Miners Settlement: Idle RPG +4

This is my first review ever but I had an interaction with a staff member “Danai” on their discord which is the reason I decided to go through the effort to leave this somewhat lengthy review. I had the game for a few days and liked it so I figured I’d buy the VIP package but when I did something happened and the money was spent but I didn’t get anything. I figured it was lost or at the very least I’d have to spend a long time getting into contact with someone who could do something about it, but I joined the discord and left a message asking about it and not even ten minutes later I get a reply from Danai. He said to send a private message to him and we could sort it all out which I did and after about 20 minutes mostly due to me looking around for a receipt I got my purchase in-game. This Danai person was super helpful and very respectful during our conversation. I would recommend this game to others purely based off of my interactions with staff as they’ve been nothing but amazing and a bonus is the game is fun so you might as well try it out it’s free.

I like this game a lot and I play it several hours a day but the adds constantly glitch out the game and I have to restart. I have issues where if I watch certain adds like this zombie add it never gives me a way to close out of the add, so then I’m forced to restart the game. It’s literally impossible for me to get down to the necromaner without using the adds to my advantage so I can’t complete the quest. I also have ab issue where if I watch too many adds in a row my game will glitch and I won’t be able to collect my winnings from killing an enemy, and half of the screen shows the ‘claim’ button and all of the winnings displayed while the top half of my screen shows my character in the area im in, and a red x. When I hit the x it came up with the options to surrender and when I hit it nothing happened. The screen stayed the same and I was still able to to hit the x again to surrender but it was always the same outcome. This made me have to restart the game on my phone too. And I also noticed if I watch too many adds it will make the enemies glitch while their moving and my character glitches too, and I have to restart. I also frequently go to the dungeon when it should be full of enemies and there are only one of the enemies on their floor, and I have to restart to get the rest of them. I love this game but currently because of the adds I can’t progress at all.

There’s a lot of stuff to do, like mining and crafting and combat and trade, but it’s difficult to get to all of it due to progress-breaking bugs and ads needed to make progress at a bearable speed.

Bugs first: wouldn’t save my character’s appearance or name multiple times, I have several quests that I have completed or met the requirements for that are stuck on my quest list or are unable to complete (my red mineral is at 16/10, all freshly collected, and it still won’t let me turn them in for example), sometimes after a quest or obtaining a new gear I have to close and restart the app since it doesn’t act as though I’ve obtained/equipped an item and gets stuck, and after watching some ads the ad will complete and close and the screen gets stuck at plain black and never loads back into the game forcing me to restart (and lose my place in the combat areas often).

Ads: there’s ads for everything, which yes are avoidable but the only way to progress beyond a crawling speed is by watching them to multiply your money, mine resources faster, continue during combat, obtain blueprint parts for free, shorten caravan times, and more. I wish there was more to do that didn’t require ads. It doesn’t really play as an idle game since you need to constantly be watching ads to multiply or boost in order to make any significant difference. Especially bothersome when the ad glitches and crashes the game, making me lose progress.