Goodville: Farm Game Adventure

I’ve been playing this game for about a week now and I can say I enjoy playing the game quite a bit. I love the daily talks you can have to help improve your emotional well-being. It’s very easy to grow crops if you have the right amount of coins and there is even a building that you can make energy with (although it’s harder to get all the resources for the higher energy boosts). Production of goods is super fast about 10 seconds per item. However there are some downsides, I’ve noticed recently the game keeps telling me to take a test but when i click on the heart it won’t let me take any tests only shows me the basics, with that I have an annoying blue bar above one of the building that if there is something behind i want to get rid of it’s hard to reach because of the bar telling me to take a test i can’t take. The energy is also very poorly done most obstacles take 20+ energy and you only have 50 it runs out way too fast. It’s hard to enjoy the game while you’re constantly trying to gain more energy. I love the game but it frustrates me that i can’t take the tests when it is telling me to and how difficult it is to gain energy.

I’ve been playing this game since February and it was a nice escape from every thing going on in the world. I even subscribed to the weekly gem/Ruby subscription. Then Tuesday 7/11 came and they updated the game, essentially breaking an easy way to get more energy - which is what you need in the game to actually play. There is an order board that would count down to the hour and if you waited till five or so minutes before the top of the hour you could use hourglasses earned in the game to refresh the board until you got orders you wanted to complete and or orders that gave you energy or gems. This was not a cheat, it was just a helpful part of the game that the developers knew about and with their update on 7/11 they took this helpful part of tut game away. They know how upset it made us and made up an excuse for why they did it. That’s when I cancelled my subscription as clearly they want us to spend more real money to buy more hourglasses as it now takes many more hourglasses to refresh the board than it did before the update which reinforces why they did it in the first place. I didn’t mind supporting this game because they seemed like a small reputable company. I didn’t mind clicking on ads whenever they were available and getting my friends to play, but now it’s not the same. I don’t even want to think about what they will break next so don’t bother getting attached to this game like I did as they will just disappoint you with the next update.

UPDATED: deducting stars because they keep upping prices with every update. Really? All you’re going to do is force more people to stop buying extras. The game is great overall, but I hope this doesn’t turn into a greedy app like so many others. ***** I really like this game a lot. It’s nice that you can go at your own pace, it doesn’t take hours to grow or make an item, it’s not chock-full of mini games and time sensitive quests, you’re not bombarded with “one time offers”, and you can actually play the game without needing to spend money. I like the story lines and facts you learn throughout the game. I also like the mental health aspect to it. It’s a refreshing change from 99% of the games out there. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. PLEASE, do not change it! Update: I would give it a 4.5, if I could. A couple reviewers have made some good points. I hope everything above doesn’t change - if items start taking hours to make, I won’t keep playing this game. However, you only top out at 50 energy and most things are at least 11 energy to uproot. It would be nice if you could top out at more like 100 energy (though hopefully not at the cost of taking more than 1.5 minutes for 1 energy). Also, I’m happy to watch the occasional ad for resources and/or energy, but there have been several times now where I watch an ad several times and don’t get any rewards for watching the ad. Overall, I still really like the game, but it could use a couple tweaks.