Pocket Pond 2 Reviews

Pocket Pond 2 will NOT let you just play it or play with it. Now you turn it on and the instructions go on and on and on and on and on. It is all about breeding the koi and decorating the pond. I used to LOVE this game for playing with children who were having a hard time sitting on the bus or waiting in a line with their parents. NO LONGER! You cannot just play this game! It is all about buying stuff and breeding koi to sell them, etc. And it is all about having to step through their instructions for 20 minutes or more and NEVER making it to just be able to play the game.

People need to know that the developer is no longer honoring the promised back ups, so don't spend your money expecting back ups. Apple should be fixing this because it is a form of fraud. A nice combination of art and gaming. The only thing I don't like is that if you can't continually play the game, your fish will die. This happened to my brother. He didn't have the coins to revive his favorite fish. He had some really nice ones. Mine almost died and I check every day. I don't think having the fish die is necessary. Jan 1, 2018 game doesn't seem to be allowing back ups anymore. Don't put your money into this expecting to back up. The vender seems to have abandoned support for that. It is an amazing app except for that.

So the koi guide is basically useless. And you can’t connect anything to hang with friends so your stuck with the taunt of “do this with a friend and you get some free stuff”. Then the filters for the ponds barely stay clean despite them saying that they last a few days (upgraded). But they basically get dirtier at the same time if not faster then and the standard. The koin spin is rigged to where you will either get 0 or you’ll get 1. In the rare chance that you get more than that it will be just barely holding onto the peg that would let it give you ten. I rightfully won 10 koins but they said “faulty, spin again” Add onto the fact that the daily gifts give you a free koi (gets annoying after the first pond fills up and you can’t afford a new on or don’t want to have to clean double the filters). Or a dragonfly pack of around 12 that after a while you have too many to count. Even after that the dragonflies are there one moment. Then gonna the next. You don’t even tap them to kill them and they disappear. They took something that was supposed to be soothing. And turned it into a lottery (literally during the koin spin) or micro transactions filled annoyance

After sending 2 emails to Tech Support with no response, I will give a BAD review. I never spend money on these apps but, having reached higher levels and finally collecting rare fish, I literally spent my birthday money to buy a bunch of coins (I’m 58, lol!). A few weeks ago, PocketPond2 crashed for days. When I reinstalled, everything was gone, unable to restore anything.. I asked for the coins to be recredited to my pond but no one will even respond. That’s very poor customer service.

I’m going to start by simply saying this: do not download PocketPond2.
I had PocketPond2 a few years ago and had a pretty big koi collection in at least 3 ponds. Now not only is all of that gone forever but there is no way for me to back up my current collection unless I pay for it. Most other apps will let you back up for free. It seems like PocketPond2 is always trying to get you to pay for something, be it koins or credits or the ability to back up your game data. This is garbage. Plus, there is no way to connect PocketPond2 to Facebook because it says that it’s in “development mode.” I think that the developers just abandoned this game and aren’t removing it from PocketPond2 Store because it still makes money even in its current state.
The reason I uninstalled the game in the first place is because it requires you to visit every day and keep the pond clean or else your fish die. I didn’t have that kind of time then and I don’t have that kind of time now, especially now that PocketPond2 is even worse than it was before. I downloaded PocketPond2 again for my daughter but I will be looking for something else now- a better, well maintained app that actually deserves my money. I will be uninstalling after I leave this review.

I’ve been playing for a few weeks and like this game. Decided, I should get a package to support and enable a backup.

Bought a package of coins. Went to do the backup and kept receiving an error message that the operation timed out. It must have continued trying to complete the backup because the popups kept coming after a little while. Decided to give it a little time and went to buy a bait to get a new fish with my coins. Caught a fish and a popup disrupted my screen before I could select a pond and now the fish and coins are both gone. Backups are still not working. So i have no backup and my coins are gone.

Kind of bummed. Not sure if I have to buy a new coin package everytime I want to backup the game, but I won’t be buying anything else. Bit of a bummer.

Unable to clean the tank and then go back to the main screen. I “can” do the cleaning. But then stuck with n that page. I have to shut down the program to get back to the koi pond but then then muck is still there and I can’t see the fish. Using an iPhone 13 pro.

The social aspect does not work for me at all. I have personally installed PocketPond2 on my niece, nephew, mother, father, and sister's phone, shared all their ponds on FB (and we're all FB friends) but no one can see anyone else's ponds.

Also as important, there needs to be a way to completely silence all audio. When listening to audiobooks/music on headphones, I can't touch PocketPond2 because the noise from the water and dragonflies is so ridiculous.

Finally, words cannot describe how much I passionately hate the yosho. It has a friggin person for its skin pattern. Every time I see it, it completely destroys the small amount of immersion this game has.

Edit: no longer works with social media at all. If I try to link it to FB, FB gives it an error and says PocketPond2 developer needs to update it.

It's a nice relaxing game, however, when it says sign into Facebook, it says unavailable to do so. I loved PocketPond2 for many years. I just think it needs to be updated where you can sign into social media and there are easier and more ways to collect coins like watching ads. Please update PocketPond2 to be more fun maybe put mini games in it.

So I redownloaded the game and it was great everything was good but the only thing it lacks is things to do in game, this would be fixed by adding some new things and more pounds. Here is a tip for you to play the game, if you don't play for a while, and your fish are dead. Than you can use the ingame money to revive it or put a pice of food in and go to somewhere like the menu then go back and your fish is alive and then do it over and over till all fish are alive also move the living fish to a new pound.

Now, you see, this game is really interesting and fun, but I wish there was more than just getting fish and some other minor stuff. I think it would be cool if you could look at the genetics of your fish. Also, I don’t think it’s very realistic that you can just make your fish grow up with a few coins. There’s also one other issue. On the wheel game, you can hack it by placing your finger on the wheel, spinning four times, and letting go on the amount of koins you want. That has to be fixed. But I love the graphics and zen design of it all. Keep up the good work!

So, I had this game a few years ago and decided to download it again a few weeks ago. I’m really enjoying it, except for one thing. I’ve both breed and caught fish that have gone down significantly in value. I’m not sure if this is supposed to be realistic or something, but I can’t find anything online that explains why it’s doing this, so it might be a glitch. I just caught a koi that was 24 coins (after paying 17 koins for bait) and I went back to my pond and sold one of my other fish, and suddenly the one that had been worth 24 koins was only worth 18. I’m not sure why it does that, but it would be really nice if it was fixed or at least explained. Otherwise, it’s an entertaining game.

Overall I love this game, I had it a while back and enjoyed it a lot. The only problem is that when you get under a certain amount of koins you can’t do anything, so you have to watch your koins to make sure you don’t have to completely restart.

I feel like the creator has abandoned PocketPond2 and they shouldn’t have because it’s one of the best relaxing apps out there.
I do think there’s room for improvement.
For example, (and I’m sure I’m not the only one), it’s tough to earn koins. If there were a way to earn koins PocketPond2 would be better. Even getting paid koins to watch ads would be an improvement! Maybe like a 25-50 koin daily allowance?
Oh and maybe if you play daily you get a bonus of koins on Day 7! Just some thoughts!!
Please come back and upgrade PocketPond2!!!
It’s 4 stars for now but if you just improve here and there I’ll gladly change it to 5 stars!!!

A ton of fun but please make this playable without having to spend a ton of money. That’s where it doesn’t remain fun anymore. Some of the filter upgrades and pond decor koin amount just doesn’t make sense. From premium filter costing 15 koin for 10 fish capacity to the next being ultra filter for 12 capacity costing 50 koins? It’s just two more fish? And the red rock costs double what the grey rock does? It doesn’t make sense to me. You might as well stick to breeding the low cost fish anyway because the actual benefits of breeding rare fish doesn’t surpass how much it costs to breed them. This would be such a successful and popular game if it was playable without having to rely on in app purchases. Otherwise everything like breeding takes a ridiculous amount of time and then I forget about the game completely. Also, in app backups are not working and I’m not able to visit my friends ponds nor can they visit mine. Please fix these issues, it would be so so worth it for your users.

Love the game! super nice to not have ads! my only issue is that each time i try to log into facebook it says PocketPond2 isn’t set up for it?? would love to be able to connect and visit friends and their ponds

This game used to be able to just look at the pond and play with the water - kids loved it - now you can’t even open it with out having to do some 1/2 hour tutorial and constant pop ups and prompts to buy things - horrible - some other developer please make a simple pond

This game is awesome, I just got it a few days ago and I love it, I get fun daily prizes, I get to costomize my pond, and I get to buy new koi fish! Everything about this game is fun, feeding and playing with my fish, cleaning the pond and winning things. One of my favorite things is that the prize wheel is not super unfair, of course you still get a few small prizes but your chance of winning SOMETHING is high. There is just a few things I wish were different. The first is the koins, for me it's pretty hard to get them I wish it would be a little bit easier to gain them. Another is the playing part, now I don't have to say anything too major but I just wanna say that after you maybe clean the filter and take care of you fish unless if you rich in koins there's not much left to do for a little while. For some people this is a good thing but, I think there should be some other things to do while you play. I know this isnt too much but it would make a huge difference!

Now let me see the other side, from what I am aware of this game has NO ADS! That's pretty amazing for a game like this. Now for those of you who want to progress fast just remember, this game is for relaxation it needs patients to play😌.... Just remember that 😉

THANK YOU!!!!

You CAN play this game without spending money, in fact it’s more fun this way. Start slow, work your way towards more ponds for breeding. Breeding the smaller cheaper Koi will make you more money if you find the right mix. I had 1-2 “rare” koi ponds I would breed just to see what I could get. The rest of my ponds were dedicated to breeding low cost fish for Koin. You can do less ponds for money because after a while it seems like a task. Overall a fantastic game. I’ve been playing it for a while now.

I downloaded this on my kindle fire a few years ago. To this day it’s my favorite fish ap.
I do wish they would update the graphics and add more items to customize your pond with. The ap as a whole is pretty dead and there are no events except daily ones.

Also to those of you complaining about money- there’s a really simple way to go about gaining koins. Focus on breeding two koi where one is at 0 and one is at 1 where it costs 0 koins to breed- or fish that breed for the amount of koins they sell for (so if it costs to breed them at 8 koins with the chance of either getting a fish that will sell for 8 or 11 koins- that’s a good bet).

The game is a lot of fun and I enjoy playing it. I've only made a couple of purchases and had no problems.
THE GAME DEFINITELY NEEDS UPDATED TO KEEP UP WITH NEWER PHONES!!!
There is problems when you purchase more than 1 lily pad for 1 tank, they overlap and then you can't have two frogs in 1 tank and since a lot of the extra points you get are for how many of (something) you put in 1 tank you kinda lose out there!

"YEAH"
Thank you so much for updating Pocket Pond 2!
I'm so happy you did. I love this game!
The fish and frogs are so realistic and it's just fun to go fishing.
Thank you again, you made my day!😘

I played original one and # two and zen one also 👍 ......
# 1 was great & # 2 lost few features 🙀👎... BUT still great ..
The zen one some features missing also and is totally different layout you get free , frogs, bushes, flys, turtles, dragonfly's and more different koi koi and more KOI free lots of stuff 1 & 2 charged you for 👎 .. free in the zen koi ..
All & All they ALL have fantastic graphics bright colors koi do tricks go in circles nibble fingers .... You can breed them sell them fatten them up and they gain value a lot of options 😎
ALL three by the same place ** tiggerWave LLC **
Good job, Thanks , John

I downloaded Pocket Pond over 10 years ago and I stop for a quiet moment each day to feed the Koi and care for my ponds. Many of my Koi are named after loved ones, lost family, and special moments. Thank you for your app, it is truly appreciated.