Idle Museum Tycoon Reviews

Every time I go to hire a janitor and security guard, it depletes my gem balance FAR beyond the gem cost to hire these employees. Three times now I had 200 gems and hiring a janitor should take 40 gems, but one push of the button depletes the gem balance down to 13 gems. Why 13 gems? Even if the system were registering multiple pushes each time, it would never go to a random uneven number like that. There are also trivia questions about evolution that are still unproven (did dinosaurs evolve from birds) but if you answer it as maybe (which it should be because there is no actual physical scientific evidence this is true, it is still a theory!!!!) you will lose the gem reward for the trivia. Quite stupid to punish players with fake answers.

Though I understand developers’ needs to support games through microtransactions, I’ve never encountered a game that has this many and that drives players to them so aggressively. You could spend literally every moment of gameplay watching ads. When you choose not to watch ads, what are you doing? Tapping on endless messes and thieves (activities that you can pay $10 each to take care of automatically, of course).

And there’s no skill or strategy involved at all. You don’t get to choose the artifacts in each exhibit, and you don’t have any choice in which exhibits you open. You don’t even learn anything about the art and artifacts you are supposedly managing. The quizzes are a nice touch, I suppose, but they’re just general science knowledge unrelated to whatever museum/exhibits you’ve opened. Oh, and if you miss a question, don’t worry—you can always watch an ad to try again.

If you enjoy tapping on trash and watching the same 30-second ads over and over again, then this game is for you. Otherwise, I suggest looking elsewhere for world-building entertainment.

Kinda fun. The game offers quizzes to make some extra money, but it can be frustrating due to some of their quiz answers being wrong. You may have better luck just guessing. I cross checked with multiple accredited institutions, and I have already found 5+ wrong quiz answers that the game thinks is right. I’m assuming it is some glitch because they are fairly easy questions to answer. Hopefully this gets resolved in the future. They may make the wrong answers “right” on purpose to get you to watch more ads to continue in the quiz. I am giving the game the benefit of the doubt, so I will assume it is a glitch or someone who made the questions does not do much research before finalizing the questions.

So this is a good game don’t get me wrong the gameplay of it it’s straightforward and it can be fun one thing I do not like is how you have to spend actual money to keep some of the endgame characters forever almost everything in this game you have to spend real life money on I don’t quite think that is right you could either make your money from ads like everybody else and then keep the button that removeAds stop making it where every single item in the game has a purchase for real life money

I like the game for the most part, but don’t expect a lot of customization or depth to what you’re building. You don’t get to choose what goes into a gallery, or even get to really examine what it is your buying with all that money. There is not really any strategy, just a lot of ads to watch and you spend money on the highest level gallery that you have unlocked. No restarts with multipliers, no sharing of money between museums, no choice on concessions, etc.

The quizzes are ridiculously repetitive. There appear to only be a couple dozen questions that repeat endlessly and they never change.

Worst of all, even if you spend real cash on multipliers, etc., you’ll end up with an impossible situation in the main museum - multiple galleries to upgrade, but not enough funds to accomplish anything. I am at a point where I can upgrade the top gallery 2 levels after a full 10 hours away - with over 200 levels to go to the next big multiplier upgrade. And since each level gets more expensive, it will only get slower to achieve anything.

I mean it’s OK to me but not OK OK I mean it’s a bit of a rip off I mean you literally have to buy everything except for the exhibit and I’m OK with that but everything you have to buy I mean can you just earned them with the coins or your diamonds it’s just a little bit of a rip off but like it’s OK just not OK I mean Im a kid and a 1 year old could do this and they would still get mad that you have to buy things but like I am a gamer and I like all games like anime games well anime games I can play and block games like Roblox or Minecraft but like this game is a little bit too biased I mean even in Roblox and Minecraft you have to buy things but at least you don’t have to buy the blocks and stuff like that but like you have to buy a lot of things in this game and it’s just not fun it just turns out to be boring later on! 👎🏽🙌🏽😬😩😤 I mean come on!

I just started the game and have been enjoying it, however I wish I was able to choose the artifacts in each exhibit. If each artifact had special effects such as increased visitor rate, percent increase in earnings, etc. and you could level up the individual artifacts, not necessarily the whole exhibit. It would also be cool if you could change your layout to manipulate visitor counts.

There are some small bugs where the tour guides will not pick up everyone in line if they’re not stopped, leading to some visitors left behind. It also seems like there’s no visible effect on visitor rate by decreasing wait time. It’s unclear what each exhibit improvement effect has on metrics like visitor rate, other than the obvious earnings increase.

For hiring idle workers, the first time is free but each subsequent time requires gems and it’s not sustainable for players who are not willing to pay. There are many ads, understandably for revenue, but there should be an option to use in-game currency to hire these workers and not the premium currency.

Overall I do like this game but additional levels of specification could improve it!

Kind of strange that the special museums don't have any objectives/goals or offer any rewards for your main museum would love if you could unlock things according to the level you get your special museum up to especially more gems and maybe even small decorations or something for your main museum unlocked as you progress in the special museums.

Would also love more involved gameplay like maybe when the thieves come they hide around the museum or the outside of the museum and you have to find them

It was a while ago I started playing , the variety of galleries and mini museums is breath taking! Expand your knowledge on things like art and historical people while expanding your multiple museums. It’s amazing all the different displays and exhibits it’s impressing and beautiful nit to mention fun. This is one of my most recommended games it’s entertaining, educative, and “alive” !

The game is great! Awesome characters, honestly haven’t found a good game for a while, love the artwork!!! However there are a little too much in app purchases and they are too unreasonably expensive! Let’s be honest, if I bought all the managers and got the whole no ads thing, I can buy a top notch game on my PS5. Like, there’s no reason to make everything to buy. Going to have to buy the open app option soon.

So I started this game yesterday and it was really fun! I like pretty much everything about it. Today, though, when I was almost done playing, I tried to hire the security guard for free. I had over 60 gems, but when I tried to do this, I was put down to 8 and it said I couldn’t afford them. I also can’t spend my gems on the upgrades that require gems. Please fix this, but other than that this is a great game!

Great game. I love the theme and there always feels like something to do.

I have found some bugs in my first few hours of playing: 1. When I tap on the desk in the center of any museum, I am unable to tap on the office tab. 2. If you upgrade an exhibit to a high level, passing achievements before they show up, you are hard stuck and cannot collect gems for those achievements/exhibits.

Would love to see these fixed!

Lately I’ve been very disappointed in pretty much every app (game) that I’ve tried out! That is until I downloaded this amazing game! Unlike many of today’s newer apps this game doesn’t bog you down with ads- but perhaps more important it doesn’t progress “too” quickly! I’ve bought games and finished them in a day! “Museum” actually takes time to build up and to progress, which has been a great surprise. I’ve been playing daily for about 6 weeks and I’m just now getting to a point of near completion. Not bad for a game that doesn’t cost anything (although I did buy a couple in game purchases.) The museum “artifacts” are pretty cool too- be sure to zoom in and check it out!!! Amazing game and I highly recommend it.

It’s a really great game and I really enjoy it, I just wish there was a way in which you could do a max spend option on upgrades so you don’t have to wear your thumb out continually just to upgrade something multiple times, if you could add this feature I feel like it would make me play the game more, as my thumbs get sore so I have to stop playing lol. Anyways maybe you could take this into consideration, thanks in advance!

This game is one of my favorites, but I would love more galleries, since I have them all! I have some ideas...

Nordic: This gallery could have ships, helmets, and all sorts of Viking stuff!

Wild West: Things like covered wagons and cowboy items!

Geology: This one could be full of gems and rocks, and a model of the Earth’s layers, perhaps?

Industrial: All about the Industrial Revolution! Trains, factory machines, lightbulbs, all that sort of thing!

War: Medals, weaponry, and vehicles could go in here!

Zoology: This would be pretty cool, maybe with preserved insects and such.

Anatomy: All about human physiology, complete with models!

Colonial: This one would be all about colonial America, with flags and such.

Technology: I know there’s already a Gaming exhibit, but I think it would be cool to have a room with things like computers and phones, too!

Tropical: This gallery could have tiki statues and plants, maybe even a straw hut!

Furniture: This could be full of sofas, lamps, and beds!

That’s all I’ve got for now, but keep up the great work! 👍

How do you give everybody a rip off like you should awkward them rip off till like 1 billion and then like what’s the point of doing it if you don’t get very good VIP bonuses and my cousin has to say something about it take that back it’s actually very fun but do you need to upgrade your rip off actually bonus actually give us like 5 million and then for the one after that give us like 5 billion and an extra 5 billion give us like 5 trillion and then after after the 5 billion just give us whatever you did 5 trillion whatever is bigger than 5 trillion just give it to us

I love this game so far fun, good looking, not to bad micro transactions that aren't really needed and good progression but I have a problem with just one of the transactions, the maintenance people. It costs either gems for an hour of use or $10 each for permanent usage (there’s only 2 people). I think $10 is a little much for something I could just do my self, all they do is make it a tiny bit easier, it’ll be better if you could also have an option to buy them permanently with gems instead of money or at least be cheaper. Like maybe $5 or 1,000 gems or maybe $5 or 2,500 gems or something like that.

I just started playing this game yesterday and it’s already a bit addicting. I haven’t noticed any ad pop ups which has been really nice. You can choose to skip ads but you won’t get anything in return. Sometimes my ads will not load when a VIP is visiting so I can’t get the extra money.

I like that you can expand your museum and open new ones in different parts of the world. I also like that if you choose to spend real money on characters in the game, it applies to all of your museums and not each individual building.

It’s a cute game. I enjoy catching the thieves and looking at the emojis from all the customers.

This game is great, I’m a huge fan of tycoon games but most have random pop up ads and require you to pay real money to get anywhere in the game, but ads are a choice with this game and it’s totally possible to fully upgrade without spending money which I really appreciate. This isn’t at all a bad thing, just a side note to the developers in case they wanna fix it, but there’s a mistake where some tasks won’t line up with the gallery it’s supposed to be for, like with the Egyptian museum the runes and the artifact galleries are mixed up, and the football gallery for sports is titled baseball in the tasks page. Again nothing actually affecting gameplay, just a bit confusing at first

People are saying that this a money hungry game, but the only time when you have to watch ads are when you get a reward for it, and the game is totally playable without buying any of the bonuses. It’s extremely fun and helps pass time extremely well.
Keep up the work, because I would love to see more idle games from you!

(Ps, I found a small bug - when you unlock the world map and start a new museum, the guests get stuck at the entrance from time to time, which you have to reset to fix, anyways thanks!)