Kittens Game 4+

It’s okay I guess. I’ve never played an idle game before. At first, getting alerted when something was ready was fun and exciting. Now it just seems boring. That’s not the game’s fault though — and if you like idle clickers, this is clearly the queen. There’s a lot to unlock, it seems. The descriptions of each upgrade makes me smile too. Very clever. I don’t mind spending the $2.

But if you want something similar to A Dark Room, this isn’t it. If you want something with a fair bit of micromanaging, this isn’t it. If you want something where you’re actually doing something, this isn’t it. Some people say this has a little more to do than most idle games. It doesn’t have much to do, though. After about an hour you have to wait for stuff to automatically get researched and whatnot. You don’t get to do anything.

I still like it. It’s just not my favorite game. And I’ll still play something I paid for. I haven’t found any bugs either, so in that department, it’s a clear five stars.

Who knows, maybe I’ll change my mind after a few more hours. I’ve barely touched the surface it seems.

I love idle games like this! I enjoyed the simple design that hides a great degree of choice and customization to optimize your society. It was shaping up to be one of my favorite mobile games. The part that warranted this one star in my mind was with the policy tab. In it you can use various societal policies to influence the growth of your cats. At first this was cool, until you unlocked more complex policies. The best policies number-wise were in reality monstrous. The fascist policy gives great optimization with almost no drawbacks, but the socialism policy costs a great deal of resources and literally does nothing(it even says it in the purchase description). This seems to be the creators attempt at a joke but it ignores the real world effects fascist governments have had. Also the only hostile species you interact with are the zebras which feels like a racist dig at Africa. I wanted to love this game but the problematic views built into the design have left a bad taste in me mouth.

I’ve played this game years ago on PC and loved it, but once I got to concrete huts I stopped playing. I bought it on mobile thinking i’d replay and it’d be easier to come back often on my phone. It’s the same great game, and I love the portability, but the UI is mad buggy. The screen jumps when resources per second change, and logging into cloud saves made it so that every time I open the app it’s like a new game, I have to log in and load my save, and sometimes i’m missing production time or things i built. It blows to wait an hour to cap my resources and when I start the game it’s right where I left it like no time had passed, or it didn't save the building I spent a ton of stuff on. Other than the app being bad, 5/5 game