Fantasy Hike 9+

So much potential!!!

First, let me say that I love the concept of this “game”. It definitely helps motivate me to walk more and I love the graphics and feel of it. But there is so much room for improvement and considering that you are asking users to consider a one time payment and even a subscription, you need to offer more! I paid the $4, that was no big deal, but the game would have to offer so much more for me to consider a subscription. 1. Have a more interactive map! Let me zoom in, see more details of where I am going, see where other characters are. 2. Provide more characters. All the characters are on a journey. Unless you are retired or hiking the Appalachian trail most of us are more sedentary with small bouts of walking when we can. I’m finding it hard to keep up with even the slowest character. This makes it hard to stay motivated. 3. For $4, for me to be able to connect to friends but then not be able to see where they are on the map or even their distance seems misleading. Offer more for $4, don’t force everyone into a subscription when not everyone can afford it. 4. Have more storylines about where I am and where I am going. Maybe more imagery to get me excited to get there. Just competing with the other characters isn’t enough. 5. Offer more achievements. I’m 17 miles in and haven’t gotten a single one since I left. Achievements help to motivate. This app could be so great if more work was put into it!!! Please keep building it!

Developer Response ,

Hello Aspen70$,
Thank you for the feedback. We are a very small company but continue to work on making Fantasy Hike better. The subscription for now is to support the servers required for people to be able to connect and see each other on the map and we're not keen on ads so this felt like a good way to give people that option, the app is perfectly fine without the subscription of course. But we continue to work on making it better and we do appreciate the feedback and the enthusiasm. Thank you, happy hiking and good luck on your adventures.

Health

Find an app addition that connects to the iPhones Health App and it’s connections and you can increase your sales/downloads/upgrades with add in features so customers do t have to use multiple apps or add health trackers to your own app so it’s stand alone and doesn’t have to incorporate or pay for Apples features and branding etc. also pay me royalties for the suggestion. You could also add side trips and magnifiers to dial I. To the maps specific locations like a state map has city blow ups for smaller regions. And interaction points like chatting with others in a multiplayer daily walking app. People could also design the route to coordinate with their own daily routes or specific to trails as well. There are all
Kinda of ways to expand this apps functionality but as a stand alone it’s the best I’ve found in the App Store. Easily too 5 for just fun and doesn’t take up time looking at my phone but rather walking and looking at it after. Also, Tell mr Underhill to slow down; I’m not trying to catch him but it would be cool to have someone to talk to on the trail every so often like an outpost to get some pot pie and a beer…. What’s his hurry? He’s 343 miles ahead of me. He paid for the upgrade and I don’t so maybe all these suggestions will be answered when I pay the $3.99 so I am either the smartest reviewer you have ever had or have limited walking info due to financial constraints. It is an awesome app.

Overjoyed with v2 friends features

Lucky me! I finished my original quest 3 days ago and updated the app to v2, to be immediately rewarded with the new “sharing with friends” features. What a bonus!! As someone who regularly sends screenshots to friends and pesters them, “Where are you at now???”, this is something I’ve been waiting for for so long! It felt amazing to get to Mount Doom AND then be able to start over again immediately with my buddies.

To everyone who’s complaining about the pricing: it’s $15 a year for the friends features, hardly a wallet smasher, and if you prepaid $4 like me ages ago, you keep your unlimited distance. So use the app as you’ve always used it or pay to get the new sharing, no biggie. I for one feel like $15/year is great value for adding friendly competition to my quest.

To the developer: in v3 can we have a version where we finish the rest of the story? Get picked up by an eagle (flying mile bonus), see Aragorn crowned in Gondor, clear the Shire (riding mile bonus), and go to the Gray Havens? I’d pay more for that. Not too much more 😅, but more for sure. Thank you!!