寒霜启示‪录‬ 4+

I rated this five stars, because the gameplay is really good! I really love the mechanics and art style of this game.
But it kind of rubs me the wrong way that the only two high-level girl heroes you can have are both children, and it's way more difficult to level up the female characters? I've been trying to level up the girlies so I can have an all-girls team because I think that would be so cute, but it's proving difficult even using all my general shards to upgrade Ling Xue, Jessie, and Gina, because the game automatically gives you like way more shards for Charlie and Smith. The only girl who's in my top five, even after using all my upgrades on the girl characters, is Cloris, and it only feels like she's there because she's Bahiti's friend. Every archer girl is the same too, they're all "cold" and "the best most fearless hero". And it's really weird that there's not one character that's even a little tan. They're all stark white, except for two characters who are east asian with super light skin. It doesn't hurt the gameplay experience, but I feel like my efforts to make the hero team I want to play with completely don't matter. After you build most of the stuff in the game, it really comes down to exploration and going out into the world and fighting with your heroes. I really hope the developers do some balancing between the heroes so it gives players more of a choice, and maybe design some interesting new ones that don't mostly look the same!

I have no idea why this game would make basically a whole different game to “play” while you “watch” an in game ad for something free in whatever game you’re playing. I had a little fun killing the polar bears and collecting the meat and yada yada, so I finally downloaded it to give it a shot, and it’s basically just a city building management game that guides you along, and never do you EVER get to actually walk around killing polar bears or anything at all for that matter. For people who enjoy city management games, they may like this one, but I had to uninstall due to the fact my entire relationship with this game was built on a LIE. I never leave reviews, but in the off chance someone wants to download this game based off that stupid fake polar bear killing experience, maybe this review will reach them first. Oh, or maybe in another off chance, the devs will respond with some great answer as to why they feel the need to trick people into downloading their game? Maybe they just want you to accidentally click the “app can track me” button so they can sell your info.

The game is not at all like the ads and photos. It’s unfortunate they falsely advertise because it’s a great game, I have been playing it daily for months. The lying is the only reason for 4 stars vs 5. The bait and switch did get me, so yeah, it works, but I won’t forget it. 😝

It’s a resource management game with strategy and some PVP. The game gives you notifications and you can click on things and that’s basically how I play. It is really satisfying to have everything fully clicked. Learning the game and the strategy is fun too. There are in-app purchases but they aren’t necessary at all. I’ve bought a couple because I wanted the buff and to support the devs since it’s a daily play for me. You earn gems quickly so you don’t have to buy them with real money.

The reason I’m finally writing a review after months of playing is, devs, the random short tile event mini game is fantastic. I was going to pull up the name but it’s already ended 😭. If you made that a standalone game (with the same music), I’d play it daily. It’s the perfect level of challenging where you don’t have to start off at Level 1 - 50 at a child level. The first couple levels are easy and by Level 7ish there is more thought required. It’s great, the music is calming (other time match games the music is annoying) and I use gems to keep playing. Please make it standalone or bring it back more often!