Needle in Haystack User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience7.1% of reviews
Neutral21.4% of reviews
Negative experience71.4% of reviews

~ Based on 14 written reviews from the US App Store.

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Good app

Played for a hour or so and really liked it. It doesn’t have many instructions and I’m still lost on what to do about the conveyer belt.

Response from developer

Thanks so much for playing and for your feedback! The robot hanging on the wall will soon guide you through what to do in the game. For the Conveyor Belt, place multiple conveyors in a row and turn on the Generator. Any hay you throw onto them will automatically move to your chosen area. You’re right, though! We’ll add a proper tutorial to explain this better. Thanks again for your support!

Fun game

Played it for a bit, fun but not much for upgrades and the pitch fork glitches out sometimes, just needs more upgrades and things to use and cost lest to buy electricity

Response from developer

Thanks for your feedback! We’re aware of the Pitchfork glitch and have already fixed it, so the fix will be included in the next update. We’ll also reduce the Generator price. We’re already working on the update and aim to release improvements every 7 to 10 days. Your feedback is being heard and considered. Thanks for playing!

Lots of potential but don't download it....

This game has the potential to be a really cool game. There's no annoying tutorial which I actually kinda like. You collect hay and sell it. However, the game is "needle in a haystack" So the goal should be to find the needle. Meaning everything should be a build up to getting better equipment, sorting better and finding the needle quicker. That's polar opposite of the game.
First of all:
1) if you don't have physical money, to buy things. Most things are off limits. A lot of games money allows you to bypass having to put time in to get things. In this game, if you don't pay cash it's just not accessible.
2) you cannot upgrade the pitch fork. It collects 3 hay straws at a time. That's it, no upgrade options.
3) you have to feed your animals which adds an element to the game. But they get hungry to quickly, and once the animals are full they just continue to eat the hay so your wheel barrel is empty, some animals are fed and others are not.
4) there's only 4 options to collect hay. Your hand one by one, the pitch fork, a vacume and a sucker. The sucker is absolutely useless, it runs out of battery between 30 and 250 peices of hay. Then takes seemingly hours to recharge. Absolutly useless. The vacume is okay, but it's not able to be upgraded. There's a glitch/bug where if you go to the main hay bale in the middle of the barns it collects unlimited hay. Fastest way to get money by FAR but then there's NOTHING to buy. You can make your wheel
Barely hold More hay but it's so expensive to do so, and with a pitch fork limited only to 3 at a time... again, useless. There's a tractor but you can't use it unless you pay cash to the app... there's a conveyor belt but it's CRAZY expensive sold in SMALL sections and I'm guessing you can only feed it with the pitchfork at 3 hay straws only.. again, that's useless because to run it you need to fuel the generator at $1000 per gallon. At 3 straws per pitch fork... it's more expensive to run it. Again, useless. And you will have to fill your wheel
Barel to feed the animals so, you will need to abandon it in the middle of that so absolute waste.
5) The animals do NOTHING they just need ti be fed. Theres no
Bennifit it just makes things more difficult and annoying.
6) the compound is surrounded with clone stamped barns and animals you can't interact with. They serve no purpose.
7) again... THERES NO TOOLS BESIDES THE USELSS SUCKER, the vacume and the pitch fork. None of which is upgradeable besides the wheelbarrel and sucker but the money you pay for the upgrades by far does not pencil.....
8) so there you have it.... you collect hay, to get money. And with that money you cannnnnn.... DO NOTHING. You can't buy ANYTHING. NO tools, NO equipment. NOTHING.
Lots of potential to be really cool
Actually. There's viral needle in a haystack sorting games right now. The creators should watch those videos and take notes. Because this game is really really bad... but COULD be really really good.
Feedback for the creators:
1)Eliminate the animals or have them serve you some sort of purpose.
2)Create a lot more equipment and automation options that you can buy with money collected in the game. Bypassing upgrades with actual cash is okay... but make a lot more options and everything should be accesable without paying physical money.
3) the pitch fork NEEDS to be upgradable. That's a huge hurdle.
4) again... there needs to be stuff to buy with the hay your exchanging for money. There's zero equipment or automation so immediately the game has no purpose, nothing to try to achieve, no creativity for the user to get creative with automation equipment and streamline things.
6) if the other barns and animals have no use then eliminate them, you can't even collect hay from the other barns piles..
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Response from developer

Thank you so much for taking the time to play the game this thoroughly and write such detailed feedback. We genuinely appreciate it. Many of the issues you mentioned have already been addressed in Version 4, so we’d really encourage you to give it another try. Just to clarify one important point, there is no content lock that requires real money to complete the game. The entire game can be completed without spending anything. Currently, only one Tractor is exclusive to a paid bundle. All other equipment and progression can be unlocked through gameplay. We agree about the Pitchfork. Upgrades for it are something we plan to add. The animal system has already been heavily rebalanced in Version 4. There are fewer animals, feeding is easier, hunger is much slower, and the penalties have been reduced. We’ve also added several new pieces of equipment and automation. The Sucker becomes significantly more powerful when upgraded, and its battery fully recharges after 100 minutes. There are also new ways to earn coins. You can now deliver Hay Packs with the Delivery Truck for much larger rewards, and the Conveyor can help speed up this process. Coins are currently used for upgrades, fuel, Conveyor sections, and other progression. We update the game frequently, usually every 1 to 10 days, with new systems, equipment, fixes, and improvements. So we also recommend saving some coins for new things to come! The map has also been simplified in Version 4 to make progression and important areas much clearer. And yes, the Needle really can be found! The game requires you to clear a certain amount of hay before it can appear. The central pile actually represents around 150,000 pieces of hay. Since this is a mobile game, we can’t render 150,000 individual physics objects at once, so the game dynamically represents that amount with fewer visible pieces. As you get closer to clearing the actual amount, the pile gets smaller and eventually disappears. A lot has changed based directly on player feedback, including several of the points you raised. We’d really appreciate it if you tried Version 4 and let us know what you think of the changes. Again, thank you for putting this much time into your feedback. Reviews like this genuinely help us improve the game.

Doesn’t work right on iPhone

Can pick up and use items.

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! We’ve fixed the item pickup and equipment issues. Version 4 will be available very soon with these fixes and many other improvements. We hope you’ll give it another try!

No directions

There are no directions or tutorial, you just have to figure out everything on your own. No clue how all the equipment works other than trial and error. By the time something is figured out the animals are hungry and you lose all of your coins. No purpose or direction, worthless.

Response from developer

Thanks for the detailed feedback! We’ve made buttons, objectives, and locations much clearer. We’ve also reduced the number of animals, made them easier to feed, and significantly reduced the coins lost when they’re hungry. These improvements are coming very soon in Version 4!

Equipping

It’s impossible to keep any items equipped.

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! This issue has been fixed. Tools should now stay equipped properly. Please make sure you’re playing the latest version and give it another try. We hope you’ll have a much better experience now!

need directions

have no idea how to play and there’s nothing to tell me how to this sucks

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! We’ve made it much clearer what to do, where to go, and how to progress in the new version. It’s almost here, just a little longer! We hope you’ll give it another try when it arrives.

No wheelbarrow

Wheelbarrow was on the barn then disappeared, no way to feed cows.

Response from developer

Hello, thanks for the feedback. We fixed that issue in version 3.0, you can update it now.

Pointless

When you leave game for few minutes and return all the hay comes back , what is the point , all the wrk done for nothing , don’t bother getting

Pointless knock off

I wish I could give ZERO stars.
This game is a pointless knock off of the steam game trying to catch onto its hype. The entire game is designed to FORCE you to pay to play since once you unlock the pitch fork and wheelbarrow, you can only use the pitch fork for a little bit before it stops working and you are left to pick by hand, 1 by 1. The “feed your animals” is also pointless as it’s designed to drain any coins you have because you cannot harvest hay quick enough to keep them fed AND increase your coins so you end up losing all accumulated coins before you can unlock the 1000 coin hay sucker. Stay away from this scam of a game.
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Response from developer

Thanks for the detailed feedback. The game does not require payment to progress, but we understand why the tool bugs and animal balancing made it feel that way. We’ve fixed the tool issues, reduced the number of animals, made feeding easier, and greatly reduced coin loss. We hope you’ll give it another try.

IDDK

idk how to earn coins and it's very slow and the animals are VERY hungry and and it's so expensive for that vacuum and it's not bad but you just need a pig not all that animals..

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! We heard you 😅 There are now fewer animals, they’re easier to feed, coin loss has been greatly reduced, and earning coins and progressing is much clearer. We’ve also improved the overall balance. We hope you’ll give it another try!

Wheelbarrow disappeared and the animal feeding is terrible.

Played for maybe 15 minutes and my wheelbarrow disappeared. Also feeding the animals is very annoying, don’t really understand why it’s even in the game. Animals get hungry way too fast

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! We’re aware of the Wheelbarrow issue and are working on a fix. We also agree that animal feeding needs better balancing, especially how quickly they get hungry. We’re gradually improving these systems to make the game more enjoyable and less frustrating.

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Need a way to turn off the music. And need some direction at the beginning

Response from developer

Thanks for the feedback! 😊 We’ve already added an option to turn off the music, along with better guidance for new players. Both will be available in the next update. Thanks for helping us improve the game!

Need help

Somehow my wheel barrel is on the barn now I can’t use it

Response from developer

Sorry about the Wheelbarrow! 😅 We’ll make sure to fix that issue with the new update too! A huge update with Online Mode is coming soon 👀 Everyone will have their own barn, with a massive shared haystack of 25 MILLION pieces of hay in the middle! You’ll be able to collect from your own farm or join everyone in the shared area. You might forget all about that Wheelbarrow after the new update 😄 Stay with us and start saving your coins, you’re going to need them! 🌾