Dreamdale - Fairy Adventure Reviews

by Alessandra35

I started playing over a year ago, and loved it initially. But with each updates they have increasingly made the game more pay to play. With the latest update people are leaving in droves. Latest update has made this unplayable. Along with the Developers refusing to listen to feedback. I’m going back to My Little Universe and I suspect I’m not alone. We understand the need to slow things down, but people still need to feel like they can advance in gameplay. Each update makes things more frustrating and people feel that advancement in the game is impossible now.
I was losing interest because of the tedium of any minute advancement, this latest forced update? The latest forced update where upgrading equipment changed from in-game coins you could earn, to scrolls and gems, but have not increased their drop-rate, will have been the last straw for many of us.
Instead of fixing bugs (donkeys and carrot harvester basically useless, for example) and improving the customer experience, developers have dedicated their efforts to thwarting and frustrating anyone who isn’t a new player. This also will turn new players off sooner. The daily life of grind in the real world is enough, thanks, we don’t need our escape worlds mirroring that quite so successfully.

Listen to your customers. Revoke the frankly ridiculous latest upgrade requirements. Fix the glaring problems you’ve been told about by your customers.

by Skinnpuppy

Very fun concept and design, completely and utterly ruined in almost every conceivable way. Firstly: There’s too many ads. And I don’t mind ads. I literally understand ads. But there’s reasonable ads, and then there’s whatever this is. Secondly: the ads also freeze the game constantly. Thirdly: the game is laggy and slow most of the time, the ads exacerbate this beyond usability. Fourthly, the dungeons become unplayable around level 50. You don’t get enough upgrade gear materials, and the enemies keep getting stronger but you can’t because you don’t have upgrade any materials. Fifthly, the game overheats the device, really fast. It runs so hot that my iPad loses charge even when plugged in while this game is running for more than an hour. Sixthly, and most importantly because it is gamebreaking, as soon as I got to the first island, the one with the pearls, the game freezes every time I try to go back to my main island. Just black screen, hard freeze. When I load the game back up I am still on the pearl island, so I can never get back to my home island. Obviously this makes the game unplayable. Gotta say, even after putting up with all the other issues this game has, I still had a good time playing it while it worked. Although the battery drain was SUPER INSANE too, I must say.

by Wisen99

Update:
Deleted game. Can’t play without the disgusting ads continuously popping up. Would have liked to continue, but way too many ads all the way around and it is just getting worse. Def not a game for kids due to the horrible x-rated (imo) ads. I can usually work and tolerate the ads but not to this extent. You spend more time watching ads than you are actually playing the game.

Been playing this game for a while. You are spending more time watching ads (1-2 min sometimes) than game time. Then on top of it the ad “My Fantasy, Choose your story” leaves very little to the imagination. I’m a mom. I have kids. What if kids, not just mine, are playing this game and that awful ad pops up?? Kids should not be exposed at all to this and it’s disgusting. There’s no rhyme or reason for this kind of ad in a game like this. (Not trying to be a Karen, but there is a line that’s been crossed here, especially when kids could be involved in seeing the horrific ads like this) I’m not even comfortable watching the ad and have to turn my phone away because I can’t even close down the animated part. It’s disgusting. All and all it’s a great time killer non thinking game when you need to turn off your brain for a min. But getting close to deleting the game. Ad overkill. Yes, ads are needed, but how many really are needed before it kills the game for everyone? And no, I won’t return, though it’s been a favorite. I never do once I delete a game.

by Phelle<3

Ok so I really liked this game, decided it be worth it to purchase no ads. You think if you purchase no ads, that’s what you get. But nope. You get 30 tickets to bypass ads such as when you die, for a mount, for cute backpacks etc. that’s it. 30 tickets!! Another downfall is the items needed to progress. Your trading post for better gear is all good. Considering your mail source is dungeons at maybe 40 gold per dungeon, you’d think that gear would reflect that balance? Nope. 700 gold for a shield, 900 gold for a weapon. At 40 gold per dungeon??? Do ya think that runningbthem over and over 100 times is going to keep people interested. Nah I’m done. I got bored of it about the 8th time through. Then you need gold to build up island and get maps for other island at increasing gold prices. So I need 300 gold for a map. 150 gold for a gem mine 2400 gold for gear. At 40 gold a pop. Thanks but I pass. And you have to have the gold because it’s a quest in order to progress. Did you think this through or just want to run everyone off. Considering there aren’t any community discussions on your game I’m thinking not many stick around longer than a week. Thanks for your scam on no ads wish you advertised exactly what we get. 8bucks to skip 30 ads. Rip off.

by Missjamielee12579

I downloaded this game as a pop up to another game and let me start by saying this game is awesome and I LOVE IT!!! I also downloaded it because it has a rating of 4.6 stars. This cannot be possible as I look through all of the ratings that are horrible! So first, shame on Apple, because this CANNOT be accurate! Second, there are FAR TOO MANY OF THESE GAMES listed as free and they are not! They are impossible to play because you are so inundated with ads, you either have to pay or delete! This game should be listed as $7.99!!! I think it is false advertising and WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! As I say in all my reviews, I spend money on apps, and in Dreamdale Store, but it is become more and more convoluted! Why does it have to be like this? You have a good game! You could easily make more money either listing it at .99 or 1.99…maybe try being less greedy and have less ads…have people select the ads and get something for them instead! I have probably a dozen games that I have spent $1.99 or $2.99. I will NEVER spend $7.99 to “get rid of ads”, especially when it is really to buy the game. You both should be ashamed of yourself! This is not advertising, it’s deceitful! :(

by ILOVETIMBURTONHEISAGENIUS

If I pay for ad removal you should give me every feature, without having to pay more. The fact that it cost $8 in the first place was already high. But now you want me to buy additional ad tickets? Extremely disingenuous and outright deceitful. A premium customer should have more benefits than a free customer. Honestly I’m about to delete Dreamdale and do a credit card chargeback. Unless you give paying customers what you actually advertised, I recommend anyone else who was mislead into buying the ad removal do the same. Plain and simple the product I bought was no delivered. Apple should remove you from Dreamdale Store for this even.

Your game should model mini mart and store tycoon apps that have the periodic bonuses for FREE once ad removal has been bought. Respect your paying customers!

The game is fun but it’s not worth $8 fun. It’s only linear progression, you can only do things in the order the quest line tells you, you never know what your next quest will be, and after you save the Princess the story element is gone. For $8, no thanks. You can get stardew valley for less than twice that price, even less on iPhone for Dreamdale .

by Zayla.

Remember the good old days in the first months of this game when it only took TWO of each ingredient to make something new? Now it takes FIVE of each ingredient, and harvests don’t typically yield enough to mass produce items needed for missions. This game used to be SO FUN, I loved building my island and getting all the resources and making a whole bunch of stuff to upgrade my town. Now I can’t even keep milk in production bc for some godforsaken reason it takes five apples instead of two to produce one milk. And upgrading in increments of TWO despite needing FIVE is such a joke. This game used to be absolutely amazing and I spent SO many hours on it. Now it’s frustrating bc absolutely nothing can be completed in less than half an hour, due to needing SO many ingredients at a time AND the movement speed being slower than a literal slug. Why god WHY is the base movement speed so slow? To make absolutely sure we spend as much time as possible in this game? I would give the devs actual money (but only ONCE.) to speed it up. I’d also happily pay a one time fee to get my crafting back down to TWO ingredients instead of five. Nothing says inefficiency like a machine that can only make three pies at once.
Seems even fantasy games aren’t safe from late stage capitalism and shrinkflation.

by Acute110

I really like this game, but after paying 8 dollars why am I still getting ads? After you use your 30 golden tickets you received at purchase that’s it. There should be a way to buy more golden tickets with coins in the game not just be forced to watch ads or spend even more money to get more tickets. Feel like that’s just straight greed from the creators! If 8 bucks isn’t enough than bump the purchase price up but don’t demand more money after I already pay the purchase price you set.
Also I feel like getting gold to pay for armor or better weapons is few and far between. The items at the trading post are SO expensive and I feel like you barely get any gold in the dungeons. So I die constantly because I can’t upgrade my character. Supposedly creatures drop equipment in the dungeon but in 10 levels I have seen ONE item and it was to increase my storage nothing to do with fighting. I feel like it’s near impossible to get new equipment and so I can’t survive the whole dungeon even if I wait for my health to regenerate, I die almost every time. Pretty disappointed with this purchase. This is a great game, but definitely need to make some changes!

by Aididckdk

The game itself is really fun so I didn’t really mind the ads because it was worth playing and the graphics were really pretty. However, I did not like how you had to go step by step with the goals. I wanted to expand my land first before I started getting deep sleep b the game but I kept having all these construction sites that I couldn’t build because you have to wait until it tells you to built it. It controls the flow of the game to much and doesn’t let the player play how they want to. Also, the gold nuggets. I’m not sure if I’m just really bad at fighting in the dungeons, but it seems to be impossible sometimes to get the gold you need. You need so much gold nuggets to research (something you also have to wait until the game tells you to do 😤🙄) but it is really hard to get them because I can’t level up my character stats. I don’t want to be lvl 6 trying to fight lvl 9 monsters. This goes back to not letting your character have free reign. If I could spread out my island without having to wait on the game’s commands I could have reaches the island that has a statue on it. The statue helps up my stats so I can get the gold so I can continue playing but I can’t do any of that until you let us play at our own pace!

by Klye Pantheon

There’s quite a few reviewers who are like “ don’t listen to the haters” DO NOT BELIEVE THEM! First things first.
My main issue isn’t the game play it’s the false advertising on getting rid of ads. Every game I’ve played where it gives you the option to get rid of ads, gets rid of ads. I don’t care if you have ads showing up in the game in the middle of gameplay or ads showing up for the timers. To quite a meme “Ads are ads”. If you are going to offer a payed option to get rid of ads Get rid of the **** ads. If you don’t it’s called false advertising. There is nowhere in the game that says if you buy(the no more ads option)you will still have to deal with timer ads. So I reiterate this is called false advertising. I payed for no ads I better get NO ADS. I’m refunding the item.
Second issue
This game is a straight up money grab. Things are over priced in the store(real money) and the game starts out fun and relatively easy but then get ready for the slog and in the end pay to win. This game is a straight up money grab scheme so be careful.
I’ve seen from real reviews (4-1 stars) that the further you get into the game it gets laggier. As well as just broken where they can’t play anymore due to game crashes.

by Demon Of The Dark

I would like to say first off, this game is actually really fun and it’s really good for passing time and grinding but oh my lord I have never in my life played a game with so many ads and that’s including some really low quality indie games I’ve played. For example, if you minimize the game to check anything on your phone the second you get back you get an Ad, if you go to collect from the depot you get an ad, that’s 2 of the most common so that’s not including the times between. So I tested it from 8:10pm till 8:16pm I had a total of 7 ads and if most ads last around 30 seconds you can do the math and see that half of my time on the game was ads. Honestly if this game was on Dreamdale Store for like $3 I would buy it, it’s fun to mess around on and grind but the minimum $$ to get rid of ads is $8 and that’s to make the game not have ads popping up so I have no idea if that effects the rest of the watch to earn things on the game (which a majority of things on the game are watch to earn) for example to walk a little faster for 5 minutes you have to watch an ad.

So all in all the game itself is actually really fun but actually playing it and enjoying it is a nightmare.

by Arcticwolfblaze

I’ve had my fair share of App Store games in the 12 years of iOS and this one is definitely a keeper. Unfortunately there is one deal breaking matter that I would really like a developer to reconsider. This would be the advertisement system that is in place. It is not only a great bother but actually makes the game unplayable in many cases. In what way do you ask? Well the only advertisement issue is specifically the ones that will trigger every time you do a certain amount of actions on the game. example of this is collecting resources from bins or digging up the buried treasure that spawns at random locations. This causes resources to scatter and de spawn before you can skip the add this making it impossible to collect the resources. I have tried to find a way to contact a developer in private about this matter but to no avail. I suggest that the developers that are reading this review strongly consider removing pop up adds on this game for it can be reported as a nonfunctional title. I will also be contacting Apple about this matter in the coming days if this isn’t resolved and if this is a intentional marketing practice. Hope to hear from you soon.

Best regards: Arctic

by CodyW0212

This game is pretty fun to play. It’s interesting, it keeps my attention and kills the time very well. But I can’t play it any more. I can’t stand the Ads auto playing every two minutes. I can understand when a developer puts in the ads so that you can get free items or reduce time or build something immediately, WHEN I WANT TO DO IT. I shouldn’t have to pay $8.00 just so I don’t have to watch Ads every two minutes, not 100% on time but that’s what it feels like. I’ll be playing, just finished collecting all the resources, walk over to the task I’m building, put the last resource in, guess what? An Ad plays. Finished chopping down a tree or mining a boulder, guess what, another Ad. Like I said, it’s actually a good game, I enjoy it and I don’t enjoy very many games these days because of all the pay to play NOW/win genres, and I also understand Developers deserve to make money for the effort they put into creating the game, but this is just excessive. If it was $0.99 or even $1.99 to stop Ads, I would pay it, because again, I actually enjoy this game. But not $8.00. Uninstalled and probably won’t play again due to the greediness of this developer.

by Zellamara

Very much like animal crossing but missing the pizazz. Trees or objects in inconvenient places making walking difficult. Cant choose where to put the transport portals… and I wish we could build bridges but the portal problem would solve that lol. I was actually surprised when I found out it was like animal crossing a little bit… i almost just deleted Dreamdale because the advertisements pop up every single minute! Unless you have the $7 to spend to have no ads… I don’t imagine it being very fun… and now I just want to go buy animal crossing lol. The design of spaces could have been better but for a apple game its decent considering theres barley any good games on Dreamdale store… ik its takes a lot to put into developing the game… but the game is clearly missing something to keep me coming back… I dont want to just keep running back and forth to task and would like to feel like Im working to make things easier but I dont feel that way… its also missing more things to engage me… Dreamdale is a great start to something great but not quite there yet. Having no ads for a fews hours of game play may help from people deleting Dreamdale right away like i almost did. T

by Shtare

It’s a great game when you get to play it This is super fun to play, great graphics and interesting, except the ad software. It’s one thing for a new ad to pop up every 5 minutes. It got so annoying I paid 8.00$ for ad free version except that only got rid of the ads that randomly popped up. As free isn’t ad free because you still have to watch an ad every 5 minutes to get the speed boost necessary to play the game in any reasonable time frame

TOO MANY CHANGES
I’m tired of the game completely changing with updates. Once upon a time you could update any building with coins from selling resources. They you needed gears gotten at the docks to upgrade buildings. They you needed energy from the energy farm to upgrade buildings, and after spending a couple days grinding to make more energy, the game changes complexly again and the only way to upgrade buildings is with special resources that come into the dock one at a time. Needing energy to upgrade was difficult compared to coins and gears, but energy was easy compared to the new resource system. Why why why do the game developers keep changing the game so extremely all the time? Why do all the changes make the game harder and less enjoyable to play?

by Ieat Ninjas

Edit: I really loved this game. I paid for it and you get 30 golden tickets. I ran out of those. Then I found that after the golden tickets are gone, you can watch ads to activate riding animals, getting extra materials, ect. I feel like after paying 8.00 for the game, you should be able to activate these items without watching ads. It’s actually annoying that I have to either use ads or golden tickets after paying for the game. I thought I paid for ad removal totally, but that’s not the case after using the golden tickets you get and then having to pay for more just to access animals and materials.

This game was totally worth paying for to remove the ads. There’s so many adventures and lands. I would love this on the PlayStation as a game. I only wish that I could purchase one of the pets to get around faster. That’s the only improvement I would like to see. It would be worth the money and let people purchase the tickets. I would pay for them. A great game worth supporting. It looks alike a lot of hard developer work goes in to this game. Totally worth it.

by Icecreamandcake

This game has great potential but the excessive ads are killing it. I’m not talking about the ads for rewards. I fully support watching ads to unlock extras, especially for great games. And even an occasional ad after an advancement in the game is ok, like when you level up and an ad auto-plays. No big deal. But this game spawns ads just by simply walking around the map.

In six minutes of playing, I walked across one small portion of the map and I encountered three ads: two which spawned on their own and provide no reward, and one which I chose to initiate for a reward. The spontaneous ads slow down play time and eventually glitch the game so that I have to close it entirely. Six minutes, three ads, and hardly any advancement in the game but a few steps. Repeat ad nauseam.

There is an option to turn off spontaneous ads for 8 bucks as of this writing. I usually do purchase these because I like to support the creators. But I do it voluntarily and not because I feel like I’m being forced to due to excessive spawning. This just feels icky.

by CoffeeSiren

I will preface this review by saying i really enjoy this game. It’s addictive, relaxing, and fun. I only have two complaints: 1- there are way too many ads. They interrupt the game constantly, and the ad free version is way too expensive. I say this, because there are plenty of other ads in the game. Not only do they interrupt the game, but you can choose to watch ads to get bonus materials or a speed boost. If the no ad version was significantly lower, i would be more likely to purchase it and watch the ads for bonus items. As it is now, it’s too pricey and super annoying, especially when the ads are so unbelievably long. My second opinion is the game is too guided, and there’s not a lot to do outside of what it tells you to do. This turns it from being a fun, adventurous game into a time sink. You’re literally just going from point a to point b. The resource management aspect is kind of lost since it’s just one straight line. The only respite is the combat which is just okay. Still, i recommend checking the game out if you’re bored.

by Thewizt

In a certain part of the game you eventually need diamonds and the part that I am on is the part where you need to make the seashell store in order to advance in the quests. But the seashell store needs turnips/onions (I forgot what they were called) but the only way to get them is by going to a different island and so far I only have two islands unlocked and though I am working on the desert island right now it would be a major help if I was able to buy diamonds with not in game money but real money. As well as the only way to get diamonds if you only have two islands (The developers should make a diamond mine island to help with the diamond problem) and the problem with the diamonds is that it costs five diamonds in order to go to a different island if it’s farther up on the map. And once when I was playing a dungeon I only got one diamond out of the entire thing. So I hope you make the diamond problem not be a problem anymore.

P.S. I would’ve made it five stars if it didn’t have this problem.

by KaiAdonis

I really enjoy the game, there’s quite a bit of ads so I end up playing on airplane mode usually because I refuse to pay to get them removed. No complaints there though you gotta make money. Where my complaint does come though is everytime there is an update I seem to lose a lot of progress, my storage and facilities get down graded from whatever level I had them built up to back to level 1. The first time I thought it was a fluke, 2nd time was a bit more frustrating but it was only a couple buildings no big deal, this most recent update sent everything but my house to level one. I don’t know what’s going on but I hope this glitch gets patched soon I’m tired of having to respend hundreds of thousands of gold trying to get back to my level. The islands you can travel to do similar things and relock sometimes as well so I’ve stopped going. Also please make an easier way to level up your combat, it’s getting a bit frustrating fighting monsters 6+ levels higher then me. I don’t mind a couple levels higher but it’s starting to get ridiculous. Negativeness aside this really is a lovely game. I love watching my island grow more and more

by Bella315

First of all, I rarely write reviews but I felt the need to write this one hoping the developers would have a chance to read and consider a couple changes. Reason for 4 stars instead of five is because I have a couple annoyances with this game. Firstly, the fact that when walking past buildings and other things that need resources and them automatically taking them when I don’t want them to be taken .. on my island and others. This is super frustrating when I’m working hard gathering resources for a specific goal just to be taken by something else I don’t want it going. My suggestion for this is possible turning the resource box into a “click” option to give those resources rather than just taking them. If this could be an option, it would be fantastic and make this game almost perfect. Not sure if other people share this annoyance but it’s a big one for me
Second is the selling resources feature. When scrolling, I’m constantly sliding the bars and makes it difficult to scroll up and down on top of that I find my self hitting the sell all button quite a bit :(. Super frustrating. Overall , great game but hence 4 star instead of five.
Devs , please please consider changing the giving resources feature. It would be much appreciated! THANKS!

by Cabbage Garbage

I don’t normally write reviews but Dreamdale has gotten a lot of hate and as someone who’s spent countless hours on this game I have to say… I like the game but it needs some major changes 1. I think once you’ve rejected the special items on the floor (payed ones) they should disappear so you don’t constantly step on them. 2. I I think ads could be a bit smoother/ spread apart ex) play an ad everytime the player travels to a different island and dimension or leaves the dungeon, an ad everytime the player exits the shops, just so it’s more tasteful I don’t think there should be ads triggered while the player is in the middle of doing something as it can be frustrating. I like the feature of watching an ad to get stuff like health pots in the dungeon maybe if the developers add more of those it would make up for the ads you would be playing mid gameplay. All in all I like this game I spend hours a day playing it I would recommend it to others developers your doing a good job keep it up but I do hope to see some of these changes take place

by ShiningLikeTheSun

(FYI: I’m lvl 95)

I think I... reached the end of the game? Lol. There are no more quests... It’s a fantastic game. You really should be more upfront with the cost, though because it’s basically unplayable if you don’t pay to get rid of ads. You have a quality game—no need to hide fees. Win people over by showing them awesome gameplay! It’s basically a $7 Animal Crossing with more focus on battle and less on personalization (which I’d love more of). A few nitpicks: the furniture is wildly different sizes, and you have to buy every item in the store or it never goes away. A fair amount of glitches like invisible walls to get caught on (yourself, and the NPCs). Also, (and maybe I’m just missing something here), the gems and scrolls are ridiculous to get. Obviously you can eventually mine the rainbow stones, but I have to wait, like, 100hrs to get a singular ruby, and it takes forever to get the maps to speed up production. Also, pay-to-advance is crappy, and y’all know it, come on now.

You’ve got a good game on your hands. Could easily be a five. Im just hoping you keep it real. If you want continued feedback, I’m happy to get involved. Lmk.

by Nerdy_girl_love

I’ve been playing this game for about 4 months now. I overall enjoy the game. Building and exploring from the bottom up is very soothing. I love to see all the progress I’ve made over the months. The general idea of the game is to unlock areas, which unlocks different resources and then you use those resources to unlock more areas. That cycle goes on and on after that. I enjoy unlocking then exploring all the different islands. There is tons of different resources to unlock on each island which keeps it interesting. The only thing is the game is very repetitive. It’s doing the same task over and over again but with different resources. There are a few things that change up the game a little. There are dungeons you can fight monsters and win items. Also, after getting so far in the game you can unlock an arena and fight monsters in there. Also you can talk to villagers and complete tasks, which consists of finding a resource and using it for something. I would suggest adding more things that could break up the repetitiveness of it.

by Carmexus

I like this game but do have a couple things to suggest that would keep me playing more. First is the speed the character walks. It’s very slow. You can watch a video ad to get 5 minutes of speed by riding an animal. It’s frustrating having to watch ads every 5 minutes just to make the game less of a drag to play. I already paid to have ads removed as it was. Either give us more than 5 minutes of speed per ad or give us a way to build up speed naturally. Like through gear, boots or something. Or let us buy permanent speed. The slow speed is really the main reason I think I’ll stop playing. I’m sick of walking around looking for an animal to ride for 5 minutes.

Second is that I am not fond of the fact that if you stand too close to an area for too long the resources to unlock that area will get sucked out of your inventory. I wish it would let us choose to send inventory instead of doing it automatically.

Besides those two complaints, It’s a solid game.

by Trippyblue44

Absolutely love this game first and foremost. It’s really good however, I wish you could upgrade the player speed spending time walking around as you upgrade the land takes up most of the time and watching ads every five minutes for a new mount is incredibly annoying. The new islands you acquire are really cool. The emeralds, diamonds, rubies, ect. should cost less to upgrade with scrolls as waiting four days for a sapphire means you can’t upgrade anything unless you spend a lot of time collecting and trading gems or in dungeons getting scrolls. After the 8/17 update, some of my progress was lost as I saw others experienced. I added three lotus farms and suddenly stopped getting tasks. My game feels like it is stuck as I need 6 sapphires to upgrade the land which is the issue I expressed earlier. Would love to see this problem fixed as I spend a lot of time on this game and would be sad to have to delete it. Thank you!

by Blumoon1125

I’ve been playing this game pretty much non stop since downloading it. I purchased the no ads and it’s made it much more enjoyable although it was still very playable and relaxing before I removed ads. I love that you can still fast track certain things with short ads but if you create a good system of collecting materials and emptying the storage house you almost never need to wait around for materials. Everything is extremely easy to come by and can get with patience and I love that you can continue to expand and unlock areas while waiting to complete the current mission. The only thing that I wish you could do is have access to more townspeople to help and that they could load material into factories as well. Other than that the dungeons are enjoyable and the constant growth and unlocking new materials is extremely addicting. Also thank you to whoever thought of putting in portals because they’re extremely helpful once you expand large enough!

by Kss1275

This game is the best games I have ever played. I paid for no ads and got exactly what I paid for…no interrupting ads. You can still get cheats by watching ads if you don’t want to wait for 30 seconds to minute for your items The individual goals are easily attainable but there are just some many of them. 1000s not 100s. The game never gets old and constantly changes. All the sudden around level 40, you get to start choosing the order of tasks that you complete. There are just so many different things to do but they are actually enjoyable because you don’t have to pay but are easily attainable. Just when you think my gosh they wanted 350 rainbow gems for one blueprint…what is next? 700? Then you realize you don’t have to obtain blueprints that way anymore and they drop to 100 rainbow gems. The people who created this game actually care about the game and are not using it for a money grab like the “free Royal Match” which is programmed to make you lose money constantly. This game is kid friendly

by Beachbabe1885

I love this game!! I don’t review games very often, and I never pay money to get rid of ads. Until now. This game has everything I could ever want in a game. I’m on level 100, that’s how much I play it. I’ve completed the main land so I’m hoping they add more on the next update. Collecting gems to unlock the next playable lever took forever but once I finally did it, there was nothing more for me to do on the main land so now I’m just stockpiling everything. There’s a few things I’d like to see in the next update: be able to sell duplicates of armor, I have 3 scarecrows and 4 of the same fisherman’s coat; put a map icon and have maps of the land you’re on and in dungeons (keep the dungeon dark like it is but show on the map where you’ve already been, I get lost sometimes); and be able to either sell house items or refresh the ones already for sale. I don’t need a yellow AND a blue fridge. It’s a very well thought out game, the music and sounds, the graphics, the missions, collecting of items and how you can make a secondary item, getting to ride cute animals for an ad. Bravo!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

by Beeswax, Not Yours Inc

Oh god, I’ve been playing this game for hours. Send help, I’m addicted. Seriously, though, of all the mobile games I’ve played (and I’ve played a lot. Like, A LOT) this is one of the best ones I’ve encountered. The design is cute and gameplay is simple but fun. I like that you get workers to help you collect resources and the calming music makes it easy to zone out and play for long periods of time. Maybe that’s a bad thing 🤦🏽‍♀️😄

Edit: negative reviews are mostly people complaining about ads. Which is ridiculous. THATS LITERALLY EVERY GAME NOW, so get over it. If you don’t want to watch ads, don’t play ‘free’ games. There are ways around it if you’re smart. Or you can pay the flat $8 fee for no ads or you can pay the vip subscription and get no ads, plus other goodies. I’m not usually one for paying subscriptions but with this game I actually kinda thought it was worth it. I hope the creator continues to add content because I love this game.

by Moon_siren__

SO FAR this game is pretty addicting has aspects of animal crossing and Minecraft only you don’t have to do extra button tapping you just walk up to the tree and it cuts it for you, you just walk up to an enemy and it’ll shoot it for you as long as it’s within the circle range, absolutely perfect for those who like playing one-handed phone games without the need to turn your phone sideways! there are ads but it’s a respectable amount of ads it’s enough to help pay the creators and still not be too terribly annoying for the players. The ads are actually pretty short so you can literally blink like three or four times and your back to playing the game!
I think the longest ad they have is for the Golden axe because it’s like a special item, it chops the trees within one chop instead of having do multiple chops which is really helpful and makes you get through the game faster so the extra ad time is understandable.
I am just starting this game so I’m not sure if decorating and clothes are available but whenever I figure that out I’ll come back and add to my review

by Bcoffey93

I’ve been playing this game for months now and realized I have never given it a review, which is an injustice to this game. I can’t list out all the great things about this game but in comparison to other adventure/mission games this one is the best I’ve come across. What most games like this one lacks is the inability for the player to make any significant progression in the game without watching a ton of ads or by having to pay for things. I have only paid once or twice before mainly because I was impatient. I’ve only been playing for a few months and I have already unlocked most things in the current world as well 5 other worlds in the game. The extra worlds make it interesting and more fun. You also have the ability to sell your items to get more coins which is not something I’ve seen in other games like this. Also nothing takes an excessive amount of time to create. I’ve seen in other games to create one thing from your materials may take hours or days but not with this game. Most things create very quickly and it doesn’t get annoying to have to wait for something. You can also play offline which is a huge plus to me since I hate watching excessive in-house ads. Playing offline also doesn’t disrupt your progression in the game, you just don’t get the extra perks when playing offline. There’s so many different dynamics of this game! I love it!

by Shortstuff413

For starters, I play a lot of ad heavy games and I can honestly say this game has almost mastered the art of ad placement. There’s not too many, they don’t pop up at wildly inconvenient times and they’re not excessively long. Massive shout out to this developer for that and for showing (mostly) playable ads!

For the game itself, it was a playable ad in a different game. It’s engaging and fast paced and there’s so much more to it than I imagined! Mini games like fishing and portal exploration break up the monotony of harvesting for game play. There’s never a moment when you’re stuck waiting for a timer to run out. I’m usually the type to just keep watching ads until I’ve beat the game or got too frustrated with the number of ads but this one has changed my mind and actually has me debating paying for ad free! That’s a first for me!

I’ll be keeping my eyes out for other games from this developer because they’ve definitely got the “ad based free game” down to a science.

by Lidoublez

this app is a fantastic RPG style idle adventure game. It’s like Animal Crossing meets DnD and I love it! There is SO much to do, build, and explore in this world. From collecting resources to expand your village, fighting monsters in the dungeons, decorating your home, and sailing the sea to discover distant islands, there is always something to do.

This is one of the best phone games I’ve ever played, and absolutely worth it to purchase the ad-free version. I only pay $2.99 for 6 months and I highly recommend players do the same.

Without the purchase there are quite a few ads, though not an unbearable amount, and you can also purchase tickets and coins in game for a quick boost. I usually only do this on a long trip when I’m likely to spend several hours playing.

I’ve been playing this game for a while now, and so far there has only been one minor glitch. There was a task to “find 4 black chickens” on an island but for some reason only one populated as I unlocked the land pieces. Thankfully the goal still completed despite not actually having all 4 chickens, but progressing from here will be a bit more challenging. Restarting and updating Dreamdale hasn’t fixed it yet, but doesn’t affect the gameplay itself.

I’d love to see this app as a Nintendo Switch game one day…maybe I wouldn’t be so addicted to my phone!

by MinxenCrypted

This game is amazing, idk what the other reviews are saying but I will spend hours, like 3-4 hours at a time, playing this game. I am always excited to go in and see if there are new updates, the most recent one being almost a complete overhaul, and it’s still *such an amazing game*. It’s peaceful when you want easygoing animal crossing-like vibes, or dungeons and fighting when you want a little more spice. I paid for the no-ads, and I want to be very clear, THERE ARE NO FORCED ADS AFTER PAYING. NONE. The people reviewing otherwise probably bought a single item or upgrade, not the specific “vip membership”. Some resources take longer than others, it depends on the value of the resource, and you can CHOOSE to watch an ad to give you a chunk of a resource of your CHOICE. There are HOURS of gameplay available any time you open Dreamdale , and every update(as sparse as they are) adds so much. New quests, buildings, resources, islands. There is SO MUCH you can do. The numbers get a bit high over time, instead of say, 20 wool, I recently needed 200, and the coin-upgrades(other than tools) multiply almost exponentially, but they aren’t really that helpful anyway.

I love collecting all the armors and weapons through the dozens of dungeons, which net you rainbow gems, which unlock mini-islands. The mini-islands have tons of new resources and mechanics, it’s all really really so much fun.

by RandoOnInterweb:>

As you my see there are many writen reviews with low stars, which is a shame but instead I will tell you my experience. I will say that I haven't finished the entire game yet but it has been enjoyable, in fact I do believe that if the creators wanted they could make it cost maybe 3-6 dollars. So for it to be free is grate, yes there are adds, but for me at least the adds a very well spaced out. And any purchases you might make, that I've noticed at least (since I don't use money for games), are only if your not prepared to spend time on the game, or hurry things.
This game take time, and if your not ready for the commitment well dont buy it.

But also note that this is NOT a total sandbox game, it has a storyline and you can only get to curtain areas, factory's, etc by doing things on the task bar, but know that you don't HAVE to do it right away, just take your time.

by KathrynMerritt

So to start off, I’m obsessed with this game! It’s not too fast or slow paced and it’s an instant gratification type game. I love that I don’t have to wait on upgrades or things to be built. Also it’s got super cute graphics. I love how this game is laid out. I’m not sure how far into the game I am, but I hope I’m still close to the beginning because it’s so fun to play! The dungeons are perfect in that you get just the right amount of treasure. You don’t have to worry about getting too little of anything and not being able to progress. It’s perfectly paced in its resource giving. My only thing I’d like to see changed is the backpacks. What I mean is, I’d like to be able to choose which one I want directly from like a list of them instead of having to cycle through them with the ads like you do. Really this is the perfect game. I bought it to where there are no ads, but honestly there weren’t that many to start with and you can choose to get more resources with ads and not have to spend an insane amount of money trying to get extra resources. I love this game so much! Thank you!

by ShesonfireFF5

Most games are downloaded and get forgotten after a few days or the ads are so annoying that you immediately delete the game.
this app is not one of those games. Its not a clicker game and its not a intense farming sim. This is a “cozy” game that lets you do open world and if you want to grind it out you can- BUT you really don’t have to. Theres ton of islands and the events they come out with consistently are always engaging & you can get pretty far along with out having to fork over a lot of cash. I do spend some money on this game cuz i love it so much and want some fancy items or complete a boring quest (eg anything involving wool is a nightmare).
Surprisingly their support team is also VERY responsive and fixes glitches within a day of reporting the problem.
Overall im very happy with this game and gladly paid the $3 for no ads. I watch ads when i want a reward but im completely satisfied with this game and hope they continue to do events & periodic improvements as its much appreciated!!