Deep Town: Mining Idle Games 9+

Very intriguing somewhat

The game is very strange in that it’s essentially one of those real-time base expansion games but with one key difference: I actually am interested to see what happens late on in the game. The combination of the music and the very satisfying progression has so far kept me coming back for a number of weeks now and I suspect it shall continue to do so for plenty more weeks.
While the game does have some issues with the delivery of the plot and grammar (which seems to be an issue in every mobile game at this point so can’t rag on the devs that much for it as the sentences are still all readable), I rate it very highly because it has a charm that I haven’t seen before in a mobile game and it has kept me coming back for more over multiple weeks now.

Idle Cap update ruined the game

Deep Town used to be my favourite game. It was an incredibly unique idle game with strategy, exploration and an intriguing story. It was a shame then when their first update in years introduced an idle cap last month, forcing you to watch masses of ads daily in order to merely keep your game running. If you don’t watch the ads (bear in mind there was already lots of optional ad watching happening willingly to get coins, boosts etc.) then everything stops. Your production shuts down. The strategy of setting different things for certain times and making sure you come back just when they’re ready was vaporized. To maximize production you can no longer even go to sleep, or your production will halt in the middle of the night.

The game is now unplayable and as bad as most other idle games. Apparently it is to increase user activity, yet the community has given many suggestions other than idle cap and forced ad watching to increase user activity that don’t massively decrease playability and enjoyment. I have now stopped playing because of the update. I can no longer recommend the game to anyone in it’s current ruined state, and until the devs take back what they have done my rating will remain at one star.

A terrible, terrible shame.

Developer Response ,

Hello, thank you for your review!
We are currently experimenting with our new "Idle time" feature and all of your remarks have been forwarded to the development team. We are continuing to adjust the settings and you will observe more modifications as we strive for the best possible outcomes!

Another update. No fixes.

I originally became very involved in this, it’s different, not your basic game yet simple as well. The atmosphere, the story, the videos they have as well it all adds together to make a unique experience that I have thoroughly enjoyed until recently.
It started whilst joining a guild, I wasn’t able to touch around the outsides of the screen as if the game wasn’t calibrated for an iPhone 6s size screen and thought I was on a SE or something. This was only after being on the guild mind you so I just closed and restarted the app.
After an update it changed my name to my gamecenter name, I couldn’t change it back even though my guild said my original name anyway, and I couldn’t touch the sides at all times now, meaning I couldn’t use my lasers to progress or touch the arrows to even finish an expedition. After reaching out to support on discord and seeing others complain about it before I thought this update would be the fix. No. It’s the same. I’ve deleted the app, reinstalled, tried everything but to no avail so I’ve deleted the game because I’m fed up of trying. What was once an enjoying relaxing experience has been turned to one of frustration, I’d just like to make other players aware this could be them.