Monkeynauts: Merge Monkeys!

I enjoy this game thoroughly, it’s calming and a good way to pass time in between waiting in a line or when you have a couple minutes to recolonize monkey kind! It is one of the games I can say I have not purchased any gems for. Most games have a limit to how many times you can do a certain move / if you didn’t have enough energy to do another round, this game simply is just merging your silly critters and progressing to the next land mass. I appreciate a game who isn’t solely focusing on the cash shop aspect. The art is , also, very adorable and a plus to the aesthetic of the game.

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I LOVED this game. I have been playing it nearly non stop for a couple of days. I love idle and clicker games and this one has some of the cutest and most satisfying art and design. Everything was going fine until I got to the end game. Things slow down a lot once you get to the thrift planet, which is okay, a lot of idle games have humps like this that you have to get over to progress and the mysteries of what cute , cool and high earning monkeys kept me going. The problem however, the reason this game gets two starts, is the truth of the final planet. Once you evolve your strongest monkeys on the third planet they fly to the fourth one where... they stop existing. You spin a while and get a couple diamonds and a purely cosmetic reward. No earnings modifier, no earnings at all! I went from earning hundreds of thousands of coins a second after days of grinding and watching ads to earning 3,000 cps. Even just a 1% bonus to all earnings or a discount in the monkey store would have made me feel better. But just nothing, just an achievement room and reset progress. I feel mislead.

This is great for when you have no WiFi or when you don’t want to think about anything and just kinda want to do something on autopilot. I play it a lot on the plane or when I’m in the kitchen waiting for something to heat up. Any situation in which you are only semi paying attention but still need something to keep you occupied it’s perfect for a game like this one. But it annoys me that there is supposed to be a 3rd set of monkeys but it’s said coming soon for like half a year now. EDIT: After the July 2019 update, the game has become way too easy. There’s no challenge to getting the trophy monkeys and objects anymore. It used to take me days to get one. After the update I got 4 or 5 in a single day which means I’m going to run out of them pretty quickly and have nothing left to do in the game.

To be completely honest, it’s a good game but there is one huge problem. There is no evolution log. You can’t see which monkeys you have discovered and there is no shadowy preview of the monkeys to come. I, like many others, want to see the evolutions that are coming in the future. It keeps you motivated to keep going and gets you exited for that one evolution that no one knows. Another thing is that it need variety. Clicking a button and fusing monkeys is basically the only thing that you can do. I suggest that you add mini games or maybe a secret evolution that you have to solve puzzles to get to. Other than this I think the game has potential to be something amazing. You just have to embrace it.

Great art and basic design is there for a merge style game but nothing else to make it standout. Some ideas -environment customization ( buy items that do various things - produce coins, auto merge monkeys of certain levels, temporarily speed up production, upgrade or customize top tier monkeys you wish to keep to produce coins (prevent accidental merging of certain monkeys)) -hanger (add different upgradable rockets for quicker traversal, more monkeys per trip, and use in mini game idea below) -mini games (easily sets up a “exploration mini game - select a monkey and a rocket and do an endless runner type through space, get coins/points for distance, have milestone planets to explore by landing monkeys on them to extract resources, set up stations on planets to unlock special monkeys you can find there) -assignments ( set areas on each level to designate monkeys to certain tasks - one area focusing on coin production, one area for incubation/nursery to merge them into level 2 monkeys automatically, one for mechanical to fuel/maintain rockets for mini game, etc.) Just a few ideas. The bones are there you just need to add a little meat to it for it to stand out and hold attention.