Idle Acorns

Truly it’s everything it promises. The idle game with no ads. I wish it moved a bit swifter, more fast paced but there is nothing wrong with the game as it is (hence my score.) If you like idle games, and you know you do, this one is a value.

It’s slow paced and the kind of game you can play 5-10 minutes every few hours. It’s pretty fun but if you play it for more than that each day you can get burnt out pretty easy. With that being said for the 3 dollar price tag it’s definitely worth it.

I enjoyed the first part of this game, but by the end everything is arbitrary, dissatisfying and a little buggy.

Barely adapted for non-touchscreen play. Campground crafting is poorly explained and anticlimactic. Costly recipes (super fertilizer, fishing net, etc.) that seem like they would improve the gameplay only work for a single use, making them extremely uneconomical and pointless.

Grinding is not much of an issue with me as long as it gives a sense of accomplishment. This game does not. You can grind for hours in this game and get nowhere basically and when you do hit that incremental step it takes days to hit another one.

For a paid clicker game, I expect a lot more. I’ve played plenty of free clicker games which can be relaxing, but incredibly complex with the methods to optimize production at the same time. Of course you can do some of that here, but it’s incredibly limited. Most of the game is just artificially dragged out with long timers and high upgrade costs that require you to manually tap for hours, or just collect what is automatically gained for 4 days till you can buy something. Progress shouldn’t be too easy, but you never really feel like you’ve achieved a high production rate. On top of that, the main acorn currency becomes almost useless after a certain point, so you just wait 6-12 hours for diamond trees to grow and for fish from the simple mini-game to cook so you can sell them for diamonds. At least the art style‘s pleasant though.

i realize that “arbitrary delay” may sound unfair since that is sort of the entire premise of an idle game. but what i’ve never encountered in any idle game is an arbitrary delay in the time you can take actions such as tapping or accessing menus. forgetting that it takes 20h for a tree to grow 60m acorns and you need 2.5b acorns to get a feather (in late game you need multiple feathers to progress), forgetting that you have to wait ten seconds in between catching fish and casting a new line, even forgetting that whales never appear to boost your acorn production, you are rate limited not only in the tapping gimmick (to maybe 3 taps per second), but also rate limited in how fast you can navigate various menus and ui elements. getting enough acorns to get a seed to get one of 2-5 feathers is not a fun slog. without boosts, that’s five days per feather. of course there are the boosts, but the boost minigame is, you guessed it! rate limited with arbitrary and unnecessary delays. overall the game starts as a chill and enjoyable experience but by late game turns into frustration generated by poor design choices.

This is a very relaxing game to me. The sounds for each button is pleasing to my ears and the ui is bright but doesn’t hurt my eyes. I think this is the perfect game to play if you’re looking for something simple but cute to play, but I’ll you decide that for yourself.

There’s a game breaking bug. After you have bought the 3 feathers, the bat doesn’t recognize that you’ve bought them. This doesn’t let you progress in the game.

Can we have a way to not have to do the fishing mini game or the others? I am tired of doing those but I want to continue playing. Overall, great job! I love what you have done.