Idle Vampire: Twilight School

I have no ill-will towards the game, I even purchased the no-ads package so I could enjoy it as a time waster while listening to podcasts or audiobooks. But unfortunately, I’m at the third school, and it takes REAL LIFE DAYS to upgrade anything at this point. Not that I can even see how much money I have, as the “Dynamic Island” of my iPhone completely blocks that part of the screen. If I want to know how much coin I have, I have to take a screen-shot. Again, I loved the game, but at this point, there’s NO point to even opening the app. I’ll just hit the x2 profit for offline gained coin, but have enough to upgrade anything, close the app, rinse and repeat every few hours.

I’m not one to usually write reviews, but I have been thoroughly enjoying this one. There are no forced ads and while a bit slower without watching ads it’s not excruciatingly slow to the point you would want to give up. Personally I went ahead and purchased the no ads package simply because I wanted to support the developers. While the base game is fun I think what sets this apart from other similar idle games are multiple other things to do while you work on upgrading your schools. I really enjoy the adventure mode and making your vampires stronger through both leveling them up and getting stronger equipment. I also like the detail of unlocking the Ancestral Vampires. Although my one complaint there is that they don’t scale well when leveling them up and it soon doesn’t become worth the amount it takes to upgrade them. But this is such a small aspect of the game that it’s not a huge deal.

First I’d like to begin by expressing that I do enjoy this game, it is a good, fun way to pass the time that doesn’t require constant party to make you feel like you are progressing, the music is relaxing, albeit, a bit short. However there are some issues that need to be addressed, like the fact that the game crashes on the loading screen if you don’t have enough signal or wifi instead of notifying you of an issue. I, unfortunately, thought it had bugged out so I uninstalled and reinstalled it losing all my progress, though that wasn’t all, I also lost the purchase of the first pack, even though I restored my purchases the only thing that was restored was the ad removal. The second issue is the UI, it doesn’t seem to properly fit my phone screen, unless you don’t have a place to use avatars that are unlocked, set a name for yourself and see your attack power. Last but not least, I know the game is fairly new but it seems ratter short so far, I believe there are only two schools which can be fully unlocked fairly quickly so unless this is also an issue with me not seeing something behind a UI that is not showing everything, it would be good to add new locations soon. Edit: after the update you can’t tap on the shops and vending machines for your profits unless you do something ro update your shop so of it’s already maxed out you can’t collect from them anymore.