Idle Town Master - Pixel Game 12+

This is a fun game. I’ve been playing for about two weeks and finished the solo content in less than a week. Progression felt really satisfying without huge paywalls or time gates, and I appreciate that. Since they respected my time, I rewarded them with a purchase. The ad scorcher deal is definitely the way to go - unlike some games, it actually removes ALL the ads and you get all the benefits (i.e. resource generation becomes 4x for “watching” ads)

I rate this 4* because there are some problems with the game that detract. For me, #1 is the adventures. They continually scale up with no way to remove or reset them, so you are unable to run adventures 90% of the time until you level up a hero. Then you can do two more before getting stuck again. This directly affects event scores b/c you can’t get adventures that boost your score, and events are the only thing for me to do right now. It’s feast or famine with this game and Codigames’ reputation of abandoning their games early precedes them here. I’m crossing my fingers it’s different this time.

I enjoyed this game for the firsr few weeks I played. I enjoyed the graphics of it. I also liked how they implemented the starting over mechanic you often see in idle games. It’s not that you’re starting over, just starting to build a nee town. The old one is stil contributing to your coffees.

However, it’s very easy to beat all the maps. And the weekly tournament gets way too repetitive. I stopped playing for a while. When I checked back in, I got a notification about an update. Awesome! Except it only changed some of the side aspects to the game, nerfed your ability to make gold, and didn’t even add any new maps. Without more maps, there’s not really any point to play.

I’m not a game developer so I cant fully understand all it takes them to design a new map, but Idk, I feel like it shouldn’t take this long to create new maps for this game. Currently the maps all seem to involve a story but I really dont care about the story. It’s unnecessary for the game, imo. All im looking for is some mindless game i can play when Im bored away from home or on the toilet. Some game that gives me an illusion of progress. It’s not like im gonna choose to play this over PC/Console gaming when I have access to those.

I had a fun time playing the game, the progression was good and I felt like I was actually achieving something. Instead, this newest update broke the game and I’ve deleted the app for good. For one, the save progress continuously is being reset. I spent 20 minutes waiting around and updating, only for the progress I made to be reset and I had to do it over again. I never had this problem before the reset, yet now it’s a consistent issue. This also broke the Tithe feature, as I didn’t receive my daily Tithe yet the timer had reset. The second issue is the consistent nerfing. I get they want the game to be balanced, but they’re overly reliant on needing ads to get the items you need. However I had invested lots of gems and materials into the upgrades, yet they were snatched away and nearly all of the progress I had invested was removed, making the game more grindy and pushing it closer to an idle game that requires more checking in, which is contradictory to the title. The UI changes are nice, but before everything was laid out in a nice format. The new format is nice, but unskippable animations, multiple submenus, and a decrease in rewards makes it not as user friendly as before. It was a fun game but I won’t be returning unless something changes.