Dead Island: Survivors

I don't normally write reviews but I find this game to be quite enjoyable and would like to offer some suggestions to make a good game great! I've have been a fan of TD games for over a decade game. Most TD app games nowadays, however, run on an energy system that severely limits one from bingeing should they feel so inclined. Dead island allows you to keep playing which is nice. Where it falls short are the rewards as you will quickly find your self running low on money and gems needed to progress. Missions pay out way too little and chests are locked behind a 3 hr and 8 hr timers. You are allowed a max of 4 chests at any moment. Even then, the pay out from chests are inadequate. If I may, I would suggest looking into running optional ads (15 sec max) for money and gems. This not only generates revenue for the devs but it allows players to achieve decent progress towards much needed upgrades to ensure a sense of constant progression and keep players engaged. Another area that can use some improvement is the movement. As it is, movement requires tapping on an area which makes traversing the arena really cumbersome. I think a simple transparent joystick would serve most players much better. Outside of these things, the game has nice graphics, the variety of zombies is nice and challenging. Super solid.

I love the game. 5 stars for sure. But this is also expecting updates. I will change my rating if there are no updates. I love dead island. I own all of them and still play to this day. This is the only tower defense game I play. But I agree with other people that it is ridiculous with the wait timers and only having one worker and not being able to upgrade and open a box at the same time. Something needs to happen here because you have an amazing game but these small issues are going to cost you a large fan base. Either lower the wait times or make it easier to acquire a second worker. You got enough with the name to be able to get people to make IAP. making a worker cost so much and having it kinda set up to fail is going to cost this game everything. Also might I suggest adding something that other tower defense games don’t have? It’s a little disappointing that this game is just another tower defense with the biggest difference being name alone.

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The tower defense gameplay on its own isn’t very interesting or special. It’s honestly pretty bland. That’s not why this game gets two stars though. It’s because EVERYTHING is behind a long timer or pay wall. That’s normal though for a mobile game though, right? Sure. But having 1 worker unit (also what is that doing in a dead island game?) to share between opening suitcases with normal 3-8 hour timers and upgrading equipment. Let’s say you decide to open a suitcase for 8 hours. Now you cannot upgrade defenses for 8 hours. Even when you decide to to upgrade defenses, say like a turret, that turret is now offline for at least an hour. You have to make a choice between playing without viable defenses or waiting to play the game. Of course unless you give them money. But it’s a mobile game, mircrotransactions are to be expected, right? Yes. But the game needs to earn your money. This game doesn’t. It’s boring and agonizingly slow unless you put in your money to speed things up. You need workers to make the game move along faster. A single worker is over $5. $5 just to be able to work on a defense item and a suitcase at the same time. What a waste of the Dead Island name. You want to put your money towards something fun, go find the original games for dirt cheap. At least the game trailer was good.

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they put a watered down tower defense version of the beta Pc game they shut down 2 yrs ago, and the controls on this are bad. This exact freemium game was once on Steam and ppl spent money then to buy characters and open loot crates. Then they pulled the project out of the blue, i guess no1 was enjoying playing a PayToWin game. Now they are doing the same exact thing but on mobile. I want to warn any potential buyers that this company is more than likely to shutdown your game, effectively stealing whatever money you spent on it. Also if there's any sense in you, you wont fund pay-to-wins because they are ruining all of gaming. Pay to win means giving the person with the fattest wallet a cheat to guarantee their win. This means no skill is involved in gameplay just paid-for cheats. If spending money on a flimsy company that always shutsdown their games is fun for you, then you like freemium. Also in freemium games no matter how much you spend or progress it wont matter the system is designed to always match you against stronger opponents in order to make you lose so that you will be more inclined to Pay again in the hopes of getting a win. This is the law of every freemium, and the entire game boils down to spending and losing, while progression only happens during spending.

The look of DI:S is pretty and promising of an inclusive replay-able defender fort game, but the difficult controls hinder a lot of what could be enjoyed. The control platform chooses to use a point and touch base to move your character, attack zombies and use special attacks. While it sounds easy to use, you find that you have to move your fingers all over the screen to accomplish a attack or even move which in turn blocks you’re view of what is even happening. It ends up feeling like a whack-a-mole game but less satisfying because you can’t see the cool zany effects of an attack that the trailer promises. If the controls could be changed to a duel joy-stick on the lower part of the screen like many new popular games such as Arena of Valor or Binding of Issac, these fun effects could actually be appreciated and make the experience all the more enjoyable and replay-able. What’s the point of creating a fun looking game, when you fingers are blocking the view.