game that’s pretty easy to walk away from when that fork in the road comes.
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Aateall77
Response from developer
this is a fantastic review, thank you. the dining room example is super helpful for improving ai reno quality, and the ad-based collect-all idea is a good one that i'm passing to the team. would love to dig in more: ankith@closingtheory.com
Hammers
This game is fun and a cool idea but it is really annoying how long renovations and even selling a house takes like 4 hours. If it would take less time or give more oppurtunites to skip the time by watching ads then I would give this game a 5 stars. Please consider cutting the time down or give more options to watch ads to skip the time instead of just getting 2 per day.
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Kk44ack
So much fun
Great way to stay up on the market and have fun doing it.
DDrawmesomething
Absolutely love
I absolutely love this game. There’s literally NO ADS unless you WANT to watch them to get stuff. It’s fun, I wish there was more challenges like design wise but it’s really a good game.
CChieyenne73
Love the game.. ADDICTIVE
Nice game love seeing the houses and competing. I wish it was some type of back ground music like some “elevator music” type thing I spend so much time in the cities and it’s just too quiet at times while I’m making important decisions lol.. but this game is for you if your into renovations, purchases homes and competing! I may be crazy but I could have sworn we had a day break before the new challenges start lol. Maybe not but can we it’s a battle 24/7 no time to breathe so addicted lol.
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