Terrarium: Garden Idle Reviews

by Ɩıŋɖʂɛყ

I saw someone say that there’s no ads on this game?? Absolutely not true. I got so frustrated cause every time you level up you either click the “collect” or “collect x3” so obviously the first couple times I chose the x3 cause that will help me improve faster. Even though that required ads, I was fine with it because I AGREED to watch the ad. However, I quickly grew tired of watching the ads and I chose the regular option instead and it STILL took me to an ad. It is shorter, however you still sometimes have to wait 10-15 seconds for it to let you click out. So either way, you’re stuck with ads. And THEN they make you progress so fast, that you level up like every minute or two. So either, don’t level up and make it super hard to gain anything, or watch ads for about half the time you’re “playing” the game. I understand that ads are basically the only way for them to make money off of Terrarium, but there’s way better ways of doing it, that doesn’t make everyone watch ads every 30 seconds. If you ask me, I think this is just a gimmick so that they earn a ton of money from Terrarium by doing next to nothing. I can’t believe I wasted my time on this game.

by IEbony

I don’t ever write reviews. Ever. And I don’t usually play games. I downloaded this game to appease a little friend of mine who swore I wouldn’t be happy until I had a game on my phone and fell in love. It started out a great game that I could just pull out for a few minutes when I needed to burn time, now it is full of ads that include loud music to force you to subscribe to the monthly plan, I guess. I went from playing this game almost every day to almost never because of these changes. Every time you level up, you have to suffer through annoying ads that play in public when I’d rather they didn’t. The last straw for me is now the mute buttons and/or “x” buttons have become click bait for the advertised game and just take you to the download option. It has completely ruined the game for me, which is a very nice, calm setting. I’m sure they picked this style of ad revenue to annoy the player to the point of subscription, but it has done the opposite for me as I don’t subscribe to unnecessary things. Its a shame because the actual game is a 10/10, but the game experience, brings it down to a 0/10, but I gave it a 2/5 to be fair.

by Dmcphee

Any other time I would have said I really enjoy Terrarium, not much going on but it’s fine. There are almost never updates to the game so there’s not much excitement. I am working on making one row for each plant, so four kebabs on one row and all the way leveled up. But that’s not going to take me much longer and I’m not sure if there will be anything left to do seeing as there probably won’t be any new gardens like it says there will be, it has said “coming soon” for SOO long now! Also for a while now, when I open the game, my gardens say they all three only collected 120. Oxygen while I was away and know there should have been way more. If I go on all three gardens, I don’t even get any of that 120. The number just stays the same and I get nothing. If I close Terrarium and reopen, the number goes back down as if it all had just been collected and I get nothing. I like to wait at least 6 hours once I close Terrarium til I reopen so I know I will get as much as I can, so this is really frustrating to me when what would have been a lot of oxygen is now just gone. I also don’t even know where to report any bugs, I didn’t see any options unless I have just overlooked. Just starting to get frustrating and this game used to be something I could harness my ocd tendencies. I have been playing for a very long time, I am levee 1573, so I’m really hoping this can be fixed cause I don’t want to give up on all the stuff I did on this game.

by Matthewreilly94

This was exactly the game I was promised. relaxing, idle game. taught me a lot about plant types and now i can recognize certain plants that i couldn’t before. the ads could be a little annoying, especially when you make a point to just press “collect” and still are forced the watch an ad, ruining the “relaxing” aspect of the game. but most idle apps make money this way, so whatever. i can deal. i made it through the indoor plants section, and was working on my fruits and vegetables garden, when suddenly I open my app and everything’s just gone. no warning, no options, no nothing. i restarted Terrarium multiple times to no avail. i did absolutely nothing that would provoke this, i never even turned off my device or anything. i would love to play the game but the entire point of the game is completely ruined if my progress MIGHT be randomly deleted at any time. i’m pretty disappointed. i understand there being errors in apps, i realize bugs happen all the time, but this is a massive, massive error. this ruined the entire experience because now everything i did, all the terrible ads i watched, all the hours i wasted, was for absolutely nothing.

by Pepperbepper

I played this game a lot. So much so that i hit level 2800.

The ads are relentless. When you level up, the game prevents you from gaining xp until you hit the level up button, where it gives you a currency reward. The game gives you an option to either 1) collect your reward or 2) triple your reward by watching an ad. That’s fine, but unless you pay for something in game, there’s a 75% chance you’ll watch an ad anyways. Yep. It gives you the option to watch an ad, if you choose not to, you’ll probably get an ad anyways. I ended up purchasing something in game, which gave me an insanely over powered boost. I’m talking, level up every two seconds for an hour type of op. It removed the ads, so it was really nice to rack up trillions of coins and plow through it. It was satisfying and probably the only time i truly enjoyed myself.

With my boost over, I resigned myself back to waiting 5 minutes to level up my lowest level plant. That’s fine. What’s not fine is that a bug has prevented me from gaining coins when not in the game. Not a single one. I went 3 days without playing, and not even one coin was given to me. I was at the point where I’d earn 2 billion coins for getting off overnight. The totals for my racks are locked at 120.5 billion for each and they never go up or down and cannot be collected. The only way to earn coins is in game, which now consists of me staring at the screen waiting.

by Molly2274

I love this game, it’s a lot of fun, and I enjoy wasting my time on it. However, the ads are a problem. They come up every time I level up, and sometimes they’re 15 seconds in length. When I’m watering my plants at the same time, this wastes watering time where I don’t collect anything. I also think you should have a rewards sort of “welcome back” gift that continues, because I stopped getting that after 30 days. It’s pretty motivating to see that and I know I’ve checked my game ever day since then. But other than the ads, I think it’s a really fun game that I can happily say I play.

Update: I’ve had this game for months, and I collected all the plants you get in the 30-day rewards at the end of the weeks. Today I checked my plants and I got the reward for day one again. I checked to upgrade some plants, and in the menu, the plants were gone. My silver dollar plant, jelly bean plant, vanda orchid, and cherry blossom bonsai were all gone. The plants were there, but when I held them down, they weren’t in the update menu. I do not want to wait a month to be able to fully upgrade my cherry blossom. Please update accordingly.

by DJdinnerparties

I really enjoy this game. It’s fun and the plants are very accurate. The problem however is that my partner and I started playing this game on the same day and her game is very different from mine. During her play she has been prompted with a “welcome back” screen that gifts her one free item everyday. Despite my having had planted every plant and upgrading each play entirely, I haven’t received this pop up as often. Originally I didn’t believe it existed however, after a week of waiting I was finally prompted. It’s unclear what prompts this “welcome back gift” and due to that it’s unclear how to get it to show up. Though I’m on level 447 and my partner is on level 250, she has new plants given to her each time she completes a row in the “welcome back” pop up. It’s unfortunate because I have now upgraded every-plant and haven’t seen the “welcome back” pop up lately. Due to this my game play has stopped as I’m not being given new flowers beyond “White Clover”. More specifically I haven’t received the Orchid. My partners hasn’t upgraded all of her plants to the max and I have. This isn’t consistent for an idle game.

by Tom0106

I like this game, I really do. However, after not playing for a number of hours and going back on, several times I haven’t been given my offline earnings. This last time my world selection told me they had both gotten up to 120 billion, which was very much not correct, and when I clicked on a world and went back the count started over.
Another thing that drives me a bit crazy is when I receive my level up bonus. I have the option to get the regular amount or watch an ad and triple it, which is all well and good. But when I’m trying to level up quickly with my boosters and it gives me an ad (when I didn’t want that option), it uses up my booster time in the background. It’s very frustrating when I’m given a choice of whether or not to watch an ad and no matter which I choose, I get an ad anyway. Yes I have the option to skip it after a set amount of time, but I don’t think that the regular collect button should automatically play an ad.
After all is said and done, I would gladly rate this 5 stars if these problems were fixed. This game is really relaxing and I like it a lot, but these issues are making it hard to enjoy.

by Greennpurple

I really love this game, however it has quite a bit of issues. In the beginning, when I was about halfway through the plants, I would come back to the game after a few hours of not playing, only to find I had the first few plants and none of the rest. It forced me to spend (game)money to replant the plants I already had. No matter how many times I closed Terrarium or restarted my phone, I had to rebuy the plants. After a few days of not playing, I checked to see if I didn’t have my plants and suddenly they were back. I haven’t had the issue since. Although, another problem I’m having is that it won’t let me get any new seeds. It let me get 3 seeds of the first plant and 2 of a few lower levels, but I can’t get any more than that. Some plants would be able to upgrade past level 50 before giving me an extra seed or saying it was max level. It’s not making much sense to me and I don’t see a reason to keep playing this game unless I’m able to unlock more plants. It’s a great game at first, but there’s no incentive to keep playing, which is what idle games rely on to keep players. Unless these issues are fixed, there’s no point in playing this game.

by IKennyWest

I have been playing on Terrarium for about a month now and I honestly love the game. If you cannot stand ads then this game is not for you unless you want to pay a subscription to remove ads and get other bonuses. If you do not pay for the subscription then Terrarium is flooded with ads. There is a timer before you can view another ad but when you level up theirs ads, want x3 oxygen per world = 3 ads, click on the bird for oxygen = ads. This game has one bug where after you unlock other worlds, it won’t accumulate oxygen from being away from Terrarium . (Will show 120b oxygen for each world and when you go in the world there will be no collect from being away screen). I’m level 550+ and almost finished with the last available world and I wish the developer would update Terrarium with more content and bug fixes(obviously). Overall the game is really fun if you learn to ignore the ads and I have already recommended this game to multiple friends. (Also possibly nerf the fertilizer and intensive watering booster cause it levels you up extremely fast/changes the pace of the game in general. This is just my opinion)

by Karen - Nc

It only takes minutes to beat a level and there’s an ad between each level. The game offers to give a 3x multiplier, but you watch an ad either way, so why even give the option to watch an ad for nothing? I plan to try playing the game without Internet. Some games are a lot more fun without Internet and I don’t see why the game would need it anyway. There are no seasonal events or neighbors. I still like the game. I aimlessly tap while watching tv just as well as I’ll wait for an ad to finish. It’s a clicker game, but with plants. I like it. Can’t wait to progress and start adding flowers. I’ve noticed that ya get 70gems for starting up and I don’t see any way to earn more yet. I’ll look into that after I try to play without ads every two mins. Omg, they’re so long too. 29 secs on the dot, longer to fiddle with “done,” and another 5 seconds, with more “done” clicking. It absolutely ruins the game, but isn’t the game’s fault at all.

by -ZoMBiE KiLLeR11-

i’ve been playing this game on and off for almost a year now now and have really enjoyed it but there is a bug where when i open the game my oxygen in every world is frozen at saying 120b but doesn’t actually let me collect anything or the 50b or so that I actually should have earned during my time offline. it’s like the time in game just froze and bugged out at a really high number and didn’t count anything when i was offline. pretty annoying. whenever this happens, all my booster cool downs are also counting up in time instead of letting me use them.

another thing is that the game has said new worlds are coming soon for a very very long time… when are they finally going to be added? “coming soon” should not “mean coming in over a year or maybe never”

developers, i hope you see this and work to resolves these issues because i truly enjoy your game and it has a lot of potential for the future. thank you

by Georgia Girl🍑

Yes I know there are always reviews for games thats like “Great but one problem” or other things like that, I have personally never to write one those but I just have to for this one. My friend told me about this game and I’ve been playing ever since and I really love the concept of the game and it’s really really fun like how you get to customize the plants and the shelf’s and really just the whole idea surrounding the game. But I just CAN NOT stand the relentless adds. They just keep coming and coming and it’s so freaking annoying. Like anytime I level up and collect the bonus oxygen it give me an add and it’s not even like their different and I don’t know what add is coming, but they just replay the same exact add every single time, and I just can not stand it (yes I know I already said that but you know just had to clarify). I really wish I could give this game 5 stars and I really want to but the adds have to take away a star.

by A Gamer's Gamer.

It’s a good game. I like plants, I like house plants so it caters to my personal interests. The music is peaceful and it’s not a game that will stress you out and give you anxiety like most games.

In the early game the best way to get oxygen was to watch ads with a triple reward and keep using boosters. The boosters are okay but they don’t help as much as they should to enhance enjoyability and interestingness. The game doesn’t scale well as you progress. After you get all the plants there’s nothing else to do. I mean you could just keep getting more sets of plants but there’s incentive to. With each additional set it costs more to upgrade them, but they’ll only give you the same amount of oxygen as your first set. The cost is exponential but the reward/ yield is linear.

I’m level 760 with 3 full sets of plants and I’m working on upgrading all the plants in my 3rd set. After that I don’t have any reason to continue playing. I feel like I’m already at the late endgame phase and all I really do now is dump all my oxygen into the garden gnome booster because that’s the only reasonably scaled thing in the game, and to benefit from it you don’t play the game... so I just pop on 1-3 times a day and dump money into gnome or upgrade a plant and then quit. Its a fun game but the end game can come quick and you’ll be left with nothing else to do.

by Katarific_katastrophe

I think the game is great I’ve been addicted since I downloaded it but I have a few concerns and questions

1. First off I don’t know why but when I close the game my 3 worlds max out and doesn’t allow me to collect my oxygen. I’ll close the game for about 4-5 hours come back and it glitches and doesn’t let me collect.

2. Do you guys know when we’d possibly be able to have access to the “coming soon” spots? I’ve maxed out my fruit world and my plant world and I’m about 10 away from maxing out my flower world as well and I was just wondering when there could possibly be a time to look out for them opening up. I was just curious as to what you guys had in mind for it because it’s exciting lol.

3. I’ve seen some people also having concerns with the level up button.. when I put my plants to water and fertilize it goes up super quick and I have to click super quick to level up otherwise I miss out on some oxygen..:/ it’s just upsetting because I have missed out on a lot of oxygen already from opening Terrarium and not being able to collect and also from the level just not being able to collect on its own.

Throughout though I genuinely love the game and I think it was a brilliant idea. It’s great for my anxiety and I think it’s just super cute all in all. I just wanted to know what more was being brought and if we could possibly fix the bug issues with the oxygen collects upon opening.

by Lobear11

This game is so cute and a great stress reliever (in my opinion). A cute and helpful update would be the ability to click on the plant’s picture and get a care guide for each plant you grow, if the player would actually want to go out and buy that plant. Some other updates would include naming each plant, using the name tag on the plant’s pot to name each, and having a store to buy different types of pots would also be cool. I know that this might not apply to this game but you could also make it so you can get aquarium plants too. Some other things that would look great in Terrarium would be the ability to get “pets” or lizards, snakes, and fish that would have their own tank, which would then give the player the option to plant their plants in the animals tanks! These are all ideas, and I think the game is great overall but these improvements would keep players in for the long term!

by Axillon

I love how simplistic this game is. No premium currency, and the ads are completely bearable. You are given an option to get rid of ads, but the game isn’t pay-to-win. Also, the focus is completely on the plants and calm garden aspect. I saw a review on here to add pets and a pot shop, but I recommend not to, as it will convolute and ruin the game. I like how simple it is. However, there was also a good idea to add a “plant info” sort of thing to give players fun facts and real-life gardening tips on each plant. Anyways, please add a feature to delete or store away plants. I enjoy the aesthetics of the game, and it satisfies me (and probably others) to have a certain number of each plant. I initially tried out planting more of the same plant, but realized that I wanted only one of each, but it’s frustrating to not be able to get rid of them. Maybe a selling feature? Or just deleting the plants would be nice. That feature would assist with the organizing/aesthetic part of the game

by Spencenaus

First of all, I love this game to death. I think the art style is super cute and cozy, and has a laid back feel to it. That being said, I am level 1500 with level 6500 offline time. There is simply no endgame past the third area, and I have nothing to spend my trillions of oxygen on. Anything from different purchasable backgrounds for an expensive amount, to customizable pots, to more worlds are a necessary addition to this incomplete masterpiece. Also, perhaps there should be special achievement plants for a certain amount of taps, money earned, total money earned, plants owned, etc. there should be a global leaderboard to accompany this, to compete to get the most oxygen, and the highest level. After a certain amount of time, the top 100 participants get a special plant that is unique to only them. Like I said, there is unlimited opportunity for this game, and as a programmer myself, I know that this stuff can be made possible. I hope to see some innovation and new updates soon, thanks again

Spencer

by Eyeslikefire

I’ve only been playing this game for about two months, but I absolutely love it. The graphics, the plants, the tap vibrations... beautiful. The only thing I don’t love is that there’s no more plants to collect after level 190! I reached level 300 today, after playing the game without getting new plants for about a month. At the moment, the only way to get new plants is through the daily log in screen; every five days you get a plant. (Although I haven’t seen the daily log in screen in about a week. Hopefully it’ll fix itself when I update the game today). If you, kind developers, do add more plants, I suggest putting larger level intervals between them. For example, until level 190, every five levels got you a plant. Perhaps after level 190, every ten levels gets you a plant. And after, say, 290, you would get a plant after every 15 levels.
All in all, I love this game. It would be a shame if people just stopped playing it after a certain level because of no more content. Thank you developers for the lovely game you have made, and please consider adding more content in the future.

by Unknown#14

A girl suggested this on Tik Tok and so I decided to check it out. I have been super bored during quarantine and I just wanted something to do, I opened up Terrarium and it looked fun the girl said you grow little plants and it sounded cute-ish I started to enjoy it after I had about two or three plants and it’s really easy to play, although if you’re someone impatient this game might not be for you. You do have to wait for your oxygen points to supply which doesn’t take very long but if you can’t stand that you might want to go into this game with some money.
How the game works is you start off with some oxygen points and you plant your little plants those plants make oxygen and you use those oxygen points to upgrade how much oxygen your plants makes and buy more plants which make more oxygen and so on you can also do other things like decorate your potters and you can buy all kinds of different cute plants right now I am enjoying their three day free trial of VIP but you can survive the game without it I was just taking advantage of the fact that it was there.

If there are some weird errors in here, I wrote it with voice typing 😆