Idle Lumber Empire - Wood Game 12+

This idle game is great if you need something to do for a little while. It’s fun and just cool to watch all the workers get lumber set. Still requires your attention to set goals and complete orders so you have to be active to do that but your income from the NPCs running the mill gives you income. Downside though! And this is why they get 4 instead of 5. Season passes are $9.99 I’ve played idle games before and this is robbery. $4.99 would be better but lower than that is always preferred. $9.99 is just bad. Second you have events every 2-3 days that las for 48hours. This is great because you get extra for reaching milestones but it seems the devs have something against the player here. In order to make your machines go faster the supervisor at that station needs to be leveled up with cards you get from crates and while you can get a lot of crates and all supervisors at the station are the basic cards you get. You’ll find that you will get more of some then others making it impossible to reach certain milestones in income for the event. Basically one station can have a maxed out speed due to your supervisor level but in another you won’t have a single card to upgrade them and it clogs the work load. The events are pay to win but the rest of the game doesn’t seem to be a required buy in unless you want the $9.99 ad-free boosts.

Thank you very much for the feedback. We will continue to look into the game balance and to do our best to improve it.

It’s a solid game but having to wait 30 minutes to watch a 30 second ad to get manager cards that has a low chance of dropping the manager card you need is annoying. Not to mention that the only time you really make profit is by staring at the game 2 hours straight instead of going idle. To make matters worst the only way to get Sales managers AND Workshop managers is through gems. 300 for Sales and 150 for Workshop. But you earn 10-15 gems for completing task. This game essentially want you to drop 20 dollars in order to make some actual progress but in reality it’s probably not worth it seeing how I was able to get to the second to the computerized sawmill with more level 3 managers than anything else. Manager levels in my opinion should be capped at level 4 and to buy workshop and sales manager should be decreased dramatically seeing how hard it to get manager cards for your actual sawmill forcing you to waste gems on the cards if you want to make some kind of process. The last problem I have is the orders you have to stay on for 2 minutes of the game to get an order drops 9 biz points, 4 tool kits, or 4 paint buckets, it’s extremely inefficient. We do have a manager that completes idle orders that give you more money tho, but if you want to make actual progress you have to be active on the game and deal with ads and terrible RNG and you will be punished if you rush your saw mills cuz then you have more manager cards you have to try and unlock.

Thank you very much for the feedback. We will continue to look into the balance of the game and do our best to make improvements to this.

Generally the game is fun enough but frustrating when it comes to certain points, especially in the events. You have to get achievements of upgrading machines and in order to optimize the speed on certain machines, you need manager cards. But the cards required to evolve are so rare that you end up with thousands of biz points but not enough manager cards. So your production slows to a crawl and takes ages to get the money to upgrade the machines.

Also the support messaging system is practically useless. My game stopped working, support messages wouldn’t go through, and I had to write a 1 star review to get a response. (Also tried sending a request for help outside the game and got no response at all.) Found the fix in the Facebook group written by another user days before getting a reply to the one star review. After the fix, I reached out to support about lost time due to the game glitch and falling in rank on the event (meaning I missed out on rewards). After explaining the issue, they just stopped responding. Didn’t even close the message so I can’t start a new support inquiry about anything else even if I needed to.

So overall, when it works, it’s a fun idle game, but when it doesn’t work, it’s frustrating at best and useless at worst. And don’t expect much help out of the support feature.

Hi! Please get in touch with our support team via game settings (tap the small gear in the corner of the screen and tap «Support») and describe the issues you encountered. We will do everything we can to help!