ImminentFaith
May 30, 2020
Look, I almost exclusively play phone games these days, so I’ve grown accustomed to watching ads during gameplay or for bonuses and boosts. But this game is absurd. I figured I’d count them out to try and get an average for time spent watching ads. After a 30 minute period, with playtime varying from 32 seconds to as little as 13 seconds, on average I watched an ad every 19.3 seconds. THAT IS INSANE. It’s almost as if they’re purposely brow-beating you into spending the $2.99 to stop the ads. Which, in reality isn’t a whole lot of money, but seeing as how the game has no offline reward setup like so many other “idle” games it’s not really worth it. Besides, all you do is chop down trees. When you have power-ups going the game is actually quite entertaining. Something about cleaning down 15 trees with one swift blow is fun. But, for obvious reasons, it’s pretty redundant. It needs some kind of boss or something. Some sort of goal to achieve other than “level up your axe to cut stronger trees.” The game is lacking serious purpose. I would be willing to rate the game much higher if it had some sort of additional goal, or even if there was an offline reward program where you continued to cut trees.
TL;DR - So many ads, needs more of a purpose, no offline rewards. If you have 5 minutes to spare. Chop some trees. Otherwise, keep it moving.