Dead Spreading:Saving 12+

Overall the game is great. The controls are simple yet gameplay remains challenging. Few tweets that would make the game great would be to cut off “shards” once a character is maxed. Have several characters maxed yet short on others only to get “shards” I don’t need when getting another chest. Next, what is the point of toolbox man? I’ve beaten the entire game without him ever having a purpose. Like if he made and maintained temporary retainers or improved his allies weapons, that would be cool. But instead he runs around with a pistol and dies. Finally, I do appreciate the additional features for getting diamonds, but do wish that at least some of the rescue drops included diamonds I didn’t have to watch an ad for. Besides that I really enjoyed everything, and look forward to an update beyond level 150.

The core game loop is simple to understand and play. Run and shoot zombies. However, I find it to be very grindy with little feeling of accomplishment and reward. The loot box system is confusing. I didn’t know that I had to keep tapping to keep revealing the contents. I also didn’t understand what I was getting out of them until after I ran out of levels for my characters and then I made that connection. Also, the preset character levels is pretty lame. I’d like to choose what I level up on them.

There are no other objectives in the battle. I’d really like it if I had goals instead of a kill count. Running around, shooting zombies and Collecting the random drops isn’t enough to keep me entertained. It’s not a challenge and honestly makes me feel sleepy.

I have no decisions to make in battle. For example, it would be cool if some of the zombies had abilities that forced me to change my tactics. Have fewer zombies but actually made me think about how I can kill them. Give the environment a purpose other than just being basic obstacles. There should be hazards to avoid and/or exploit to help me kill zombies. If these exist already, it’s a very bad decision to not reveal them early on. You’re not going to retain me as a player unfortunately. But I hope my feedback is a little helpful.

Many have stated this, you need diamonds to continue to upgrade characters. To be able to get diamonds from watching ads, you have to beat a level but you don’t get them after every level, and when you do, it’s only 5 diamonds which doesn’t go very far when you have 5 characters that need 10 or more diamonds to upgrade. Once you get stuck, you stop getting those diamonds. Since I’m not going to spend money on a game that hasn’t had, from what I can tell, a single update, it’s a standstill. I don’t know about anyone else but I don’t like playing games that I can’t progress anymore without spending real money. This is a fairly decent game beyond that. Even if they do fix that, it’s really only at best a 4 star game. About 5 years ago this would have been a 5 star game but games have advanced. Still, I would play this game and be happy to watch ads to play it. At this point , I’ll give it a couple weeks to fix this or it will get deleted and I won’t even think twice about it...wouldn’t matter how many ads I see about it either. There are too many games out there to take a step back to this one but I am willing to give it a chance to get just a little better.