Combo Critters

I like finding out which critters are the best and getting them by combining specific critters. The money system makes every battle tense and rewarding instead of easy and boring. I love how every critter matters and whenever you collect a critter, that critter will help you get the best critters, so there is no worries technically when choosing critters to collect, but each time you collect a critter, you have to work for it, and its up to you how you invest your time and money, which adds strategy. Collecting all the critters is not impossible like in Pokemon. The planets you travel to are imaginative and fun to adventure in, which is made a reality by the amazing music! The critters you collect are interesting and goofy at the same time making collecting them satisfying and exciting. All this makes Combo Critters a fantastic mobile game.

The core concept is cool. Basically Pokemon but as just a series of more difficult plants and evolving is just combing creatures to get a new one. This game gets pretty grindy pretty fast. Maybe my patience for grinding has gotten lower over the years but even as early as the third planet, I'm just grinding battling to get enough coins to combine my creatures into something that will survive against the boss. There are combo attacks you can do that are kinda fun but you have to hit three times to do it and that rarely happens unless you're fighting a boss. The huge miss for me is the fact that you cannot order your creatures. What?? You can't sort by level and you can't manually reorder them. I tried to sort them by level by clunkily putting them in the combine slot, going to the page I wanted and dropping them off. I left the screen and came back and they had all gone back to the previous messy order. Good idea for a game but the actual mechanics are infuriating.

An amazing game overall, it’s a great time killer and I’ve played through it 2 times already! It really brings back nostalgia (maybe cause Pokémon and the pixelated artwork) and it feels like a pocketed version of no man’s sky, seriously. I’m a exaggerating on that part a bit though. It brings back an old game style without the same old mechanics and design of RPGs and it’s a very satisfying process in each battle. Just know that if u like this game and play it a lot it will end pretty fast. That’s the only thing that’s keeping this game from 5 stars. So developers if you’re listening to this, please, please add more planets. It’s so fun to explore and find n’ combine all these different creatures and I believe it create the perfect game.👍👍👍👍/5

I played this through to the end. The best thing about it is the music. Maxo did a superb job putting the tracks together. The game itself is fun enough, battle things and collect things, smoosh them together if you don’t feel like battling to get them. It all starts to break down in the upper levels though, especially the last level where only level 11 critters will combine and you have to spend hours scoring the map trying to find one to fight, only to be punished if the critter isn’t picked up by having to go back to the previous planet to collect coins again, them return and continue searching for where you just were. Placing arbitrary road blocks that waste time is not fun or challenging. Just boring. It would have gotten 5 stars had the rest of the game resembled the first 9 levels.

I just want to say that I absolutely adore this game’s concept and art! It’s colorful, fun, and very creative! However, that doesn’t hide the flaws that creep in as you progress. Coins. Just coins. They were completely mishandled. You need a lot of them to even get good monsters, but you are always low on them no matter what you do. The game also has a tendency to have spikes of difficulty between worlds. I remember getting to the pirate planet and getting absolutely destroyed by even the weakest enemies! It’s much to grindy for it to be satisfying. I think it just needs some reworking in those areas and it would be perfect.