Craft Island - Woody Forest

Reno Brooks

3 years ago

3 stars, only because unless you pay the $2.99 the game is pretty unplayable. Figure on a 15-30 second ad every 30 seconds. So literally half of your time is spent watching ads, and it drives you into purchasing the ad remover. However, the premise, mechanics, and game play are solid and fun. It very well could be worth the $2.99 to people who enjoy this style of game.

Zion Dixon

3 years ago

Way too many adds. Every 30-45 seconds an item will drop. If you pick it up you are given two options. Watch an Add and get the item, or watch an Add and don't get it. You collect wood and coins to buy upgrades to buildings across the islands. When Upgrading, you have two options; Watch and add and get the upgrade for free, or Watch an Add and spend ingame resources. The stores asks that you pay 2-3 bucks to turn off adds, and 17 bucks to get an item in the game that cuts down trees faster.

Toxic Chicken

3 years ago

There's a difference between putting ads on a game to make it free, and making a game with the soul purpose of playing ads. This game is the epitome of the second, ads everywhere, when chopping down a tree you will constantly have power ups pop out, if you touch it, it asks if you'd like to watch an ad to gain the power up, if you select no you are forced to watch an ad anyway. So you spend the majority of the game trying to avoid these all together, ultimately ruining the experience

InVitinG_trAsh

3 years ago

Not sure if it is my device or due to this game, but initially loading up the game you are forced to accept to some pretty invasive stuff. Here is where it gets odd. After accepring to all, it starts glitching out really bad. Like black blue other color glitching TF out. All in all. Not a good time for me. Too many adds ontop of glitching horribly. Got to play maybe 30 seconds total. No thanks.

Patrick Rosenthal

3 years ago

Once I got into the game, I cut down some trees and crafted the first object in the starter area, receiving an immediate forced ad in less than 15 seconds of gameplay. Repeated the process with the next thing to make, same thing. You will spend at least as much time playing as watching ads it seems. And the game has the gall to ask how I enjoyed it. It's rather hard to enjoy a game when being so aggressively stopped from playing.

Silence Dogood

3 years ago

It was enjoyable, but it only had so much. With all the ads and drops, it was rather quick to finish so space them out maybe. In addition, I completed the game in near 2 hours, which was cathartic, I saw the boat and assumed there was a next island to be had and wasn't just there for placement. If that was the goal in future development, maybe include note for coming soon or something. If not, then for a time kill game it performs that but doesn't compel the player to continue beyond.

christina wilson

3 years ago

90% of the game is ads. You pick up a lot of little bonuses while chopping trees but have to watch ads to get them. No problem you would think. But each time I click no and it makes me watch an ad anyhow. So as soon as I'd see a bonus I'd run the other way, guess what? More ads just while you're running around. It's barely playable. Highly irritating and pointless if you're just there watching the same ads over and over for absolutely nothing.

Nia Sohma

3 years ago

Pros: graphics are good, and it's a great time killer. Cons: way to many ads. The character gravitates to the power up regardless if you want to go near it. You're forced to still watch an ad even after declining the power up and there's only 2 islands, not much to it besides cutting down trees and leveling up certain buildings. You can't choose what you want or where you want to put stuff. I finished both islands in under 24 hrs.

Steven

3 years ago

As others have stated, this is a good game with a lot of potential. I've already beat the final level (as of writing this) & enjoyed myself. The downside is the number of ads that happen throughout. There are other free to play games that don't have this level of ads. I have a vpn turned on when I play this game just so it blocks them or most of my time would be spent trying to skip them. I'd be more willing to watch ads for the free stuff if it wasn't for the constant ads randomly popping up.

Mik Austin

3 years ago

Like many others, I think it's a great concept but was so poorly executed. Far too many ads, I played for less than 5 minutes and half that time was being put into ads or being asked if I wanted to watch an ad to get temporary 1 minute bonuses (side note: it's a jerk move to force them to watch an ad anyways when they say no). I'm fine with ads, I understand the necessity, but this is far too much.

Harrison Draves

3 years ago

ADS FOR DAYS. Saw a bunch of reviews saying ads were constant. That's almost an understatement. The worst part is, you can get a reward for watching an ad which is fine, but if you select no, you have to watch an ad anyways. You can skip after 5 seconds but still, greedy enough? Can't even cut down trees without getting an ad every 20 seconds. This game has some amazing potential too. Just another developer who is ad hungry.

Joshua Hancock

3 years ago

The game itself is fun to play. Progression can be fast or slow depending on how you focus, with no real requirement to progress. The game looks really good and is generally satisfying. There are ads shoved down your throat for any action you take. Level up, ad. Unlock a new area, ad. There are power ups dropped from chopped trees and you can watch a 30 sec add to obtain said powerup. However decline and... ad. You can pay to remove them but who wants to do that? It's forced and not earned.

Dale Alexander

3 years ago

This is a great game idea, the only things annoying/ bad about it are the ads and the controls. The amount of ads you get makes it seem like the developers want you to play other games instead of this one. The controls could be much better if an actual joystick or buttons for directional movement were added. Aside from those things, I like the game, especially the fact that the advertisements for it are the actual gameplay.

Carolyn Wood

3 years ago

Great concept and somewhat fun... however it lags (alot), too short (only has 2 levels that I completed in about 1 hour), and way to many ads (every 1-2 minutes). I did not like that even when I said no thank you to something that I was forced to watch an ad anyway. Seems a lot of people have the same complaints. These issues need fixed. I will keep for now and see what the next levels bring and if they correct some of these issues if not, I will delete.

William Burton

3 years ago

Finished the content that is available rather quickly, which was disappointing because it's a good concept and a good way to pass time. The ads are very overbearing, roughly every minute or so, and every boost pick up gives a choice but forces you to watch even if you decline. Not a bad choice if you use airplane mode, but not really worth keeping.

Melanie Scott

3 years ago

The game controls could use a little fine tuning, and the graphics are kinda choppy, but I don't mind that too much. However, I HATE that ads pop up every 2 minutes, and that they play even when I select the 'No Thanks' option. I think I played for a total of 10 minutes before I couldn't stand how much advertisement was being force fed into my ocular receptors. I get that new games need ad revenue, but maybe adjust it so that the ads feel 'useful' to the players, and not random interruptions.

Fedora Turtle

3 years ago

Overall, this is an amazing and relaxing game. I would love to just sit down and play it. The problem is that I can't. The game is riddled with ads at every corner, and even when the game offers to let you skip and ad, it plays one anyways. Most of the time in games, I am okay with ads, I understand game developers need them to make money, but when you try to make a relaxing game and the relaxation is ruined every 6 seconds by a 30 second ad, it's a problem.