Hospital Mania - Zoo Story

I’m rewriting my review after playing for a few months and understand how to advance a little better. I still think it’s pay to play, but it IS possible to advance without it, it just takes forever. You can play endless mode when you’re out of lives, you just have to back out instead of hitting replay (for whatever reason). I still hate how they nerf the coins in endless, and how some hospitals pay more! So I get completely sick of those two hospitals that pay more and never get to play the others. There’s a big difference between 370 and 300 coins.. I’m mostly here to say PLEASE FIX THE WAITING CHAIR IN BERLIN!!! Or give us the option to remove it! Why is it completely out of the way?! It ruins the flow. The waiting chair has always been right where we normally tap patients in. Why would you put it way off screen in Berlin? I wasted coins on something that makes the game harder 😩. All of the tiny items right next to each other that aren’t even accurate drives me insane. I feel sorry for people who don’t use a stylus lol this hospital would be impossible.

This game is very addicting, so if you actually have something better to do, I wouldn’t recommend downloading it. That said, if you do try it, it’s pretty fun at least up to a point. It’s similar to a lot of other diner dash-style games. At first, the game feels fair. I didn’t even mind watching ads to get more time or points. I understand it’s a free app and ads are how they make money. However, once I reached the higher levels, I started noticing some issues that feel less like difficulty and more like the game actively cheating. It seems like the level difficulty or outcomes change based on how many jewels you use. In one “don’t lose a customer” level, I still had one customer left, but the game suddenly ended and told me I didn’t meet the goal, then tried to force me to watch an ad or spend jewels. In another type of level where you have to reach a certain amount, there were long stretches where no customers appeared at all, and the clock just ran out. The more I level up, the more this happens, which makes it feel like the game is becoming pay-to-play without actually admitting it. I’m not sure if this is a glitch or intentional, which is disappointing because the game is fun overall. I just don’t think the levels should be unfair or manipulated unless the app is upfront about being pay-to-play.

I would really like to give this game more stars. It is super cute and the time management concept is great, but the game is simply unplayable. You get a few hundred coins from each level, but every item you need to upgrade is 2,000 coins and in order for the next level to be playable it requires multiple upgrades in multiple areas. The doctors won’t even come out and tend to patients half the time so people are taking up space blocking someone else. You only give 5 lives which go out immediately. You have to watch an ad for 30 extra seconds, but it only lasts 10. And watching 2 ads only gives you one extra life. The ads are so long. It takes 2 minutes to get through them and requires you to push multiple x buttons to get out of layers and layers of the ad. All of that to just lose again and watch more ads. I’m not even playing the game anymore because it’s all just losing and ads. You can’t frustrate people into giving you money. They will just leave a bad review and delete instead. There is no point to giving money when it only shows it eats everything up with no meaningful progress. Why are the endless ads not enough for you? It’s just making the app marketplace depressing. There are no real games anymore. This game is a wasted disappointment.