Good game, WAY TOO MANY ADS
Sun Sep 22 2024 laren wolfI'm giving this 4 stars because I love the game itself and despite the ads I still play it which I rarely do unless it's actually a good game worth watching all the ads for. The game is simple to play, you can just get on the app every few hours or so to buy stuff and really just spend all your money before getting off the app again because you still earn money while the app is closed. I like games like this and find it to be pretty addictive, and this one is made pretty well. However there are WAY TOO MANY ADS. I'll have just watched an advertisement and like maybe one minute later I get another one. In just the short amount of time I'm on the app I have to watch at least like three videos. I've tried turning off the internet as well but that doesn't work on this game. It's either this or you can pay for no ads, but I'm not paying 10 dollars for this. Overall it's a good game but not giving this 5 stars with all the ads. Maybe if the price for no ads was lowered to 5 bucks at most like other mobile games I'll improve the rating.
Game is as described; ads are ridiculous
Sat Jan 22 2022 DaCCWataUPDATE: remove ads option available. Now this is a 5-star game
TL:DR VERSION: If this game offers an ad-free purchase upgrade, surely this can be a 5-star app easily. But, until then, the ads knock 2 stars off my rating for annoyance and hinderance of progression. IN DEPTH VERSION: The game itself is simple to understand, easy to play. As you unlock more regions and more routes, the pricing goes up, as is common with these kinds of games. At about level 5 or so, you can unlock 3 different “boosters” to increase your rate of earning to make gameplay quicker. Each can either be bought by your in game coins, or watch a free 30 second ad to gain (pops up every now and then). Where this game gets on my nerves is the mandatory 5-8 second ad watch every 45 seconds of gameplay. At first it’s not so bad, but when you have multiple areas unlocked and are trying to connect a city with all possible other cities, this ad break becomes troublesome, as most times you’ll find yourself in the middle of scavenging, and unable to complete the routes. It’s even more difficult when you return to the game and you have no idea which cities you were trying to connect, so you basically start all over and run into the same problem in 45 seconds.
Didn’t get what I paid for
Fri Jan 26 2024 FailCat13I paid for the ad removal because I enjoyed the game. I tried to play it today and the app kept crashing. So I uninstalled and reinstalled the app and much to my chagrin, the ad removal that I had already purchased was gone. I tried to restore purchases, and that did not work. I then tried to re-purchase the ad removal to see if it would force it to recognize I’d already purchased it. Every time I tried to purchase it, it would give me the pop-up saying you already own this do you want to install for free? I would hit OK the app would crash. I’d open it back up and I still had ads. This is very frustrating as this is a game that I do enjoy to just relax with. I sent an email to where it said to email case of problems. Heard nothing back. So until I get what I paid for this will stay a one star review. This is not fixed sooner than later, I will reach out to Apple support. I have no problem supporting developers and small businesses but not when I don’t get what I actually paid for that right there is a scam. if this gets fixed, I will change this review from one star.
*just got an email with the devs asking what the issue is; legit asked "Could you kindly tell us more about the problem you are facing? We are looking to improve the game. Thanks.” I paid for the ad removal and I’m still getting ads. How is that hard to understand? So still a 1 star till I either get a refund or no ads.
Disaster
Mon Feb 07 2022 proudlez71This “seemed” like a cute little time killer app, at first. There are major issues that need addressed ! First , I understand this is a small studio development, however the incessant ads are pervasive to say the least. So much so that the developers wrote a couple paragraphs that explain how they keep the development going on the app and even go so far as to say how annoying ads are, in the icon to remove ads. The low end quality of the app is in no way worth $9.99 to remove ads. My reason for this is the fact that there is no implementation of away earnings . Unless you have the app open and are actively playing , all earnings stop. What makes it even more pervasive with the ads, to the point I feel it’s engineered to encourage paying for ad removal, is that earnings while game is open stop every 15-20 seconds of while 30 second ads interrupt play. It’s aggressive marketing and aggressive pervasive ad placement , bordering on apple developer TOS for the platform. To be honest , ad revenue is not the only revenue available to even small studios . Try introducing a lower cost of ad removal, add in some in game content to purchase at a reasonable cost . Perhaps a coin purchase or a way to buy some keys to open additional territories . But at the current way the game runs , or fails to run from flooding of ads , I see this game , or any future apps failing to pick up momentum enough to be a success in this industry!
Not very straight forward
Thu Feb 27 2025 kjbliss7Overall this is a very fun and addicting and game, only experienced a few issues. 1) It seems I’ve reached max expansion after maxing out all cities in just two of the seven areas/maps. The world map lists additional areas as “coming soon..” well when? After reaching a certain level in the first area (I believe lv 90ish) is when the second area becomes available. Is this true for all new areas or have those areas not been developed yet? This is confusing. It would be nice to know at what level the next area has been or will be unlocked. 2) In both areas completed I can no longer upgrade the car even though it appears I can. Is level 20 the max level? If so, it would be nice to know it’s been maxed out. Also, if that’s the case there shouldn’t be anymore “missions” related to upgrading the car. 3) Because there are so many road connection possibilities and the map can easily fill up very quickly, it would be nice to know how many connections have been completed out of the total connections or if max connections have been reached. 4) Same with the cities, because the map can fill up very quickly and city icons are tiny.. it would be nice to have a counter to know how many more cities there are to upgrade.
Thank you!
Ad and content issues
Tue Mar 22 2022 danny ! :)Firstly, the amount of ads in this game makes it unbearable. Every 1-2 minutes a new ad pops up and takes 30 seconds to go away. Not to mention, an ad banner blocks the upgrade buttons at the bottom. This game also is unplayable without internet, which I know is just a sham to get more ad revenue because there should be nothing in this game that needs ad revenue. Secondly, the gameplay is very glitchy and bugged. You cant place tons of roads because the game will find some alternate route to take, leading to weird spots of no roads. Its also possible to make roads across water by just dragging the selection a few more cities out. And, you should be able to make bridges anyways. The monetary scaling is wonky and uneven. I may be wrong but I believe some of the assets are stolen from other games, at the very least they look suspiciously similar. After you complete the map, the game asks you to "start a new country" and I assumed it would take me to a map of Europe, but no, it just starts the game all over again. There is no content in this. I understand this is a game made by a small studio, but the lack of effort is not a result of that, and the amount of ads and cost to remove them is far higher than it should be. I will change my rating if these problems are addressed by the developer.
Good Potential, HORRIBLE Ads
Sat Oct 15 2022 Pamelaf263When I first started playing this game i thought it was a silly little game that i can kill time with. But that changed pretty quick when it turned into an ad watching simulator. Every 10-15 seconds, or every 2-3 roads you make, an ad pops up! it’s about five seconds until a skip pops up, then five more seconds, then an app store pop up, then you can finally go back. the game “experience” is 70% ads 30% actual gameplay. This is sometimes even worse when ads struggle to load, to the point of having to completely close out and reopen the game! Normally I would just buy the no-ads, but 10 WHOLE DOLLARS! just to see no ads is an insanely high price! the way i see “no ads” is how much i would pay for the game if it weren’t free. at MOSTTTTTTT, this is a 1.99 game. if it were two dollars for zero ads i would gladly buy that! not to mention all the micro transactions in the game, there’s even more opportunities to make money. I get it’s a small development team and everything, but there are so many ways to make money other than that. The game is also pretty popular so the amount of money made from ads is astronomically higher than from buying no ads.
TL;DR- The game is simple in design but the sheer quantity and quality of ads makes the game nearly impossible to play
Surprisingly Addictive
Sun Feb 13 2022 Sparty CycloneThis is a simple game, but I can’t put it down. And yet, I can’t bring myself to rate it any higher than three stars. For a geography-based game, they make some curious choices. I understand not being able to have a separate area for small states like Delaware or Rhode Island for space reasons, but why give Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Wisconsin and not be able to connect it directly to the lower peninsula? And the currency system is way out of whack. You go from 150 coins to upgrade your first city to 69.9 octillion coins for your last. Yes, that’s a real number — basically a 7 followed by 27 zeros!? And as many other reviews have mentioned, the ads are ridiculous! (Sorry developers, I turned on Airplane mode to keep my sanity.) Plus, I’m not sure what replay value it will have if you just start over in North America once you finish connecting all your cities. The App Store previews show Europe, which would be nice. Hopefully future versions will eventually expand the playing field!
Update — with the latest update, the game now requires internet access, so no more Airplane mode. This renders the game virtually unplayable. There is no way I would pay what they are asking to get rid of ads; I would rather get rid of the game. It’s a shame, such a promising start ruined by greed.
Too many adds
Thu Feb 03 2022 RekinuI get it, developers need money but two adds every minute seems a bit excessive. And it’s not worth 10 bucks for a simplistic game like this to unlock it. The price point should be more like 2.99 or 3.99 for as simplistic a game like this, IMO. That being said it’s fun to unlock the territories and figure out all the connections that are possible. I still haven’t quite figured out what causes you to be able to buy a new area, but it seems tied to how many connections and upgrades you have made.
Updating like a week later. 1) once you complete your map, there are no other maps. I was looking forward to going to Europe, Asia, or Africa. Not an option. Just North America. 2) adds are still too frequent. 3) if an add pops up, all resource generation stops till the ad is dismissed. This is highly frustrating as it hits when you are most likely looking away, waiting for cash to do the next road or upgrade the next town. Then you go back in, and you STILL have to wait for the cash because it paused the game while you were looking at the mandatory ad.
Tldr if you are bored, this is an interesting concept for 2-3 days. If you aren’t bored and looking for a fun game, go elsewhere. And it’s not worth the 10 bucks to make it ad free.
Cool game but…
Wed Jun 22 2022 KinkyFrysI love idle games for whatever reason. This is a very cool one except for the fact that you have to have the game open and running to get any kind of progress. There is no offline generating, so if you’re not actively playing, you’re not getting anything. The absolute worst thing about the game is the ads. I’m completely for games being free with ads and then if you want to remove the ads, pay for it to be removed for like 3 or 4 dollars. It beats the heck out of paying 6 or 7 dollars to even be able to play a game before testing it and you end up hating it. In this case, you can pay to remove the ads but it’s 10 dollars. Who set the price for this??? I understand the studio making the game isn’t supercell, but 10 dollars for a mobile game that doesn’t do anything with online play or generate any income while you’re not playing. The ads here are ridiculous. I had an ad, upgraded one base, and before I made the 150 I game currency to upgrade a second base, I was hit with another ad. It’s literally an ad every 45 seconds.
TLDR;
The game is unplayable unless you spend 10 dollars to get rid of the ad every 45 seconds, but the game just isn’t going to be worth 10 dollars to many people in its current state.
