Idle Dino Zoo Negative Reviews

Idle Dino Zoo App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Idle Dino Zoo app received 12 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Idle Dino Zoo? Can you share your negative thoughts about idle dino zoo?

Idle Dino Zoo for Negative User Reviews

✓ A good idle game held back by its microtransactionsLook, I get that free-to-play games need microtransactions. I’m not here to call for their removal. What I AM here for is to voice my concerns over the pricing of the premium currency and how often it’s used in the game’s economy. Many aspects of the game are gated behind Gems. You use Gems to buy one-time boosts, unlock cards and additional card slots, unlock alternate versions of your dinosaurs (which do provide bonuses), build extra rooms for your tower (these are the permanent upgrades), and a few more. I find it ridiculous that all these features are reliant on Gems. I’d understand if only a few were, but this just seems like too many. Another thing I have a big issue with is that the currency itself is just soooo ridiculously expensive. Let’s say you wanna buy the Legendary version of the Triceratops. It’s 400 Gems. The closest pack in the store to 400 is 390 (because of course it is). It’s $29.99 Are you KIDDING me??? Even the “remove ads” bundle is super expensive compared to other free games. It’s $9.99! Sure, the ads in this game serve only to provide you with bonus cash (and sometimes a few Gems, if you’re lucky) and the bundle itself comes with a permanent x2 mating boost, but it still isn’t worth it. You can also buy an “Epic Bundle” for $29.99 that doubles the amount of fossils you get when you prestige and gives you 400 Gems. The only reason why this pack is even remotely close to being worth that is because like I said, it’a $29.99 for 390. It’s literally only valuable because the game’s economy is broken. I do really like this game, but this economy is just weighing it down hard. What I would suggest is allowing us to buy certain things (like the alternate skins and cards) with the fossils. This would make the fossils even more valuable and give the player more to work towards that doesn’t require them to fork over money. I’d be more than happy to spend a couple bucks on this game to support it, but as it stands, the value just isn’t there. Thus ends my TED Talk..S743591Version: v0.6.2

✓ Fun game but watch your gemsI love this game, it has a challenging tier structure and great Dino animations. However, I was saving up my gem to buy a room and double my fossils but I woke up one day and I was missing 200 gems! Just gone! I emailed support about this but the were no help. The said I probably spent them on accident but I know I didn’t. So don’t go to them for help..KAMANAYEHA!!!Version: v0.6.2

✓ Lack of UpdatesI loved the game, but it’s been over a year with ‘Coming Soon’ for the zone 8 improvements. I get the impression that this game isn’t going to be getting any updates, fixes or improvements at this point..Quil567890Version: v0.7.2

✓ Great GameI really enjoy the game so far. I like the art style. Only critique I have is make the font look less out of place and the ui smaller. If the font was more fitting and the ui was smaller than the game would be perfect!.GsmontyVersion: v0.5.0

✓ EhEh there’s better games.Dinosaurfan39071Version: v0.6.2

✓ Bad display sizeGame is great except I cannot see how much money I have. It displays behind the notch at the top of the iPhone. It’s so bad it ruins the game because I don’t know I can buy or what I’m building to..SIRosenVersion: v0.7.2

✓ No thanksYeah, this game is pretty terrible. It advertises itself as an idle game, but you can only acquire offline resources for TWO HOURS. That’s not even enough time to sleep. There is a way you can increase the idle time but not until way later into the game. After you’ve collected a bunch of fossils and you buy an HQ room that permanently increased the idle time a bit. But c’mon, TWO HOURS right off the bat??? That’s a terrible starting point. Not only that but the way the game works is rather strange. I’ve literally only been playing this game for a few hours and there is a birth rate and a death rate for dinos. Somehow, for whatever reason, as you progress later into the game, the death rate is HIGHER than the birth rate RIGHT off the bat when buying your first few dinos. In WHAT zoo is it more likely for an animal to die than it is for them to successfully breed? None, because they’d be shut down. If your zoo is so terribly bad at breeding a certain animal that the animal is actually more likely to die, there’s something wrong there. So already within the first few hours of playing the game there’s some things fundamentally wrong with it. I think that the death rate should be no more than half when it comes to the dinos. I like to think that in a zoo, literally in a controlled and (should be) safe environment, the odds between an animal dying or being born shouldn’t be higher than 50/50. Realistically I think that even 50/50 is too high when it comes to breeding animals in a controlled environment. Most animals in zoos live long prosperous lives and die less frequently than in the wild. Big whoop, just upgrade the birth rate a couple times, right? No. I’ve upgraded the birth rate 10 times now and it’s put me back several hundred thousands of dollars and they still die instead of breed. The easiest way to fix this is to watch a bunch of ads and then you get a small boost to the breeding rate. What’s that called, kids? A cash grab. Practically forcing us to earn them money so we can progress. Not cool. 👎🏻 Once you have 50k you can open one trade slot and you can trade one kind of dino every FOUR HOURS. And if you want to unlock another slot, it’s a whopping ONE MILLION? How did it go from 50k to one million? It’s obvious that the economy in this game is rigged and is meant to force you to spend real life money or watch several ads in order to progress at a decent pace. To earn money from visitors at your zoo you can do things like upgrade the drink station. That’s one of the first upgrades available right off the bat, and guess how much it boosts your income per visitor? 0.02¢. Yup, less than ONE cent. Less than HALF a cent. How many visitors do you get per the first bathroom upgrade? 5. I think right off the bat the game is setting you up for failure. Since when is a drink at a zoo less than one cent? Let’s just say you keep playing. You buy enough upgrades that you unlock the Information Kiosk that earns you 0.12¢ per visitor. A little over a dime. How much will it cost you for that first upgrade? 50k. Spend 50k for 10¢ aye? The earnings might actually be worth it if I didn’t have to sit and stare at the screen for hours waiting for it to accumulate because I can only get 2 hours worth of offline resources at the moment. People are talking about how this isn’t an “easy idle game” and that you have to “put the work in”. What work? Sit around and wait with my screen on constantly KILLING my battery the whole time until I put 100mil worth of coins into my zoo so I can sell it for only 20 fossils? You call sitting around and staring at your phone “putting the work in”??? Every second that I am away from the app writing this review I am losing money. Hard work isn’t sitting and waiting for money to accumulate. Lol. However, I will say that more TIME needs to be dedicated to this game to make decent progress. But again, I wouldn’t call that “hard work”. You can sell your zoo once it’s worth 100mil for fossils. You use these to unlock permanent buildings that boost your zoo. You only get 20 fossils for a zoo worth 100mil. So I’m going to spend the equivalent or more of 100mil on my zoo for only 20 fossils? Well, if that isn’t enough for you, no big deal, you can earn 25 fossils, 5 more fossils than before, if your zoo is worth ONE BILLION. If you sell your zoo for 10x more than 100mil, then you can earn 0.2x more fossils. So, 100mil for 20 fossils and 1 billion for 25? Why not just sell your zoo for 100mil 10 times and get 20 fossils each time and end up with 200 fossils? Why would that even be an option? It’s idiotic in terms of financial management. Skip this one, guys. There are better idle tycoon zoo games out there. Like Happy Safari (they have prehistoric animals). Or Disco Zoo. Let’s talk about how visually displeasing and boring this game is to the eyes. I, for one, LOVE pixelated art. Hence the two previous games I mentioned who do it much better. Don’t get me wrong, the dinosaurs are very detailed with all the little pixels. But it’s the lack of animation that makes the game visually a bore. The only thing animated really is the dinosaurs that kinda bop up and down, sometimes open their mouth. Things like that. Other than the flames on the little torches at the front of the zoo that wiggle a bit. Only the dinos and the torch flames move. The trees don’t move, the water surrounding the island doesn’t move, there are no visitors roaming the island, no clouds moving or birds flying over head, the entire island is seemingly dead. Zoomed out really far the dinos in the enclosure are really small and you can barely even notice them moving at all. So for the most part the game just looks dead. I do still encourage work on this game. I believe it has the potential to be great. But it seems to me that its unfinished at this time. I realize this game is new, but I personally would not have released this game in its current state what with its fundamental issues.ChsufivkakVersion: v0.6.2

✓ Terrible game!Congratulations! You made one of the most boring games ever made! DELETE,.Husker*56Version: v0.7.2

✓ Can’t restore my purchasesI love this game, I played it consistently for months and got to the point I felt like there was nothing left to do so I deleted it and played something else. I recently decided I wanted to play again however when I tried to restore my purchases it wouldn’t let me. I had bought the ads removal package as-well as a couple Dino skins. If you can fix it to where I can get those back I’ll change it to 5 stars.S0m3dudeVersion: v0.7.2

✓ Great Game that’s been abandonedThe developers have ditched this game and its no longer being updated. While fun, the end can be easily reached in a day leaving a lot to be desired..RickletsVersion: v0.7.2

✓ Great potentialI love this game, but there are 2 main issues: 1. It is not letting me restore purchases. I previously spent a bit of money on this game and since redownloading it won’t let me restore my purchases because it says “unable to connect to internet”. I’m back to ads and other things I paid not to have. 2. On iPhone the money is cut off at the top of the screen; visual area should be cropped to reflect the new iPhones..Erin.DuckyVersion: v0.7.2

✓ FunWish the developers would up date it. It’s been 9 months.NicK(name)hASbeEnTAkEnVersion: v0.6.2

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