7 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 8.6 hrs on record
Posted: 8 Dec, 2024 @ 1:13pm
Updated: 8 Dec, 2024 @ 1:26pm

This game is not worth your time, let alone your money. I wouldn't recommend playing this game even for free.

Don't be fooled by the excellent art and animations, this game is about torturously ferrying coins around. It's like Desert Bus if it was poorly disguised as a tower defense game.

For a game that is entirely about moving coins from the left side of your screen four screens to the right and then back, they made the fascinating design choice of having horses full gallop at two miles an hour, and to give all the mounts asthma so they struggle to run 300 feet without needing to stop and catch their breath.

Oh yeah, and there's a *pathetic* carry limit for coins, just so that you get to keep making trips for as long as possible. Mind you, you still *pick up* coins, they are just immediately trashed.

Progression is primarily characterized by the increasing frequency and length of trips.

Every gameplay and ui element feels like it was tuned to slightly annoy you. In no particular order:
- Building a tier 5 wall requires building a tier 1 wall. Then waiting for it to be built. Then tier 2. Then wait. Then tier 3. Then wait. Then tier 4. Then wait. Then tier 5. Then wait.
- The above takes enough gold that it can't be done in one sitting. You have to trudge back across your kingdom to beg each of your citizens for more gold.
- Every time you upgrade the wall, it destroys the previous wall. This leaves you defenseless and evaporates any buildings that were relying on it, every single time you do this.
- Half the screen is water, which does nothing but distract you with a too-bright reflective surface effect
- Just like the rest of the game, spending coins is slow, and the length of time you are forced to stand there for *scales linearly with the cost of the building* while it plays four ascending octaves of coin-adding noises.
- Despite sitting on the slowest horse alive, everyone else is somehow *even slower*.
- You can't control your units and four archers will miss a single enemy a dozen times because the enemy keeps bouncing off your walls at the same rhythm that they fire
- Some portals let you choose their destination. Others blink you instantly to another one. There is no visual difference between the two, and there is no indication of where they'll send you.
- Winter exists only to slow down progression and force you to trudge even further to ferry income around. Also, it lasts **two real-time hours**.
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Kris Rude 10 Dec, 2024 @ 2:41am 
Add to this sometimes incredibly punishing RNG and bugs (got winter again after spring, I mean wtf!) and the fact that you need to unlock EVERYTHING again when you die and travel to ALL THE ISLANDS you already conquered just to try again on say 4th of 5th island ... this is pure cruelty by design. I give it 0/10 stay the hell away. The creator clearly revels in frustration and wasting peoples time.