# Lake Kindred Origin — user reviews > 66 indexed App Store user reviews of Lake Kindred Origin by Gaia Interactive Inc., rated 4.69/5 from 1,427 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lake-kindred-origin/id1398702135/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lake-kindred-origin/id1398702135.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,128 · 4★ 185 · 3★ 65 · 2★ 16 · 1★ 19 ## What do users think of Lake Kindred Origin? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🌳 Relaxing and calming atmosphere - 💕 Cute and adorable kin designs - 🎶 Soothing music and sound effects **Cons** - 🐢 Extremely slow progression and difficulty spike - 💰 Excessive paywall and lack of free progression - 🐛 Recurring bugs and loading issues - 🤔 Lack of meaningful gameplay and interaction **Commonly reported bugs** - Infinite loading screen issue - Offline earnings not working properly - Inconsistent math and skill calculations **Most requested features** - Connect to Gaia Online accounts - Add mini-games and more interactive features - Improve progression balance and rewards - Introduce more frequent content updates ## Newest reviews (19 of 66) ### 4/5 — Super cute and chill game! 10/10 sprite artwork *2026-04-11, version 1.6* I know it’s a long shot, but I really hope they update this game! It seems like it’s been abandoned for years (couldn’t find anything on rolling bunnies or team kindred). It’s not pay to win at all, but to get more crystals for specific fruits you do have to spend money, but the worst part is that the payment option just gets stuck on a loading screen 🥺 I WOULD HAVE PAID LIKE 30$ BY NOW IF IT WORKED, I JUST WANT TO COLLECT ALL THE FOXES PLEASE!! ### 4/5 — Fun but *2023-05-14, version 1.6* I wish there was a way to connect it to your own Gaia account and collect these in lake kindred. ### 3/5 — Just alright. *2022-10-15, version 1.6* This game is just like any other idle game, but there are too many useless information, and it takes way too long to upgrade to the next stage. Useless information include kin element: although it has nothing to do with the game mechanics at all (no bonuses if you put them together in a garden, or added effect when you collect a certain amount…) The game is also really really slow to progress. Although the style of the game is cute and pleasing to the eyes, the gameplay is slow and torturous as it requires a huge amount of life just to upgrade to the next stage. A good idle game to reference would be Abyssrium with its moderately paced game with lots of relevant unlockables and hidden content. ### 4/5 — Cute and fun but.. *2022-07-25, version 1.6* Super cute Kin, super relaxing, love the little pedestals you can display Kin on 🥰 my only problem is the jump in difficulty from green to blue fruits and how hard it is to level anything after level 50. It’s not a pay wall but it is a huge spike in difficulty and length of time you can actually enjoy the game without going afk for hours to collect currency. I agree with a few other ratings saying there needs to also be a way to earn a few gems here and there to be able to buy things like rare gold fruit, boosts, and extra slots. If everything is so expensive (slots 100, fruit 60) please at least let us earn our way up to those without paying. ### 4/5 — super adorable but unplayable now :( *2021-10-12, version 1.6* as someone who has played a lot of cute lil idle collector type games, I don’t necessarily have any complaints about the lack of gameplay or anything, as I like the idea of being able to check up on my tree and upgrade what I can and return to whatever I’m doing otherwise and it’s a cozy break from whatever chaos my day may have lol (*´∀｀*) though it wouldn’t hurt to have mini game functions to increase player screen time! however, the problem I do have is as some other reviews have also mentioned, after playing for some time the loading screen becomes infinite and you can no longer play the game without deleting it and downloading it again, thus restarting your progress :// so now it’s just sitting in my apps untouched because I don’t wanna lose my progress but can’t use it either! of course I know this wasn’t intended and is simply a bug but it’s definitely a pretty major one, so I thought I’d make sure to pile this review onto the other ones! wonderful game otherwise, but please please fix this! ### 4/5 — It's pretty alright *2021-09-27, version 1.6* I like the game, it's calming and overall nice but I feel like it's too hard to collect different kin. I keep getting the same kin over and over again and they even max out their levels just from me opening fruit. Another thing is, is that there is nothing else to do in the game but to sit and wait for your fruit to ripen. It would be nice if you decrease some of the kin probabilities and give something else to do ### 4/5 — Please update!! *2021-09-17, version 1.6* This game is really cute and sweet but the third tier takes forever to reach. Please make it more simple to reach and make more activities with the pets, like playing with them or giving them a home ### 3/5 — TEN MINUTES 😡 *2021-06-13* I was clicking on the seed for atleste TEN MINUTES!!! 😡 and I didn’t even get ANY kins!!! soOoOoOoo... LET ME GET THESE ADORABLE CUTE CREATURES!!! 😡🥺 ### 3/5 — Cute but not what I wanted/expected *2021-05-17, version 1.6* I have a gaiaonline account and I assumed this game was linked or tied together where I could use my currently captured and raised kindreds. This is a cute game, color and graphics, etc, but not what I wanted. If you someday decide to tie people’s Gaia online account, then I’ll most likely download and play it. ### 3/5 — Change *2021-04-02, version 1.6* The mute button should also mute the evolving sound ### 3/5 — Fun BUT *2021-02-21, version 1.6* Takes too long progression is a snails pace slowed down even more. Even using ads to double my profits from offline play won’t get me to the next fruit after the orange one because you can’t gain money fast enough. I’ve been playing for about 2-3 weeks and I’ve yet to make “250C” worth of money like that’s, sad. I’d like to see the new kins and such but looks like that’ll take over a year just to get to that point -_- ### 3/5 — has potential *2021-02-02, version 1.6* this game is almost perfect. its just too simple. there should be more ways to decorate and things to do. ### 3/5 — 17 hour starter fruits *2021-01-25, version 1.6* I have been playing without wifi the past few nights and turned on wifi to play today... The 2.5 minute starter fruits will now take 17 hours for some reason, and presumably give me common kins. Not sure how on earth they managed that kind of coding mistake but doesn’t bode well ### 3/5 — Art is cute but progress is really slow *2021-01-24, version 1.6* Like the title the art is quite cute imo but once you try to progress at the 3rd Lvl is unbearably slow and at the point tapping gain less than overtime point gain. Honestly its a shame not able to get like haft of the cute animals unless you pay 1-2$ for one egg or wait idk like 2-3 weeks xD maybe longer. Hope to see the game improve. ### 3/5 — Game is frozen *2021-01-10, version 1.6* Okay, this game is amazing. Right off the bat I can say that. It's beautiful, it has lovely creatures, art, and music. That's not my problem. My problem is, I've been playing and collecting for months, and then, as of a few days ago, the game stopped loading. I would open the game, and it would get to the loading part and never stop loading. I've tried offloading and reinstalling, but it still won't work. I have plenty of storage as well. I really, really don't want to uninstall and reinstall and lose all my progress when there's a risk it may STILL not work. I waited a few days, but the issue didn't fix itself that way either. Please, PLEASE, is there any way this can be fixed? Edit: It's frozen again. I didn't even make it as far as I did last time - I redownloaded this game after deleting it out of frustration since the review above, and it broke AGAIN just now and won't get off the loading screen no matter what I do. Deleting the app again and feeling really disappointed. Wish this would get fixed, a really do, because I love this game otherwise. But when I can't play, there's no point in keeping it. ### 4/5 — At first, it was a bit confusing. *2020-05-15, version 1.6* First of all, I’d like to say.. it’s a really great game. Nice art.... peaceful gameplay. It’s something you can come back to. Buuuuut..... at first it’s a bit confusing. The game doesn’t really give you a tutorial. ### 2/5 — Enormous Paywall *2020-05-04, version 1.6* Fun for a couple weeks, then the amount of income is nowhere near high enough to afford to get any upgrades. Have checked in every day for months and it’s clear that to upgrade anything, I’ll need to spend money. You can do better. ### 4/5 — Great idea but here’s how to improve: *2020-04-16, version 1.6* 1. Collecting money when you’re offline 2. Allow kin breeding for more fun and variety 3. Needs more things to do, look at old mobile game tree world as example for ideas ### 4/5 — art style... *2020-04-02, version 1.6* love it! but the art style is confusing. commit to the pixel art! when the fruit doesn’t match the kins its distracting and ugly. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Paywall *2022-07-11, version 1.6* Honestly it was okay until you get to a certain but and you hit a pay wall.. I haven’t even hatched the last 2 “free” eggs because it takes forever to earn money? Points? Souls? Either way it takes way to long like y’all clearly need a prestige option to start over or something because this game isn’t worth spending money on lol ### 1/5 — Stopped monster galaxy for this? *2020-12-28, version 1.6* I would like to play monster galaxy not this garbage but monster galaxy has disappeared off the face of the earth downloadable nowhere and it’s upsetting to see games I grew up with disappear so to see this with worse graphics is upsetting because they could of put the effort in to monster galaxy not this ### 1/5 — Not worth my time *2020-03-11, version 1.6* You can tap on the tree to get seeds but it’s only worth while to get you through the first few levels, then becomes inconsequential. You collect cute little animals and display them, but WHY do they have elements when the “game” doesn’t even explain them? You can level them up but for what reason?!?! Why do they need XP? There is literally no goal in this app, no reason to collect or raise the kin other than to get more life per second. ### 1/5 — In serious need of re-balancing *2019-10-08, version 1.6* Update on Oct 8, 2019: Been still playing this almost everyday, loading it up once or twice. Maxed out the forest but impossible to max out the tree because only max level Extra Rares & Epic kins can move the bar. No new Extra Rare or Epic kins from the 2-hour fruit for months. Game is only good for players that want to keep throwing money at the game or just want progress to move slower than a snail for an eternity. Please examine how idle and clicker titles are supposed to work before making another one. Uninstalling. ==================== Original review: Been playing this since it appeared on the App Store about 2 months ago. I load up the game at least twice every day to collect fruits, use boosts, collect EXP and level up kins, but the tree has been at level 53 and the little garden for the creatures is at level 68 for weeks now. This is thanks to the abysmally slow rate of progression. Everything requires numbers in the C range to level up even once but auto-tapping only gives ~256A. I already have many maxed out critters and manually tapping is beyond useless. I get that there are premium kins which, I guess, will improve the life generation speed, but players shouldn't need to pay to play to progress the game at a sane speed. ### 1/5 — Stuck *2019-07-15, version 1.6* I’ve been stuck on tree level 86 for over six months. This game has nice music and art, but this issue coupled with the fact it’s near impossible to get any of the kins after green fruits, makes it lose the appeal of the users to keep playing. I /want/ to keep this game, but there’s no incentive. No way to earn crystal besides finding new kin, and at this stage in the game, I’ll find one in the span of a month or two if I’m lucky? Something needs to be done about this game. ### 1/5 — This is not a game. *2019-03-07, version 1.6* Are they Seriously calling this a strategy game??? I'm constantly left wondering what do you do, and what's the point of this monster collecting "game" (if you can even call it that). After leveling up your tree a few times, it's better to NOT be active and just turn off and leave it for hours or days, for it to get anywhere, than to actually try to make any real effort to progress. If this is a game, it's just a waiting game... very dull, pointless, might as well watch paint dry, or grass grow. No strategy or thought is involved in this to play (neither does it look like much thought was put in, to make it), no anything. Creatures are there to just stand around and look pretty. That's all this game has. A pretty cover, blank pages, and that's it. No wonder the community side of this game is dead already when you go look it up. ### 1/5 — BORING *2018-10-19, version 1.04* I WISH I could give it a -5 stars. This is soooooo freaking boring. Absolutely nothing to do. Complete waste of time. Literally there's NOTHING to do. You watch ads to double your coins, grow a kin and it sits on a rock. That's it. This is what gaia devs do instead of creating a FULLY FUNCTIONAL moblie app for their website. Not very smart or creative. Lazy is actually the word for them. ### 2/5 — No Gameplay and Abandonware *2022-04-25, version 1.6* There’s absolutely nothing to do. Its not offensive or bad. There’s no gameplay, the active tapping is pointlessly slow (you earn a tiny fraction of what you do by just idling and you can’t just rapid tap either), the idle gives basically nothing, and there’s nothing to spend currency on. The game has been abandoned for years. It’s the bare minimum to be called a “game”. The game also expects you to spend $100 on it. ### 2/5 — Have to pay to finish *2021-03-13, version 1.6* I was doing so well and was pretty content. I had just started to hatch green fruit on the regular with the intent to try and collect all Kin without spending real money. Until I saw there was Kin that only came from gold fruit. How do you get Gold fruit? By spending real money. And who was to say you would get a new Kindred each time? I could be spending my money just to get repeats. No thank you. Swiftly deleted the app. ### 2/5 — So so *2020-12-07, version 1.6* I don’t really want to criticize but I wish the kin were in 3D and there was a little more gameplay than tapping a screen that’s just me though ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Suggestion *2023-01-16, version 1.6* I love the game but I think it would be nice to be able to see how much your creatures were generating ### 5/5 — Yes *2021-09-07, version 1.6* Yes ### 5/5 — Amazing And Relaxing Game! *2021-05-29, version 1.6* This game is so beautiful and relaxing. The visuals are calm and cool, although some of the kin animations can use a little work. The music reminds me of walking through the forest alone at night, a nice feeling, if you will. The designs are so cute and pretty, like treats to the eyes. With a little tweaking and fixing, this game would be perfect. ### 5/5 — My game isn’t working *2021-05-21, version 1.6* Well I love this game but for me it just suddenly stopped working it got stuck on the offline earnings and when I reset the app it now gets stuck on the loading screen Please fix this! ### 5/5 — How to evolve *2020-12-26, version 1.6* It’s good but how can we evolve kins ### 5/5 — Awesome and beautiful! *2019-07-01, version 1.6* I highly recommend!! PLEASE add more kin!! ### 5/5 — I’m new *2019-04-13, version 1.6* It’s really great so far! ### 5/5 — Its Awesome so Far *2019-04-07, version 1.6* This game is so Kawaii the Kins are so cute.❤️ ### 5/5 — Needs perks *2019-03-21, version 1.6* Love so far Please add the double type things most other clickers offer. Make it less expensive to upgrade the trees. Give us more free places forour kin in world ### 5/5 — Just got this game, please fix monster galaxy *2019-03-08, version 1.6* As funny as this sounds, I really don't care about this game. I'm just leaving a comment in the hopes that you'll see it. I was just asking if there's any way you can update monster Galaxy and/or monster Galaxy Exile so they can be played on the newer IOS. If they can, that'd be great. Thanks! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*