Pocket Trucks: Route Evolution

Longtime fan of Nimblebit but this one is a buggy mess so far. Frequently unable to put items on layover, even when there is room in the city. If you kill the app and reload, then it works, which is a sign there is something corrupted in the game and not just user error. Ads don’t appear even when you are quested for viewing ads, which also prevents you from doing all daily quests to get credit for a complete day on the weekly quest. Truck upgrades and scrapping items is also unclear; need better help lesson to explain why it keeps giving me a red ! symbol when there are no upgrades to be had. UI loses its place when you cycle trucks — if you have several at rest, like when you start playing a new session, then when you send one truck to a destination, it tends to put you back on your first truck again rather than letting you hit the arrow to your next truck. That wastes a lot of time recycling through your fleet repeatedly. It errs out when attempting to link account, so no reward. The link to the Discord is invalid. Turning off sound doesn’t work. Your truck list shows incorrect load eligibility. Other buggy, unclear, or annoying stuff but overall this game shows promise but isn’t fully baked yet.

The idea of the game is great, the best of the games from NimbleBit in my opinion. However, there are many flaws that still need work. The routes and shipping orders are fun and so is unlocking new cities and obtaining more trucks for your fleet. Once you reach a certain level though (around level 15, not even high) everything starts to stall. You can’t find orders to fill your larger trucks no matter how much you upgrade a city. It’s very annoying to have a 20-30 truck fleet and only have orders for the half. Unlike other NitBit games like pocket planes or trains, the refresh time is every thirty minutes instead every five or ten minutes, causing you to spend tons of Bux to do so. I guess the hole is you spend real money for more Bux…not sure. The parts and scrap aspect of the game makes no sense and I haven’t found anyone else who can make sense of its purpose. The steep, icy, or tolled roads seem pointless in buying as all it does is add time and decrease profits on those deliveries. It makes more sense to just not purchase and avoid those roads. The amount of “extra rewards” you get for traveling roads is not very many considering the amount of road/cities unlocked. Again a stall. Overall, it’s a great idea and concepts as stated before, it just has some kinks it needs worked out. NimbleBit normally doesn’t disappoint so I expect them to get it right :)

If you’ve played any other NimbleBit pocket games, this is fairly similar. This game has a fun progression and can require some strategy to ensure you’re maximizing profits. I would like to see a map view of job listings. Right now job listings for a city are jumbled together which makes it difficult to find an optimal path. That may be on purpose, but it seems like more of an annoyance than a feature. If we could view the job listings on the map, that would make sending out my 30 trucks a lot easier and faster. I find myself giving up and closing the app after sending only a handful of trucks because it’s annoying and time consuming to send them from the list.