Dragon Up‪!‬ 4+

Boriover7

Intuitive play, no instructions. You’re always moving forward, even when you don’t know what’s going on. Tap things and figure it out. (Bonus hearts at 25 & 50 & sometimes 10) This game has glitches, like sometimes the words and pictures don’t match. You don’t die, but sometimes lose things. Gameplay includes “starting over” when you level up. It also includes side-quest events which are similar to the main game, & feed rewards into the main game (when played effectively). A favourite feature of mine is that if you have already achieved a goal like “350 hearts for lava nest”, you will be awarded the prize for it when that goal comes up. Sweet little idler game as long as you don’t obsess about details & just play it, letting it do it’s thing once you automate nests - until you level up & have to automate them again. Mostly I find it peaceful, except when things are lost etc due to glitches/ poor programming.

The design of this game is still really meant for a paid version but because it’s a Netflix game you can’t pay, so progress stalls considerably. You literally can’t keep up, because the cost of upgrade per dragon/nest goes up with each upgrade, and you never really seem to get more potions to keep up. And as you go through the game, you have to be at a certain level before you can automate, but because it costs too much to upgrade, you can’t automate at all.
It’d be a great game if there was a mechanism to actually make more gems because other than waiting for some, which is never enough to do what you need, then you’re kinda stuck because you can’t pay for them, which is clearly how the game was designed.
I think the developers should be testing for user ability, you’ll see it’s not functional on a non-paid basis (ie as part of the Netflix subscription).