Dome Guardian

It’s a neat concept, burrowing under ground and collecting resources, accented by the fact that every minute or two a wave of monsters will spawn and try to destroy your base. This would be a great concept if it weren’t for the fact that you get a pop-up add at the end of every wave of monsters, regardless of whether you choose yes or no to the “watch an add to double your rewards” prompt. All the adds that popped up had the option to skip them part way through, but then directed me to the app store and their download page, so getting back to the game took a ton of time. It’s not a good feeling to select that you don’t want to watch and add and still get an add, you just don’t get anything for it. They probably hope after that happens two or three times you’ll just say “screw it, I’ll just double my rewards every wave by hitting the yes option”, but then your playing a game for 2 minutes and then watching an add for 30 seconds that kicks you out to the store. That means if you play this game for an hour, you have to sit through 10 minutes of (very likely) the same 4 or 5 adds. That’s super lame on top of it being a rip off of an existing game.

There’s a game on Steam exactly like this called Dome Keeper. Go buy it instead of playing this. That being said, this isn’t horrible. Dome Keeper is somewhere around $15, so I can see the appeal of a free version. Just know that this game is a reused idea for a different market. As for the actual game Not bad. Like genuinely not bad. I’ve seen reviews saying there’s a ton of ads. Just turn on airplane mode. Too easy.

I really enjoyed this game! It’s easy to learn and whenever I get the chance after work I get in an hour or two of this game!