Alien Invasion: RPG Idle Space

No ads!! I’ve never been interrupted by an ad, and in turn that makes me much more willing to spend time, and eventually maybe even money, on this game— more developers need to understand this basic yet crucial fact! Treat your players well, and they will be more incentivized to pay anyways to support you! The gameplay is fun and intuitive, and it’s satisfying to quickly progress. However, that progression soon hits a massive wall unless you do pay, which heavily discouraged me from doing so. Without in app purchases, it will take you weeks or even months of daily play to reach anything close to the screenshots provided in the App Store. I’ve only just reached the frozen section and can barely progress, let alone any of the alien advancements pictured like claws or spiked tentacles. While at first blush this seems like the sort of honest game we’re severely lacking in 2024, it slows progress to a choke point where it seems payment was the intention regardless. It’s demotivating, and I’ve considered uninstalling the app due to said lack of progress. I would appreciate it if the developers perhaps expanded opportunities for collecting materials faster at this later stage of the game? Upgrade costs scale rapidly, while the minor enhancements they provide do not, making gameplay unsatisfying. Early game felt like a rewarding grind, while the later stages feel more like trying to 100% Dark Souls.

Don’t be fooled by this page’s “previews” they are nothing like the current game, at no point to you fight another alien that looks like you. The game is thankfully mostly add free with occasional popups to allow you to watch an ad for resources if you want to. However the developer has worked on adding new items that randomly spawn in your path that create a full screen popup to ask you to watch more adds rather than focusing on the promised new content. It has been 7 months since they added new ways items to build and upgrade to get to other worlds yet they still say coming in future. It is not hard to level up to max and fully upgrade if you’re willing to leave your device idle while running game but having cargo carriers is necessary for that to work. You’re required to build a rocket to free a trapped individual from the starting area but the rocket does nothing and the guy runs off to unlock the ice area then gets stunned and no longer offers anything. Once you fully upgrade there is nothing left to do in the game, it only takes a couple months to do so becomes pointless to waste any more time on this game without the promised new locations. Update: To my point even in the developer response to my post, they say updates soon. It’s been 7 months since the last big update and I haven’t even played that long to fully finish all of the areas without spending money.

Enjoy the game. I have been playing off/on , daily, weekends for close to a year. I see a few things that could improve but doesn’t take away from the total experience. I have so many blue eggs that I keep on hoarding. Wont waste purple or red gems (color slips mind as type review) in winter area to make the mine yield more.. Home base has an option to trade for meat but can only do 1 at a time. Not interested in tapping the screen 200,000+ times to exchange for meat . Although all that meat would be helpful… Once advance into winter area and upgrade skills -the exchange , mines and pretty the whole region becomes useless besides the 2 humans can collect gems from.. now I’m kind of at crossroads as well because takes so many of the winter area yellow and silver gems to unlock more humans. The portal option has always been a interesting what’s next. I haven’t leveled it up 100% but got lucky to get green lights all the way through so portal is open but no option to advance . So wondering when ? I’m going to cancel subscription even though no ads and rewards have been so wonderful but also the catalyst to be maxed out . Thanks and 100% recommend all to play game.