Little Alchemist Reviews

Was an excellent concept and I had a lot of fun combing the cards and see combos but it’s so heavy on the pay to win. Did mind the research gimmick, wish more card combos were discoverable rather than wait 3-12 hrs for a new card combo. In area the people you go against are supppper powered up like what the heck, was going against a dude with a 25 atk 25 def right as soon as I hopped in. And the adventure mode is alright, drop rates for “good” cards were terribly low. Not even gotcha games gave me this bad of drops. Tried doing some of the challenges and those have a huge difficulty curve, plus the rewards are not incentivizing to keep putting up with it. Overall this game has great ideas but is rotten with pay to win walls and keeps trying to shove you to buy stuff from their shops. Wish the design of the characters were more refined, were less forgivable. Felt like they were just churning out them to fill the slots.

This game is fun in many ways but the research times make it feel like you can’t add a new card to your deck without spending 10 real life days of research to find all the combos. 1 whole hour for a useless combination feels like a complete waste, where something like 10 or 15 minutes would be far more understanding. 12 hours for a single research is just laughably long when a card might require multiple researches before even considering adding it to your deck. And then on top of that, many combos are locked behind card upgrades, which adds to the already insane investment to simply unlock something which would already be handed to the player in any other deck builder. I understand the fun of this game is unlocking card combos and strengthening your deck, it just seems like the current system asks the player to spend a literal month researching before adding maybe 5-10 cards to your deck.

This game is summed up perfectly with the title. It’s so hard to progress without paying money, even though the researching combos is my favorite part of the game, when I actually try and play the game it’s just throwing yourself at a wall over and over and hoping you can beat the boss. Your health doesn’t last long enough to deal with the bosses 99% of the time, and when you get that 1% odds of actually getting them down to no health, they get you down to no health too, and tie. Now that’s not so bad, right? Wrong. It counts as a loss, and you have to grind to make it a win, which costs your abilities. It’s just absolutely ridiculous to try and beat this game. Make sure you have patience and don’t get heated by games, because you’ll need the patience of a saint to get anywhere in this game. Or alternatively, the wallet of Jeff Bezos. All in all, this game is a pathetic cash grab with a genuinely good concept as the cover for it. It’s such a shame to see a good concept go to waste, as a game developer myself, I can see that there was passion put in at one point, but that passion has died. Some serious change is needed to make this game as good as it could be. But with the highly toxic landscape of mobile games, change is unlikely. I’m not getting my hopes up. But there’s a hope this game can become less pay to win. In a thousand years maybe.

This game seems like it could have a lot of potential to it but there are many problems that I have noticed

Energy
The battle energy, which you use to fight, is way too low. While it does replenish faster than some games, its maximum is just too low (especially with the cost of fighting some bosses for the first time taking about 1/4 to 1/3 of your max energy for only one fight). Overall this should either be greatly increased or the boss energy cost be decreased.

Coins/shop
The coins you earn in battle have little real use with how expensive it is to get boosts. The fact that you only get one card per pack, with that card almost always being a bronze level, is also disheartening when playing through the game.

Combos
The combo research time should be less and you should have access to more. Its insane that that gold/diamond combos are 24 and 48 hours respectively (with only having access to 2 combo research slots for majority of the beginning game).

Overall, I thought I would love this game more and I don’t mind grinding out stuff but this game is just too much effort for VERY little pay. Even if this is a pay to play game, the game isn’t worth investing into if its base self is so poor quality to play with.

Game is remastered with a graphics overhaul but that’s it? No new cards or more story? So many people only play this game for the first few days then quit cuz they get bored and stuck in the game cuz of how much you have to wait. The card upgrade times are ridiculous, it should at least be 12 hours for a gold combo research not a full 24 hours when there is so many combos already. EVERYONE IS TIRED OF WAITING, LISTEN TO YOUR REVIEWS!!! At least make it where you can watch an ad to remove some time off. The difficulty increase between areas is insane too, have to research and upgrade cards which takes days just to be able to fight the next person and upgrading cards is a hassle itself, can only get a few upgrade materials per day so can’t upgrade cards fast either, the increase in amount it cost to upgrade to the next level is insane too. Many people are tired of getting pop ups every time we visit the main menu we get a pop up, very annoying. If you would make at least a few changes that ALL of your fan base has been requesting this game would skyrocket in popularity but for now it’s probably gonna stay mid unless they do what your fans want. All your doing is making your game look like a cash grab.

This game could be a lot of fun….except for the fact that it’s only geared towards players who are either paying money or spend a lot of time (Free play) grinding and even that’s not enough. This game is probably the least new player friendly game I’ve ever played especially between the arena battles and portal games. I’ve been playing for 2 weeks and spent around $15 and I still can’t get past 80 wins on the portal game play. Not to mention they don’t teach you anything about the comp cards or what to do with the “final form” cards. It takes forever to research and you can’t beat anyone in the arena especially in the beginning since their all so much better than you so good luck. It’s clear the developers have 0 commitment to free to play players so play at you’re own risk. It’s definitely fun once you start spending money tho so depending on your financial situation it could be a fun game.

Like previously stated in the title, it is a very fun game but I will agree with other reviews, the research time is ridiculous. Another thing i’ve noticed, i’m one of those people that believe the game picks what you draw. I have quite a few combos researched for my deck but yet I keep drawing cards that don’t make combos.
Another big thing that bothers me is the fact you can’t lock your cards. I get that you need to be careful on what cards you recycle but I still feel like it would be helpful to be able to lock the ones you don’t want recycled.
Something else that bothers me is in the armory it says in order to get certain upgrades “you must reach the required rank the previous week to earn this item.” Okay, so why doesn’t it tell me what the required rank is so that I know what goal I have to reach? That would be nice to know.
It is a fun game but frustrating and requires a crap ton of patients.

I’ve been playing for a few months because I got an ad for it, and nostalgia wanted me to play it again (I loved this game as a kid). It’s been exactly the same, and that’s fine, but just today for the anniversary event they gave me some gems! Oh, cool! Let me go and buy a research slot! It’s 400 gems. They gave me 500 gems. They 10x the price of the slot. It used to be I believe 60-50 gems. Card packs? 2x price, and this one I KNOW for sure. The pack with the archmage card on it is now 100 gems, when it was always 60. The uncommon pack is now 50 gems from 30. Energy regen used to cost 2 gems for a FULL regen. Now? 10. And that’s just for a 3 energy regen. Raising the price of everything makes gems significantly less valuable, and allows them to swindle more money by making the cheapest option of gem be 500, and making the majority of packs be less than 500. Disgusting practice. No one is safe from inflation! Not even the Little Alchemist game economy!!

I love this game. Played it since the original came out but there is ONE thing that I cannot stand. Later in the game, it is so rigged to basically force you to pay real money for better cards. No matter what card you play, it’s going to counter to come out on top almost every time. Card upgrade, they will play to match. Heal, they get a combo every single time, and match to where you may do 2-3 damage and heal 5 every turn. Fire, they get a combo every time and hit you for 5 damage every time while matching your cards defense to block so you’re always at the disadvantage. On the heal, they already start with around 42 base health while you’re stuck with 30 with no way to raise the base amount and by the end of the game they have 50+. Also you AND the AI can be down to 1 card left and they somehow make a combo. I just think if you’re gonna make the AI harder with cards they have , don’t raise their base hp AND rig their hand to always have the upper hand or make there a way to raise OUR base hp.

This is a great game it really is. The whole ability of fusing cards to make stronger ones and based on succession you can heal yourself or increase attack or defense based on you character is a great idea. It would be a higher review but after a few hours of gameplay you become almost stuck. You either have to constantly wait for card combos to research or become impatient enough to drop money to increase power to progress enough to even reap any rewards. I’m all for occasional spending on a game you like to show your support and gratitude for and to the creators but there’s a line where it becomes just a pay to play. Like I said it’s a great great game just needs to be balanced a bit more so it doesn’t become a pay to play or even just an idle game waiting for research.

TL;DR: Good game if you can power through and have patience, but needs changes. Current gameplay is repetitive, slow, rarely rewarding, and the main attraction (combos) is locked behind pay walls and an absurd amount of gameplay time before significant progress is actually made.

The game is really fun, and the concept is very cool. But I have to be honest; if it weren’t for the nostalgic factor of reminiscing what it was like to play this game years ago, I wouldn’t keep it downloaded. I think with a few changes the game could see massive improvement. When upgrading cards, I wish it applied to every card with the same name instead of just individuals. The simple tradeoff would just be making upgrades more expensive, giving players another reason to grind. Secondly, I do agree that research either needs to have more slots (even just one more) or be a little faster. The attraction of this game is the combos, but until you put in some serious hours (and upgrade your cards with dust, which takes forever when you have to upgrade duplicates too) you can’t do more than a handful. I understand like most pay-to-win IOS games, progress is meant to be fast in the beginning, and slow and frustrating later on, but the progress here isn’t even fast in the beginning.

This game is a staple in my household. I play, wife plays, all 3 kids play. Unfortunately, the PVP doesn’t allow us to play together or trade cards. Maybe something that can be figured out in the future. I’ve been playing this game long before the Remastered version came around.
Recently, they’ve inflated their diamonds value. The system now charges more diamonds for anything in the game and they cost a lot more. What used to be 50 diamonds, now costs 800, discounted to 250? What is up with that? Paid packs are 800 diamonds, marked down to 250… first off, they never cost 800 so that’s just a made up number so they can show a discount and make customers feel better about spending 250 diamonds on a paid pack. Go back to the old system. Since the change, none of us have spent any money on the game and probably won’t again.
We’ve also not seen a content update to a 3rd chain of islands in a very long time! So, price to buy things in the game has increased but there is no additional content to play.

Game is great once you get used to it. But some of the higher end levels and weekly challenges start costing you 8+ energy and you get capped at 30 after a certain point making progress tediously slow. Also the game store offers basic card packs which generally give you crap cards you can recycle for upgrade materials. But you can also buy upgrade packs which give you the same material. but after a week of saving up to buy upgrade packs I realized just buying the basic packs offered more upgrade materials than any of the booster packs so if you play just do that. If the development team reads this maybe fix this issue. Especially considering how expensive upgrade packs are compared to basic card packs. Why am I wasting time saving gold for less reward?

I really like the idea of this game and the gameplay is pretty fun, but I have a couple of problems with this game. First is that it takes way too long to research new upgrades, especially if u don’t spend money in the game. This make’s progress pretty slow and leads to a lot of repetitive gameplay. It also makes me less motivated to get new combo cards, because I know it will take forever to research the upgrades to even make these cards usable. This is my biggest issue with the game. Another issue I have is that there isn’t that many options when it comes to gameplay. I would really love a real time arena mode instead of just playing against an AI using another’s players deck. My last issue is that getting gold and onyx combo cards seem virtually impossible for free to play players, which would make this game heavily pay to win in the higher ranks. Not sure why this version is called remastered because it seems exactly the same as the original. Despite all this, I actually think the gameplay is very fun and love the idea of finding combos and building decks.

I played this game religiously about 8 years ago, decided to redownload it the other week and it’s still got that fun charm I loved. Unfortunately, the PvP Arena broke for me the other week and has since been unplayable. Im just starting out so I have very few cards and combos, I was ranked around 30 stars in the arena and all of the sudden all of my opponents changed from being my rank to being around rank 8,000 or above. I’ve tried everything to reset it, played arena until i got to 0 stars since there’s no possible way for me to win, and i’m still only able to play people ranked thousands higher than me. It’s been a week now, please save me :(

Edit: It fixed with the update, 😘😘😘

To start off.. it’s a simple game. For those complaining that you have to pay to win. Untrue, I didn’t pay and eventually at 100+ stars at the arena. It’s a slow grind. Like… MONTHS. And knowing when to use your gems. Literally saving 3000+ gems waiting for the scheming pack to buy out everything in hopes to get my first critical strikes. The more you play and win coins, the more you can upgrade your cards, the more you upgrade your cards the more games you win. The more games you win the more coins and gems you get. Literally a cycle. 3 months ago, I struggled with getting my first gold combo card through the portal. Now I can get it in 4-5 days without losing and rounds.

Be patient and keep grinding and you’ll be able to get at least Gold 1 in the arena in a few months.

It’s a great version like the original, but the cards in the combo research screen feels way bigger in size. Also when you are on the second map (little isles) and click the first level (the caverns) and go back, the master alchemist card gets mixed up on the top left. And the next map button on the bottom left stops working. Next when you click the back button on the top right, it instead sends you to the second map and swaps the master alchemist card on the top left again and if you click it again it mixes the card up again. You have to experiment with the bug to find out how it works and to fix it.

I love the classic simplicity of the game and the grind for the research and the difficulty. Im glad it isn't easy and fast to be getting the combos researched and making super fast progress, its all apart of the original game, the slow and difficulty is what makes it fun.

P.S. Also it feels like the bosses got easier tho, or that could just be me..

I played this game years ago back in high school when it was 1-2 years old and was so sad when the updates stopped. I love that the game has been remastered and have immensely improved since I last played it. I hope the game grows more to have a bigger player base to help/improve with pvp. There’s a lot more card combos than before and I love it. I also like that this game doesn’t bombard you with any ads or rarely tempts you to spend real money. You don’t need to buy packs to improve. The game gives u what u need. Even if you WERE to purchase packs, they’re not ridiculously priced.
Anyways, it’s a very nice casual game and am happy with its comeback. Definitely worth giving a try

Little Alchemist Remastered has finally arrived! I’ve played little alchemist for over 10 years and the amazing Monumental Dev team has made a ton of fans dream come true by revitalizing this amazing game! I highly recommend everyone to try this one. It’s pretty grindy, but the quirky cards and pop culture references are sure to steal your heart! Monumental is a phenomenal team who truly listens to the community and aims to allows the player bases feedback to drive the direction of the game! So if you want your voice to be heard, this is a great game for you! Hope to see you in the discord and keep researching!

This game is fun, too bad that arenas are essentially pay to win scummy garbage. You get around 2-3 wins in and then it’s just some schmuck with a 24 damage 26 defense card when you’re about 5 days into the game. You NEED to put money into this dumpsterfire of an app just to break even in arenas. Even after culling my deck the best I could I can’t get past 8 stars. It’s complete and total trash and I recommend avoiding arenas like the plague unless you want to have your teeth kicked down your throat everytime. It’s worse when you play the normal levels and they’re almost TOO easy. This game is fun but it’s only fun if you spend money on it like every other crappy big name mobile game. And for the developer saying that they’re trying to make the game better; everyone playing knows you barely care, you just want the money you scummy bunch of mud-eating worms. You’ve been giving the same cookie cutter response for over a year and if it hasn’t changed since then, I think that’s a huge sign.