App Profile: Carve Quest

DaphneJade

Rating: 3/5

This is a 4+ age app. There should be no adult ads on this, but I keep getting semi-pornographic, AI, gambling, and drug ads no matter how much I report them (when possible) as they’re against my morals. Meaning no, they’re not targeted no matter what the ad companies say. Some of the things being pushed at me aren’t even legal where I live. The other issue is performance. Even on the lowest setting, putting my phone on a fan or bit of marble, it gets very hot after a while of playing. Also as far as performance goes, a lot of the timers say you’ll be able to get something in X number of hours, but when you come back that many hours later, it still says you have many hours left to be able to claim that thing. The second bit, especially, makes me sad because it’s a really great time waster when I’m working out or in a line waiting to check out somewhere. Those issues (inappropriate ads and taking up more resources than things like Pokemon Go or Merge Dragons) and I’d swap my rating for 5*

TheRealKouta

Rating: 1/5

As of yesterday you could sink time into the rings and eventually get to the next chest. Now, it’s blocked by gear power which doesn’t seem to have been balance tested. There’s no good way to gain gear power at the moment aside from clothing items which only drop from chests that appear to be broken after you claim them the first time. To put this into perspective, I was on the third set of rings yesterday morning, but now it’s saying that I need 2200 gear power to carve it. With the pitiful two gear items the game gives you, I have 100 gear power… I can’t progress without prestiging and starting over. Then, you have to upgrade the gear items using orbs collected from another area of the game that was just added, but for some reason, the blades are super slow and can only be upgraded using diamonds. Also, the gloves the game gave me have to be upgraded using diamonds as well. I don’t know why my goggles can use the orbs, but the gloves require diamonds. It’s super frustrating. Diamonds can only be bought or slowly and painfully collected via watching an obnoxious amount of ads or by carving into wood/ground mini games. It was really fun before and just difficult enough to keep it interesting. But now I might just be done with this game. I spent a lot of time getting where I was and now it’s just not worth it anymore. My progress has essentially been reset and it just feels terrible. The game was a 5 before.

warlockish

Rating: 2/5

gameplay is relaxing and simple. players earn their way to automation (the idle aspect) as they progress through the game and earn experience and money. players can also use the prestige system to earn permanent upgrades in exchange for restarting their workshop. however, the game also has an 'energy' mechanic that is confusing and clearly designed as a money sink. 'energy' controls the spin of the central wood disc the player is planing as well as all automations. it has a countdown timer which Looks like a refill timer, but isn't - the actual refill timer is accessed by clicking the energy icon and it's absurdly long; you need to wait four (4!) hours to earn 20 minutes of energy. to earn more, you can either watch 2 ads once a day.... or buy it. energy costs, at its cheapest, ~83¢. i'm fine with watching a couple ads to speed progress in games, but the energy mechanic breaks this game unless you spend money on it. without this mechanic i'd rate the game 4/5. i hope the developers remove it or make the energy use/recharge rate more reasonable.