Wish there was a better way to rearrange buildings…
Wed Jan 17 2024 jesus janneyyyGot this game and have been actively playing for a week now and I got to Kelp City. It easy to progress through the different cities but be warned they do close after 48 hours once you leave. For energy, I wish it didn’t cap at 50 but you can hoard energy from orders, selling spatulas or minigames and the snack carts. I’ve been enjoying the limitations of the energy and farming capacity as it allows me to slow down and enjoy the game. The core of it is to restore Bikini Bottom by clearing the debris and redecorating the town, I just wish that there was a mass edit mode where you can enter in and rearrange quickly instead of pressing down on each asphalt tile or building or bench to move it one at a time. It just makes me not want to decorate but I’m powering through :(. Otherwise I enjoy the weekly challenges and I’m excited to continue to clean Bikini Bottom. A personal goal if you would say would be to clear bikini bottom and as much as I can in the other cities.
Frustrating
Mon Jan 22 2024 mocolbsThe game itself is so much fun, but prepare for frustration. It’s your typical game that you have to spend real money to progress well. And when you get farther in the game, things in the game become more expensive and more difficult. I figured SpongeBob has enough related to it to make billions, stop making us pay money for stupid things.
Updating my review by saying nobody has time to go on the game ever 50 minutes for the 50 energies you get. As you progress in the game, everything gets way more expensive in energy. I’ve been stuck on the same two pieces to collect for about 5 days now because of how much they cost. I understand making things harder in the game but not nearly impossible. Especially when metal is the most popular item to craft for the order board, and you’re spending over 300 energies on it to only get 4 pieces. I also catch myself spending almost a week on the little arcade game to get more energy. Everything that you craft takes mostly over an hour to make so since nobody has the time to check in on the game as often as they want, they’re still missing out on opportunities for all the little side games, and the characters popping up next to the order board. So yes, the more you play, the more energy you get. However, people do not have all the free time in the world to get all the energy. Which makes the game so frustrating and leads people to stop playing out of it being nearly impossible to complete.
Can’t give 5 starts until some issues are fixed
Tue Nov 21 2023 jazziip00hI really enjoy this game. I downloaded it about two months ago because I love games like these. Even thought I do enjoy this game I do I have a few issues with it. First the energy is capped at 50. No matter how much you level up, the max stays at 50 which means if you have progressed far enough in the game, you have to use other resources to gain more energy. Second, the resources cost ENTIRELY TOO MUCH ENERGY TO HARVEST!!! Not only in bikini bottom are most of the resources cost too much energy, but as you progress through the map, the different locations energy costs skyrocket! I’m current on level 19 at chum bucket and I’ve barely made any progress on that map because for example the electrical wires cost 111 energy to harvest but the game Caps you at 50 energy. So if I can’t use the sugar squeeze cart, candy vending machine, create energy at the fry cook museum, have fences covered in jelly and have enough glue to repair it, or receive orders where the reward is not energy, I either have to wait days to hoard energy or I just don’t do the map location at all. I also feel like there should be more ways to earn diamonds for free. This game has so much potential but these issues are really hindering its success
Love this game but a few things are incredibly frustrating
Sat Jan 20 2024 EOdonohueI love this game, I play it everyday, you could say I’m borderline obsessed with this game. It was fun at first but now that I’ve reached the chum bucket it’s getting incredibly difficult to find certain resources like CORAL, logs, and metal. Coral is the biggest shortcoming in this game even though you need it for many things! This needs to be reconsidered and fixed so the game is more enjoyable. Another thing that needs to be fixed is the lack of plant beds you can purchase. You’re only allotted a certain amount of plant beds at a time and can’t buy more until many levels later when we CLEARLY need more, why??! At this point I have to spend 2-3 days planting and farming before I can make other things or complete orders because of the lack of plant beds I’m allowed to have! I wish these things are corrected soon because if I continue to struggle to find coral I will eventually delete this game. It’s challenging and engaging and fun enough without the added stress of lack of resources! I am on the verge of deleting this game even though I really don’t want to!
Energy system is messed up
Fri Oct 13 2023 Movieman91So basically one of the main parts of this game is cleaning up Bikini Bottom and other locations. That means removing debris, jelly, kelp, rocks, etc. In order to do this, you must spend your energy. Every item on the map has an energy price to clear it. For example, to remove a wilted kelp, it costs three energy. To remove a single flower off the ground inexplicably costs 35 energy, while a giant rock only costs 27. Why is this an issue? Well, the energy you can regenerate is capped at 50. If you earn bonus energy, you can go beyond this limit, but if you spend all your energy and then walk away for an hour, the most you can get back is 50. There are missions in this game that require you to remove items that cost 45 energy. So imagine having to do that three times to complete a mission. That means you wait an hour to remove one item, then you have to wait another hour to do it again. It is painfully slow progress. I give it two stars because the game has a lot of potential to be fun, but they need to either raise the energy cap, or significantly lower the energy cost of some of these items to improve the pacing.
Same complaint as everyone else’s.
Sun Oct 22 2023 anime goonLike most people, I feel that the energy costs to remove simple debris are way too high. I’m fairly early into the game, and I have a max limit of 65 energy. One type of debris, literally a single flower, costs ~35 energy to clear. I’ve never seen any other game of this type have such high energy costs for such a small amount of max energy after waiting times. And I’m sure the devs will just say “there are additional ways to get extra energy,” and sure, there are, but mostly in the form of small pick-ups that barely cover the cost of the next mandatory debris removal. There aren’t enough extra pick-ups if you want to stray for ten seconds to clear some extra debris, of which there is a metric f-ton. Just reduce the energy costs and you’ve got a fun little game here. The high energy costs are a strange way of showcasing company greed through micro-transactions that shouldn’t need to be necessary to play longer than 30 seconds at a time. Edit: “Dev Response” is nothing but a copy/paste cookie-cutter response that says nothing and proves they probably don’t read these reviews or take the criticisms seriously.
It’s okay
Fri Nov 10 2023 DetreinsteLike many others have complained about the energy system I definitely see that as being an issue. My other thing is I haven’t moved on from jelly fish fields yet because you can get the jelly there and it’s like 999 my question is that if I move on and the area is closed am I permanently locked out of getting that free resource or will there be an option to collect it even after I leave the area. It’s it’s the former I’d rather not move on. And things do take a while for the energy to regain. You do the mini game which gives free energy it’s about an hour wait on the things to refill and a 3 hour wait on the tasks themselves to refill. While I understand that most mobile games have energy systems to try to get the player back into it later. This one seems kinda ridiculous that there’s no way to increase the cap. And removing things does cost a large amount of energy. You can remove a few things at most and just come back to it maybe a few hours later and repeat the same steps. It’s ok just not all that fun I thought it would be.
Worst “Freemium” game
Sat Sep 30 2023 ChronosCatI have spent only about 3 hours in the game but have already reached a point where I basically have to spend money or else wait several hours to do anything. This game requires you to harvest resources from the environment but the amount of energy required varies and doesn’t make a lot of sense. I’m currently at a point where I need 18 of a resource that requires 45 REAL LIFE MINUTES worth of energy to acquire 2 of these resources. The energy meter only fills up to 50, so when I use 45 energy to acquire 2 resources, I can’t do anything else for awhile until my energy refills.
I was hoping they would offer a starter pack between $0.99 and $4.99 because I would absolutely be willing to purchase something like that if it included exploding pies and gems and energy, but unfortunately the cheapest starter deal is $6.99 and basically would only allow me to do a few actions (literally less than 5 minutes of gameplay) with the included items.
I don’t even know if this can be considered a game rather than a cash grab. None of the bundles add enough value to the game and the game is almost impossible to play without spending money. It’s just really sad to see this on a game targeted at kids.
Buy or wait
Tue Oct 24 2023 Karen - NcAs a new player, I found it incredibly easy to breeze past jellyfish fields and the city. Now I’m in Atlantis on the 3rd day of playing. I keep making food for the clams I’ve placed with their feed house and I never see any pearls over them the way jellyfish made jelly. The fields have been open for more than 24 hours and that’s the only place I ever see jelly since it opened, so maybe that’s why I’m not getting pearls at home after moving on to Atlantis.
It’s hard to get into the game or remember where u planned to go when energy is maxed at 50 and it takes 95 just to remove one of 3-4 obstacles just like it to unlock the next area. I use the mini games and energy machines to hurry things along, but it’s annoying when things don’t unlock because of that and are required in order to progress. Ya get stuck a lot waiting for energy to the point that it’s difficult to remember why ya even wanted to come back to play it.
Needs more energy
Mon Oct 02 2023 Cool Coe pickleGame is very fun to play. However, majority of the resources you need requires 18+ energy when you only start with 50. Which takes FOREVER to fill back up! Then when you do farm resources you barley get anything from it. Once you leave Jellyfish fields to go to another area such as the city, you CANNOT go back to jellyfish fields to get any resources there etc. It will be closed off 48hrs and after that you still can’t go back to the area. Since there is barley any energy or resources when you try to get some, it makes it very hard to clean/ clear out areas in order to put buildings so you can progress in the game. On top of that with the billboard, they’re will occasionally be an option to watch an add for jems yet after you watch the video (even after multiple times), it still wouldn’t give me jems like it’s supposed to. I love the game but there’s a lot of improving that needs to happen. The thing that annoys me most is that every time I launch the app and it’s loading it will take me to my settings !!!! I’ve NEVER EVER had an app or game do this !
