Trade Island

Trade Island is a cute city management type game. It is typical insomuch that it is another game designed to make continuous income for the developer. Rather than paying for the app itself, you could theoretically pay hundreds of dollars to play this game over its lifetime by purchasing coins and gems. No game is worth that. One interesting thing is that it has no social media tie-in, so no friends are needed to help your quests or give you rewards. You’re on your own. There are a few quibbles I have with it, such as calling a gift box a “gift” although you have to pay for it to unlock it every time. Another quibble is that the game doesn’t tell you how many coins it’s going to cost when unlocking new sections of the game like upgrading city hall. It just tells you that you have to have a certain population in order to upgrade. If we knew ahead of time how much it’s going to cost to upgrade, then we can plan and earn the coins we need ahead of time when we do become eligible for the upgrade. Update: After the last update that included more tribez people and cooking challenges, it seems to me that the focus of the game has taken a turn for the worse. To me the focus was finding the Professor and expanding the island. Now, all your time is now spent making and cooking stuff and giving it to the characters while making virtually no coins needed to expand the island. I can’t say that I can support this game any longer.... deleted...

This game is amazing, I have been playing The Tribez games for years and I was excited to see this new one, love the stories, characters, everything about it.....BUT..... It is really annoying and unfair to have to pay 5 gems for gifts that you may or may not get something useful from. I understand that technically you don’t have to, which you’re given no choice once you run out unless you want to spend money for more, which I have done, but geez at this rate it gets expensive and it’s not worth it. Also, it’s really hard to earn money to upgrade and build because of limited warehouse space and if you can no longer afford to pay for the gifts it takes to upgrade that to have room for what you need to progress it takes even longer to earn what you need to do anything. I think some sort of compromise should be put into the game so the developers can still earn money, which they deserve and for the players to be able to get what they need without having to continually pay to get it.

Now I absolutely love this game. But the reason I didn’t give it five stars is just because of one thing! When you go to upgrade your warehouse mine went from 50 to 60 and it fills so fast!! Now I didn’t know why, but when I looked as to why I couldn’t hold anymore after JUST upgrading it I saw that you guys put the upgrade materials in with the Goods you create. Now I honestly haven’t had a game that does that. Like, ever. And I play tons of farm games and stuff with barns you need to constantly upgrade etc. But at least in those games they keep upgrade materials in one part of the barn and they don’t stock it up with the goods you make to hurt you when trying to grab stuff you made to finish orders. Like, I had to sell a TON of my upgrade stuff so I could finish orders to make more money to use those materials in order to upgrade places but that hurt me because now I don’t have those upgrade materials anymore because I HAD to sell them to have space. But that’s the ONLY thing I suggest you guys fix. I get to upgrade the warehouse I honestly do but you shouldn’t stock your goods you make with your upgrade materials. Like the fruits you get aren’t in the same part of the warehouse as the materials you should put the goods we make in that part so it won’t hurt you when you need to upgrade or finish orders. But other than that great work!