Neopets: Tales of Dacardia 9+

I was really interested to play this game. It’s a generic gather resources to build stuff game, but there’s no annoying energy system, the time gates seem reasonable, and I’ve not been bombarded with ads to spend money on microtransactions. However, the very basic resources are impossible to farm/grind for. I’ve been stuck on a stage for a couple of days now as I need 12 pebbles in total to make 4 planters, yet the only way to get pebbles is from debris crates - and these have completely random contents (often much rarer items than I need). This is very annoying, as there is nothing else I need to progress in the game at the moment. Also, I have connected my account to my NeoPass, but the Neopoints rewards from daily quests are yet to show up on my Neopets account - I know it says there may be a delay, but 2 days and counting is not acceptable. I hope these issues are addressed, because I was really looking forward to playing, but in the game’s current state it really doesn’t seem worth it.

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TLDR; Save yourself some neopain and don't download this app.

Being a fan of Neopets for almost 2 decades, I am very used to the poor state of the Neopets website (as I am sure many of you readers are too). This app is no different. On the surface, it is a very fun game for a few hours that is reminiscent of Animal Crossing: New Horizons in regards to building and decorating an island. However, beyond the limited gameplay and decorating, there isn't more substance than that. The story is short too, which means you run out of things to do pretty fast.

Now for the most aggrevating part for me, which is the response to bug fixes and customer service. I have had an issue downloading this app onto another device and syncing my Neopass. It is an odd bug to describe without images, but essentially it created a new world state on top of the old world state and made it impossible to click on anything or do anything in the game. I sent my first ticket over a month ago. However, when you do get a response, the team are extremely unhelpful. I am having to chase my own ticket and force a non-productive response because they are ignoring me and hoping I would go away. The last I heard from the team was two weeks ago saying they are passing my ticket onto the relevant department. Well, that 'relevant department' was the trash apparently.

Hi! Thank you for letting us know about this issue. We've escalated it to our development team and are working on a fix. We hope to have it resolved soon. See you back in Dacardia! Thanks, TNT

I feel bad for saying it but the app isn’t great. Part of me wishes they just had put more effort into the site rather than making a not fully thought out game and continued with half arsed site pages.

The game has a decent enough concept but there are some big issues

1) resources and collecting - there are just way too many different resources. You cannot keep track of 20 + things right from the start, and most appear to have no real use yet so I have plenty of fish but nothing to do with them yet. And then a lot of the quests needs resources that come from debris but it takes multiple times to get what you want slowing you down greatly

2) it advertises minigames which yes is true but you only get to play the mini games if you pay with pearls (which can be bought for real life currency) which kinda feels like locking a mini game behind a paywall

3) it just feels a bit off? I don’t fully know how to describe it as I can’t put my finger on it fully but the game just feels a bit clunky. It isn’t smooth or intuitive. You have to press multiple buttons to do something you should be able to do with one.

Overall if people are die hard neopets fans I can see them wanting to play but I just don’t think the game is good enough or unique enough on its own to bring in people who aren’t neopets fans. And to be honest even for those who are neopets fans it feels so removed from the actual game apart from having some pets it doesn’t even feel like neopets

Hi! Thank you for your feedback on Tales of Dacardia. We’ve addressed many of the issues with recent updates and hope you’ll find the game improved. If issue persist please reach out to our support team at [https://talesofdacardia.support.neopets.com/hc/en-us/requests/new]. Thanks for your support! Thanks, TNT