Been playing for the past couple weeks. The art is cute and the game doesn’t make you actively play much which I appreciate for a gam of this style. A few things I hope for is that, certain event dragons come back in the future, ex the gemstone and mushroom dragons. They should cycle some of the old events back in as the incorporate new ones. Devs may have already planned to do that, but just wanted to mention it cause even after spending some money I couldn’t complete the event. Also, I feel like the dragon scaling is a little lacking, maybe the balancing of income wouldn’t work if they made upgrades exponentially. But from what I can tell, every dragon level up doesnt actually increase the coins/time but rather increases the amount of time it takes and coins proportionallyZ I feel like each level should have a slight improvement, it could be really small like just 2.5-5% per level but would still be nice. Also certain offers (like the purchase event level after the event ends, should not just be a 1 time pop up you open the game, but should instead be a offer that you have a couple hours for so you can decide the best course of action)

While it’s cute and exciting at first, there’s some issues that really bother me, the biggest is that upgrading actually makes your stuff WORSE. The first dragon you get gives you 2 coins every 15 seconds, but the fully upgraded dragon gives you 6 every 60 seconds. That’s 2 coins LESS per minute than a completely non upgraded one. And it gets worse. Rarer dragons actually earn less coins per minute than the common ones due to this issue. This is really frustrating as it feels like there’s no point to upgrading at all except that you get to give your dragon a stupid little name. Second, the deals in this app are ATROCIOUS, there’s no such thing as a good deal. For example, your beginning trees earn 2 fruit every 30 seconds. That’s 240 fruits per hour. But if you spend 200 coins, you get 53 fruits after an hour. Like I’m actually confused what they were thinking. I guess it could make sense if you know you’re not going to play for the next hour but like, I actually want to PLAY the games I have, not have all the mechanics based on me NOT playing it. I also wish there was a breeding function in the game, like you could still summon but also breed for new dragons. And yeah, after the first day all the waits become so long that you can not play for 5 hours and when you come back, you have at most 10 minutes of play time before you have to wait again. That’s pretty lame, if these issues got fixed it would be really cool because I really like the art style and atmosphere.

This is one of my favorite mobile games. I’ve played other Runaway games (moth, butterfly, dog), but I always stopped playing them after a certain period of time when it got boring. This might happen with this one too, but so far, I’m liking it a lot more since it’s DRAGONS and they’re coming up with entirely new creature designs. My ONE NEGATIVE about this game; the common locking. It’s been discussed in length by many players in various places online that at some point, you can ONLY summon commons, unless you put an item on the summoner. There is 0 chance, you’re only allowed to get commons. This apparently changes when a new set comes out, and you’re able to get any rarity by chance again, but when you hit a certain power level, it goes back to being common locked until a new set comes out. This is a horrible game mechanic and extremely misleading. Most people would assume you can get any rarity by chance on any given day, not just locked into only summoning commons. I hope they decide to change this at some point, but they probably won’t since it’s to get more money out of the player base. I still love the game and seeing the new dragons that come out, this just makes me disappointed and I know some people will stop playing due to this.

The game is not necessarily my style gameplay-wise (there really is almost nothing to do) but, as a dragon enthusiast, I love the theming of the game which kept me going for a lot longer.Now for the reason of the 2* rating…even with the less appealing aspects that I mentioned, those are trumped by the egregiousness of this game’s events. The entire point of the game is collection, and unless you either want to fork out $10 4 times a month to complete events, or log into the game every 90 minutes on the dot to watch ads to skip some of the event cooldown, you will not be able to complete the event to collect all of the rewards.I’ve regularly seen members of the community even say that they have alarms set through the night to check every 90 minutes. Encouraging this kind of behavior is exactly the opposite to what the motif of Runaway’s games are—aspiring others to appreciate and live in the natural world. Sorry but the flawed event system encourages some of the most unnatural behavior I’ve seen a game create.Anyway, mini-rant over. I’m sure it’s by design because the devs need to make their buck too, but it’s a real shame it has to come at the cost of respecting the players’ time and abusing the feelings of FOMO. And from my understanding, all of Runaway’s games are like this, so just stay away unless you want a super cute game like this to turn into a second job any time there is an ongoing event (which is like 80% of the time)