Sunrise Village Adventure Game Reviews

It is an extremely rare thing for me to leave a review… especially a bad one, but I felt it was necessary in this instance to do exactly that.
I purchased diamond packs - three in a row - one Saturday evening while playing Sunrise Village, and I received only two of the three packs I purchased. After waiting two full days to see the third pack show up in my account, with no luck, I requested a refund from SunriseVillageAdventureGame Store, and after review, SunriseVillageAdventureGame Store refunded my money two days later (keep in mind, that is a total of 4 days for InnoGames to credit my account with the diamond pack I never received). InnoGames promptly put my diamonds into a negative state, so I can no longer advance in the game, and after going back and forth with their customer service team, was simply told - WITH NO PROOF - that I did, indeed, receive the third pack … which I did not. I also let them know that if they could provide proof that they did credit my account, I would be more than happy to contact SunriseVillageAdventureGame Store and have them reverse the refund. No effort was put forth on their part to give me proof … just their customer service team telling me, in a message, that I did receive the third pack. No proof at all.

In conclusion, this is a buyer beware message - DO NOT make any purchases with InnoGames if you decide to play any of their games - if you do not receive what you purchase, they will be more than happy to simply steal your money.

On the 6th I woke up excited to join my team in another exploration of the forbidden ruins. I had loaded all of my shops to cook overnight while I slept stopped make it easier to start the event. Well when I opened the event all of it was completed and said I couldn’t join. Odd I had been involved in the prior event. So I messaged support. Well the even last 4 days and after dealing with support telling me they would check with their team in 24 hours I started panicking. Let me explain my team I joined us very active and has been ranking 2 Nd each event so I felt I was letting them down. After support responded with a generic reply of try closing SunriseVillageAdventureGame BLAH BLAH BLAH. I was heated. In my first message I nicely let them know all of the proper steps to clearing issues in my end for a game( cache, uninstalling, reinstall, close game out). I am not a new player so I understand what to do on my end. Well support gave me a lame excuse of downloading the new version that I already downloaded and said they would get back to me. NICE 2 days lost of the 4 day event and to top it off this support lady turns off the ability to reply to her messages. So Yeap I never got to join the even and was left on red from the lovely support team saying they would reply shortly and that was on the 8th lol it’s the 12th and still she has me locked from replying and has not responded back. Waste of time. Sadly there seems to be no way to attach screenshots or I would!!

Then this is the game for you. Crashes, glitches, tasks that close prematurely (that you wasted diamonds and energy on, frequently with your own hard earned cash) THAT THEY WILL NOT REPLACE. videos that you have to watch to earn diamonds and tools you need, that crash, do not give the reward, if you are lucky you will get the reward after several times viewing or trying to view the video or if not lucky video will not reopen and you just lost reward and your time trying. Every time you change screens in this game, it crashes. If you try to open a gift or decoration it crashes. If you try to move an object it crashes. If you write to customer service, they give you the run-around over half a year and still no fixes. Our exploration team has consisted of from 31-6 and every single person is having the same issues. They do not improve at all.

I came in here to leave my first review and lo and behold saw a review stating the exact same thing that just happened to me had happened to someone else. I purchased a pack on a Wednesday and then another two on that Friday. I never received one of them so I requested a refund through Apple. I received the refund but when I logged back into the game I had a negative balance of diamonds. I sent a message to support and they kept trying to tell me I used the diamonds before receiving my refund on the pack I never received.

I actually showed them proof and was waiting to hear back when just tonight my card was charged for another pack without my authorization and when I was not even playing the game. I reported it to Apple and requested a refund. I’m assuming it was “support” at InnoGames. I reached out to let them know I was reporting it to Apple and deleting the game. I will be keeping an eye on my charges for sure for a while. Horrible customer service and scam like behavior. Buyer beware.

I started out loving this game. I’m currently on 11 village in chapter 3. It’s even more waiting, not only are you using life but now have to build and make potion to move forward as well as weight on potion. . It’s like having two villages now of hurry up and wait. I spent a lot money on the game because I’m all about supporting developers who work hard. But now the further in I get the game is just feeling redundant. I’m so bored…I liked being able to make things in main village and jump over to search things out in the little villages. Now just making things in both villages, hurry up and wait…ugh…Nothing to do….. Make 5 or 10 bottles of potion waiting 10 minutes and 20 life’s to break away just one thorn bush, make more potion, use 20 life’s break away another thorn bush, repeat, ugh….why slow the game to a crawl. If I finish at least it would have been exciting…Never played a game I spent money to only find the further in the worse the game became. Giving this much time with nothing to do undoubtedly will have players leave. I understand why our team keeps shrinking.

It’s a good game, and at first I was having lots of fun. But like others mentioned, the further you go in game, the harder it gets to even do anything. A lot of this comes down to the energy system which is honestly a problem I find in many other games relying on one at all. Some of the actions required to advance take up up maybe a third or even half of your available energy. I think a solution to this would be if the cap increases a bit more than it currently does as you level up. Another thing I think would make this game better would be having ways to obtain diamonds for free without buying them (maybe through watching ads or something). Because your energy gets depleted so quickly, sometimes using diamonds to refill might be an option, but you can only get those by purchasing them. Some object/workshop upgrades also require diamonds, so when a lot of mechanics rely on diamonds it’s more helpful to have alternative ways to obtain them.

Otherwise, it’s an alright game except for the energy and diamonds system.

First things first, perfect advertising. Convinced me to try the game. Graphic wise it’s pretty good. The farming mechanics are easy to learn like any other farming stuff. The downside is energy, maybe an improvement on how much is earned or consumed, overtime it does get boring once your low on energy and since material you need to collect to craft items. I feel like this game would be perfect with multiplayer, not sure if that’s a feature but being able to trade goods, make neighborhoods sounds like a good idea. Energy may not be the best way to make players spend their money. Personally I would recommend what every other game does, season monthly passes that gives paid players exclusive cosmetics and decors. Not only will updates keep the game alive, it will also encourage players to buy exclusive passes and show off to other farms. The game is brand new so we can’t all expect it to be 100% at its best rn, but I do see some potential in this game. The only issue is just mainly energy

The bones of this game, the art, the assets, the story, that’s all good. But the energy system is waaaaay off. There’s a thin line to walk between making the system so quick no one will pay for your energy refill (which I think is a good business choice but y’all want as much money you can squeeze so w/e) and so slow that the game feels like a slog. You are firmly in this latter category. An energy bottle that’ll give me 22 energy is hidden behind a 50 energy costing boulder, so the player upon noticing the bottle, instead of being excited because they found something that was kinda hidden and will actually reward them, just turns into frustration when realizing it’s just an energy sink. I’m very, very early in the game, chapter one, and it’s already taking 30-40 out of my 60 energy just to get through a couple weeds. So I can’t imagine how tortuously slow later chapters are. It’s just not fun unless you’re willing to shill out thousands of dollars, which I am not. If they make the system more balanced or, hopefully, nix it altogether in exchange for a solely time-based cost, that would be cool! An example of a game that gets it so right it’s not even very intrusive is Godus. Go be more like Godus.

This game is great at first until you need an update. I’m very disappointed that I only downloaded a couple of days ago and it is already forcing me to update in order to continue playing. There are plenty of games and apps that require updates, but at least give you a few days notice before game play is not allowed before update. I am not near WiFi at the moment and downloading an update on my phone’s data is intolerably slow! Besides that, I’m in a spot with a less than ideal connection. So I can’t play the game until I get somewhere with WiFi or a better connection. It’s unfair and ridiculous. I sincerely hope you fix this flaw and notify that an update is available, but don’t force me to download until the notice has been around for a few days at least! I hate being forced to update!!

It is so disappointing, this is exactly like the other games that are energy based. It takes too long to earn enough energy to do anything. The first 5 levels are pretty fun, then it comes to a screeching halt. Township is the only building game I have found that you can play for hours. Because Township is so entertaining, I make in App purchases. I’m not going to spend money to accomplish simple tasks or on a game that I can’t play for extended periods of time for free. It appears that this game and other energy based games are only interested in making it so difficult to play so that you are forced to either constantly make in app purchases or stop playing all together. Sad because it could be a fun game if I was able to play it for longer than 5-10 minutes at a time.

I have tried other games that are played in this format, and I find this one to be one of the better ones available. It does have a few things that can be improved upon:
First, the game asks me for money far too often! Many times a day, I get pop up offers for buying energy or resources to continue production. Just how many times must one keep saying No?
Second, the team system could use some sprucing up. We all play individually, and have no way of assisting our teammates. If a system was added to help fill someone’s ship crate, or even sending a resource request in the messages would be very helpful. Maybe even reward the responders with some bonus energy for their help?
Finally, free diamonds are few and far in between. There are a lot of decorations, special buildings, and factory slot upgrades that can be bought with diamonds, but a free player like me won’t see any of those in use.
Sprucing these things up will see this game get it’s 5th star from me.

This is a fun game. At the beginning I really enjoyed it because there were things to build and things to clear. Now that I am at level 11 things have slowed way down because the energy supply doesn’t come close to matching how much energy it takes to clear items. I only have a supply of 64 energy and it takes 20-30 to clear a lot of items. That means I hop on, clear two rocks and then have to wait 90 seconds per one energy bolt to refill.

Once I got to this level I have to pay for buildings to add plus do all of the tasks to build it but the way to add coins are also limited, especially when you continue to spend coins on reviving your animals and using them to keep crops going.

The last thing that would make this game even better than it already is would be if we could easily clear our farms so that everything would go into storage and then we could replace everything in the village into a new configuration. Right now it’s a little time consuming because we have to just move stuff around and then move it out of the way when we want to place something. Being able to have the village map clear and then allowing us to add things back one by one would be awesome.

Overall, this is a great game. I think balancing out the energy and coins would make it epic and would keep me playing more!

I like this game a lot and have been playing for awhile. I’m very impressed how Inno has taken review suggestions to heart and instituted upgrades to help with energy, tools and other things. There are three things that I think would help further. 1. Increase the energy limit to 100 or 150 for obvious reasons. 2. Give us another bakery. There are 3 dairy, which is great. The bakery is just like the dairy requiring loads of basics before making the more advanced items. Plus flour is also need for the saw mill. Increasing slots is not helpful because of the wait time. 3. Make items in the treasure chest sellable. I’ve collected a bunch of items from events I couldn’t finish and they are just sitting there with no way to get rid of them. I realize inventory is unlimited but it would be nice if we could exchange this stuff for coins or diamonds or even energy flasks. Thanks.

I agree with Almighty Cloud’s review regarding the energy flaw, which does indeed seem to be the only major flaw. I also agree it would be better business to make the energy more accessible & reasonably attainable for faster play. I’ve been playing for a while now (level 30+) & I think the problem would be solved by making it possible to trade between or exchange types of currency or @ least to have multiple options for buying energy and items you want in the game. Generally (except for piddly amounts won as rewards), you can only get diamonds by purchasing ($) & tokens by winning them. And these are the 2 main ways of getting stuff. But if you could, for example, use earned coins to buy more energy or tokens when you run out, it would be so much better. If one can’t afford or isn’t willing to constantly shell out real money to keep playing, then the game is intolerably slow. So make it more friendly by giving us more ways to use earned currency to keep going. That way you’re rewarded for playing. You’ll still make plenty of money. There’s no shortage of folks who will pay for short cuts & will pay $$ for energy.

This game is beyond well done. It’s high quality, thought out and meticulous even in the extreme minor points. However, there is a large draw back in gameplay, ENERGY. It is consumed very quickly and requires time, items or money to replenish. I do not pay for micro transactions. I’ll pay for a subscription, but that’s it.
With that said the game gives you lots of fun extra zones constantly, but to enjoy these extra zones you need a lot of energy and quick, the zones are available for a very short time and they have HUGE quest chains. Between production for orders, gathering resources and other tasks, you quickly find yourself with zero energy, it’s slow to regenerate and before you know it the extra fun zones are shut down with a small reward in your inventory.
There are a LOT of currencies in the game, but without ENERGY you can only gather crops or produce items in factories. I’d love the devs to rethink energy, adding a subscription with guaranteed energy or modifying the regeneration rate.

This is a cute and fun game to play but you can’t play very long the energy is used up in min! Then it takes a while to get anymore sure there are ways or you can play but it’s not long before you are all out of energy waiting to get more! It is very frustrating to have 60 some in energy and have some of the things that are like 20 plus so it’s gone in two or three things you dig up! This is the reasons for such a review of two star’s if in fact it had longer energy time or you could get it easily each time it would have a 5 plus plus but sadly this is not the case and I will not be enjoying SunriseVillageAdventureGame because of it! PLEASE READ YOUR REVIEWS AND FIX SO WE CAN PLAY TGIS GAME! And NOT HAVE TO PAY for all our energy which I wouldn’t mind doing if you didn’t use it so fast!

I just love this game! It’s so cute, relaxing and fun! It really feels like the developers put a lot of love and care into it. Until very recently there were no pop-ups or ads. The ads that they do have now are voluntary for the rewards which is cool. You don’t have to view them. I understand that everyone needs to make money! 🙂 I’ve been playing this game every day since very near when it came out. That is saying a lot, I have tried so many games and been annoyed with them very quickly. Another thing to note is that the main story mode quests are just the cutest and happiest. You always take care of adorable animals and help save and restore environment. It’s just a sweet, happy, fun game.😄

This game is an energy farming game, so it might be too slow for some players. But for me, a busy person, its perfect. I can check in every
1 1/2 hours, use my energy, craft items, then continue with me day’s schedule. The developers also offer 750 energies for $3 plus tax, when you tap on certain items, yet you do not have to purchase this offer if you can not afford it. A small hint: you can choose how many chickens and cows you want to produce eggs and milk after they go to sleep. The sleeping chickens and cows will not perish. There are many other small surprises i could write about, yet rather that you find them yourself. Great work to the developers! And thank you!

This Game is awful in so many ways, and I don’t feel like leaving a long review. But it’s hard to get through the lands. I can’t even get this game to update at the moment. If I had to delete the entire app and reinstall it I won’t be back. Simply because I have no desire to start all over on this game. The update should work. I don’t want to lose progress. Even if I can’t get further on the land I’m currently building a tree house on. The times set up to grow plots of different things and the in the green houses. Take so long that you pretty much run out of hours to put those things in boat. Please extend the limited time on boat orders and the production of items needed to to make things like the blankets, cans and other things and this game would get more players. And keep the ones already playing.. everything takes so long to make on this game that I get busy with real life and don’t end up coming back to the game till the next day. This is a long as I want to review this game. I hope you take these things into consideration.

First I want to say thank you to the developers. The game play is smooth, easy to understand and has no bugs/glitches. 1 complaint I have is the energy capacity, I am level 14 and my max energy is 65.. I need more energy to gather supplies since I’m a higher level. PLEASE increase energy capacity more as you level up. Aside from that 1 issue the game is fun and adventurous with lots to do. The best farming/adventure game on IOS. Don’t miss out and download the game! Join my Team when you reach level 10, “The Sun Risers”. InnoGames please keep us surprised with updates, this is a game I will play for years and I will even spend money for faster progression. Thanks!

-Eros