Idle Submarine: Raft to Boat

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It was fun for a bit, but quickly became boring. It’s also a bit misleading with it’s “oxygen” concept. You get 4 hours of oxygen for offline gain, and after that it stops progress. However, I noticed that my oxygen was well drained after just ten minutes. I checked on it, and the clock ticked one second at a time. I then left the screen for about five seconds and went back to see three minutes of oxygen gone. It also has many ways of trying to make money off of you. You can pay money or watch ads to help you progress faster, but a game shouldn’t need that.

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I like the idea of having a submarine and exploring a post apocalyptic ocean, but I just feel like it’s should be a full priced game that you pay for up front instead of the needless amount of micro transactions In this game. A very large amount of the screen if covered with menus that take up way to much space. This being a free to play micro transaction festival of course has to have a “spin the wheel for a prize” game in which it works like any other game of this form, but after you spin it it will have a little notification in the menu that takes you the wheel. The thing is once you press the spin button you instantly get bombarded with an ad. This wouldn’t bother me so much if the in game store was bearable. There is this mechanic where you collect resources and sell them for coins. It sounds great but there is a sell all button which seems nice, but no it kicks you straight to the membership store and asks you to buy a membership to sell all of your stuff at once. Remove membership and clean the screen a bit and you might have yourself a pretty decent game.

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This has all of the essentials of a would-be great idle adventure. HOWEVER, eventually you start collecting six or more varieties of resource, call them gems, but can only hold a finite amount of those gems. To upgrade the amount you can hold, you need to collect, say, 200k of two of those six resources. But if you get too many of one of the resources you won’t be able to hold enough of another resource that you need. The solution? You need to sell the resources that are overburdening your storage hold (which you probably need to upgrade that hold). Surely you can just sell a few to make room, right? Nope! You must sell them all (of that particular resource) and start over. So if you decide to go truly idle at any point, you wind up with too many of one resource and have to start over for no logical reason. There is an easy fix: the ability to sell some, but not all, of any given resource. Without that fix, the game just feels counter-intuitive, not very fun, and certainly not an idle.

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I’m going to start off by saying this game has a lot of potential. The art style is great, the setting is wonderful, it’s satisfying to dive around and upgrade, and it seems to have a fair progression system (for a freemium title). The game has a lot going for it. But...it's also the glitchiest game I’ve EVER played on iOS. Going to just list all the bugs I’ve come across in an attempt to help the developer: 1) Sub regularly does not respond to tapping. 2) Menus exit buttons get stuck, preventing you from returning to the main page (only way to continue is to restart app). 3) Dialogue boxes and tutorials will overlap. 4) Sub upgrade menu doesn’t allow you to select anything. 5) Power-ups occasionally can’t be picked up. 6) Membership page lists ridiculous prices ($5 for a month of membership or 25$ for 3 months, that has to be wrong). All this after less than 20 minutes of play. Would totally be willing to give this game another shot, and maybe even pay for membership, if I could actually play it. Hope the developer continues to improve this as these bugs should have been fixed before the game was made public. As is, the app is just wasted potential.

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This is a very manipulative game. First of all it has the most basic of gameplay. That said they try and get you to sign up for monthly subscriptions for benefits. And if that wasn’t bad enough there is an event in the game that is unavoidable that slams your ship with ice rocks. It is impossible to avoid the ice chunks as the event ramps up and once your ship is broke. You cannot play for hours unless you pay premium currency to shave 15 minutes off the timer which you have to do multiple times or sign up for a monthly sub tier with unlimited repair kits. I never once saw a repair kit drop in normal gameplay btw. I am so sick of the phone game landscape being littered with this endorphin predator business model. Shame on you devs.