TerraNova: Strategy & Survival

Good

I just downloaded the game and was actually enjoying it however it said it saved my progress. I load my colony and it’s completely restarted as if I pressed new colony. I was looking forward to playing it. I deleted it.

I’m so glad another one of these types of games exists on iPhone, but it’s riddled with bugs. Some of which break the game completely. For example, I’m stuck at 60 house population. Every time I build a new house, it just doesn’t count towards my house count and disappears when I reopen the game. My new people can’t survive. There’s tons of other really annoying bugs.

I love this game. I played it all day and never really got bored of it. There’s no pop up ads unless you want to watch an ad for extra energy but it’s not required. I do however feel like I’ve hit a wall in the game where if I build more wood or metal search buildings it glitches and won’t let me assign workers to them or they disappear after I close it and reopen, same with the huts. I would love for this to be resolved but it’s still a fun game

I don’t know if it is a bug .When I have 46 persons, all that I built couldn’t be used, but my sources were taken. That means I can’t build anything. I hope the problem can be fixed early. Encouragement from China

Understand that it is next to impossible to play this for free. It is designed to get people to pay. You cannot support even a modest community without needing copious Energy, which is the bait for $$. Even watching ads for 3 energy gets timed out after a while for at least 30 minutes, meanwhile your buildings break down (why they don’t last a “month” beats me), colonists die, starve, dehydrate, etc. if you want to dump cash into the game, if that’s your vice, you may enjoy this game. Hopefully you have bionic vision to see the micro-graphics though. To the developer, great concept but you don’t need to design this to be a mandatory money pit. Especially in the beginning! You’ve ruined the game through greed.

Opinion : This, by far. Has to be one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Imagined Lore : I have always been intrigued by the future of humanity. I’ve never looked at the future of humanity, being sci-fi, futuristic, or brilliant. I have always imagined it being a dark, horrible future. Where we run out of oil and petroleum by 2050, cars refuse to work, people lose jobs and mass panic spreads. Glaciers melt, sea levels rise, end of modern transportation comes, and the end of technology, as rare earth materials are become scarce. The end of the world begins, this marks the beginning of true anarchism, and its role on human extinction. I can imagine this world inside the game as, everything would be the same in our universe and its future. Except global warming was 20X worse in this universe than our own, by 2050. The temperature would to such horrifying levels, even what once was the coldest places on Earth, Siberia and Greenland become hot and barren. Game opinion : The game is in poor condition, many glitches and problems. Unlike many other reviews, energy never became a problem. I never needed to watch ads or purchase anything, because I was so in love with the game. I spent longer just to enjoy the game at its maximum content. An entire week well spent, well loved. Do not let the games condition fool you. This is a 5 star to me, as the game in my opinion is extremely realistic, and interesting. To the expeditions you could send out, invasions, and findings. The game is perfect in representing its true message. Recommended game additions : Fix as many glitches as possible, as I encountered far too many of them. Make the games message more clear. At night, my colonists refused to go in the tents. This happened later on in the game, and was annoying as they didn’t get any sleep. Repairing the buildings was good and all, if there was a mechanic to auto repair them, or at least later on in the game, be given to option to construct a building that will automatically repair them, it would be more convenient.

It’s difficult to understand how this received so many 5 star reviews. Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve stalled out very early on in this game, even with spending a few bucks for energy. I’ll cut my losses and move on to another game. It takes 20 wood to generate 8 water, or 28 planks to generate the same. To make planks it takes 3 wood plus 1 tool plus 1 sand. To generate 1 tool it takes 3 wood and 5 metal. Why would I ever use planks to create water. All buildings need repairs, whether used or not. Seems impossible to keep up with the overhead without paying. I found myself buying the $0.99 pack with if the 1st 30 mins. Boo. Maybe it’s just me, but horrible app.

Played for a total of 6 hours, around that time I couldn’t build any more buildings, so the new people that came dies. If I did try to build a building it would be built, used all the resources needed, and disappear. There was no tier 3 house option in the research so I couldn’t even upgrade to the next level of houses to save space. Things just stopped working around 6 hours of gameplay for me. Overall, great game if it wasn’t for all the bugs.

This is a great game of balance and survival. The graphics are not stupendous, but it that’s not what it’s about. The best thing? You don’t have to belong to a clan or alliance. I am so tired of those games, and most of the survival games involve multiplayer. I don’t find that relaxing at all.In fact quite the opposite. Also, you only have to watch ads if you want too. And you get free energy if you do. The water system, is a bit tricky and I’m not thrilled about having to spend resources when I come back online and have to start it up. I do wish there was a way to speed through the night if there is not an event. Highly recommend this game to anyone who likes survival challenges without have to deal with 20 other random people on the internet.