Relaxation Station
Sun Feb 02 2025 ArmaDiLeoDiCaprioHands down the best game for relaxing. I needed something like this to help get over my dopamine addiction. In a society that is so addicted to moving fast, this is such a great way to slow down, and use your mind while working through the tasks at hand. It is recommended to use headphones for game play, and after not using headphones — and then using headphones — I can see why. Definitely use them if you can! You will hear your biome slowly come to life. Very surreal. Applause, kudos, and major credit to creators and developers. Thank you so much for this experience.
New Version, New Glitches, not enough
Mon Aug 12 2024 Unicorn tooI’ve played the first version multiple times, and despite its glitches, I had become addicted to the beauty and simplicity of the game. However, all of this time to wait for a new update with new content and there’s only one new animal? I was let down. The new levels are fun but the animals are just repeated ones from the other continents. Having Boar on 3/4 regions was redundant. There are so many other species that could have been used instead. (Tapirs, Caiman, Capybara with the Jaguar level would have fit well as an example) Also pandas? In the tropical island with the South American animals? That made no sense at all as pandas aren’t even on the same continent as Flamingos and Jaguars. It took away from the suspended belief of the game. The glitches are also now more persistent, with the animal bar opening up repeatedly even when you didn’t mean to highlight an animal. The game also lags constantly and zooms in to the fullest at random. The Abandoned Quarry level also doesn’t let you complete the Temperate region to 100%, as even if you unlock the Beavers in the level, it still shows up at the end that you didn’t, thus you can never complete the game. Also the bonus levels from the previous version are now just regular levels. Because the game’s glitch makes it so you can never fully finish it, it is unknown if there are actually more levels as a bonus after you complete the game.
Excellent game, unusually glitchy. Devs, add Bug Report option because it’s that bad. See examples.
Sat Jan 04 2025 turkicnomadFirst, the vibe of this game is so comforting. I get to scratch my city builder itch without creating a wasteland. Restoring a wasteland feels much better. The graphics could be a little clearer on iPad and there are some visuals that could be displayed less obscurely—literally some assets obscure others in a very counterproductive way—but it doesn’t destroy the experience. Although, I’d love a few more undo’s, and a forecast for the rain so it doesn’t put out my controlled burns all the time. The bugs, however, can actually crash the game. Infinite loading screen after every level even though progress is still saved; the animal migration building is completely unusable; sometimes buildings are sort of grayed out and have to be dragged from the toolbar to get them on the map instead of just tapping them; humidity can go to zero even if it’s raining constantly (if that’s a feature not a bug, yikes); I’ve even seen the variable and functions get called in the objectives tab. There aren’t that many version released, but given the amount of bugs, it feels like it’s still in beta. Sorry, devs, but it would behoove you to add a bug report and log dump option in the settings when things break this badly.
Relaxing
Tue Jan 07 2025 iamoepeThis is a very easy-going game that you can literally spend two hours on and not even realize. Find myself playing this game more and more on a daily basics. When I am listening to my audiobooks, this game is very easy to understand. It’s not really complicated. It doesn’t have any unnecessary actions in it. What you see is what you get and once you get the hang of it, you will play for hours. If I could change anything about this game is, I wish it had more levels. Once you get used to the game, you realize that you can put it on different stage of difficulty whereas you get points upon completing certain task or if you don’t want the hassle of getting points, you can put it on the easy mode where you can play the game points free . Needless to say it’s a really good game.
Nice concept but it’s unplayable
Fri Aug 02 2024 shydacatThis is the kind of game that’s right up my alley. Calm and quiet, animals and natural scenes, restoring beauty to a wasteland…all of that. But the game is so buggy as to be unplayable. It crashes constantly, sometimes within seconds of loading my saved game even on the lowest settings. Would love to play more but I actually can’t.
Edit: was hoping the recent “bug fix and stability” update would help. But now I can’t even load my saved game. Thought I’d see if this was available on PC and it was! BUT, reading the Steam reviews, apparently that version is just as buggy if not more. Resulting in CPU overheats, BSODs, and other failures. Yikes! I’m not downloading that.
The graphics and gameplay aren’t complex. My devices aren’t that old. If I had to guess, the coding is overwritten and inefficient as to be causing such a high drain on resources and I don’t think this game can update its way out of that.
Love this game, but the new version not so much
Fri Jul 12 2024 BorealgalI have played and loved the original version many times. The artwork, the soundscape are beautiful and soothing. The premise and gameplay are very rewarding and it is satisfying to restore polluted biomes and see wildlife return. Especially as there are so many games (and the real world) focused on destroying or blowing stuff up. I particularly love playing it in Zen mode. BUT the new version will not advance beyond the first biome, River Valley, even though I have completed all goals, even the optional goals. I have deleted and reinstalled the app several times and my iOS is up to date on my iPad M4, but no joy. I’d love to play this new version through all levels, so hope you can fix it soon. Thanks for the creativity.
Enjoyable, except…
Sat Jun 07 2025 Fish netterWhy do I keep getting dropped from the game? At least twice for every map area is too often. Usually it is when I am nearly done with the area, but sometimes it is when I open the map, and last time all the controls disappeared. Reloading does spoil the game when it happens so often. When I can actually play, I enjoy building the climate zones and trying to make the animals comfortable. The graphics are nice, and the tools are good, though a label for those would be helpful too. I don’t have trouble with other games, so I do not think it is my iPad or my connection. Please fix.
Old version was better
Fri Sep 27 2024 abluecosmicmonkeyI LOVED this game!!! I thought I’d try again today, but they made some interface updates that aren’t great. For one thing, it doesn’t fit on my phone screen anymore so I can’t see all the interfaces because they get stuck under the buttons (even though this phone is bigger than the one I used to play last year). Also, some aspects of the game don’t seem to work (for example, I can’t start fires). I do love that this great game got some more development attention; I just don’t think it was tested well enough before release.
Long loading deters play
Tue Feb 04 2025 inorganikThe fact that you have to sit through SIX splash screens before the game even loads the title screen (which needs a loading bar) is frustrating, because then you have to wait for your game to load. Mobile games should load quickly since they are generally played during life’s “in between” time. Makes it very hard to get into this game, which is too bad because it’s a fun game when it finally loads.
Only other issue is the frame rate drops significantly when you are near completion of a level, and you can feel your phone get really hot, which suggests some there are some performance issues.
genuinely wonderful game, except...
Wed Dec 18 2024 peridot420i adore this game. the sound design is immersive, the maps are beautiful; each level is uniquely satisfying to complete...
which is why it's such a huge bummer that it hardly explains any of it's own mechanics, and leaves you to fend for yourself way too fast. it being a strategy game, i can definitely see the appeal in letting players try things out and see what works, but i quite literally got stuck on a level for over two hours because i couldn't figure out how to work monorails.
and speaking of monorails, it definitely takes away from the excitement of being 99% finished with a level, and then having to go through your entire map removing buildings piecemeal for 10 minutes. i wish the range on recycling was larger, or at least the range between monorail towers. i wouldn't mind them costing 10x the resources to build if i didn't have to clutter my entire map with them.
one last gripe because this is getting long - but the final level unlocked for me early? with no indication of it being the last level whatsoever. i finished the whole map except the rocket, only to discover i had to go back and finish all the previous levels first, and all my progress had been for nothing. i don't really know if that was a bug (i still have other levels locked, so i don't understand the purpose of letting the player choose which level to do next if there's a chance they might waste time on an unfinishable level)
