Terrarium: Garden Idle

I honestly do like this game. I think that the quality is nice, and it doesn’t have too many ads. I only have a few suggestions. 1.) It would be great if instead of having to tap the ‘level up’ button, once you’ve reached the amount of experience/oxygen it would automatically level up for you. If you don’t notice that you need to level up straightaway, it’s kind of just letting the oxygen go to waste, almost, instead of it benefitting you, if you know what I mean. 2.) Deleting plants. It was a little frustrating when I realized I couldn’t do this; I had like 5 snake plants that were just taking of shelf space and only producing 61 oxygen each. Maybe, if you had 2 or more of the same plant you could merge them and have it produce double the oxygen that it was creating before, or something like that. 3.) Also, just a suggestion, but I think it would be cool if you could customize it a little more. Like choosing the background, and the color of the pots, and the shape of them. It would just add a little more of a personalized feel to the game. I haven’t had the trouble of plants disappearing, like I see some others have. I got the app just after the update, so the issue has probably been fixed. I just wanted to say that I really enjoy this game and I hope it keeps improving, while keeping the same structure. Have a good day, and thanks for taking the time to read my review.

I’ve only been playing this game for about two months, but I absolutely love it. The graphics, the plants, the tap vibrations... beautiful. The only thing I don’t love is that there’s no more plants to collect after level 190! I reached level 300 today, after playing the game without getting new plants for about a month. At the moment, the only way to get new plants is through the daily log in screen; every five days you get a plant. (Although I haven’t seen the daily log in screen in about a week. Hopefully it’ll fix itself when I update the game today). If you, kind developers, do add more plants, I suggest putting larger level intervals between them. For example, until level 190, every five levels got you a plant. Perhaps after level 190, every ten levels gets you a plant. And after, say, 290, you would get a plant after every 15 levels. All in all, I love this game. It would be a shame if people just stopped playing it after a certain level because of no more content. Thank you developers for the lovely game you have made, and please consider adding more content in the future.

It’s a good game. I like plants, I like house plants so it caters to my personal interests. The music is peaceful and it’s not a game that will stress you out and give you anxiety like most games. In the early game the best way to get oxygen was to watch ads with a triple reward and keep using boosters. The boosters are okay but they don’t help as much as they should to enhance enjoyability and interestingness. The game doesn’t scale well as you progress. After you get all the plants there’s nothing else to do. I mean you could just keep getting more sets of plants but there’s incentive to. With each additional set it costs more to upgrade them, but they’ll only give you the same amount of oxygen as your first set. The cost is exponential but the reward/ yield is linear. I’m level 760 with 3 full sets of plants and I’m working on upgrading all the plants in my 3rd set. After that I don’t have any reason to continue playing. I feel like I’m already at the late endgame phase and all I really do now is dump all my oxygen into the garden gnome booster because that’s the only reasonably scaled thing in the game, and to benefit from it you don’t play the game... so I just pop on 1-3 times a day and dump money into gnome or upgrade a plant and then quit. Its a fun game but the end game can come quick and you’ll be left with nothing else to do.

I really love this game, however it has quite a bit of issues. In the beginning, when I was about halfway through the plants, I would come back to the game after a few hours of not playing, only to find I had the first few plants and none of the rest. It forced me to spend (game)money to replant the plants I already had. No matter how many times I closed the app or restarted my phone, I had to rebuy the plants. After a few days of not playing, I checked to see if I didn’t have my plants and suddenly they were back. I haven’t had the issue since. Although, another problem I’m having is that it won’t let me get any new seeds. It let me get 3 seeds of the first plant and 2 of a few lower levels, but I can’t get any more than that. Some plants would be able to upgrade past level 50 before giving me an extra seed or saying it was max level. It’s not making much sense to me and I don’t see a reason to keep playing this game unless I’m able to unlock more plants. It’s a great game at first, but there’s no incentive to keep playing, which is what idle games rely on to keep players. Unless these issues are fixed, there’s no point in playing this game.

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This was exactly the game I was promised. relaxing, idle game. taught me a lot about plant types and now i can recognize certain plants that i couldn’t before. the ads could be a little annoying, especially when you make a point to just press “collect” and still are forced the watch an ad, ruining the “relaxing” aspect of the game. but most idle apps make money this way, so whatever. i can deal. i made it through the indoor plants section, and was working on my fruits and vegetables garden, when suddenly I open my app and everything’s just gone. no warning, no options, no nothing. i restarted the app multiple times to no avail. i did absolutely nothing that would provoke this, i never even turned off my device or anything. i would love to play the game but the entire point of the game is completely ruined if my progress MIGHT be randomly deleted at any time. i’m pretty disappointed. i understand there being errors in apps, i realize bugs happen all the time, but this is a massive, massive error. this ruined the entire experience because now everything i did, all the terrible ads i watched, all the hours i wasted, was for absolutely nothing.