Royal Idle Reviews

I pay actual money in games like this. A lot of actual money. I spent over $200 on an event and by level 5 only one business was automated requiring me to physically tap over and over and over, making this game extremely frustrating and not idle at all. I’m happy to pay money. I get that development takes money, but this is unreasonable. Save your money, the world is full of pay to win games that don’t feel like price gouging.

In order to automate or have idle play engaged you need to level up characters via cards. With further levels the character bonuses persist, but can’t be activated to truly become idle until leveled. This is likely to encourage you to pay money, watch ads, or use gems to advance. You can advance in the game without doing so, but having the idle feature off at times is especially annoying. It is how this game mechanics work that irk me. I have the character and building, but as idle play and idle income is disengaged at key points or locations I have to stay online to advance. This is much worse in the special events. Otherwise the game works well and is enjoyable.

The only way to enjoy this game is to pay money. I calculated it out and it would cost about 50 bucks per event. I have played capitalists adventure for years ( made by the same company). If you have played it you are familiar with managers. This game punishes you for leveling up by removing managers as you advance. As you go up levels, it becomes monotonous boring clicking to do everything. I am am removing this garbage. I do not mind paying a few bucks for a good game this is just junk. Disappointing

Just started a week ago, there was an event and every time it took you to a new town you had to grind just to level up the workers to actually make it an idle game. Now this week’s event happens and same thing only you have to manually sit there for 5+ minutes just for an incremental upgrade to production, while it’s still not idle. All the while they are trying to sell you cards for ridiculous amounts of money just to actually make it an idle game as the title suggests. Avoid at all costs, utter cash grab trash.

What I like about the game is the concept of levels and quests. Unfortunately this isn't an idle game at all. It's nothing more than a blatant cash grab. By the time you pass the first few levels you won't be able to automate anything without spending a substantial amount of money which means lots of tapping and tapping and tapping. If you think that's bad, wait till you try an event. Almost zero automation there, just a non-stop tap fest.

Disappointing as this could be a great game if they could reign in their greed just a little.

This game starts out fun with building towns up and moving on, but after a couple weeks it becomes rather tedious. It takes longer and longer to meet the goals and the upgrades become too expensive or require potion which gets harder to obtain. It’s clear that they want you badly to purchase packs and chests, but in a repetitive game like this no way.

The events are awful, you will never get the cards to automate anything after the first level. So the only way to play is to manually click all the buildings. It doesn’t get much more boring than that.

Try harder developers, maybe mini games? Anything?

This is a good game to waste time when you want something to do besides what you probably should be doing. But when that the case you don’t want the audio playing so you turn it off. However, every time you switch between the Main screen and the event screen or when an ad starts the music starts blaring. In the game you have to jump to the settings and turn the music off so you can turn it off again. In the ad you have to search for the mute button. This is so annoying. STOP RESETTING THE SOUND TO ON EVERYTIME. You fix that and I’ll add another star or two.

Who ever made up the events in this game made it so that you either have to spend money to complete all the quests or just skip them altogether! Because the they will wait until you have all most all the quests finished before they give you a quest that you have to collect 45 or more cards to complete. And you will only have 2 or 3 quests left to finish when you get the quest. And each quest that you complete will only give you 2 or 3 cards each if you are lucky. And the bonus chest only comes every 4 hours. And then you might get 8-10 cards but that still will take you around 16 to 20 plus hours to complete! So that is just a joke! And then they don’t give you the cards fast enough to upgrade the players every time you have to move to a different town! Because every new town means everyone must be upgraded a level. But if not the next town you have to make up the difference! You might have to go from level 1 to level 3 in just one town upgrade and you might have just earned the character.

Overall, it’s a decent time waster. My big issue is with the bonuses you get for watching videos. 95% of the time they don’t work. Sometimes you can just keep tapping the button and it will eventually work, after 30-40 taps but, the majority of the time, they don’t work at all. However, the bonuses you spend gems to get work 100% of the time. I’ll raise my rating when you fix your issues.

A fantasy version of the Wild West game, but like similar games you need to spend some resources (not necessarily premium ones) to get cards that activate the automate feature. Otherwise, some buildings will not produce anything while you’re away. The higher the level, the more resources you’ll need to draw enough random cards to turn on the automate feature. Eventually you’re going to just have to keep tapping in game to generate any income because it takes too many resources to automate even the basic buildings. It’s more of a tap game than an idle game in that sense. To make it a true idle game, they should at least always enable automation of one production building, the cart that collects them, and the vehicle that hauls the cargo away to generate cash. That way players will always generate some revenue while idle, even if it’s a small amount.

I typically enjoy this kind of game...start at a small level and grow enough to carry on to more advancing settings. HOWEVER - the vast majority of the video ads for bonuses are 3-part interactive ads. This is the only game of about 15-20 games that I play that use these types of ads. They consist of 3 10-second segments. They take 3-4 for each segment to load before the 10-second timer begins, and it will not proceed to the next segment until you physically press a green button at the top. The topics displayed in the ads are of no concern to me - diseases/health conditions I don’t have or the opinions/events of Hollywood/sports celebs that I don’t care anything for. These ads have often made me want to delete the game entirely, and I CERTAINLY WILL NOT donate a cent of real money to this game (as I do several of my other games) because of their choice of ads that they developers run. And no, I will not be answering any questions concerning my demographics or interests so that you can “personalize” my ad experience.

Kongregate is one of my favorite game developer. This game has an ease of play that is satisfactory. Why this review is 3 stars...it’s not playable. I have tried everything in my book to hopefully not crash the game. I got a couple of good times where I played for at least 3 minutes but then the game would crash. I try to get back on and it would just continually crash. Come on Devs! I have played almost all of your games and none ever crashed like this one...until it’s fixed I can’t play it as I’m so frustrated with the crashing...

The main game is fun, but the challenges are impossible to win without spending money. This would be okay- I don’t expect to win special events- but this game doesn’t even try to give players a chance to win. After round one, the requirements become so high that no one can advance more than one or two rounds without spending a lot of money.

Enjoyable and draws you in ever deeper and wanting to continue further...however, fatal flaw in that it’s totally dependent on 1st two “buildings” getting automated (camp and gatehouse); if not able to do so, you need to spend hours manually working the transportation...secondly, I think the balance of costs and rewards needs a lot of work; I think building growth is too level(!), and rewards too little (elixir, cards, etc)

Building growth: it seems that, often, you can upgrade all buildings at once, they are too close in cost...should be a bit harder imho...but fix rewards as well, please...sometimes you get stuck on 1 villager upgrade for days! Perhaps a refresh of available cards for elixir purchases, a button, I mean...

I like this game a lot but....the events are just too difficult. In the events once you move past level 1, they want the managers to level up 2-3, sometimes 4 levels before they can be automated again...number one, you usually arent able to get the cards, and if you do have the cards, you cant earn enough elixer or whatever to be able to upgrade. Please give us more elixer in the chests! +26 elixer for level 3 isnt enough. I think the most elixer i have EVER gotten was 126 elixer...when you need 1500 plus elixer or more, it just doesnt work.

The overall game is great. The visuals, progression, and aesthetic feel good.

The problem I have is with the progression in Events. By halfway through the event it is difficult to automate ANYTHING, much less the 3 you’d need to go idle. I finished a previous event, so I understand that finishing one requires more active play. But it’s way too much. The event progression structure needs serious reworking IMO. Otherwise it’s just not fun.

This game is fun to simply collect and strategically purchase levels, characters, etc.
The only reason I didn’t give it 5 stars is because the events are way to challenging and to automate some things like the camp and delivers shouldn’t be so difficult to get, otherwise the game is kind of useless if you can’t keep the money growth.

Only problem I got but I’m sure not everyone has, my iPod can’t support the events and just times out each time but that’s my problem. Used to do that with adventure capitalist but never does it and hasn’t done it in years. So like I said, fun as hell but times out on my iPod (newest gen)

This game keeps me engaged and keeps me tapping. It’s just the amount of engagement I want in a casual idle and I love the art style. I am looking forward to seeing what kinds of events they run with this game in the future!

I like how the rate of progress doesn’t dramatically slow down after a while like a lot of games. I enjoy the art style and diverse selection of character cards. I enjoy how what type of building u get for that town changes every level. I’m still confused on how some of the events work and how I a brain stars. Something I would love to see it that as you upgrade the building it visually upgrades it too. I love it when games do that. But over all my favorite game by kongregate.