Midnight Castle - Mystery Game

I have been playing this game to the point of being bored out of my mind and keep playing only because I love the graphics. No continual store line so you just keep going from game board to game board. I am on a fixed income and have one time of the month I can purchase coins or gems, you never offer me a break on purchase such as buy 200 get 100 free. Just this last month I have played trying to get 2 more special tickets so I can craft an item to finish a quest from the dragon to get a ruin so I can proceed to the next persons request, without receiving the said tickets. Can't buy them and use all my gems, so I am bored silly. For a while I had a third party that I had not seen before and can not find again that at least I could feel like I was making some headway but now today when I turned it on she was gone, without me finishing the task I was working on. I am almost to turn off place and look for new game!!!!! I think I just keep coming back because I am home bound and need to have something to do when I am bedfast basically 24/7. For some reason you game designers do not get it, I understand you must have money to design new games and to keep the old ones up and going but there has to be some compromise that could help people in my position out. Perhaps an annual or monthly enrollment fee that could be paid in leu of the need to purchase items to complete or follow the game that would then allow you the needed gems or coins; just a thought.

* oops! Spoke too soon. Great graphics, NO story, BORED TO TEARS with repetition that has no real final destination. 😒 Update! I haven't played in Months. Just checked in to see the holiday goodies,and they've made changes to how some of the quest items are obtained, making it easier to access. The new modes (night, mirror) are great, and switch it up enough to be less repetitive, and are done better than many other games I've played. I'm BACK to playing one of my favorites, been able to complete a few tasks in the past day, that I'd been trying previously, and the gave up. Happy!!! Started out with great fun, but the story line has become nonexistent, characters morph or disappeared with no story to explain, areas I'd hoped would become new to explore just got left for a whole new area of the map to be open, but nothing new for actual rooms to explore. The worst is that sometimes I pop in just to play through all the rooms. Instead of collecting the items I will need, I get "awarded" coins. Then when I play to earn the items I do need, I still can't earn them, and have to wait an hour to play the room again? I'm done! There are so many other games to play. Pretty graphics, but not worth the stress to play the game as game-play. When I need hidden object rooms to'play I might return.

No overall plot. Game seems to be designed to extract $ from the players as the primary objective. There's no upgrade of the character as you progress - only more difficult and expensive quests with no offset in ability to accomplish them, and no way to get rewards than when you start the game, therefore no sense of accomplishment or actual progress towards a final goal,whatever that might be! The game does work well and the graphics are first rate, which has kept me at it to level 44. Another level opens up after level 45; if nothing significant happens then,l think tI'll quit the game and stay clear of "free" games in the future. Now at level 76-- guess I'm a gluten for punishment! Some improvement in plot and rewards, but not enough to my way of thinking. Why am I still playing? Partially inertia and familiarity, and also a desire to "beat" this game with a minimum expenditure of $$. Not, unfortunately, to learn how it all turns out, as segments keep getting added faster than I can negotiate them, with no end in sight. Big Fish, please end this game and create a sequel. I feel that a sense of closure would be welcome to all players , and would prompt them to follow their favorite characters in another (not interminable) adventure.