Little Farm Story: Idle Tycoon

Honestly: ⭐️⭐️/5 Love this game it’s the only game I’ve been playing for months. However, there are WAYYYY too many paid ads and things they want you to pay for, and not a dollar here, a dollar there. NEVER in my life have I played a phone game that wants to charge $15 so you can use the golden tool upgrades for a few days ( I repeat…. A few days, no you don’t get them permanently ). Upgrades take forever, so if you want to play for free and only watch the forced ads just know you’ll get about 10 min of game play/ completing the different requests before having to wait 30min-1hour plus before you can make more progress. I’m going to delete the game here soon because the farther along you get in the game if you don’t pay the $20 to permanently remove forced ads they become more and more frequent till you have a 30sec- 2 min forced ad every 3 min of game play. This game I’d go as far as to say is similar to Stardew Valley but with the amount of paid items in the end it’s not worth it.

I LOVED this game. At one point I was playing this game so much that my boyfriend made me check my screen time and I was spending an average of 50 hours a week on this game- which looking back was excessive lol but it used to be SO much fun. I wasn’t opening any other apps on my phone and I was telling everyone I came across about how fun this game was. The recent updates have made it so miserable to play though that I have barely opened the app in weeks and NOW it’s harder to get coal/iron/wood since the don’t allow you to bring resources back anymore. The constant need for scrolls and maps is miserable. Obtaining enough scrolls to do anything on the farms if you upgrade them completely takes hours and getting maps was only tolerable because you were able to bring resources back with you and now that you can’t it feels like a chore. I spent a lot of real life money on this game and watched hundreds and hundreds of ads while playing as well. I don’t know if I’ll ever open the app again. Games are meant to be fun and instead it felt like dread after these last couple of changes. I hope they hear the complaints and do something so everyone else doesn’t quit too, as I know tons of players are upset. There are many MANY people in the Facebook groups and Reddit threads that are quitting as well. Lower the requirement for water for the plants or the amount of coal needed, let us bring resources from the other farms again, and let us spend the money on the conveyor farms for scrolls or this app will surely be dead within months. Greed got the best of this one, it’s all a money grab now. RIP.

I’m an extremely busy person, so I don’t get much time to wind down. I get maybe 2 hours a night at best before I have to go to sleep and redo the day all over again.. So when I do have a small amount of time to play some mobile games to relax, the last thing I want to be doing is watching an unavoidable ad (no joke) every 1-2 minutes. I understand the reasoning behind in-game ads for free games like these. But it’s gotten to a point where they are so frequent that it makes the game more of a chore than something fun. I have spent $ on removing ads on games that I deem (for lack of a better word) “deserving”, and where I feel it would be worth it. But when games like this have such frequent, and not to mention extremely repetitive ads; it doesn’t even give me the chance to try out the game to possibly purchase in-game upgrades later on before I close it out and uninstall. All in all; it’s a fun, straightforward, mind-numbing game if you’re willing to sit through forced 15-30 sec. repetitive ads every 2 minutes. OR feel it’s worth it to spend $8 to remove ads after spending an hour in app with 30 of those minutes being used to zone out at the most obnoxious ads of all time.