University Empire Tycoon－Idle Reviews

by Luckybug777

This game has so much potential to be a really great game but the greed for money is a huge hinderance. This game is nothing but a build, upgrade and wait game. You use the game money to build/upgrade and then you wait for it to finish. There is no other substantive gameplay outside of that. It’s ridiculous that a game based around building things to make progress will only allow players 1 builder. That means you can only build one thing at time unless you use gold. Three builders will cost you real money. Getting better professors will cost you real money unless you wait practically a whole real day (can hinder your school’s progress). The winning formula for any successful game is that if players have fun and enjoy the game, they will be more than willing to pay reasonable prices with real money. It shouldn’t be the other way around in that players have to spend real money in order to have fun playing a game. I have had this game less than 2 days and I’ve already decided to uninstall it. I thought this game was going to be absolutely exciting because I’ve always wanted a tycoon-like university game that I can truly design/customize and not feel limited. This game is not that game.

by Geninisun22

I love the tycoon games and really enjoyed this one...at first. But as others have mentioned, once you get to a certain point the game becomes annoying. It takes literally DAYS to upgrade the deans office to increase the amount of money you can make. Then it takes DAYS to do research in order to access new buildings. Then it takes DAYS to build the buildings, and 4-12 HOURS to build one classroom. You get to a point where all you can do is log in for 1 minute a day to do research or start construction...unless you want to spend all of your money trying to hurry things along. What gets me the most is I am someone who will actually pay for games if I think it’s worth it. But paying for gems on this game is pointless because you’ll never have enough of them to make a difference. Sometimes research or building can take days, and you’ll need 500 gems to complete it early. The developers really cheated themselves on this one.

Btw, I completed all research and building upgrades but I did not have the patience to upgrade every single classroom too. This is the most pointlessly drawn out game I’ve ever played. It never ends!

by Sign Concern Ddhikncdsc Nh

Phenomenal game. Love the graphics, easy to understand, and very addictive in the beginning. Like a LOT of other comments the game glitched out which forced me to delete and restart the game. And it is true, I have had the game three days and I can only “upgrade” once or twice a day which makes it a rather boring game. I have found better games that are more rewarding.

If you are looking for ways to make the game more engaging. Reduce the “free money” from Ads and allow players to add additional builders for A. Cheaper (not that I pay to play games) B. Using jewels (300 for the first builder increasing by fifty jewels for each additional builder) C. By accomplishing tasks (building the Department of Art, then Department of Sports and so on). I have never had an issue paying for upgrades as the cash is too abundant which increases the frustration of having one builder. And please stop copying and pasting the 1 response you have given. At least have two or three that kinda relate to the review. Otherwise people will not review your product (which you need for improvements). Please consider some updates mentioned above and I thank you for your time.

by Redred21

Overall the game is fun. I personally enjoy games that are more long term than games that you can finish in a week. That said, this game is VERY long term, too much in my opinion. The requirement of construction crews for everything really slows down progress in an annoying way. You basically play the waiting game for everything. It would be great if we’re were able to buy at least one more crew for gems or in game cash so you could progress a little faster.
Also there are some quality of life things that are annoying too. For example you have to tap on the building and then the room in order to upgrade it then go back in order to tap on another room. You should be able to tap on a different room from the room screen. Also the research tree layout is hard to navigate with having to scroll through branches to get to the ones you can buy. It’s also in a weird order so the subsequent upgrades are in different branches. There are positives though. The graphics are cute and the mechanics in the game are complex without being too complicated

by Baileyster10293

For the most part I love this game. I’ve invested money into it and it’s addicting, however, there’s one major bug that I keep running into, and it’s how the timer won’t always move forward if you turn the game off for long periods of time. I set up an eight hour upgrade on the dean’s building, went to sleep by turning off the phone without turning off UniversityEmpireTycoonIdle , and when I woke up eight hours later I still had the eight hours remaining, and the same goes for a three hour upgrade I also set up on another building. I have no idea how this could’ve happened, since the game did still deduct eight hours from the remaining time for the current book fair event, but it also didn’t earn any category points! Once again, I love this game, but this bug has prevented me on more than one occasion from playing for a whole day due to long upgrades not processing. Please fix this ASAP!

EDIT: After another week of playing, I’ve run into another bug. I tried to use the headhunter to get “the best” professor, but when I pressed the button the game crashed, and upon returning I was still charged 120 gems without getting anything. Again, I love this game, but these bugs are ridiculous. Additionally, this game can get pretty laggy (though it has slightly improved once I turned off all unused apps).

by Muzikloover3

As a concept, this game is fun! I like being able to set up a university, hire worker, and professors. As others have mentioned the amount of time it takes to upgrade different things makes it frustrating if you aren’t purchasing other workers because you can’t do anything during the time your one thing is upgrading.

I must be at the point in the game where there are no new updates because I’ve maxed out nearly everything except the the items that requires the tokens because they are hard to get. Also there are some glitches where it says an upgrade can be purchases but there is no dollar amount. If you click on it, it immediately closes. More recently I can’t even update the game because it immediate crashes when it opens. It will also say I’m operating at a deficit, however a minute later it’s making a profit with no changes. This will also prevent you from collecting your funds even after long periods away. Please update the game to update the issues.

by Mikismom24

Starting off, this game is great because you get to expand your campus with buildings and other decoration items, but after a while it stagnates and quickly becomes something you check once or twice a day with little noticeable change made. Research and building starts to take multiple days to finish, and when you can only build one thing at a time (without paying extra for additional ‘teams’), interest is lost quickly. Obviously, it’s an idle player game so I do not expect to have constant engagement, but when I can go days without looking at it and then come back feeling as if nothing has changed, it loses appeal.

I have also noticed that once you hit a certain milestone in the competitions, you can’t win anymore. Regardless of how good my students are and how low the competition ‘difficulty’ is, I only ever seem to place 4th, if I place at all. Is this a glitch or intentional?

Generally, a decent idle game, but is very obviously a money grab after a short while of playing.

by StRstund

I love this game and other tycoon games by Digital Things. I have invested money into this game as well. I would be open to investing more money into this game later if the game is expanded. I like things in prison tycoon like doing the challenges and having new areas to build prisons in. I would love to see similar things implemented into this game. I prefer building universities over prisons or hotels. Really I would just love to see different settings for universities. For example once you finish the first university you will move to a snowy university, maybe this new university teaches different things with the main things like science, math, and social studies being the same. You could have a university that looks like it is located in the Midwest that teaches agriculture and equine studies. Then you can have a medical school in Washington where it rains and snows. All of these universities start with the same things then branch into different things. Even better maybe you could choose what you want to branch into. Like once you finish all of the basic classes you can chose what you want teach in the next building. Maybe start with just too choices like “do you want to teach Art or medicine” and expand from there. I have many more ideas but this post is already very long. Thanks for reading.

by Eternaljourney

I love idle games. I am usually playing one or two at any given time and eventually delete them when they become too redundant and repetitive; and then I find new ones. This one is unique because each building is different and you aren't constantly having to reset every so often as is common in poorly designed idle games… That being said, I’ve written to tech support about multiple issues, and they have eventually responded to me each time, and in english. However, their responses were vague and nothing has ever been corrected about the bugs. The issue is, the further you get into the game, the competitions just don't work anymore. I have fully upgraded everything for all but two schools, and all my competition results say students did not qualify, and i get zero reward after i spent in-game money to participate. It’s ludicrous that this issue hasn't been resolved. Thats my primary complaint. Thanks for reading.

by YesWayItsRick

Only gave this 4 stars because the developers still have some work to do. There is a ton of great content but the game takes forever without spending real money. Seeing you only have one construction team it shouldn’t take 8 hours to build something. At the point I’m at I’m only in the game twice a day for mere minutes. Enough to select research and what to build. It would seem to me you would want people in your game for longer periods and more often. Logic states that would provide more ad revenue? I’m also not sure what the end game looks like. If there is even one? I love the concept of expanding buildings and adding more classes. Would love to be able to expand the different buildings to beyond 4 classes each. Even adding an extra class to each building would be great. Would also like to see more types of classes offered. How about a law school? Or a med school? Maybe even expand on the core classes like English and history? The final thing I would love to see expanded on would be the ability to enter and further expand on buildings like the dorms (adding furniture to rooms or building a common area to study). Beyond all this just keep up the great work. Looking forward to seeing where this game goes.

by XDEVILx Bruh

This game has great potential, and it already has reached some. However, I’m sure other players have also reported the problem of the amount of time it takes to progress in the game. Of course, you get loads of gems from completing tasks in order to speed up building times, but I have a few more suggestions. First of all, you should be able to speed up building times at least a couple (maybe around five) times a day by watching and advertisement. Second of all, as you progress further into the game at a certain point another building team should be unlocked. A bonus suggestion is to have more classrooms fitted into each building. However, it is important to note that the game is still in a development process and is not completely completed, as it is still updating regularly. I hope the developers will take player suggestions into consideration whilst still in this stage, so the game can have better reviews and less critiques, therefore a further reach globally and more revenue for the developers to continue adding things into the future. This is a long review, and my final point is that I am enjoying this game and hope it goes into a further stage of development soon.

by Teeivio

Don’t get me wrong, this game is still very fun however there are parts of the game that reduces that fun factor. The money cap (how much you can store before you have to upgrade the “bank”) and the long waiting times make the game feel super slow. That’s right, you have to wait for every single thing you upgrade which to me, sounds like they are trying to tempt you to spend gems (which you shouldn’t do ever). Along with the fact that you can only upgrade one building at a time without paying actual money contributes to slow feeling of progression. But there are some good things about this also. For the first time, there is a research tree where you can invest in which upgrades you want to do. Cash is easy to get, so much that you don’t even know what to do with it because you can’t spend it due to the lack of builders. Gems are also fairly easy to get and can be used to buy professors. It’s also nice to see that you can open a free professor pack every 6 hours or so. Besides a few changes to upgrading mechanics and how you run this business, it’s still pretty much the same as any other recent tycoon made by Codigames.

by Gshjsksnbsgaj

This game is really fun. However, late game there seem to be some issues. One being that at some point it seems that certain department’s students hit a wall in learning level and actually start to regress. Humanities for example. Part of this may be that their original building has a far lower learning level than their later game building causing them to all learn a lot less. The other is competitions. It seems that as you continue in the game, or do more and more competitions, the competitor’s level must extend beyond that of what is attainable for your students. As I am putting in students with the highest possible learning level (which seems to be what ever the maximum learning level of your department’s building is) meaning that in every competition I get the “did not qualify” result. Overall a very fun game. But I think that students should be able to learn MORE than their buildings limit. The limit of the building should be how much they learn from their base starting position. And the competitions need to be balanced to allow your students to actually be able to win. Because I put in max level students and don’t even qualify.

by PeytonTheFrog

Don’t get me wrong it’s a great game and I really like it! Yet there are definitely somethings that’s can be worked on. Firstly the building crew, I can’t seem to wrap my ahead around only having one and having to pay real money to get more, all I see it as is a cash grab, I play prison tycoon, and I LOVED that game I spent the money to get the all in one bundle because I saw it was worth it. I still hop on waiting for the next prison so I can play it but in that game the building staff was way better. And I’m not really seeing a worth to buying the all in one bundle this game offers. And while one the topic of building the wait times are extremely too long. It makes me not wanna stay on the game and play, right now all I see it as is a- get on, upgrade, get off- type of game. Other than that there could be a few tweaks here and there such as- can we make hiring professors a little more clear in the beginning, it might just be me but I didn’t really understand it. Other than that the game is great! Again I loved prison tycoon and this is a lot like it, and I’m hoping to love this one too.

by Zambro83

This game is great. 5 stars easily. I just finished the game and have built everything. I have just a few suggestions to make your game better. 1. Something obvious first. Adding more departments to build and upgrade makes the game feel like there are less boundaries and there is no definite finish. 2. In events when you get tokens, it should be more even. I end up with a ton of humanity tokens that I can’t even spend, while I’m in need of social studies tokens. 3. Upgrading should be more balanced. The only thing that held me back from upgrading my classes were the builders. After the buildings were upgraded, I had easily enough money to upgrade everything in it without thinking twice. These are just some suggestions to make your game a little better. Past that, this game is exceptional.

by MZA0925

So when I downloaded this game it show me how to play and the problem is like why do you need to improve 120,000 I mean wayyy too expensive but for gems it can take a while to like build or hours or minutes (but idk if you would like idk) can you add a little bit more buildings if you did it would like so awesome! So when I spend on my money on the math building it look cool and I like when you add a schedule in the game but could’ve use more shape of the building it’ll look pretty and yeah I know! Okay so like I’m wondering if you could add an building of history or something like that or of you already had a a building of history that would be okay but listen if you add the things I tell you it would be way awesome add an update please! 🤗 thank you for your corporation. (Sorry I don’t know how to spell the building sorry!) bye have a great day!

by Stretch311ct

So I downloaded this game, and I have loved it so far. I’m still currently on the tutorial, bc I’m in a loop! I’m at the part where the assistant helps you choose a participant for the championship campaign thing, but in between that and the last time he popped up, I spent a lot of my money, and ended up not having any by the time this part of the tutorial started. I chose a character to nominate and when I went to press the button to buy it, it wouldn’t let Game had given me money to use it, but still wouldn’t let me press the button, I deleted the game and redownloaded it, but it kept coming back to the same start. After a while of downloading and deleting, eventually the game stopped giving me money and I ended up just having 0 dollars. I really liked this game, could you, or anybody, help me out? Thanks!

by Friendzoner

I really enjoy this game and how involved they allow the player to be in the game. For example, you can edit the students schedule after a certain “research” upgrade is complete allowing you to pick the best schedule for your students to learn. However, some of the aspects of the game can be confusing, like when you look at your top students stats. I completely forgot what the bar graph symbol means at the bottom of a student card and it would be nice if you could hold down on a symbol and see an explanation of what it is. I also feel that the time it takes to upgrade stuff is a bit frustrating, at least it isn’t clash of clans frustrating, but maybe it could be decreased slightly; unless that allows the player to finish the game sooner than wanted. Over it is a great game and I would most definitely recommend downloading it but just be prepared to be a bit confused from time to time.

by Vangzlol

This game is the most fun game I have played in a long time. It’s not one of those games that are so easy it is boring, but it is not so hard it feels like you should delete it. I think what brings a lot of people, including myself, to download the game is the concept. It seems fun to virtually build your own university for some reason. However, the only part that kind of annoys me is the waiting time for some of the upgrades. Someone upgrade are 15 minutes, while some of them are 12 hours, which seems like a lot for just one upgrade to a building. That is really it as far as the problems I think should be addressed. I would also like to add that I have downloaded many tycoons or simulation games, and through all of those apps, I have kept UniversityEmpireTycoonIdle through the whole process of me downloading it and deleting them. Great job to whoever made this great game!

by Luna Is My Gf

I’ve played Rollercoaster Tycoon by the same game developers and the pacing was a lot better in that game. What happened? I always achieve the maximum amount of money hours before I can upgrade a building in this game. With RT, I was always to upgrade more things easily and I was running out of money, which made the game addicting. With this game, I always have money and I just have to log into the game when an upgrade/research is done to start a new one. I barely have to go into the game and “play” it. Just log in every 12 hours and I’m good. It takes forever to “complete” the game, but I’m suspecting that’s what the developers wanted this time around. Overall great game but pacing is so off. There’s no reason I should have so much money sitting around all the time. Getting addicted to this game is not possible because of the large gap between upgrades. If I was addicted, I would decide to spend money on the game.