Home Quest - Idle Adventure

I first played this game about two years ago and I enjoyed this game a lot when I bought the previous premium edition but now I need to train my workers and I now have a limited amount of spiritwells and as someone who likes to play mobile games on my lunch since when I’m home I can hop on my pc or console but now everything feels slower and more time consuming than before this is my opinion and it “was” fun.

I’ve played dozens upon dozens of idle and incremental games including all the major/classic ones (Kittens Game, Antimatter Dimensions, NGU, Trimps etc) plus a ton more mobile-only ones. This one just does not feel good on multiple fronts. It starts off really good and addicting but the bottlenecks just feel so bad to encounter at multiple different stages, and working through them by having to go through arbitrarily contrived timewalls is seriously painful. There’s a system where you have to build up something called “mercury” and “honor”. For your first 20+ hours playing this game (where I’m still currently at, at about mid-game from what I’ve seen) the only way to get these is by fighting waves of enemies that come in sets of 200, which gives you 200 honor. That amount of honor does not scale until who knows when (I’m still getting that measly amount when I need thousands) and to make matters worse, there is a cooldown of 10 minutes or so between battles, plus a 1 second delay between the waves themselves which adds up to a ton of additional wasted minutes when you’re having to do 200 waves x 100s of battles. To make all of this worse, offline progress seems to not start or register quite right for battles so you’ll come back to somewhat stagnated progress at times for reason I don’t know. You finally beat the next storyline advancement obstacle and your reward for finally overcoming it is… having to wait an hour to travel to a new settlement for absolutely no reason whatsoever. There’s no way to speed this up with active play, it’s just thrown in because it’s supposed to be an idle game but in the most ham-fisted way. I mean there’s even 5 second delays to complete quests after tapping the green button for again no reason whatsoever. Just completely awkward and poor game design. Apparently this game recently underwent a major update/overhaul which was mostly negatively received so I wish I had been able to play it when it was actually good instead of this seemingly downgraded version of it. I even bought the $10 pack when I was still at the beginning and it was still good because it seemed to have potential but now I regret it and am just trying to complete it out of spite, which again is really just a terrible thing. I’d recommend avoiding, you’ve been warned.

This is one of the best idle games I have played.

Lost access to content I paid for with the overhaul. Clunky interface. Lost a lot of charm and I feel ripped off. There used to be two different DLC type purchases. Now there’s one but the content from the previous two is now inaccessible. How is that acceptable?

It feels so clunky and all the buttons are big — before the update everything felt far more streamlined and now it feels like I have to treasure hunt to find any specific button. I still enjoy the game but it feels less satisfying and navigation could definitely be improved.

Update 4.0 ruined this game

Game was really good till the latest update. Now the up is so clunky that everything is significantly complicated for no reason. Actions that used to all be usable in a single menu now take up several, there are sub menus and tabs that add nothing but complication. The new UI isn’t even finished, I’ve had it bug out on me several times. All this for a shiner new aesthetic that removes a lot of the charm from the game. Really wish I could refund because of this.

The most recent update, which “overhauled” the core mechanics of the game, has completely made me lose interest in this app. They’ve made the grinds longer, introduced waiting times where there were none before, and straight up removed certain mechanics in the game that were genuinely fun. I paid $10 for the “millennium” edition of this game a month ago, and as of this most recent update all of my previous paid perks are gone. Everything I paid good money for is now either free or completely gone from the app. Of course, now the develops released a newer paid version for an additional $10. The developers are scummy, taking a once beloved game and making it harder to progress while removing all previous paid benefits, NOT WORTH YOUR TIME.

Started playing it when it first released, and I’m hoping that the updates never stop. I’ve bought all of the additional content. The new interface looks very sleek and the background music is comforting. I wish that it was continuous because if you play for a while like I do, occasionally the music will stop but then return to playing. It is also a bit challenging, but nothing that hasn’t been touched up on. I like that it tells you what is required of one building for another to use not all of the product, but as much without putting the numbers in the red. It was a very nice feature added. Along with the diagrams in the “Treasury” menu.

Update regarding the major update: A LOT of work went into this update and it looks amazing. Sadly, though, the gameplay took a hit. I think it’s possibly more appealing to the new player, but I was used to things the way they were, and now just about everything has been moved or changed in a way that makes the game more tedious than fun. Again, the game (for what it is) looks great! But I liked the minimalist design of the original, especially if it means keeping the gameplay more interesting and balanced. Several nerfs in this update also have me frustrated. Golden artifacts, for instance, were already hard to come by… but they now come one at a time instead of three. Why? To lengthen the game maybe, but at what cost? My desire to play is now diminished. Awesome 5-star game has sadly dropped to four stars. Original review: Just kidding about the boring part. Although the lack of graphics might turn away the Fortnite crowd 😜 I love this kind of game, and there’s something about the building and worker distribution processes that strike the right chord with me. It would be cool if we could sell or trade off some excess buildings (I have a surplus of farms). Maybe in a similar way to how we can “trade in” army units for stuff by sending them to Valhalla; there could be a way to recycle unused buildings for material or something else useful.