Futurama Reviews

This game started out much like Family Guy: Quest for Stuff or Simpsons: Tapped Out. A game where you build the world of some of your favorite cartoon characters. Space missions started to become more and more prominent and were a new/interesting thing to add to the gameplay. Eventually that was 90% of what you do to earn stuff during the events. However, you are also expected to upgrade your characters and their costumes to higher and higher levels to compete and actually come out anywhere in the events or to actually earn something you may want to have. Upgrading characters? Ok... outfits? Are you nuts? To top that off, once you try to upgrade past 30, you have to have tokens for your characters class along with upgrade tokens. You can only get certain class tokens on certain days, and if you play other apps or don’t have time to devote to space missions over and over and over again, you fall way behind. Futurama got too ambitious with what it wanted to do, and ultimately turned this fella off. I offset the data for Futurama about 3 weeks or so ago and haven’t missed the stress of trying to compete when I really have no way to do so. If you just play Futurama, or have a ton of time to kill... Futurama may be worth it. Otherwise, avoid at all costs.

Come for the nostalgia, but it has one of the most unforgiving gameplay mechanisms I've seen even for a game of this type. This game absolutely deserves one star, but just because I'm giving it one star doesn't mean this app fans shouldn't try this game. It's free, and you get the voices. But as a game, it is just anti-fun. There's a drop rate based on RNG, so you can't play according to your schedule because something may not drop. You can't plan out how to get drops. Right now, there is the October 2017 Hell on Earth event, and there are space missions where you have to sit there and grind about 10 battles. In each battle, you make your characters fight monsters at 1 damage per hit for an over 200hp enemy, and it takes 8-18 minutes to complete a battle. And you just have to be there just to make sure your phone doesn't turn off so the battle is successful. There's no gameplay, you just have to be awake, and bored. What's worse is that if you spend money on premium currency, you can supposedly bypass some of this hassle by getting more bombs that can kill these enemies, but even then, the management of the bombs is so hard, due to the learning curve and a bomb capacity, that even the paying customers probably have a difficult time progressing on this event.

So, this is just a game that isn't fun, and paying money isn't going to make the game more fun. But, the nicest thing is trying to get some of favorite characters, if you are ever so lucky!

How can you get lower on a freeium game? Well this one takes the cake. I play a few freeium games and this has won. Not only do you have to get chips to level up your player, you also have to spend you Nixon bucks along with it. That means you don't make it very far in any storyline or side quests unless you drop major dollars. Buildings don't put out very much money and you can probably make it through three maybe four times on a planet to get a character maybe a few levels (one level,if you're lucky, after lvl 20). I've played all of the side quests and don't make it anywhere because I don't have the character requirements ever. And it's a waste to get extra character because you have to spend all your hard earned Nixon bucks and chips to upgrade for those quests and then they are never used again later down the road. Go figure. I love this app but this game is just bull from the beginning.

And so begins a new chapter with the new update. Not only did they incorporate a promotion for characters AND an arena battle but they did it during the Christmas event. So that means you have to spend real money on more gas to go and try and get promotion items and try and fight in the arena and complete the Christmas event. If you are new to the game, just walk away now. You can spend months on this game and not make it far at all. Just for your sake, don't waste your time. It's not worth it.

Ok, I never write reviews for apps but, this time, I feel it's warranted. For a while, I was loving this game. The writing is great and often feels likes it's directly from the show, the combat and character leveling adds an interesting enough extra layer to a genre that can otherwise get boring quickly, and...well, who doesn't love this app. Unfortunately though, the Radiorama update has made the game literally unplayable for me. I got to play it for one day. I sent my characters on missions before work and when I came home, it crashed constantly. I can't even make it past the initial loading screen.

Crashes are nothing new to this game so I figured it was a common bug and that it would soon be patched out- they have been pretty good with that so far. Alas, it's been, I don't even know exactly, almost a month and yet nothing so far. I write this in hopes that it's not just me and that this problem will be fixed soon. Some compensation would also be nice seeing as how I have no chance of getting any of the exclusive event items and characters now

I love this app, and the game has a lot of not all the characters at some point or another, however there is very little story the follows the this app title. The game can be fun and gameplay is decent. Some of the game mechanics are a little confusing and need work. Missions are rather basic, with very little storyline or content. The overall appearance of the game is good, but the gameplay/mechanics don’t quite live up the appearance. The ONLY way you can currently save you gameplay online (so it won’t be lost in the event you lose/break your device) is using Facebook, which me personally I have completely removed Facebook from my life; very frustrating when trying to play on 2+ different devices. The game play crashes about 10% of the time. The bombardment of advertising (for in game specials and 3rd party offers) when the game is first opened is obnoxious. All in all, based upon the instability of the game and the forced use of Facebook, I would never spend money in game and honestly it is discouraging enough to almost stop playing the game; hence my 2 stars.

So the game was super fun and very unique at the beginning but you can tell very quickly that the developers got lazy with the game as to unlock certain characters or buildings it’s can take weeks at a time to even save up the money which is annoying bc then you’re not even playing the game you’re just waiting for them to complete tasks. For example you have to unlock an outfit for a character, but one of the things you need to unlock that character is spending 100,000 cash on a building and then waiting at the “rare” chance of the building spouting maybe 15 of the required items for the outfit ON TOP of everything else you have to do to just UNLOCK that character. I spent two weeks to unlock Labarbara bc I had to save up the 100,000 cash for the building and then do the actions to unlock the character. and then as soon as i unlock the character the next activity is to save another 100,000 cash to unlock a building that will then be used to unlock a character outfit.... it’s just gets too much work and little fun. The only reason this has two stars is because the game incorporated cool missions and characters from the show.

I grew up watching this app. I love the show and was hoping for some fun nostalgia via this "free" app. I have spent about $20 of real U.S. dollars in the game so far; and I am pretty much right where everyone else is in the game. I can only imagine this game would be gratifying for someone for which money and time is not an object. If you can drop hundreds of dollars on this game, you'll have fun and you'll have plenty of fun things to do in the game. That is insane. Also, it is bad marketing. The key demographic here is males in their early to late twenties. How much money do you think they have? Clearly this game is having problems with funding. If a developer is reading this, I would recommend putting in more ads to collect revenue, rather than trying to motivate the player to spend money in the game. The timing of the events is made so that most people will just barely miss out on the rewards. Also, there are two existing districts in the game that cannot be revealed. What's up with that, Einstein? All in all, I love the game. There are so many issues with it that I regrettably had to give it two stars. If these very simple, industry standard issues are fixed I will gladly give a five star review.

I started playing this on my phone when it first came out & progressed reasonably well until I started to have problems with glitches in the game (things not loading or freezing up). I deleted that game & thought I might be able reload it on my iPad, but no. I had to start a new game altogether. This game is no longer updated with any quests & it’s quite a slog to get to the final (?) planet. Even when you spend a bit of money, as I have, it doesn’t make a difference. I am currently on the next to the last quest on Decapod during which characters at level 49 or above should be enough, but no. I currently have characters of each type at 60 & have tried differing combos without succeeding in getting past the first part of this quest. I assume this is by design. I realize there’s nothing to be done about this but it makes me sad that a show I so enjoyed could be turned into such a disappointing game. I realize the main point of apps & games is monetization but this is truly a demonstration of laziness & greed.

I have only played this game about a week. I too am a fan of this app. I was very hesitant to down load it since it’s the same company that did the family guy game. I still wanted to at least try it out. First the quests are all over the place with no real sequence but you can’t do the part of the quest until you get your character a certain level. So I get to level 10 still not at the level you need for the quest. Need to farm an item to expand level but don’t get enough of said item to level. Then each planet has certain branch paths that can’t be used until you reach a really high level. See previous statement about leveling. Next missions on each planet show a recommended level which you can’t play until you level each character. Have a team of 4 but need to be level 20 and each farm run doesn’t give you enough badges to promote/level. It has become a life sucking chore with no hope for tomorrow not fun and has been deleted. So thanks tinyco I won’t be downloading any of your games in the future.

I am having a good time, so far. I haven't made any purchases and feel that I am still progressing well. I am a TSTO player, so this feels similar enough to not be daunting. It also successfully adds mechanics that I feel are charming and interesting! There is a lot to pay attention to, so it takes some work at first. You start feel your multitasking improve relatively quickly. I am looking forward to continuing to play.

Update: Upon further, long time play of this game, I am finding it more difficult to recommend this game to anyone else. It is becoming a classic ‘quarter muncher’ in that it really does require you spend money to earn what is possible. I am becoming weary of the promotions that continue to be added almost back to back. I get tired of trying to unlock a character I already have to earn in game currency to craft, only to lose them entirely when I cannot get everything needed to unlock them before the timeframe ends. The universe battles that were added weeks ago are buggy and freeze, crash multiple times a day which costs rewards, and points, as well as time until you can play again unless I want to spend premium currency. The support staff try to be helpful but have recently been days slower to answer. It is frustrating and makes it difficult to recommend or enjoy playing.

This is a fun build your world game, with a fun battle system. A few flaws, but still fun to play. I have needed one item to unlock a character for four days now and the event is going to end today. This is just an item where I have 2 different characters that I can send on 4 hour missions to get, but for four days, sending them 3 or 4 times a day they have not returned with that 1 item. Unlocking this character is only way I can unlock another character and with event ending today that won't happen, so that's a bummer. Land is small and you have lots of buildings on it so it gets cluttered and hard to tap on a specific building or character. I have unlocked all the land there currently is and have very little room to build anything else. The game is fun but needs more room, and a way to find your characters other than tapping around on everything as the cluttered environment makes this hard to do. Still would recommend for anyone that enjoys this app!

I downloaded this game a few days ago after seeing it advertised on Futurama Store. I got into the game and noticed a few annoying bits. You can’t move the Planet Express building or the power lines next to it, this kinda makes sense as it’s the classic layout for the building next to the bay.

The road building systems is THE klunkiest road system I’ve ever had to deal with. You have to “buy” the roads from the shop (they’re free). And lay them in a straight line one road at a time and you have to line them up just right to get them to connect. Then if you decide you don’t like road how it ended up you have to exit the shop, go into the doctor mode, delete the ENTIRE stretch of road you just built, exit the editor mode, and go back to the shop to lay the road again. It’s incredibly time consuming and the the way the roads have to line up really hinders the customization aspect of the game.

That being said it’s a great fan game with, just all the tongue in cheek humor you expect from this app, you get the original voices and phrases from the show. The mission system is decent and not terribly boring. I’m am greatly enjoying the game and really hope it will start to get a little more attention from the developers (there hasn’t been an update in 8 months).

I love the show and loved this world building game, however it has gotten ridiculously difficult and time consuming. I work hard to clear space in my town to place more buildings but the hypnotrons are very difficult to find and obtain. Also, the whole crusade to find a new character, find an area to place the building they’re associated with, then working for weeks to unlock them absolutely destroys any fun in this game. It’s time consuming and boring to send all of my characters on missions to find the necessary items to unlock them, because I can no longer play the game since my characters are constantly busy, and the fact that the items are classified in a way where I can send Fry on an 8 hour mission to find one but there’s a slim chance to even get it at the end. I would recommend doing away with the unlocking system since playing the normal game is hard enough. Also, the seasonal missions are boring and waste the time spent to collect items and hypnotrons. Thanks for reading this if someone does!

this app is one of my favorite tv shows. I’ve seen every episode and has some of my favorite tv characters of all time but you would think that this game would give you all the main characters early on like The Simpsons: Tapped Out or Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff right? Wrong. Some of the main characters like Leela, Dr. Zoidberg, Hermes, etc. you have to wait until your way farther into the game and if you don’t spend money on the game then the game goes extremely slow. Instead you get Scruffy who was only a recurring character before most of the major ones. The only major characters you get early on in the game are Fry, Dr. Farnsworth, Bender, and Amy and that’s it. Also this game has limited building space which normally I wouldn’t complain; Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff had limited building space, but it’s actually nearly impossible to lay roads because unlike tapped out or quest for stuff where you lay roads by dragging your finger therefore you can place roads anywhere and the roads will fit, in this game you have to place roads as individual blocks that are exactly the same size and a lot of times the road won’t fit. The spaces you unlock are also much smaller, sometimes so small you can only fit one building in the space before needing to spend money unlocking more space. It just gets really annoying when you can’t place buildings or road anywhere without it looking silly

I started playing about 5 weeks ago. It is both fun and frustrating. I came in during the end of the Robot Mafia event. New players don't have much of a chance since certain characters and districts need to be unlocked to progress in events. This aside, I did spend a little cash to get fanny and Joey mousepad.
For the next event I was more prepared and still unlocking areas and crew. The events and goals are fine for the most part. The Cornwood outfits and dialogue are great as expected.
My reason for the 3 stars is some of the game rules for leveling actually punishes you for being higher lvl. This is done by increasing the time it takes to regenerate fuel. At low lvl it was 5 minutes per unit. Currently at lvl 20 it takes a full 10 minutes. Why even increase your fuel meter if your going to double the time to replenish? It's just one of those greedy moves by the developer. Other games I've played simply increase your energy meter without the increase in time aspect.
One other change they can make is concerning events on earth. Why do you need to spend fuel when cornwood is in New New York? You should get so many entries for quests based on your activity but some other form of entry such as the dice or something else you can earn or trade for.

Let me start of with quick with a remark on my gratitude to the developers for not just copying Tapped Out entirely and throw paint over it. Don't get me wrong. This game obviously acts kind of similar in some ways, but differentiates enough to feel like it's own thing. Now, for the rest of this, I'm going to cut up to pros and cons. Cons: Typical pay to speed up features. One big note before the next con. Something that especially made me a little surprised by the level of arrogance was seeing a mission that asked me to pay $5. Next con, it can be a little too basic. I'm not looking for something crazy, but they could definitely beef up the combat a little bit. Pros: pretty much everything else. The writing is superb and the music is nostalgic. Needn't forget the great transition of the shows color and design style. Overall, yeah; this is pretty good. Its not going to change the world,but if you're a fan of the source material, you'll be able to appreciate it.

I had mixed feelings about this game at first. I love this app and it was kinda fun but it took FOREVER to progress and you had 50 million quests going at once and would have to level up characters immediately in order to progress instead of leveling as you go. It’s really set up to make you spend real money in order to get anywhere. And then started the hell on earth with robot devil...... ugh. I really wanted to unlock the robot devil but when it came time, you only have 24hours to beat him 12 times! And you have to use like 18 bombs each time, which you never get the stuff for and even if you did how the heck are you gonna be able to make 216 bombs in 24 hours?! It’s impossible! That was really disappointing to me and just made me wanna day screw this game, which I pretty much did. I don’t care for it anymore. Everything is just super messed up and all over the place and just impossible to do sometimes.

If you are a this app fan, you certainly should try out this game; it will warm your nerdy heart. But know this as I point my finglonger at you all as you already know - if you truly wish to enjoy this game, it will eventually cost real Earth money to get a sense of achievement or advancement. 20 bucks here, 20 bucks there. If you want to advance to a good point within the first 4 weeks, easily 100 bucks. Don't let that scare you off - consider it an investment. We already pay subscriptions and the like for game services, so in this case we are rewarding the development team's efforts and believe you me meatbags, they did a great job here.

...Now to the Bureaucracy #34 part of this review. I do wish the robot elders and developers of this game had ceased what with the upping the pace of achievements as the game progresses, resulting in little currency and character missions that leave you detached for long hours with little gains. Why should a player spend in-game rent and hard-earned mission money to level up characters after spending so much time and hard-earned chips and possibly even Earth money? It makes one feel like Bender when he had to be Santa. To the players, it comes down to this: do you have more time or money or love of this app? Download it and find out. It'll be fun on a bun.

When I first started playing this game it sent a congratulations message on being one of the first 50 players to download. I’ve played it for a long time now, watched it develop since the beginning. I wouldn’t still have it if it wasn’t enjoyable. If you’re a this app lover like I am, then you’ll see all the references from character sayings, to details on the buildings. There are clever limited time objectives that help keep the game more interesting. That way you’re not just leveling up characters and buying more buildings. This game requires your time and patience. If you have neither of those things, I don’t suggest it. To level up characters you not only have to have career chips, but a lot of money. The chips are over priced, considering you already had to win them to have them in the first place. Buildings that cost over 20k don’t even give you 100 cash for an eight hour time period. So if the money in this game was more reasonable, I suggest not paying thousands to level up a character one level, it would be perfect! It has a great concept, and I play this game a lot. Considering you need money to advance to get almost anything, it shouldn’t be as difficult to acquire. I recommend this game to anyone who enjoys this type of game, there’s an interesting twist that mixes it up from the usual gameplay.

This game is fun, I really enjoy it. I see a lot people talking about spending real world money on this game and how it’s a problem so they delete it, but I haven’t spend a single dollar on the game. Everything in the game is free, it just takes time. Which apparently nobody seems patient enough to wait on. I’ve already unlocked all the available districts and I’ve gotten there without spending a penny. Yes it takes time to refuel the ship to do missions, so what. Watch an episode of this app and come back and you’ll have a little of your fuel back. The pizza that CAN cost real world money is free, you can get between 2 to 5 slices of free pizza a day on the game which is what allows you to make things move a little faster if you so choose to use it. Point is, if you are a real this app fan, this game is great. The voice acting is awesome, the text keeps personalities true to their characters and I love every line of dialogue I read. If your impatient and want to burn real world money on your games, that’s your choice, but don’t rate the game badly simply because you made that choice.