I like that this game is an idle dungeon crawler. I can just set my dwarves to work on a dungeon, and then check back in on them hours later. I’m a person who enjoys the meditative nature of grinding levels in a game, so this definitely isn’t for everyone. The underlying nature of the game is not the issue I have.
For me, the problem is when I reached higher levels. For one, every dungeon is at difficulty “Easy” now. This removes the enjoyment of deciding to send my dwarves into a hard dungeon because I know I’ll be away from the game for a few hours, and I want to see if they can get through it. It’s just all easy and all same-same.
The second problem is much larger. Fortune Runes, as far as I can tell, can only be used one at a time. Sometimes I get bonus runes upon completing a tower challenge. This bonus started at a reasonable level: Instead of 1 rune, I’d receive 11. Then the number of bonus runes started increasing. (Roughly) 30, 100, then 300 runes received every time I got a bonus. Now it’s 999 runes per bonus. Since runes can only be used one at a time, I would have to use 999 runes ONE AT A TIME to use them all up. This is ridiculous and broken. Since the dungeons became easy, tower challenges were a nice change of pace. Now they just stress me out when I get the bonus runes, knowing I either have to click over a thousand times on an upgrade screen to use them all, or just leave the runes incompletely used. This is frustrating and unsatisfying.
The final problem is a support problem. There is no option within the game to report a bug or otherwise communicate something about the game. I searched the Hyper Hippo webpage, but didn’t find any sort of customer support option. Finally, by pulling up the game in the App Store, I found the option “App Support.” But this just lead me to a generic Help page for all of Netflix with nearly nothing specific about this game, and instructions to call if I still had questions/wanted to contact them. I don’t want to call. I want to be able to shoot off a message or an email (with screen caps) about the issues I’ve found rather than calling.
So hopefully someone sees this review and makes some tweaks to the game. I like the game, and would love to see it improved.