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Wasteland Life: Survival Idle
SayGames Ltd · 79,718 ratings · ★ 4.0
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Top complaints - extracted from 49 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
32 negative reviews mention this · 65% of all complaints
★★★★★ "takes 15-20 minutes to upgrade stuff early in game. give you only a 5 minute decrease for a 2 minute ad. However ads don't work and when it finishes game reboots. so they are farming ads for nothing. plus there's nothing to do while upgradi…" - Shane Fischer
2
"play"
13 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "game is buggy. it also crashes when ad plays. so no bonus for watching ads." - Legg Bench
3
"money"
8 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "same issue as murder hill .....too many ads every couple of minutes. it's ridiculous. u guys need money so bad, but u make the game unenjoyable!! and no, I ain't paying to remove ads. it's either a free game or it's not. but advertise prior…" - Toni Simard
4
"watch"
8 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "game is buggy. it also crashes when ad plays. so no bonus for watching ads." - Legg Bench
5
"every"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "same issue as murder hill .....too many ads every couple of minutes. it's ridiculous. u guys need money so bad, but u make the game unenjoyable!! and no, I ain't paying to remove ads. it's either a free game or it's not. but advertise prior…" - Toni Simard
6
"minutes"
5 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "takes 15-20 minutes to upgrade stuff early in game. give you only a 5 minute decrease for a 2 minute ad. However ads don't work and when it finishes game reboots. so they are farming ads for nothing. plus there's nothing to do while upgradi…" - Shane Fischer
7
"give"
5 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "takes 15-20 minutes to upgrade stuff early in game. give you only a 5 minute decrease for a 2 minute ad. However ads don't work and when it finishes game reboots. so they are farming ads for nothing. plus there's nothing to do while upgradi…" - Shane Fischer
8
"while"
5 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "takes 15-20 minutes to upgrade stuff early in game. give you only a 5 minute decrease for a 2 minute ad. However ads don't work and when it finishes game reboots. so they are farming ads for nothing. plus there's nothing to do while upgradi…" - Shane Fischer
9
"enough"
5 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This is a decent fun game with one HUGE draw back! Even if you pay to get rid of ads you'll get ads because you don't have enough resources to continue the game. So basically the only way to continue is to watch ads or pay more money. This …" - Izzy T
10
"didn"
5 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "ALOT of Ads. The ads are never ending, the game would be enjoyable if you didn't get interrupted every minute or two with ads." - Courtney
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got 16 ads in 10 seconds
takes 15-20 minutes to upgrade stuff early in game. give you only a 5 minute decrease for a 2 minute ad. However ads don't work and when it finishes game reboots. so they are farming ads for nothing. plus there's nothing to do while upgrading, I'm totally out of sand and stuff to craft. don't bother with this one
Please fix the bug in the game. Because the sand-pulling gun cannot pull sand even after upgrading to level 21 The game has restarted... Please update the game to prevent any errors
game is buggy. it also crashes when ad plays. so no bonus for watching ads.
bad. to many ads you do something then there a ad you get back do the next bit then there's another ad.
this game is way to slow and is full of auto ads
I just installed the game, and after 5 seconds in the game you gave me ads already.
game has numerous glitches set item to craft it give time 11minutes come back to game later in day time hasnt moved at all. This happens frequently. start crafting items close Game come back items is Mia not started it not done.
full of ads
worse game ever. way to many adds and stops the game to watch an add. need to stop that. the game is way to slow. not that fun to play
keeps crashing every time I open it
Not only is this more forced ad trash, the game is buggy as hell. if you do ANYTHING out of order, the game breaks and wont let you progress until you restart. if i could give this negative stars, I would
Having major issues app is constantly crashing and not saving... Help.. 😞
Several times your game has booted me off in the middle of getting an item I come back from my hard work its gone thats entirely heinous
constant crashes
constant ads pop ups when you just start the game, can't even play long enough to decide if you like it enough for spend on the game to stop the adds. 10 out of 10 don't recommend. simply due to the aggressive pushy ads to make you spend on the game.
too many ads really irritating, don't download waste of time
once I got to the factory, it screwed up, & I can't play anymore. I've contacted them by email, & they told me it's too bad, maybe it'll be fixed in a future update. I'm just screwed now. All I can do is play the factory repeatedly, but I can't go anywhere else, including home. You guys won't actually help, or fix it!
I can't even start the game! It takes awhile to load for 1.... then.. IF it gets pass the load screen.. it crashes on the very next screen! Repeatedly! Please fix.. or I will have no other choice but to uninstall.
game lags and restarts constantly.
lag
This is the worst game I've ever played. Glitchy, hyper aggressive advertising, constant crashes, slow, no plot boring. I'd rather get punched in the face by a professional boxer than ever play this game again. 0 Stars would be to overrate it.
Made the mistake of installing before reading the reviews. ANY GAME THAT FORCES ADS TO INTERRUPT GAME PLAY IS AN INSTANT DELETE. Not even gonna try it. Done.
just like the rest of the games on mobile, way too many ads. it's annoying and off putting.
too many ads
Ads,Ads,Ads! it just got to the point where I got so fed up with an ad for almost every damn thing in this game, which is annoying in the beginning and just becomes frustratingly more annoying, because of constant gameplay interruption, if you want to play this game, I suggest you spend the money and make it ad free and it'll make it more enjoyable.But I don't believe in spending money like that.
Ad experience HORRIBLE!!! A forced ad literally couldn't be closed unless you click to play store but then it caused the play store to completely freeze for about 10 mins!!! You seriously should consider which ad companies to add ads from because some are diabolical!! The ads aren't the only issue, this game is overheating my phone
Well, once the game started I wasn't able to get anywhere. Took 1 step & the game restarted 🤨back to the beginning (as in the green screen)😤when you 1st open the game. I uninstalled & reinstalled.. Sadly this is a NO..
Bothersome ads, awkward controls, and I promised myself that if it begged for a review a third time in the first ten minutes I would give it one star. Also I think that they're using AI to reply to reviews.
Everytime a ad comes up which is many it forces a reset on the app. dumb!
Would be a good game if it didn't randomly have commercials, unprompted, every 3 minutes while you're playing the game. of course you can! buy/ spend money to not have ads, but he's going to do it for such a low quality game
It would get stuck with a commercial that if you didn't buy something you could not turn it off. So I deleted it
it's a stupid game didn't sections are on different levels and you can't ever do anything after you get all of the sand out on each section like the one part it's supposed to be level 4 but to destroy other things that are level 4 it doesn't do. and to get special things you have to watch adds so they said no adds but to get the special.items you have to watch the adds and it don't work on my device I try to watch the adds and it kicks ne off the game so it's a pos game I'm done with it
the game is good but the guy gets stuck a lot and you have to restart the game to unstick him I got so mad cuz it happens so much I broke my phone and the missions don't give good direction on what to do. after I broke my phone I didn't reinstall it on my new phone.
don't buy. it takes your money for no ads and then you keep getting ads. it's a rip off and a con. I wish I never installed the game. I can't even get my money back and it keeps charging me
Way to many ads on a free game. I can understand ads for speed up boosts and extra stuff that you may want to preview for paid items, but to all of a sudden drop you into an Ad for walking around or dropping off resources is kind of ridiculous. Downloaded the game cause I thought it looked fun enough but probably won't play for long because the Ad to game ratio is about 4:1.
lots of ads, slow repetitive play
Do you want to play the game? well good luck, every 5 mins or will try to sell you something, evey 2.5 mins you get an ad, and if you decide to watch an ad to use the special items? it reboots the game post ad so you don't get to use the item. So either you have to pay, or be flooded with ads so the developers get more money. The game is also set up that it's basicly on rails, you can't get extra items to prepare for the timelocks to lift.
waaaaaaaaay too many ads
same issue as murder hill .....too many ads every couple of minutes. it's ridiculous. u guys need money so bad, but u make the game unenjoyable!! and no, I ain't paying to remove ads. it's either a free game or it's not. but advertise prior to download that u have to pay to play.
This is a decent fun game with one HUGE draw back! Even if you pay to get rid of ads you'll get ads because you don't have enough resources to continue the game. So basically the only way to continue is to watch ads or pay more money. This is all the time which definitely destroys the fun of the game. Sorry but it's time to uninstall this game..........
ALOT of Ads. The ads are never ending, the game would be enjoyable if you didn't get interrupted every minute or two with ads.
I played for about 3 months until it got literally impossible to get the resources I need. this game isn't fun enough for me to spend 3 days getting parts to build something
This is not a real idle game. in-game PURCHASE PRICES are greedy. TIME WAIT, after taking TIME to collect resources, ludacris. Character gets stuck behind objects easily. with that said, Its a beautiful game, easy walkthrough story.
Way too many ads first off. It's one thing to watch an ad to earn an extra buffer, however to watch an AD just to play the game is a problem. This game has TOO many ads for you to enjoy playing the game. When the ads are optional it is okay but when it is forced, NO THANKS. Also your prices are too high $40 for someone to do the work while your offline and online is way to much money.
game is good. but when you play an ad for materials it makes you watch the ad but restarts the game so you don't get the materials you watched the ad for. will uninstall the game.
yeah seems cool
I've been playing for a few days. I like the game so far but the ads and pop-ups and vender in middle of street in my way, they are constantly asking for money. The forced ads are very random and when you watch a longer ad to get a special time limit on a tool, you then get forced ads while the timer is going! it does not pause!! so unfair! you don't get 3min of unlimited time because your ads take away that time it's more like 2 minutes. I don't mind watching ads but this is out of control.
concerning ads, I have played this game for awhile now. my problem, ADS!!! Bad enough they are really frequent. you have to watch 3 ads to get the vacuum or hammer. then while using them. it cuts out to another ad. wasting the time to use the tools. otherwise I would have rated it higher. but until that's fixed. you get what you get
Sentiment summary
74%
Positive (4-5★)
7%
Neutral (3★)
19%
Negative (1-2★)