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Little Farm Story: Idle Tycoon
SayGames LTD · 29,388 ratings · ★ 4.5
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"game"
56 negative reviews mention this · 85% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth the pain. Game crashes way too often. Not only do you lose progress when this happens, but you also lose any goods or materials you may have received or given to suppliers already. So you lose progress and are also robbed of what you previously had. …" - waeric
2
"play"
22 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many ads. So many as it ruins the gameplay" - Crassbard
3
"money"
21 negative reviews mention this · 32% of all complaints
★★★★★ "To intrusive. Takes you directly to websites I would never visit, ads non stop and constantly enticing you to spend money to progress. Deleting for these reasons" - Crashblitzme
4
"playing"
14 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Pit. If you want a game that you can complete one mission over a week of playing this is the one. You can’t walk across the screen without constant ads being thrown up to spend money on equipment. This was after having paid for the no unnecessar…" - JLV21994
5
"spend"
13 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "To intrusive. Takes you directly to websites I would never visit, ads non stop and constantly enticing you to spend money to progress. Deleting for these reasons" - Crashblitzme
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"amount"
12 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth the pain. Game crashes way too often. Not only do you lose progress when this happens, but you also lose any goods or materials you may have received or given to suppliers already. So you lose progress and are also robbed of what you previously had. …" - waeric
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"every"
11 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "ADS, ADS, more ADS. Every few feet in the game, you have some upgrade that costs real money. Every 5 minutes, an ad is forced on you. There is an ad banner on the screen at all times. Something is going on with the programming. It drains the battery extra…" - Josh Gooped
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"point"
11 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not really an idle game. I was liking it but there seems to be no point in upgrading a lot of things like how much a field can hold before it becomes full because it doesn’t do anything when you are not in the game. I go sell some stuff and fill up the factories an…" - SolarFlare24
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"things"
10 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Constant Crashing. Love the game…..HOWEVER……ITS CONSISTENTLY CRASHING !!!! Never had the problems in the beginning but now out of nowhere crash ! I try and go to the Asian section, CRASH and have to restart. Go to a different location, CRASH, START OVER . I’v…" - coach2370
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"farm"
10 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Would be fun but…. All of these game are center around you getting addicted so you can spend money. This game would be so much fun but you do all this hard work to sell your farm products and make good money but you can’t use the money for anything. You eithe…" - Minnie mouse’s
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"watch"
9 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth the pain. Game crashes way too often. Not only do you lose progress when this happens, but you also lose any goods or materials you may have received or given to suppliers already. So you lose progress and are also robbed of what you previously had. …" - waeric
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"minutes"
9 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good game but im a little annoyed fixen to delete it…. I enjoy the game but it seems like it has a ad bug… SHEIN keeps popping up and opening my browser over and over out of no where. Within 30 minutes of game play the ad has popped up probably close to 15 times even when I’m in the process of …" - Bacongummybear
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Not worth the pain
Game crashes way too often. Not only do you lose progress when this happens, but you also lose any goods or materials you may have received or given to suppliers already. So you lose progress and are also robbed of what you previously had. I’ve submitted support tickets but they’re ignored. Completely unacceptable, especially considering the ridiculous amount of ads in this game. Sometimes you’re forced to watch ads and then the game shuts down and you lose progress anyway. Talk about pouring salt in the wound. Don’t bother with this game, go read a book or get some fresh air instead
Constant Crashing
Love the game…..HOWEVER……ITS CONSISTENTLY CRASHING !!!! Never had the problems in the beginning but now out of nowhere crash ! I try and go to the Asian section, CRASH and have to restart. Go to a different location, CRASH, START OVER . I’ve spent several dollars for things in this game. It’s gotten ridiculous and extremely discouraging.
Slow
Advertisement is nothing like game. Game is slow and tend to become boring
My save disappeared
Got a new iPhone and my save is gone. Help!
Too many ads
So many as it ruins the gameplay
To intrusive
Takes you directly to websites I would never visit, ads non stop and constantly enticing you to spend money to progress. Deleting for these reasons
Good game but im a little annoyed fixen to delete it…
I enjoy the game but it seems like it has a ad bug… SHEIN keeps popping up and opening my browser over and over out of no where. Within 30 minutes of game play the ad has popped up probably close to 15 times even when I’m in the process of watching a normal ad. I keep pushing to play but it’s getting annoying… now the game keeps crashing…
ADS, ADS, more ADS
Every few feet in the game, you have some upgrade that costs real money. Every 5 minutes, an ad is forced on you. There is an ad banner on the screen at all times. Something is going on with the programming. It drains the battery extra fast. When it comes back from an ad, the CPU is so stressed that the game stutters, multiple seconds per frame. It is a money grab, 100%
Review
Hard to control.
Crashes
Can’t play no support. It’s been 2 days. I tried uninstalling. Still can’t get the game to load. Very disappointing.
Pop up ads
I enjoy playing Little Farm Story and understand that ads are part of free-to-play games. The ads that appear within the game are expected and not a problem.
My issue is that I am now seeing Little Farm Story ads popping up in my internet browser outside of the game. This feels intrusive and spam-like. Advertising within the game is one thing, but browser pop-ups are another. It creates a poor user experience and makes me less likely to continue playing.
I hope the developers investigate how these ads are being delivered and take steps to stop them. If these browser pop-ups are not being caused directly by the game, I would appreciate some clarification. The game itself is enjoyable, but this issue has significantly affected my overall impression.
My issue is that I am now seeing Little Farm Story ads popping up in my internet browser outside of the game. This feels intrusive and spam-like. Advertising within the game is one thing, but browser pop-ups are another. It creates a poor user experience and makes me less likely to continue playing.
I hope the developers investigate how these ads are being delivered and take steps to stop them. If these browser pop-ups are not being caused directly by the game, I would appreciate some clarification. The game itself is enjoyable, but this issue has significantly affected my overall impression.
Ads ruin it
I understand the need for ads to run and develop a game. What I don’t understand is the constant switching of apps from the game to safari or from the game to the App Store. It makes the game feel unplayable because you can only play for 2 minutes before being swapped to a different app.
Paywall
Skip this game. I really enjoyed this game to the point I even bought the ad blocker. However, I’ve discovered that the game is basically paywalled. You can’t upgrade your farm at a certain point without spending money. And it’s not something reasonable like a dollar. It’s 12 dollars. In multiple places! No chances to even earn it permanently through ads. I recommend getting a different tycoon game you don’t have to pay money for.
This app sucks
Adv just kept popping up like crazy. Terrible expense.
Greedy
I used to love this game but the developers became greedy and either make you purchase anything that makes the game less repetitive or watch ads. Terrible changes made to the game. Should have left it the way it was. Do not waste your time or money on this game.
If you like SHEIN ads this game is for you
I’ll start by saying I understand this is a free game so the developers must make money via ads but this is a little ridiculous. I stated playing a few weeks ago and at first it wasn’t bad with the ads. Recently it has gotten awful with ads coming on average every 47 seconds and I so wish I was joking but I started to time it and after trying to play and timing every single time the game stopped and went right to an ad I see it isn’t getting better and it is making it so it’s not worth keeping the game around on my iPad. Other issues I’ve had is not having good information at first to let the player understand when and where items will be made available for game progression.
Fun but very ad heavy
I’ve been playing this game for some time now, so this review is based on my experience the past few months.
Pros: Easy to navigate map system, plenty of things to keep you busy. Some resources don’t grow/accumulate while you’re not in-game, some do, you have to see what does what which is fine. Parts are pretty repetitive, and you have to do them over and over for some resources but nothing is hard. Game can be enjoyed by most age groups and without spending real money. Resources are easy to collect and deposit, this is also a problem explained below.
Cons: Very ad intensive game. You start off with “forced” ads (ads that must play for a period of time before you can close them) which you can pay to turn off, I did. But if you get too close to certain areas or locations you will be treated to ads they don’t consider forced, but yet you have to wait a second or so before you can click the X to exit. Problem here is that if you’re too close to one of the resource drop points, you can find you’re losing those resources because an ad popped up and you have to force close it, since it fills the screen. But no “forced ads” is what they sell you, but yet in at least 3 heavily traveled locations these ads exist, you cannot avoid them. I reached out to inquire about these forced ads, explained that any ad I didn’t initiate and have to close myself is a forced ad, they disagreed. Another con is that if you get too close to a resource pickup point, you will collect some even if you didn’t want to, you have to be really careful in some parts due to the limited paths. There are so many micro transactions in this game that I can say it’s the most I’ve seen in any game I’ve ever played, and I’ve played a lot! Pay if you want, your choice, but it never stops. Every new area is met with many chances to pay for progress, but as stated it isn’t required.
I’m still playing everyday. Still enjoying the game for the most part. Just have to deal with the shortcomings. Take away the ads I didn’t initiate and I’ll give it 5 stars.
Pros: Easy to navigate map system, plenty of things to keep you busy. Some resources don’t grow/accumulate while you’re not in-game, some do, you have to see what does what which is fine. Parts are pretty repetitive, and you have to do them over and over for some resources but nothing is hard. Game can be enjoyed by most age groups and without spending real money. Resources are easy to collect and deposit, this is also a problem explained below.
Cons: Very ad intensive game. You start off with “forced” ads (ads that must play for a period of time before you can close them) which you can pay to turn off, I did. But if you get too close to certain areas or locations you will be treated to ads they don’t consider forced, but yet you have to wait a second or so before you can click the X to exit. Problem here is that if you’re too close to one of the resource drop points, you can find you’re losing those resources because an ad popped up and you have to force close it, since it fills the screen. But no “forced ads” is what they sell you, but yet in at least 3 heavily traveled locations these ads exist, you cannot avoid them. I reached out to inquire about these forced ads, explained that any ad I didn’t initiate and have to close myself is a forced ad, they disagreed. Another con is that if you get too close to a resource pickup point, you will collect some even if you didn’t want to, you have to be really careful in some parts due to the limited paths. There are so many micro transactions in this game that I can say it’s the most I’ve seen in any game I’ve ever played, and I’ve played a lot! Pay if you want, your choice, but it never stops. Every new area is met with many chances to pay for progress, but as stated it isn’t required.
I’m still playing everyday. Still enjoying the game for the most part. Just have to deal with the shortcomings. Take away the ads I didn’t initiate and I’ll give it 5 stars.
Money hungry game
All this game wants is money money money!! You suck, deleting immediately
Endless running around
You have to run around collecting produce, wood, and money to give to the truck driver to get the scarecrow. Then the scarecrow is set up, but you have to give more produce, wood, and money to the scarecrow itself to get it finalized, then you have to give everything again to the truck driver to fix the scarecrow. This game is endless running around. And the prices for in-app items are outrageous. $15 for a handful of items to make the game go a little faster? And upgrades only last 5 minutes. No, thank you.
Anti- player Monetizing
This is by far the worst game I have ever played as far as micro transactions. They are littered throughout the board of play with a lot of them creating pop-ups when you walk near them, obstructing the game until you buy.fun at first until the game gets so annoying with these pay-traps that it becomes unplayable.
It used to be 5
This game used be so fun. Train area updates can take days to get everything you need to build or repair anything. Now I can’t even keep any coal from jellyfish farms. Every time the games is updated stupid thing are added. I am to the point of deleting the game
Ads ruined it
Way too many forced Ads. It would be fun otherwise.
Stop changing things
I used to love this game. I love you so much. I paid to not see ads. I also buy various other things. They keep pushing updates to the game and it keeps changing things. It’s annoying, but I just keep playing. The most recent update you can no longer get the iron from the watermelon farm and take it back to your farm. Please add this feature back. Let me ask, that they did this right after they made it virtually impossible to do anything without having massive amounts of water. It’s like they just want you to use all of your money on this game and that’s not OK.
Tutorial
The tutorial is way too long, it’s annoying.
Lots of ads
There are adds that make the game impossible to play
Game keeps crashing when collecting tomato’s
I’m leaving a 1 star review, game looks fun and was enjoyable until I got the point of collecting the tomato’s and now it just constantly crashes to my home screen. Playing on a 17 pro max so not a hardware issue.
App is crash
The app has been stuck on the loading screen for 10 days. It doesn't matter that I paid to remove ads if the app won't even open now. I can click on the support button, the only email I found is for Google store. Give to the customer who has already expend money on the game a point of contact to fix this issue…
Pop ups
There is nothing more that I despise within technology as pop ups. Instant one star and instant delete.
Terrible customer support experience
I have been playing for a long time and have spent plenty of money on this game. When visiting another farm I have always been able to keep the extra resources that I watched extra videos to earn and that I had taken the time to collect. Out of the blue, with no warning, they removed this from the game. When I contacted support, “Mike” refused to do a one time credit or to escalate my ticket to a supervisor. Normally, or with a heads up before I watch approximately 6 long boring videos, it wouldn’t be a big deal. I’m done with this game since they refuse to make this right.
FIX THE COAL!!
Either reduce the amount of coal needed to irrigate the cabbages or for the geese, or fix the ability to bring back coal, metal, and wood from adventures! 😡 Also, the llama farm train stuff is a terrible grind. Allow us to either select to do other things, or make the wool produce more or require less.
This has been the worst update in the whole game!
This has been the worst update in the whole game!
Fun but not
Having to “purchase” tools every 5 min is crazy. Tools should be permanent. I still play tho. This game has become a money pit. You shouldn’t have to buy something and it go away in 7 days. Thinking about requesting a refund for the money I spent.
Ai graphics
probably used Ai for most of the game too. deleting this
Used to be a great game
I LOVED this game. At one point I was playing this game so much that my boyfriend made me check my screen time and I was spending an average of 50 hours a week on this game- which looking back was excessive lol but it used to be SO much fun. I wasn’t opening any other apps on my phone and I was telling everyone I came across about how fun this game was. The recent updates have made it so miserable to play though that I have barely opened the app in weeks and NOW it’s harder to get coal/iron/wood since the don’t allow you to bring resources back anymore. The constant need for scrolls and maps is miserable. Obtaining enough scrolls to do anything on the farms if you upgrade them completely takes hours and getting maps was only tolerable because you were able to bring resources back with you and now that you can’t it feels like a chore. I spent a lot of real life money on this game and watched hundreds and hundreds of ads while playing as well. I don’t know if I’ll ever open the app again. Games are meant to be fun and instead it felt like dread after these last couple of changes. I hope they hear the complaints and do something so everyone else doesn’t quit too, as I know tons of players are upset. There are many MANY people in the Facebook groups and Reddit threads that are quitting as well. Lower the requirement for water for the plants or the amount of coal needed, let us bring resources from the other farms again, and let us spend the money on the conveyor farms for scrolls or this app will surely be dead within months. Greed got the best of this one, it’s all a money grab now. RIP.
Update is trash
You can play a whole day and not get the resources needed to complete the one task that will advance the game. I’m going to take a break until the next update, that’s my advice to everyone since it’s not worth the hassle anymore. If they fix it great, if not there are plenty of other similar games.
Not for children
I happen to be a developer in this app crashes other apps so you go back to it do you think you could listen to a podcast while playing the game you cannot. Ads are not for children. There are curse words and fathers abusing their stepdaughters in their ads, and in app purchases are phenomenally expensive.
Overkill Ads
It just doesn’t stop. There are ads every square inch of the game, many that get stuck and cause you to force close to restart it. There is no way to just buy the full game, they just want you to spend hundreds of dollars on buying your way through it to avoid literally endless ads
Rethink some of the updates
You used to retain unused resources from neighboring farms when returning to your farm. The new update removed this feature, making it impossible to collect the required resources to complete in-game milestones.
This is incredibly disappointing and will be the reason I no longer play. Without the ability to watch ads to collect resources like gold, gems, coal, etc. the game is too difficult to be enjoyable anymore.
You state that ads are necessary to support game development. If so, don’t limit the number of ads people can choose to watch for one-time-use-only resources such as gold.
This is incredibly disappointing and will be the reason I no longer play. Without the ability to watch ads to collect resources like gold, gems, coal, etc. the game is too difficult to be enjoyable anymore.
You state that ads are necessary to support game development. If so, don’t limit the number of ads people can choose to watch for one-time-use-only resources such as gold.
Horrible amount of ads
Way to many ads to enjoy any time playing
More frustrating than fun, ads galore
Once you get to about level 5 or 6, you start getting swapped with ads and the amount of resources you need gets a bit ridiculous. It’s also rather obnoxious that there no correlation between how many resources you farm to how many you actually get. It got to the point where I’m using too much time for the amount of fun I’m actually have, especially with the amount of ads I have to watch. It always brought me out of having fun. Also, the purchase costs of this game are obscene. You could spend hundred of dollars with minimal rewards.
Don’t download the ads suck
I will be deleting this game. I love the game but the pop up ads constantly suck.
Can’t sign in or contact support
For the last 2 days I am unable to load or play my game. It gets to halfway loaded and freezes. And will not let me use the support button. I have tried deleting and reinstalling the game with no luck.
It is very frustrating and needs fixed
It is very frustrating and needs fixed
Not really an idle game
I was liking it but there seems to be no point in upgrading a lot of things like how much a field can hold before it becomes full because it doesn’t do anything when you are not in the game. I go sell some stuff and fill up the factories and think that it’s going to make more while I’m gone. It doesn’t I have to leave it open for any of the workers to do anything. I almost thought about buying a helper pack for 12 dollars. But what’s the point if they don’t do anything unless you are in game?
Money Pit
If you want a game that you can complete one mission over a week of playing this is the one. You can’t walk across the screen without constant ads being thrown up to spend money on equipment. This was after having paid for the no unnecessary ads options. Plus like every other at a certain point the game comes to a standstill unless you put in additional funds for overwhelming numbers of items to trade in.
Would be fun but…
All of these game are center around you getting addicted so you can spend money. This game would be so much fun but you do all this hard work to sell your farm products and make good money but you can’t use the money for anything. You either have to watch ads or spend money. Do better.
Annoying
The game is nice, but it I am so annoyed. I am making progress and increasing my level, but when attempting to cut certain items it say level 2 or higher. I am currently on level 5, but can’t cut a tree that requires level 2?!
Not fun it’s a chore
I played this game years ago, and found it very enjoyable. I recently downloaded it again and a lot of updates have been made some good but mostly bad… There are a lot more tasks to complete, and everything requires double the amount of diamonds and produce than it used to… They’ve taken this game and have turned it into a chore, I’ve been playing for about a month or two and I’m ready to delete it again because I refuse to spend money to make a game, a little bit easier to play and collect things! I’m going to play Gold Rush and Whiteout Survival!
Fun but
Game is fun and exciting but there are too many commercials. I would buy a add free game if it was available
Impossible to progress without spending a LOT of money. Ads for AI porn.
The game is fun but it seems that you have to spend to progress and it’s not cheap. Necessary characters can be $15 each. You end up watching ads for items that can’t be found. 1 ad = 1 screw and you need 12 of them. But the big issue for me is that twice in the last hour I was shown ads for an AI Porn Chat. The game is rated for 9 years old and up. If you are showing ads for AI that creates the porn friend of your desires….shouldn’t it be over 18? The ads are not subtle.
VERY INAPPROPRIATE ADS
This game is fun. I will say that. But very very very inappropriate ads of men asking girls to take off their clothes. Not for children at all.
Greedy developers
Good game but too greedy. Watch a long ads and get 5 minutes benefits? Build a storage functions but it’s not in use unless you have you watch ads and get 5 minutes benefits.
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Sentiment summary
88%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
7%
Negative (1-2★)