SpongeBob Adventures: In A Jam Hack 2.1.1 + Redeem Codes

As a new player, I found it incredibly easy to breeze past jellyfish fields and the city. Now I’m in Atlantis on the 3rd day of playing. I keep making food for the clams I’ve placed with their feed house and I never see any pearls over them the way jellyfish made jelly. The fields have been open for more than 24 hours and that’s the only place I ever see jelly since it opened, so maybe that’s why I’m not getting pearls at home after moving on to Atlantis.

It’s hard to get into the game or remember where u planned to go when energy is maxed at 50 and it takes 95 just to remove one of 3-4 obstacles just like it to unlock the next area. I use the mini games and energy machines to hurry things along, but it’s annoying when things don’t unlock because of that and are required in order to progress. Ya get stuck a lot waiting for energy to the point that it’s difficult to remember why ya even wanted to come back to play it.

This is by far THE BEST SpongeBob “Town Builder Sim” game I have ever played. This is why it hurts that we’re still having the same problems we did on these games 10+ yrs ago. Energy bars! These mobile games want you to play like you work for them. Log on once every 30 minutes to click on three things and then log off. I wouldn’t have an issue with that if it didn’t restrict you from progressing after that point. I understand invisible progression walls. But there’s a difference between playing a mobile game for a healthy amount of time. Compared to restricting the player from progression seemingly by accident. I’m currently in Jellyfish fields. (Which seems like a common ground problem for a lot of people.) They want me to save Garry from a pit of Jelly. That all fine. Until they want you to make a glass jar using 6 of these white rocks. That wouldn’t be a problem if the energy bar wasn’t locked to 50 energy. If it takes 45 energy to break the rock. You would need to log on every 30 minutes to break A ROCK. Then log off right away. Since you of course can’t do anything at all after. You can see how that would be irritating. There have been hundreds of complaints since this game came out over a year ago. This has been an ongoing issue in the mobile gaming community for over 10 years. Fix YOUR GAME

So basically one of the main parts of this game is cleaning up Bikini Bottom and other locations. That means removing debris, jelly, kelp, rocks, etc. In order to do this, you must spend your energy. Every item on the map has an energy price to clear it. For example, to remove a wilted kelp, it costs three energy. To remove a single flower off the ground inexplicably costs 35 energy, while a giant rock only costs 27. Why is this an issue? Well, the energy you can regenerate is capped at 50. If you earn bonus energy, you can go beyond this limit, but if you spend all your energy and then walk away for an hour, the most you can get back is 50. There are missions in this game that require you to remove items that cost 45 energy. So imagine having to do that three times to complete a mission. That means you wait an hour to remove one item, then you have to wait another hour to do it again. It is painfully slow progress. I give it two stars because the game has a lot of potential to be fun, but they need to either raise the energy cap, or significantly lower the energy cost of some of these items to improve the pacing.

I have spent only about 3 hours in the game but have already reached a point where I basically have to spend money or else wait several hours to do anything. This game requires you to harvest resources from the environment but the amount of energy required varies and doesn’t make a lot of sense. I’m currently at a point where I need 18 of a resource that requires 45 REAL LIFE MINUTES worth of energy to acquire 2 of these resources. The energy meter only fills up to 50, so when I use 45 energy to acquire 2 resources, I can’t do anything else for awhile until my energy refills.

I was hoping they would offer a starter pack between $0.99 and $4.99 because I would absolutely be willing to purchase something like that if it included exploding pies and gems and energy, but unfortunately the cheapest starter deal is $6.99 and basically would only allow me to do a few actions (literally less than 5 minutes of gameplay) with the included items.

I don’t even know if this can be considered a game rather than a cash grab. None of the bundles add enough value to the game and the game is almost impossible to play without spending money. It’s just really sad to see this on a game targeted at kids.

Like most people, I feel that the energy costs to remove simple debris are way too high. I’m fairly early into the game, and I have a max limit of 65 energy. One type of debris, literally a single flower, costs ~35 energy to clear. I’ve never seen any other game of this type have such high energy costs for such a small amount of max energy after waiting times. And I’m sure the devs will just say “there are additional ways to get extra energy,” and sure, there are, but mostly in the form of small pick-ups that barely cover the cost of the next mandatory debris removal. There aren’t enough extra pick-ups if you want to stray for ten seconds to clear some extra debris, of which there is a metric f-ton. Just reduce the energy costs and you’ve got a fun little game here. The high energy costs are a strange way of showcasing company greed through micro-transactions that shouldn’t need to be necessary to play longer than 30 seconds at a time. Edit: “Dev Response” is nothing but a copy/paste cookie-cutter response that says nothing and proves they probably don’t read these reviews or take the criticisms seriously.

Game is very fun to play. However, majority of the resources you need requires 18+ energy when you only start with 50. Which takes FOREVER to fill back up! Then when you do farm resources you barley get anything from it. Once you leave Jellyfish fields to go to another area such as the city, you CANNOT go back to jellyfish fields to get any resources there etc. It will be closed off 48hrs and after that you still can’t go back to the area. Since there is barley any energy or resources when you try to get some, it makes it very hard to clean/ clear out areas in order to put buildings so you can progress in the game. On top of that with the billboard, they’re will occasionally be an option to watch an add for jems yet after you watch the video (even after multiple times), it still wouldn’t give me jems like it’s supposed to. I love the game but there’s a lot of improving that needs to happen. The thing that annoys me most is that every time I launch the app and it’s loading it will take me to my settings !!!! I’ve NEVER EVER had an app or game do this !

I love playing this game, but I would agree with other reviews in the fact that some obstacles take a LOT of energy to remove, especially the farther along you get in the main storyline. I’m in the Medieval Moments section and the obstacles there take 180+ energy to remove ONE SINGLE THING when your max energy is only 70 at best. It makes things slow to a halt, and by the time my energy refills, I’ve lost the motivation to continue because I feel like it’s just a waste of energy to get basically nowhere.
I shouldn’t need to pay 15$+ just to fill my energy/get gems to continue!

I do like the new event in Patrick’s couch- but I’ve reached the point where I collected parts to a quest before the quest even started, so now I can’t continue and I’m stuck- I can’t complete the event! In this instance I wish there was an option to use gems to skip the task or something!!

The game is addictive, but in all the wrong ways! To collect items you use “energy”, and get one unit of energy per minute, up to 50. There may be 300 different things to collect per map, and as you progress, each item costs more and more. For where I’m at, it costs 45 “energy” to collect one little thing (so it takes 45 minutes to be able to do the smallest task). There are other methods of getting “energy” but they simply aren’t sufficient to make any progress in the game. It’s quite fun to unlock new things but you literally have to watch ads (which is ok but you only get 15 “energy”) or pay to make ANY PROGRESS in this game. I sincerely believe this game was created to be a money trap and I simply can’t believe it was even designed for children.

They EASILY could have made the energy limit be 250+ and had the same user engagement. But instead they decided to torture users by making them wait and wait and wait and wait for literally nothing to happen. I’d be shocked if the average person had this downloaded on their phone for more than four days because it’s SO DELETABLE!!!!!

Love this game, but my only complaint is you earn energy to slow and when exploring the map, you hardly get any either. I wouldn’t recommend spending money on diamonds either because you don’t get enough for your moneys worth. If they can fix those two issues, the game is perfect. In my opinion if you like these kind of games.

EDIT: I do feel the game lacks character. There is hardly any people walking around, there are plenty of notable characters but they have their own spots away from “home”. I feel there should be more NPC’s walking around. Energy is still a problem especially later in the game. You will need EVERYTHING so farm any resources you can while you have them. I wouldn’t recommend leaving the jellyfish area until you’ve cleared everything for the resources, otherwise you will be missing out on stuff you need later.

dude the animation in this game? amazing. astounding. it’s so high quality and the dialogue is fleshed out to where it feels like its really paying homage to the characters (which is why any of us really play this game in the first place i’m sure) but the energy system? its so funny how its severely lacking. i saw another review saying that it takes all of your energy to break a rock and they were RIGHT. i mean hey, if your goal is to never have any players get through the game due to frustration, or to make money out of your consumers you’re on the right track (but even then the items you’re selling for money don’t feel like its worth it considering the exchange rate for using almost all of your diamonds for one exploding pie or to get energy back to break another rock). i hardly ever write reviews in games (or any app in the app store in general) and so i want to end it with saying that the developers have an amazing game idea, i just feel like it’s unfair to the player how the currency systems were made ♡