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.

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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.

Its nice to finally see some change, especially the fact that Larry, Gary and Samuel can exceed their max level caps. Although I find it hilarious that all the cards i have gotten for them before this update have still gone to a waste. It was a disappointment when you stopped giving diamonds for cards that couldnt be used and it felt pointless when you started giving bizpoints instead. I have over 300k bizpoints, getting useless cards and being given bizpoints doesnt seem right.
Also it seems every other event, the final card you earn is for Evelyn. I have not needed one of her cards ever. I have all the little forests unlocked and i have the lumberjacks and tree planters maxed out. I havent run low on tree’s in forever and getting an Evelyn card feels like a huge disappointment and a massive waste of time after spending 2-3 days on an event trying to complete it. Especially the event that just ended where it claimed I didnt complete it (the final challenge is make 50ac and i had over 10ad when it ended) so it gave me the option to purchase the final mystery card with 150 diamonds, which i did just to get an Evelyn card and regret it. On top of that the diamonds are far too expensive its really ridiculous and knowing i wasted 150 on that one useless card was annoying. Thats $5 worth of diamonds if i were to purchase them. I hope this new update changes some things because as i get to higher levels its feeling less fun and more of a waste of my time.

Thanks for your feedback! We constantly review the game balance to make the game more enjoyable to play.