Backpacker™

This game is actually pretty good. The developer is almost certainly from Sweden as a lot of the questions are biased toward that country, no matter where you are in the world, but then the answer is probably Swedish themed too. People have complained the questions are too hard? Really? You enter quizzes so you can either improve your knowledge and learn something, or you compete as an adult against 4 year olds to stack the chances of winning in your favour. The fact that they might actually learn some facts about different countries seems to appall them. This is what sets the game apart, questions about other countries and cultures. You don’t have to actually wait a full day, btw, to be able to answer landmark questions, just a game day which is when you have run out of energy.

This game could have it all; varied questions and tasks and I’ve really learned a lot about countries I’ve never visited. That said, it can quickly become very frustrating when you need one new job Diploma (which involves asking a series of questions) and game-day after game-day, you’re not offered the ‘job’ you need as an option. Or worse, it’s there as an option and when you click on it, it says “sorry, try again later”. I’m on the verge of giving up on Lima right about now. The other issue for me (I’m British) isn’t the Swedish bias but the American bias; of ten questions under “currency expert”, even when you’re in a non-American city usually results in nine of them being about which President appears on which sized dollars bill. Or choosing ‘Zoologist’ and you’re asked to identify the State fossil of Idaho! Really!? I understand that the US is probably the biggest market but have a thought for the other 7.7 billion of us, eh? And try and get the needed jobs to come up a bit more frequently or I’ll have to return to Sudoku.

This looked good, I love geography and general knowledge themed games. However, after a week or so, it became frustrating more than anything. Answering the required questions to proceed seems almost impossible, and the game became a chore. Waiting for “tickets” to even attempt to unlock the sites - questions that even a native would struggle with - became so annoying I deleted the game. I upgraded the guitar, and played every day, but it clearly wants you to purchase tickets to proceed. Even though ads play every few minutes, they are pushy with their upgrade tactics. Shame, as the game itself is well made and the idea is great.

Started playing this game but only enjoyed it for a couple of days. Questions are too hard. It’s too difficult to actually achieve the diplomas. Really hard to get tickets. To answer the city sights questions you need a hell of a lot of tickets if you dont get them right and need to retry. You can spend a whole day trying to get tickets and then when you get to answer the city sights questions and fail it’s just disheartening to know you’re spending another day just to achieve tickets. Upgrading the guitar and wallet is good when all said and done but to be able to afford to do so means answering a lot of questions that are very difficult. Just takes the fun out of the game. Tickets numbers should be reduced to answer the city questions so then you can actually enjoy it and want to carry on playing. I’ve persevered for a few days but I’m bored now which is a shame.

I absolutely love the game, I believe its one of the best you can find here. Learned a lot since I started. Although I can perhaps give you a tip, if you really down on tickets, dont get too frustrated, just put the game down for a day or 2, and you will get tickets from your guitar. Once I left the game for 5 days, and I managed to fill my wallet with 100 tickets. This will help you to keep going. There is only one problem I have with the game which was quiet frustrating at some point, that its too much US related, many people play this game from other countries, and perhaps they are not into NFL, NHL ETC... Not to mention political questions regards to the States. If they could limit these questions and perhaps create worldwide ones would be more fun for people from EU or other continents. But apart from this, its an amazing game where actually you have to use your brain and study a bit. Absolutely the best I have come across here.