Pixel People 4+

This is such an amazing, unique game I’m so so glad it’s back in the AppStore I played it ages ago on my IPod and it was easily one of my favorite games. The whole concept of gene splicing and all the witty and interesting details about the buildings etc are great. It’s a multi-faceted games with many avenues to go down. I understand why the coins increase so much and appreciate that there’s a cap on expansion costs. Utopium-wise, I wish the heart events were a bit more reliable in terms of getting Utopium, I haven’t received any for a long time from heart events. Other than that the only other thing I’d say is please bring back Facebook. I’d like to at least look at my old town even though I’d probably prefer to continue playing with my current one. Please let me know if a Facebook update is coming!

This game has always been my absolute favourite mobile game ever since I first played it in 2013! I’m over the moon that it’s back in the store ☺️

The only reason I haven’t given 5 stars is because the old version had some features that were just *slightly* better. For example, the farm no longer has bumper season so it takes sooo long to earn enough money for the land upgrades. I also feel like the hearts are a bit pointless...the prizes used to be so much more varied from coins to Utopium to decorations! Now it’s just animals....and only ever the same 5 or so. I think this is a bug since the first two heart prizes I opened were coins, but I’ve only had animals since and my boyfriend’s game is the same. I would love for the hearts system to be a little more worthwhile and for the bumper season to come back because other than that this is my perfect game ❤️

As already said in various reviews;
The game is fun for the first week or two but eventually gets to the point of being basically unplayable and very grinding for little reward.

The core gameplay is to splice two professions together to create a new one, most of which come with buildings associated with them. Placing these buildings requires available land and this is where the problem is;
You use coins to expand 10 extra land. The cost of the expansions get really high, really fast, and completely halt playing until you earn enough coins to expand. But once you do expand you’ll have to waste at least half of your new space just to house the new characters you could create. Leaving you to stop and grind again.

This hike in expansion cost comes in far too early into playing and gets stupidly expensive every upgrade after. And with the added thing of the buildings that generate coins only doing so for a few minutes until you need to tap them back into earning, meaning you’d need to keep the game open to really make anything. Which is obviously not fun or practical.

It’s either just a really bad game mechanic or more likely a simple, exploitive decision to bait people into paying for upgrades right from the start.

Which is a shame, since it could have been fun.