Pocket Bonsai 4+

This game is in real time. I’m reviewing it after 48 days. Some of my trees in real life are this difficult to train, but this game is strange: if you trunk chop to get a new leader, the game doesn’t really respond like a real tree where the hormones get redistributed and you see a new top... in this game the trees just do what they were doing before, same leader regrows and the branch you select as your new leader will be permanently just a branch. It’s a little early, but the game is just off. Bonsai techniques will NOT work in this game.

Don’t get me wrong, I love the concept. What is more relaxing than watching your own personal bonsai grow to perfection? But there is one thing that would ruin anyone’s meditative state... And that’s paying two dollars for EACH bonsai, excluding the two you start with. There is nothing zen about micro-transactions. Maybe it’d be a fair price to pay if it wasn’t a game about watching a tree grow. I don’t think very many people want to spend two dollars, only to see the results two weeks later. On a different note... I think the game would be a lot more interesting if there was more personalization. For example: Instead of having fifteen tree types, (thirteen of which are blocked by paywalls), how about having one singular bonsai that, via different growing methods, can grow into a truly custom tree? These methods can be environmental, like the temperature or the humidity... Or artificial, like different fertilizers or soils. If making the app less pay-to-play would be too devastating to your piggy banks, than how about just making the game cost a few dollars pre-download? Some may think of that to be an inconvenience, but at least you know the price from the start. Just a few thoughts. I don’t want to pick apart this calming little app, I really don’t. I honestly love the art style and the music. But if the content was more accessible, that’d be a major improvement. Thank you.

Good game but seriously no one is going to pay you 2$ for a roc decoration or a new pot color even a new tree for 2$ is Stretch game is good trees are beautiful and fun to tend to however trimming either needs to include trimming leaves or not but if you keep it a limb only prune system make the leaves transparent during trimming so you can actually see the branches you are trying to manipulate also if you wanna make money charge people to speed up time that’s something bing I would spend money on. Make trees and decorations an achievement for us who play hour app. You can’t go wrong with these simple changes good game app