Pixsteps: Gamified Pedometer

To start, I want to say this is my favorite app and has been since I downloaded it earlier this year. It’s been an absolute joy expanding/growing my garden and has been good motivation with half marathon training, especially since leveling up now requires so many steps. I’ve never had a complaint until now - I’ve been growing my garden towards the lake/body of water. I was so excited for my garden to grow into that space since I thought it would come with a whole new set of water-based garden items and animals (fish, turtles, etc) to buy. However, I was disappointed to find that instead of overlapping the water features, my garden now protrudes into the water quite unnaturally. I also love the water elements throughout the overall world so it seems a shame that eventually my garden will completely get rid of them to be one big stretch of grass. I’m assuming this is the intention of the designers rather than a specific blip in my game since everything else seems to be working perfectly. If so, please reconsider and introduce water elements to the game!

You can kinda see all the positives in the other reviews and the pictures for the app, so I’ll just list some things they really need to fix. The game “synchronizes” every time you press a button and it lasts for like 6-7 seconds. Not horrible since I’m not really in a rush, but a little annoying. The game needs more choices for push notifications. When I go for a walk, I 100% want this think to let me know when I’m almost going to grow something, or when something’s been fully grown. It takes a looong time for it to notify me, I’m pretty sure it only syncs with the health app when you open it. Please let me spend an increasing amount of steps to re-roll my daily store :’) Please don’t have pre-set daily stores and allow it to actually be randomized per user. FOR APPLE WATCH USERS If you got this app, and then get a phone after, the Apple Watch version doesn’t sync. I can open mine and it’ll just say 0 steps and show an empty lot. As far as I can tell, the Apple Watch version simply doesn’t work.

Update: Having less issues now, though overall the responsiveness and data syncing could be smoother. I give it 4 stars because this does accomplish something none of the other current “gamified walkers” do. In that it simply banks up your steps towards goals, without forcing you to capture territory or fight battles or anything like that. If that’s what you want, this provides it. Could be a 5-star if it worked more smoothly. Seems like it could be a cool game. However, I’m having issues with items not being there and progress not being saved. Downloaded the game and grew a lily which worked fine. Then went to plant a tree requiring 4000 steps and went on a walk. Had it up to about 2000 steps, then next time I opened app tree was gone. Opened it again the next morning, tree still gone. Deleted app and reinstalled, tree now there. Closed app and reopened, tree gone again.