Zombie Castaways

It’s fun and definitely can play a lot longer than other similar games like Klondike where cut down one Boulder and your done for next couple hours unless you buy the energy. The Z dollars purchased goes much further as well when buying items for game. Tool wells, don’t like they run out and you have to have a lot on your island to have enough for tasks. There are times it seems no matter how many you build there is never enough; for the timed islands- which eat up tools quickly. Also I noticed if an area requires an pick mostly due to lots of boulders or a an due to lots of trees - you seem to get less of the needed tool. For instance when I’m not working an island I get all tools pretty much evenly. But start using axe a lot and the wells give less axes. Same with pick. Support said that is not the case. But my experience is there is a decrease in a needed tool from well. I will suddenly start getting more of the tools I’m not using and less of the tool I am using.

As others mentioned, this game has many appealing qualities. And way too many primary flaws. The tool problem is utterly ridiculous. I’m currently on Pirate Island and have cleared the main goal, and have been systematically clearing all the remaining obstacles, too the point that only rocks are left. 75 lava rocks - requiring 55 to 125 pickaxes each; over 55 black, green, and white marble rocks - requiring 25 to 35 pickaxes each; 35 grass topped hills - requiring 85 to 155 pickaxes each ... and only ONE well to get them! Early in the game I fell for the stupid trick of buying miners to break up rocks and woodchoppers to cut down trees - only to discover they ONLY work on the first TWO islands! What the H*&# is their point? Why so many options to get them, only to not be able to use them??? The deeper you get into this game, the greater the frustration level becomes. I go sometimes for days without even looking at the game - just not up to feeling jerked around so much. Adequate quantities of quartz or temporary wells on ALL the islands would make the game enjoyable as well as playable. As it is, I’d not recommend getting involved in it unless you have nothing to do but waste your whole life away getting 4 or 5 tools at five minute intervals - and only three cycles maximum in “inventory”. (Meaning you can’t just wait for them to accrue - you must constantly clear the well to accumulate anything.) It’s really a shame.

I love this game, I love games like this where I can build stuff and explore new places. I have several issues with this game though,..as others have said it is beyond frustrating to have to jump through so many hoops to get tools, it takes so many materials and the quarts are hard to get, not to mention it feels like once u add a well one runs out immediately in order for you to not have so many tools, then u have to wait so long to accumulate enough tools to do anything on the islands. The game is pretty much designed to force you to buy zombie bucks and I’m sorry but I’m not spending money on a game, especially when the zombies only go so far. The other thing that really makes me mad is that you can’t get any more then 100 tools in each category, even if the well spits out enough to get u over 100 it will only let u have 100 tools which is ridiculous. I should be able to have as many tools as I collect. The game seems designed to keep u from being able to play it without buying stuff. I won’t buy zombucks, so the game is going very slow for me. If these things were fixed I would give it more stars, but I doubt that happens. Another thing is that they give you those bonus islands at the same time and give u time limits so it’s almost impossible to finish the islands before time runs out if you aren’t willing to use your actual money to buy zombie money to get those blades that cut down anything.