I actually really like this Idle game. Super cool, keeps you entertained for the most part. A lot of things to upgrade and grind for. My only problem is how you can’t just earn gems. You can only buy them. And therefore there are certain things you can’t get unless you pay actual money for. See I love the grind when it comes to games. But when I can’t get something unless I psychically pay for it that’s where I get fed up. I have no problem paying for stuff either. You want $2 for blah blah blah, sure. But there are people, chests, and upgrade you can not get unless you pay money. Their $4.99 option for gems, doesn’t even give you enough for the huge(middle) chest. 25 gems short therefore making it so you have to pay even more lol. I love this game but hate the greed. Still recommend giving it a play through!

Edit: after recent updates the quality of game play has gone drastically down since my review, it now take several days day to upgrade anything, they decreased the in game currency payout by 4x what used to earn 400,000 now gets you 100,000 if your lucky. Im am thoroughly disappointed about all of this. What was once a great game, has turned down hill fast.I absolutely love this game, as an EMT and volly firefighter this first video game that ive played that isnt cheesy when it comes to being a firefighter, like the traditional point and aim a hose at backdrop of a fire. Since ive had this game they cut way back on the pay to play type game, with a chest system to get captains, along with a soon to be completed third station(unrealsed), my biggest complaint is that once your finshed upgrading stations thats it your done, no transferong cash to other stations, it just sits there. The mark of good mobile game vs a traditional video game is that keeps you coming back, the reason mobile games doe off is that they get stagnant, id hate to see this game join the halls forgotten games like crossy road or flappy bird.

The overall concept of the game is like most idle games but it’s not bad because the upgrades are in small sections and easy to follow. But after 5-10 minutes, you have to walk away for hours to be able to have the money to upgrade anything. Then they offer Captains but have to pay actual money for them. And if you watch the ads for 2X earning, the second you leave the app, it’s ends. Not sure the point of the waiting room since I’m maxed out on dispatchers, fire crews, trucks and everything else but no one ever goes in there. Just need to find a balance between game play earnings and paid upgrades. $13 for an ad free game is pretty ridiculous. Maybe $2 or $3. Also the ratio between purchasing items is pretty crazy too. $1K for the first one. $3k for the second. $25k for the third and then $250K for the fourth. Plus you then have to level up. No daily rewards or extra ways to earn money or gems. Just dial it in. They can go on a call and return in 16 seconds but spends 14 seconds in the bathroom.

Games fun and entertaining, as far as idle apps go there’s a decent amount to micro manage and enjoy. That said there are only 3 stations over 2 maps, none of which reset ever so once you completely max out/100% a fire station, you’re done there. In-game currency doesn’t transfer from city to city so while you can share your resources for the first two stations in “Idle City”, the third station starts at 0 and builds a separate pool.The one mechanic that transfers is managers, of which you’re extremely limited and can only assign once between the three stations so no sharing your best one. You can always unassigned them to move them but in the end you won’t need them at any station once it’s maxed unless you’re still trying to get money to upgrade station 2. Upgrading them costs commercial time or spending actual money to get random pulls, which IMO isn’t worth it. You get enough to do what you need and then they’re useless.You can also use them to run daily missions escalating in difficulty to unlock more shards for upgrading them, but again this is just a dead end of commercial time or real money which won’t help much in the end. There’s also no real reward other than shards of managers (which again are very limited so once you have them all it matters little if you upgrade).Fun to kill time, 0 replay value once finished.