App Profile: Kittens Game

Graham H. Walsh

Rating: 5/5

I have been playing this game for the last couple of weeks in the background, and it's time for me to admit it—I am seriously hooked! This game has some serious depth to it. Like Cookie Clicker, but with actual strategy elements. And unlike most clicker games, you slowly unlock new game elements through multiple playthroughs. The game never hits that point in most clicker offshoots where your progression goes from sluggish to laughably, exponentially fast. I think that aspect makes the progression feel more even, and gives the game staying power. I much prefer the iPad app over the browser game, since I can take it on the go and have kind of a wimpy computer that gets sluggish when I keep it running constantly. The iPad app is attractive and has worked flawlessly for me. If you read up on the game online, you'll quickly find people who have been playing regularly for several years. The value I've gotten out of this game so far is ridiculous. Absolutely buy it right now!

Chivedeer

Rating: 1/5

I love idle games like this! I enjoyed the simple design that hides a great degree of choice and customization to optimize your society. It was shaping up to be one of my favorite mobile games. The part that warranted this one star in my mind was with the policy tab. In it you can use various societal policies to influence the growth of your cats. At first this was cool, until you unlocked more complex policies. The best policies number-wise were in reality monstrous. The fascist policy gives great optimization with almost no drawbacks, but the socialism policy costs a great deal of resources and literally does nothing(it even says it in the purchase description). This seems to be the creators attempt at a joke but it ignores the real world effects fascist governments have had. Also the only hostile species you interact with are the zebras which feels like a racist dig at Africa. I wanted to love this game but the problematic views built into the design have left a bad taste in me mouth.

DDDtentacion

Rating: 3/5

I’ve played this game years ago on PC and loved it, but once I got to concrete huts I stopped playing. I bought it on mobile thinking i’d replay and it’d be easier to come back often on my phone. It’s the same great game, and I love the portability, but the UI is mad buggy. The screen jumps when resources per second change, and logging into cloud saves made it so that every time I open the app it’s like a new game, I have to log in and load my save, and sometimes i’m missing production time or things i built. It blows to wait an hour to cap my resources and when I start the game it’s right where I left it like no time had passed, or it didn't save the building I spent a ton of stuff on. Other than the app being bad, 5/5 game