My Little Universe Reviews

tl;dr — the combat system makes this game unplayable. I am uninstalling now.

I’ve been playing this game for several months. It has a wonderfully creative vision, and there are artistic surprises around every corner. Each world is well-crafted, with some having a clever story to go along with it. However, the combat system makes this game *very* frustrating. There are performance issues with the game, primarily resulting in lagging. What this often looks like with combat is that the player lags while the NPC does not — the NPC is therefore able to get in “cheap shots.” The hitboxes are often messy as well. There are many times where damage is dealt when it should not be (notable distance between player and NPC) and other times where damage is not dealt when it should. For the main game, this is mostly a nonissue. You just overlevel your equipment to compensate. But their recent timed event has such a steep level curve that you’re forced into a difficult choice: (a) grind for days to get equipment to an overleveled state, risking your ability to complete the event in the allotted time or (b) fork over money to pay for overleveled equipment. I’m sure you can guess which option Estoty prefers. They have no incentive to improve their combat system especially now that it means making more money.

I’ve been playing for about a week now and this is my honest review. I really want to like this game, but it is difficult when it just feels like an Ad Watching simulator. I don’t typically pay for apps on the store, but I was really enjoying this one so I paid to remove the random ads.

I can tell the developers put a lot of time and effort in, because it looks great! However, eventually it gets to the point that progressing is sooo time consuming, that you have to choose whether to grind for 5 mins to get the resources to open one tile, or watch an ad or two to get the resources fast. That felt fine in the beginning, but then you open the next tile, and find out you have to do the same thing to get the next tile, and then the next tile, and each tile has barely anything of interest on it except for maybe a tree or two or some other resources to harvest.

Maybe it’s just not the type of game for me, but like I said, I really want to like it. I’m just tired of watching ads and not feeling fulfilled for it anymore when the tile I unlock has nothing on it and the next tile takes even more resources to unlock.

I’m going to be honest, judging by the ads that I saw I thought this was another piece of crap mobile game that took someone 30 minutes to make in unity that is riddled with ads, skins that cost real money, and sPeCiAl dEaLs that are a plague to MyLittleUniverse Store. But after I downloaded it, I fell in love with it. I loved it’s simplistic gameplay, it’s satisfying nature, and the graphics. After a few days though, the game became less and less fun. And not just because after a bit the fun wears off but the game gets way too much of a grind to play that just makes it a chore to play and to build your world. Like everything costs so much material that I have to watch a bunch of ads to get supplies to that I don’t always have the ability to get or spend the next 15 minutes slowly getting enough supplies to add one square to the world. Also to upgrade your weapons, you need gold bars, gold coins, and steel bars and some other things but making steel bars take wayyyyyyy too long. And I don’t want to watch a million ads just so I can cut out down a tree. Overall, I loved the game but the keyword there is loved. I don’t like it anymore because it’s no longer the stress reliever that I used on breaks. It now adds to that stress and prevents me from enjoying that break so just don’t play it anymore.

I love the graphics and gameplay so much. It’s so simple and relaxing and the exploring is exciting. Really great game all around.

However I’ve been dealing with a pretty serious bug where the spontaneously resets and I have to start from the beginning; losing all my progress. The first time it happened, I had gotten to planet 3 when MyLittleUniverse crashed and when I reopened it, I was at the very beginning of the game and I couldn’t figure out how to get my progress back. So I tried just playing the game figuring I’d just start from scratch but every time I’d close MyLittleUniverse that day it would erase all of my progress again. I got so frustrated that I almost deleted MyLittleUniverse , but I figured I would try one more time and then when I tested it, my progress stayed. So I continued playing again and this time I got to planet 7 and I was having lots of fun exploring new stuff and I closed MyLittleUniverse only to open it again later to see that all my progress was gone again. So disappointing and frustrating. I was having so much fun, but I don’t really feel like starting over again. Especially when it’s a possibility that it might reset again.

I would love to play this game again, but not until I have reassurance that I won’t lose all my progress.

I love this game all the way! It HAD incredible graphics until you changed it. I am very disappointed in one of the latest updates. You have changed the way this game looks. I hate it a lot. I cannot even describe how much I hate it. I’m deleting MyLittleUniverse. I still love the gameplay and cleverly designed plots. I also love the way you have to gather items. The other things I suggest is you add the beginning again like when you are on the lava planet that’s what I like. I also suggest you remove the customary planet. It almost completely takes away the whole point of the game which is to get to the next planet. But when you have a custom planet to do what you want, it makes you want to stay there, thus taking away the entire game to an idle tycoon game. It’s also a large distraction because when you open MyLittleUniverse , you start at the custom planet, and THEN have the choice to enter where you previously were, thus showing most players that no longer is it a adventure game, but a tycoon game. Anyways, I’m on the 2nd world so I also think don’t have too many sidetracks. For a few months, I’ve been stuck on the 2nd key because I kept getting sidetracked by the planet adventures.

The new updates have been amazing!!! I love the daily quests and the new dungeons. They continue to keep me interested and invested even when I have completed all of the other challenges. The number of resources and new machines/factories (?) can be a bit overwhelming but I like variety too. Keeps it interesting! Some critiques that I have are that the new daily dungeons can be very glitchy. Some of them say that they have renewed since the previous day, but when I go through the portal nothing is there to complete. I have also noticed that since the newest update, the game has gotten more laggy and tends to crash slightly more. I love the game and it will be a staple on my phone forever and I recommend it to everyone.

OLD REVIEW: I recently downloaded this game and immediately fell in love with it. I love the graphics and the mechanics. Unlike some other commenters, I have no issues with the grind needed at times to get resources. I think it adds to the adventure aspect of the game. The ads aren’t much of an issue to me either. I am quite bummed though to find out that I beat the whole game in just a few days. I think the suggestion to add daily tasks could keep me interested and coming back for more. I’d love to keep playing but with everything maxed out, it is hard to find much interest in the game without an update. More worlds would be perfect but any sort of new interest should hold me over for a bit.

I play this for hours everyday, more than any other app now, but it has started to become more laggy and I’ve noticed that happening every time a new ad would show up. I found that kind of frustrating as I have to exit out of MyLittleUniverse a lot, which also makes you start back at the beginning of the cave/dungeon/world/ etc. I find it kind of hard to farm just the main materials I need when there are so many “monsters” that you have to defeat while there to get the materials. Thankfully, I got a character with the pacifist ability to not have to deal with them (although I still have to when they’re in the way). It gets kind of repetitive having to farm (but I understand that is mainly the game) a lot of the same items and definitely takes a while to advance. I don’t particularly like having to wait to get the polished wood (if that’s the name) and the other one which I do not know what it is called. You can get them a bit in other worlds from some “monsters” or some items on the worlds, but it’s very little. Maybe those are things that are used less frequently, so they are slightly harder to attain, but I still don’t like how you can only wait for them in order to get them or watch ads. Other than that, it’s a great game. I finished all the worlds and am waiting for a new update.

I got this game about a week ago and so far I think it’s pretty good. Ever since I got it, I’ve been playing nonstop. Although it may take a while to gather up enough materials to build more of your world to continue on, it is great to past time. But I noticed that the more I advanced in the game, the more ads would pop up. Some of them make sense like if I want to go to my other universe or watch one intentionally to save up time, but to get one every single time I make a new hexagonal-like platform can get irritating.
Recently, in the game I’m in that area where you need to defeat small spiders. Like those “monsters” or creatures of the land that were already there before you. Now, I'm not sure about other people but I have quite a fear of bugs and insects. The small ones were okay but when I tell you I screamed and threw my phone across the room when I saw that big purple one, I'm not kidding. I’m just wondering if there is perhaps going to be more creatures to fend off that may or may not be a phobia for some people. Ofc, I understand I can’t make the developers do a slight adjustment just cause one person was scared of a creature, but due to that spider and my fear taking over me, I’m not sure if I can really continue to develop my universe in the game. It is a bummer :(

I personally like what the game was going for, but the gameplay is what brings this game down. Firstly, the ads are everywhere, to the point where taking ONE hit of damage has a chance to show one. Me personally, I don’t care about the ads when you are going to one place in the game, but there are so many, that one should expect an ad every 30 seconds. Also, why are there so many offers? If you want to play this game, expect in-app purchases to be in your face. Doesn’t help that some of these offers take up the whole screen, forcing you to click the X button to get out of it. Lastly, it feels that later worlds take AGES to get past, and coupled with the other two things, I just don’t want to progress. However, I like the visual appearance of this game, and it is truly a shame that this game is as annoying as it is. I also like the home planet, which is the only creative aspect in this game. Shame you unlock it when the grind becomes heavy. Overall, I think it has great potential, and if the gameplay was less irritating, it would be one of my most favorite mobile games.

I am really enjoying this game. It is really fun to play and it is good for when waiting for something, bored, or just wanting to chill. I bought the ads pack, which has proven to be totally worth it. A tip for anyone reading this, buy a pack that includes in-game bucks, materials, weapon upgrades, that also includes the no ads. If I had known the no ads were included in other packs, I would have gone that route.

Now for the -1 star bit. This game has been crashing way too often. I will be deep in a cave gleefully swinging my axe when all the sudden, boom. Crash. When I open the game back up, it will either put me at the beginning of the cave - or whichever entrance/exit I last passed through (if I’m “lucky”), or it will dump me at the beginning of the world I was in (very unlucky). I am currently in a cave in the Odysseum world where I have to pay 1000 gold coins for a ferry. I got to the Cerberus and got the crown. I’m making my way back behind that, and the game crashes. This is when it gets really annoying. Now I have to start back at the beginning, buy another ferry for another 1000 gold coins, try to find where I was, and start going again.

Also, what’s up with rafts, ships, etc. just disappearing? If we bought them, they should stay when we come out of a cave or join that world again. Sometimes they do stay put, but many times they do not and must be purchased again.

This game is incredibly addicting and so far I’m loving everything about it! I do have some minor complaints though. There are a few bugs. I’m only going to list them here incase the creators see this. For example if you have one skin set on your character it’s constantly reverting back to another skin whenever you travel to another planet/when you turn on the game. Other planets have a lot of lag or crash altogether when you are mining in certain caves. Boats are constantly disappearing on dimidium (I’m not sure if this is supposed to happen buts it’s pretty annoying to have to keep building boats) My only other complaint is how long it takes to receive tokens through the quests to open up the gates on wadirum. You can only get a max of 18 tokens if you complete every quests and some of the quests take ages to complete. It definitely slowed down my desire to want to complete the game and I wish the reward were bigger, especially if I’m going to spend an hour+ mining resources for 2-3 tokens. Other than that the game is relaxing and is pretty incredible for a free game

Developers PLEASE, there isn’t a way to search for needed items unless you have some in your inventory! If you use all of a resource while trying to build a section in your universe or while upgrading the strength of your tools, and need to find where you harvest more of it, it won’t show up in the key? So then you can’t select it in order to have the arrow appear and guide you to the area where it’s at……

….actually the whole search and find part f MyLittleUniverse could be a bit upgraded- at the very least we need more explanation on what it is that has what we are looking for and exactly where we are needing to go to find them-A few times I was really confused bc the arrow kept moving erratically. Since I'm new, it took awhile before I realized it was the skeleton I was needing to kill to get the needed items….. But it was running all around chasing ME? We need a much better tutorial or some kind of directions to explain a lot of the quests and overall gameplay? MORE IS NEEDED IN THE DESCRIPTION than just do you want to know what it’s like to be god? Visually MyLittleUniverse is the bomb as well as the sounds… love it- just needing more direction on the actual game play.

I was just scrolling through MyLittleUniverse Store when I found this game. I thought it was going to be a cheap game, but when I opened up MyLittleUniverse I was AMAZED with the results of my experience. Personally, I find it kind of satisfying to have to break things and craft new items all by yourself and then advance from world to world and from biome to biome. I find it especially relaxing with the sound effects. For example, when you break stone or other types of ROCK and, when you have to create a new set of land, the sound of the items being used to create that part of land just gives me the TINGLES! There’s only ONE problem. I don’t know if this happens to anybody else, but while I’m playing, at random points in the game, it SLOWS DOWN, FREEZES, and GLITCHES to the point in which I have to close out the ENTIRE app and shut down my phone COMPLETELY just to END those effects. However, I’m still giving this game FIVE STARS because I feel like it is a good game for STRESS issues and just plain old FUN! It is a great game for all ages and, unlike other games I have played, has PG-13 ads. All I ASK is of the DEVELOPERS is to fix these bugs and glitches so that everyone else may ENJOY the game as much as possible. Overall, I view this game as a FREE and BETTER version of Minecraft that EVERY single person in the world DESERVES to play! :)

First off, this game is quite amazing! The pace it sets when you are out farming for materials or working your way to the next goal for an upgrade is great. I find myself just farming around and not sure which next goal to do, because there is a lot of great progression. I agree with a lot of the top reviews on the game. If there was one thing I could say for improvement is a way to save your game. Either through Game Center or logging into a Facebook or Google account. I have had my game lag out once and it crashed, when I restarted it all my progress was lost and I was at planet 1 again. I was a little disappointed at first because I was maybe 4 hours in on Planet 2, but at the same time I was like “eh, now I get to enjoy the game even longer and now I know where things are and can progress faster.”

All in all, great game! Continue to release more content please! Another thing to maybe add to the game would be more goals, materials, planets, maybe skins for your character, and more mobs to fight.

This game is so much fun and I am really enjoying it. I have depression and anxiety and I’ve been very depressed and anxious lately and this game has been a great distraction and has really helped me. I can start playing at 5pm and the next thing I know it’s 10pm! I’m already on my third universe and I only started playing a few days ago. I played it in the ad and really liked it so I downloaded it and I’m so glad I did. I do have two suggestions though and the first one is to include a map so that we can look at it when we need to go somewhere in that universe but can’t remember where it is. My second suggestion is hints, when you are trying to figure out how to get something to build the portal or you’re trying to find out where the key is or anything really, right now I am stuck in the third universe down in the cave with the boulder that moves when you push it. What do I do with the boulder? I would love a hint or two. I want to play but I don’t know where the boulder goes. Anyway I just wanted the developers to know that this game is awesome and I plan on playing it all the way through!

I have been stressed alot so I was playing another game(Not gonna sponser it here)and saw this ad and decided time get it and started playing after a few mins I felt less stress and played more as I got calmer and ready to nap and felt like I was having a good day now instead of the usual talk and RP with friends until we die of boredom and I knew I could use this game to kill time and just feel relaxed but there is one problem that I have is that the ads are just deleting the stress relieving feeling and if I want to remove them it is six dollars and I dont want to disconnect from the WiFi to play without stress and also on top of that the mobs in the game are annoying and always just ruin it for me and also I dont like it when you offer me items by putting a pile of it on my island it annoys me and those are my only problems with it and everything else is good and it helps me calm down when I feel overwhelmed with studies and reading so I can practice for my new school year and be ahead but all I can say is download if you wish.

Okay, let me start off with: I’m a big gamer. And I mean BIG. And when I say this game is amazing, I also mean that. Let me first start off with positives. The gameplay is amazing, and would recommend it to anyone. The forges were a really good idea, and tons of planets built on a seed is kind of like Minecraft. I really enjoy the soundtracks, and on a scale of Among Us to Minecraft+Geometry Dash, you’d be just at the Minecraft. Amazing, original, wow. There are some aspects that don’t make much sense, like the construction of islands from wood and stone(?). The gameplay overall is amazing though. But now, sadly, I must move on. The ads. Hate ‘em, hate ‘em, hate ‘em. Ads in amazing games are the bane of my existence. I would recommend something like what Geometry Dash did, like a Lite edition with mandatory ads and limited features and cost $0.00, but also a Full Edition that would be ad-free, full features, and only ads if it is something extra, like those loot drops. I would peg the game as, like, $5.99 or something, but that’s not my call. Overall, though, awesome game. I just have to overlook those ads. Amazing. 5 stars.
-Jacob

I been playing game since day one with level 20 gear and happiness to boot. Now I won’t lie. I did uninstall the game for a bit because I got alittle overwhelmed by the grind but as time passed on I saw I was missing the game a lot do I re download it to get back to build my awesome universe but for some reason I was rested back to square 1. To the first universe and all the world I have unlock are gone. Now I still had my level 20 gear and I had all my resources from the world I was on (which were the scrolls) so I didn’t see much problem with it. I just had to get back to where I was and hey more getting back to square one and loving this game even more. But it all went into fire like 5 days ago. All my stuff is level one now but my armor ( still level 20). My pick, my sword, and my ax are all level 1 and I can’t use the area to level them up because they keep saying max. If anyone Is reading this please please please help me. I want to get back to the world I was on before I left and I want to experience the new thing y’all gave us to play around with. I want to build my awesome universe again. Please help me

Concept is beautifully laid out. Graphics are that perfect mixture of retro and new school to give nostalgia a poke. Game itself I am thoroughly enjoying with the pace of progression on point. I purposely avoid the option of ads for resources as I enjoy the minimal grind for upgrades. At the same time the option to watch a ad for resources is always appreciated. Games have ads it’s just a reality, thank you to this team for not throwing them down our throats as this game has a good spacing between play time and random pop up ad. From farming for upgrades on weapons or tools to gathering resources for exploration it’s all exciting giving that mysterious feeling to continue playing to see what is uncovered next. Is it going to be a new tool new structure new monster to battle or resource to collect. The I don’t know feeling of this game so far captivates the beginner to novice and so on player. Two thumbs up to the team behind the games mechanics and layout once again this feels like something that I can pop on gather idly or grind for hour on end. Must try for mobile gamers and if available on PC I would suggest it.

I love this game so much it has been one my phone for by far the longest period of time compared to other apps. This game has gotten me through some really dark times with its awesome graphics and soft and simple game play. My only concern is the new chests that they put on the side of the screen. I love this game very much do to the lack of ads. But this really concerns me I would hate for this game to stop being a relaxing gameplay. To think it could fall done the rabbit hole of being an ad every ten seconds out of no where scares me to be honest. The game developers are very talented to have such creative areas. At this point of time I have just unlocked the new world and it looks like a fun new 6 to 7 months of adventure. That’s maybe an understatement of how long I’ve had this game. The real amount of time I’ve had it is closer to a year if anything. The idea of deleting this game as never crossed my mind or seem like a tempting action at all. My little universe is a 10 out of 5 star game no app I’ve ever owned could amount to this game. Thanks for reading but don’t let my concerns or worries drive you away. Download MyLittleUniverse if you can because it’s almost life changing.

Well, I have to remember what I wrote. You can never write anything a second time that turns out the way you wanted it. For some reason, if you write your review first, and then give it a star rating, it deletes the text of your review. DAMMIT! This is great game. Very fond of the single player RPG style games. I like civilization, Diablo, elder scrolls, those kinds of games. The ones that have an iPad version doesn’t always play well. well, this game plays very well. The graphics are not fancy or CPU heavy, but they’re very good and they are perfect for this game. I like the process of having to collect resources to proceed and I found the good way to collect the resources I need. Buy the update that deletes the ads, especially if you’re one of those people whose major complaint is the ad. Somebody has to pay the salaries of the programmers. These games are a business, not a charity. The gameplay is so much nicer when it’s not chopped up with ads for some other game that you’ll never play. Well, this review isn’t anywhere as good as the one I wrote before but, this is it. A fantastic, fun game. Hey Apple! stop reformatting my reviews. I include a space where I want space and I don’t need you to cram everything together. Breaking a review up into paragraphs makes it easier to read.