Idle Breaker 12+

It seems like they put a lot of effort designing the expeditions. The themes are well thought out and there are fun little details like flies swarming over garbage and the toilets. The zombies are awesome, always dressed in line with the theme. Love the sound effects. Graphics are much better than others I've seen. Now that I've played awhile and figured some things out I'm really enjoying it. Only downsides for me have been 1. lack of instructions....You can easily lose valuable equipment merging if you don't take time to figure out exactly what is needed for what and you can get stuck because there isn't anywhere that says ... "max out your truck to enter this area." And for number 2. The trading times... ridiculously long. There just isn't a nicer way to say it. Things can go quicker if you buy a pass. You get a lot of "skip time'" So -1 star for those points and the fact that if you message these guys about something, they don't respond. Great game design with super attention to details but not so great customer service.
Review update: I really like this game but I'm not inclined to buy another survivor pass when updates are so few and far between. Not worth the money when it only takes you an hour to finish what they drop.

Let me start this by saying that this was a really fun game when I first started playing. But once you upgrade the tool to level 20, it takes waaay too long to upgrade to 21. Before, it took 30 minutes of play time to gather resources to upgrade. Once you get to level 20, it takes days. You need 115 microchips to get one circuit board and one of the items needed to upgrade to level 21 are three circuit boards. I’ve completed 12 expeditions and have only managed to trade for one board. You only get 8-9 microchips per expedition and if you watch an ad to get 15% more, you only get one more. You can also watch an ad to get 4 microchips at the trading place, but that doesn’t really help. And why are there so many ads? It’s bad enough that there’s an ad taking up the bottom 3/4” of the screen, I also have to be interrupted every five minutes for an ad? And the expeditions so far feel monotonous. Yeah, they change slightly, but not enough to make it feel like a different area or feel fun/exciting. You break up the exact same stuff in almost the exact same spot. The only thing that changes is the building, at least in the vacation expedition. Even then, the inside of the building is the same as the others. I was having a lot of fun playing this game until I realized how long it was going to take to upgrade the tool to the next level. Now, I feel like I’m just doing some really lame farming.

I’ve played a lot of games on my cellphone over the years, and a lot of those games will have you watch ads from time to time. But never have I played a game that makes you watch ads like this. Literally everything involves ads. While playing the game every two minutes they will make you watch ads. It’s quite egregious actually. Also, you have a hammer that is used to break things, that hammer maxes out at level 24, even tho there are tons of other things that you could potentially smash if you had a higher level hammer… so even though the game allows you to progress farther and farther to harder and harder levels, your hammer will just stay the same, when it’s supposed to get better and be able to smash lesser o heats easier and easier. I am certain this is to make you watch more ads. Because if you are forced to stand there upwards of twenty seconds hammering away at an object, that is more time you have to be in a level, which gives them more chances to make you watch ads. I don’t know why I keep playing. I honestly do it very little. I’ll just open the app, and go to the trader and refresh my trades, because if you want something or you need to combine something that will take time (which can be skipped with ads.) In conclusion, if you like torturing yourself with ads, (and something I forgot to mention is these ads are longer than 30 seconds, some even going over the one minute mark) then this may be the game for you. One star.