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Idle Theme Park - Tycoon Game
Codigames · 152,659 ratings · ★ 4.6
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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.
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"game"
46 negative reviews mention this · 79% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ain’t the same. Ain’t the same as the video , fake game." - Uru2026
2
"money"
23 negative reviews mention this · 40% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cash Grab Update. This game has been fantastic through the years I’ve played, but the latest updates where research tokens are needed to evolve your rides make it almost impossible to upgrade without spending tons of money. It’s unfortunate to see such a fun…" - Jrkirkham19
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"play"
21 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cash Grab Update. This game has been fantastic through the years I’ve played, but the latest updates where research tokens are needed to evolve your rides make it almost impossible to upgrade without spending tons of money. It’s unfortunate to see such a fun…" - Jrkirkham19
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"rides"
14 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cash Grab Update. This game has been fantastic through the years I’ve played, but the latest updates where research tokens are needed to evolve your rides make it almost impossible to upgrade without spending tons of money. It’s unfortunate to see such a fun…" - Jrkirkham19
5
"progress"
14 negative reviews mention this · 24% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Grab. Events don't dispense awards, they throw ads and in app purchases at you ever 30 seconds. type of game you open for 40 seconds and then wait a whole day to make progress again" - Annoyed And Wrong
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"tokens"
13 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cash Grab Update. This game has been fantastic through the years I’ve played, but the latest updates where research tokens are needed to evolve your rides make it almost impossible to upgrade without spending tons of money. It’s unfortunate to see such a fun…" - Jrkirkham19
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"update"
12 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cash Grab Update. This game has been fantastic through the years I’ve played, but the latest updates where research tokens are needed to evolve your rides make it almost impossible to upgrade without spending tons of money. It’s unfortunate to see such a fun…" - Jrkirkham19
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"upgrade"
12 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cash Grab Update. This game has been fantastic through the years I’ve played, but the latest updates where research tokens are needed to evolve your rides make it almost impossible to upgrade without spending tons of money. It’s unfortunate to see such a fun…" - Jrkirkham19
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"playing"
12 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "You must read, do not download!. I’ve been playing for a while now and got to be past the WATERPARK but it crashes and takes me back to Home Screen after I haven’t played in a few months like 4. It’s ridiculous! I am literally deleting it after I finish righting!!!!!!😡🤬�…" - gognogfrog
10
"every"
12 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Obvious money grab. I really didn’t want to make this review because I truly do think that this game was fun, but with the recent changes I cannot continue without adding my 2 cents. A part of this game is gathering research points. These used to only be used…" - leoclaire
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"evolve"
10 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cash Grab Update. This game has been fantastic through the years I’ve played, but the latest updates where research tokens are needed to evolve your rides make it almost impossible to upgrade without spending tons of money. It’s unfortunate to see such a fun…" - Jrkirkham19
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"ride"
10 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cash Grab Update. This game has been fantastic through the years I’ve played, but the latest updates where research tokens are needed to evolve your rides make it almost impossible to upgrade without spending tons of money. It’s unfortunate to see such a fun…" - Jrkirkham19
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Ain’t the same
Ain’t the same as the video , fake game.
Cash Grab Update
This game has been fantastic through the years I’ve played, but the latest updates where research tokens are needed to evolve your rides make it almost impossible to upgrade without spending tons of money. It’s unfortunate to see such a fun and simple game turn into that.
Why did they have to ruin it
Making it heavily base on in game purchases ruined the game for me. I used to last play this game back in 2019 and now it’s entirely different, it’s sad to see your childhood games ruined by heavy monetization.
Tediously Slow Crawl
This game gets progressively less enjoyable the further you go and I’ve never seen a developer endlessly moving the goalposts like this one has. Really disappointing in a multitude of ways. And these new “evolutions” completely ruin the game. They’re a “pay now or deal with the roadblock” type of addition
Money Grab
This used to be my favorite game, but ever since the new update, it feels impossible to even make any progress with having to “evolve rides” and managers when they barely give you any research tokens. It’s ridiculous and I won’t be playing anymore. all they want you to do is just spend money on gold coins or research tokens.
Need $ to progress at all
THIS APP IS PAY TO PLAY ONLY. Truly an ad game. Don’t waste your time.
Started playing a few days ago and I am already hitting a pay wall once i built 6 rides. It started with the piñata, which I was excited about. I thought “oh I just have to watch 25 ads to get 600 tokens! That will help.” Nope. I realized after watching 25 ads that to collect those tokens i also need to spend $5. What was the point in watching the ads? What a terrible money grab.
Anyways, I literally can’t build/upgrade anything in my park. I’ve maxed out all of my rides and need a ridiculous amount of premium currency to “evolve” each one. Watching ads doesn’t provide you with nearly enough. With my current park income, I’d have to sit on the app for 6 hours straight doing nothing to progress to the next theme park. I will be deleting.
Started playing a few days ago and I am already hitting a pay wall once i built 6 rides. It started with the piñata, which I was excited about. I thought “oh I just have to watch 25 ads to get 600 tokens! That will help.” Nope. I realized after watching 25 ads that to collect those tokens i also need to spend $5. What was the point in watching the ads? What a terrible money grab.
Anyways, I literally can’t build/upgrade anything in my park. I’ve maxed out all of my rides and need a ridiculous amount of premium currency to “evolve” each one. Watching ads doesn’t provide you with nearly enough. With my current park income, I’d have to sit on the app for 6 hours straight doing nothing to progress to the next theme park. I will be deleting.
Pay to win and play
The game used to not make you spend money with gimmicks like the pass for the stars and there even being stars in the first place to upgrade and evolve staff or rides and progress you can’t progress now unless you wait days and days with watching ads or have to pay in game stuff it not like it used to be anymore and they use fake ai players to beat you in the competition and don’t just let you win the rewards like normal games
Obvious money grab
I really didn’t want to make this review because I truly do think that this game was fun, but with the recent changes I cannot continue without adding my 2 cents.
A part of this game is gathering research points. These used to only be used to upgrade your manager cards to make the games automatically gather the money instead of having to do it manually. Even when it was just this, the game never gave you enough points to be able to fully automate all your rides even if you watched all the videos you could tog eat extra points and manager cards. Even when it was just this, you’d still have to spend a different in game currency called coins to get more of these tokens. The game does give you a lot of coins, but not nearly enough to get the research points you need on top of everything else. But you can pay real life money for these coins to then spend on other in game currency. This was already broken but I was willing to put up with it.
Now, you need to use these same research points to upgrade the manager cards. You also need to use them to get any new rides at all, a core function of the game. You ALSO need to spend these research points to upgrade your rides to be able to level them up to the requirement that the mini quests ask you to. All of this with absolutely NO increase in the amount of research tokens they would give you. You have to make this work with the same amount of tokens that already made you struggle with the old system, but now have two additional research token costs that you are forced to pay.
This is an obvious grab for money. This is the developers telling you that they don’t care about your enjoyment of the game, they just want to wring every dollar they can out of you. It is absurd and rude and disgusting, especially with how the current economy is.
I come to play this game to distract from everything, not to be haggled into spending money just to play a game that’s advertised as free when in reality, to have any level of actual enjoyment or progression you HAVE to pay money.
Utterly disrespectful to your players.
A part of this game is gathering research points. These used to only be used to upgrade your manager cards to make the games automatically gather the money instead of having to do it manually. Even when it was just this, the game never gave you enough points to be able to fully automate all your rides even if you watched all the videos you could tog eat extra points and manager cards. Even when it was just this, you’d still have to spend a different in game currency called coins to get more of these tokens. The game does give you a lot of coins, but not nearly enough to get the research points you need on top of everything else. But you can pay real life money for these coins to then spend on other in game currency. This was already broken but I was willing to put up with it.
Now, you need to use these same research points to upgrade the manager cards. You also need to use them to get any new rides at all, a core function of the game. You ALSO need to spend these research points to upgrade your rides to be able to level them up to the requirement that the mini quests ask you to. All of this with absolutely NO increase in the amount of research tokens they would give you. You have to make this work with the same amount of tokens that already made you struggle with the old system, but now have two additional research token costs that you are forced to pay.
This is an obvious grab for money. This is the developers telling you that they don’t care about your enjoyment of the game, they just want to wring every dollar they can out of you. It is absurd and rude and disgusting, especially with how the current economy is.
I come to play this game to distract from everything, not to be haggled into spending money just to play a game that’s advertised as free when in reality, to have any level of actual enjoyment or progression you HAVE to pay money.
Utterly disrespectful to your players.
Nothing like ad
The game is nothing like the ad, ad was more fun.
You’re playing bots
Stuck in 11th place for hours because every time I jump to #1 then ten other people under me make the same jump and I am 11again. Goes on for the whole “tournament”. Apparently if you’re not paying real money you can achieve 3rd unless that will get you the legendary ride - then 11th seems to be the stopping point. Deleting the game, it’s a time sucker with no way to win if not spending cash. Also, outside the tournament will be fun until you hit a wall and have to start using research tokens to upgrade the rides. You’ll be stuck forever trying to earn those esp since you still need them to hire / upgrade managers. Idea 10/10. Execution leaves a lot to be desired.
Weekend league scam
The weekend league puts you against bots, somehow you always end up finishing right where they want you and the bots seem to know their place. Funny how that works unless you buy the 16 dollar pass you will not be able to get first no matter if you kept the game open 24/7. What a joke
Hate the changes to the weekend events
I used to really enjoy the events on the weekends - the ability to prestige your island and keep getting stronger faster. Now, it’s just another clone of the main game. And the dice spinning mini game adds nothing to the event. Moving on………
What have you done?
This used to be one of two games I played daily and paid for the no ads version. The new additions and advancement requirements make it impossible to play, much less enjoy, without spending massive amounts of money. You have made me sad.
Events
I feel like people who pay to play on events should play on their own server or something because it’s not fair to the people who don’t pay to play
game won’t work
loved this game but it won’t load and i can’t create a bug ticket on there app support because it comes up in a different language and translation won’t work
New Event System Is Awful
It’s trash and advancing is impossible without micro transactions.
Pay To Win
Started Amazing, Game was fun to play while you had some spare time and then they released this new update with ride evolutions and now I’m at a roadblock where literally unless I spend more I cant progress. Ride level up values are chopped entirely.
Really drags out
The game is super fun don’t get me wrong but it hard hard to progress fast before the update but now you’ve gotta have those purple coins to “upgrade” the rides and it takes hundreds of them and hours to complete, let alone you need to watch videos or spend money to get them.. I honestly think this killed the game for me
Lots of things wrong
Game crashes too much when I progress too fast. Those weekly challenges are also rigged so you can’t win them.
Long time player
Used to be an original player and took a long time off and have been on and off since, this game used to be really fun, and now there’s more micro transactions on your screen than there are rides in the park. Literally half of my viewable screen are clickable ad bubbles it’s disgusting. No more auto collection because they found out how to monetize the basic functions of the game. 1/10 now good job at killing your game
Add Central
You got to pay 16 dollars to enjoy this game. Not worth it
Loved it til they killed it.
I’ve been playing this game for years. Got sucked back into it about 6 months ago and have lots of hours in it. Recently a change was made that requires every ride to be “evolved” after a specific level. How does one evolve the ride? With the same research tokens I already don’t have enough of to upgrade my workers. So what it’s pushing me to do is pay for the research tokens which isn’t gonna happen. Oh and it doesn’t seem like the drop rate for the tokens has been upped either. I still only get a few here and there. Very very disappointed. 😔🤬
Pay to Play All day
This game is fun, the time I played I enjoyed ot, but the game forces you to watch 10-15 Ads a day to keep the up keep. At first it is fine, but evry aspect of this game is to create micro transactions or watch 20+ ads a session to move through the game.
So disappointed in the most recent update.
I’ve really loved this game, I’ve been playing it for a long time. The new update makes it pretty much impossible to advance. They’ve increased the use of the weird purple coins but not increased any opportunities to get them. I was super disappointed when they updated the ad booster from being an hour of boost to only ten minutes. That was a huge let down, but this is even worse. Hoping they at least go back to the last version of the game. This one is unplayable.
No fun
It takes forever to progress. You need millions of dollars and you only make a few hundred at best. So it is nearly impossible to move forward.
New Update Ruined Game
There was a recent update to the game that has honestly ruined the gameplay experience. The requirement to evolve rides using research tokens is nothing but intrusive and greedy. With the current state of the game you can not keep up with the demand for research tokens without spending coins, and the best way to get coins is obviously through micros transactions. I was ready to buy the elite and premium pass, but after seeing the new state of the game there is no reason to invest any time or money into this game anymore.
Evolution
These “evolution” things suck you have to get so many purple tokens to proceed and cannot progress or upgrade anything else the meantime and these evolution happen so frequently too they occurred on west west roller world and the dinosaur watching one twice it’s so disappointing as a long term playing being so harsh on free to play players its miserable to get all those purple tokens or buy them with coins you can’t do anything until you evolve REMOVE THIS FEATURE or make easier to get purple tokens
This WAS my favorite game
Im a mom that used to love this game because I was able to play it without having to pay too much attention with what’s going on in the game. I loved this game up until the most recent update. I now have to either play the game or tend to my child because of the evolutions that are now happening with every single ride, multiple times. Please for the love of the game remove that or change it please.
Love the game. Needs work.
The game is great. Addicting and fun. However the manager feature where you have to unlock a certain level with them for automatic money collection takes the idle out of an idle game. It’s a horrible feature, especially as it takes forever to unlock sometimes and as you progress the level they collect at raises and isn’t permanent. The research tokens are used too often for how much you get them. It feels more like a chore in certain aspects of the game than fun.
This game doesn’t let people play
Every time I tried and play it kicks me off the app as soon as it loads
Consistent degradation
How do you manage to make the game worse every time you update it? When I originally played, you simply gained access to new parks, now you have old parks deleted when you “move.” Since I started back up, ad boosts have been cut, reward tiers have been lengthened, and now progressing requires you to spend even more in-game resources than before. Your greed is so blatant it’s sickening.
FUN until managers come in
So first of all I just don’t like how you have to restart EVERY TIME going to a new park and restarting and it being a completely different theme or look is okay but the same exact park just a new ride is boring and on top of that I have to click so many times eachhh ride to upgrade all of them but honestly I was okay with it that was until I got to the space world and crazy karts where you have to level up the managers in order to level up the ride and how do you level them up paying with your actual money or tokens to get more token you need real money so it just takes the fun out of it because they’re basically screaming buy it or well block you from being able to continue playing
Why it suck now
This game use to be actually pretty good but all it is now is a Micro transaction hungry game and 10% of the screen is pop up of deal this game has become to greedy and if kind sad
Fix your game!!!
When you get toward the end of the game it’s so hard to even make profits. I can’t upgrade my park until I get enough manager cards, But that means I have to watch videos to get coins or stay on the app n do challenges. I watch videos and the game constantly crashes. I don’t even bother watching videos anymore. The parks capacity is way too low for how much the rides can actually handle. You barely make any money when you get to late game.
Updated to LAME
I’ve had this game on my phone for a LONG time. Even spent a little money on it which is something I rarely do for mobile. In short; this once fun game has been updated to unplayable. Or maybe not unplayable but surely unable to progress past the pay walls. Just not worth it anymore. You’ve been warned.
Game Developer Uses Bots
Game is fun, but events are ruined by bots. Most likely developer programmed. I noticed anytime I took the lead in the events, I would lose the lead in minutes and I would be bumped back down to #11th within 30 minutes or so. I then watched for the next 36 hours. Not a single star was gained in the top 10. I then took the lead again, and boom, within 5 minutes I was #2, then #3, and back to #11. Absolutely obvious what is going on and I assume most likely a devious ploy by the developer trying to get people to spend money to out gain these “accounts”. If they were 3rd party bots, I would expect them to be constantly gaining stars, but it seems to only react when I gain stars. If they were real people, I would expect them to be fighting with each other for the lead, but they don’t. Absolutely ludicrous they would program it this way. Makes me feel like this game is dead and I’m the only real person playing.
Going pay to play
I’ve been playing this game for years and recently the devs are doing what they can to make it unplayable making it impossible to get high rank in the weekly events since bots will always get jogger than you and making it to where you need the managers high level to actually progress, hope they change a lot of it back
Lame
Terrible. Having to start over as each ride is opened after spending hours upon hours and watching the same couple lame ads over and over only to have EVERTHING disappear and then start over! And then they expect e to anti up $20 to open the “fancy” area! No way. Wish I could give zero stats. App deleted
Money Grab
Events don't dispense awards, they throw ads and in app purchases at you ever 30 seconds.
type of game you open for 40 seconds and then wait a whole day to make progress again
type of game you open for 40 seconds and then wait a whole day to make progress again
You must read, do not download!
I’ve been playing for a while now and got to be past the WATERPARK but it crashes and takes me back to Home Screen after I haven’t played in a few months like 4. It’s ridiculous! I am literally deleting it after I finish righting!!!!!!😡🤬🤬😡
Used to be fun
This game used to be a lot of fun but the developers have over complicated it now and you either put money into constantly or you won’t be able to play. The rides shutdown because you have to evolve them. The game doesn’t give you enough ways to earn them. So either pay or don’t play.
Used to be great
I have played this game for years and it was one of my favorite idle games. However, it has recently turned into a major cash grab. I don’t mind paying some money for an enjoyable game, and I don’t expect developers to work for free. That said, this game takes cash grabbing to a new low. Every single ride must be “evolved” multiple times, managers require more and more research tokens with each update, and progress is insufferably slow without doling out lots of cash. This developer has become very greedy. I have been a faithful customer of Codigames, but now they are unplayable. And they do not even seem to want to reward their long time customers for their loyalty by making things affordable. Every level achieved seems to require more and more cash. I am sad to be deleting this once great game.
Took the fun out of it
This used to be so fun. Now you need to “evolve” rides and it seems like an obvious money grab because you cannot collect coins fast enough to upgrade rides organically. Wish it went back to the old way.
Events
it is a pretty fun game. not sure why they rig the events with bots that automatically beat you though. wasted my time and money
stop w the updates
game used to be really fun and satisfying. i was literally glued to it. now it just takes too long to build things and u js have to wait it out. it’s not even playing a game anymore its js u press a button and wait an hour. every single update it gets worse.
They ruined it.
I loved this game, but I feel like they ruined it with forcing you to only have one park at a time. You’re just forced to sell your amusement park for a water park, and you’re never able to go there again. Please change this, I really did like this before.
More Pay to Play than ever
Changed my original rating after the last update. The satisfying element of the game is ruined with the introduction of the ‘evolve ride’ junk. It drains your tokens and gold, makes you wait for evolution, and repeats. Will never have enough resources to upgrade the ride managers under this new system without buying in game currency. I liked supporting the game with occasional purchases in the past but this blatant money grab has me so turned off. So much time wasted.
Was fun until
They inserted the new evolution cash grab
ruined
the game was so much fun until this recent update. as soon as u max out the pass theres nothing to do and we now have to wait for rides to build? also why r we spending research tokens for rides. atleast make an easier wayvto get them
Vbom
It’s really fun but every time you build an extension the game completely restarts.
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Sentiment summary
90%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
6%
Negative (1-2★)