App Profile: Minivana: Playful Nest

krivera94

Rating: 5/5

I love these types of timed decoration games and have several downloaded, ready to play at any moment— and this is my current favorite! The difficulty is just right with most being easy to breeze through and the occasional extra tricky items! I love the graphics and the animations are super cute, especially the rainbow effect when you place a piece of furniture correctly. I also feel that the collectible monuments and countries are so unique to this game, and I love the little info-bits describing them in the scrapbook! There are only pop-up ads after about 3 or 4 levels which I think is the perfect amount to support the developers, and they’re also skippable. The banner ads can feel a little distracting to the gameplay, but they’re not intrusive and easy enough to ignore. Bonus is that ad-free is only $2.99. After playing this game for a while, I do wish that the ad-free payment also eliminated the transition ads that show when a level is loading or upon completion of a level. While they don’t get in the way of gameplay, they’re irksome to view and cheapen the experience. I feel that gameplay would be more immersive without them, and if I am going to pay money to get rid of the ads, I’d prefer they be all gone. My only other critique is that I wish there was an option to pause the treasure chest special effect where it opens and the coins float up into your coin bar— it takes way too long and once you have more than 5 countries to collect coins from, the whole process slows down gameplay. I’m sure some people would enjoy sitting there waiting for every single chest to slowly open, revealing the shiny gold coins to collect, but I personally don’t. All in all, amazing game, keep it up devs! Can’t wait for further updates and future games from your team :)

Melrlsa

Rating: 2/5

It’s a cute game but the ads are just way too much. Ads on every loading screen then a forced 60-90+ second unskippable ad after every level. Really disappointing because it would be a good Unpacking style game if you didn’t spend more time watching ads than you do playing… Also I really dislike all of these “relaxing” games that have time limits for each level - there should be an option to remove the timer or they shouldn’t claim it’s a cozy/relaxing game!

JKraiO

Rating: 1/5

Uninstalled after four levels due to the fact that a massive ad window covers the “complete level” button and forces you to watch a video ad to close out of the level. I played a few levels to see if it was just a one-off thing but nope, forced to watch a video ad every single time I finished a level that takes thirty seconds to complete. Absolutely unplayable.