Been playing Runaway games for a little while now and currently enjoy playing four of their cute, animal themed games, so I was super excited to see their latest project be released ! I love the vibe of this game, it’s super interesting so far, I love the character designs the art style is beyond gorgeous, the little characters/creatures you encounter are beyond charming, and honestly it feels very reminiscent of Bird Kind — However, I’ve noticed that with the release of this game, along with Bird Kind, that unfortunately the events have been changed in style, now making it harder to properly finish the events. Personally, I’m not a fan of the event style change, but I do love the idea of the fish catching and bubble popping mechanics, though experiencing them so far has been tedious at best with the limited 6 days you get. I think if maybe the amount of time we get per event was increased from 6, to say 13, to balance out with Pond Life, then I would definitely change my view on it — but for now, I feel like I’ll be focusing on the rest of the game, as there is simply no longer enough time to work through the rewards all the way to the end with the new event focus !

While it’s cute and exciting at first, there’s some issues that really bother me, the biggest is that upgrading actually makes your stuff WORSE. The first dragon you get gives you 2 coins every 15 seconds, but the fully upgraded dragon gives you 6 every 60 seconds. That’s 2 coins LESS per minute than a completely non upgraded one. And it gets worse. Rarer dragons actually earn less coins per minute than the common ones due to this issue. This is really frustrating as it feels like there’s no point to upgrading at all except that you get to give your dragon a stupid little name. Second, the deals in this app are ATROCIOUS, there’s no such thing as a good deal. For example, your beginning trees earn 2 fruit every 30 seconds. That’s 240 fruits per hour. But if you spend 200 coins, you get 53 fruits after an hour. Like I’m actually confused what they were thinking. I guess it could make sense if you know you’re not going to play for the next hour but like, I actually want to PLAY the games I have, not have all the mechanics based on me NOT playing it. I also wish there was a breeding function in the game, like you could still summon but also breed for new dragons. And yeah, after the first day all the waits become so long that you can not play for 5 hours and when you come back, you have at most 10 minutes of play time before you have to wait again. That’s pretty lame, if these issues got fixed it would be really cool because I really like the art style and atmosphere.

Ever since I learned about this game I’ve had it preordered. And once it released I loved it. The gameplay, music and sounds are very relaxing. However, one thing that would be nice is to include ways to find friends, such as through a search bar or some other way. I don’t have friends that would want to play game like this so I’m pretty much alone on this game, and I really want to be able to get the dragons that are available when you increase your social score. So maybe one way to help out people like me would be to add a friend search bar. Also once I reach the social score to get the companionship dragon, it does not appear anywhere, not in the storage or anything, and I’m confused on what to do. Other than this, the game is incredibly well-made and relaxing.

This is a great game overall. I enjoy it thoroughly and see myself playing this for a long time. There are some quality of life updates that I would like to see in the future though:Dragging your dragons feels buggy/laggy. It’s hard to make them run into the pink floaty thing.I like to play zoomed in so I can see the cute dragons better. Because of this, it’s harder to drag a dragon up all the way to the quest spot. Maybe if you’re dragging a dragon while zoomed in, the map will move with you to follow your finger. So you don’t have to stop, move the map up, and continue to fly your dragon upwards.I also feel like getting the dragons to fly is too easy to do accidentally. I play zoomed in, I move the map around a lot. It’s pretty frustrating when I’m trying to move the map but I keep dragging dragons around instead.I keep finding myself trying to tap a dragon to look at its information page. But instead that info is in the bottom left menu button. I think that’d be a great quality of life update to include the specific dragon’s info page as a button next to “Store” and “Lay egg” I am kinda disappointed that the coins the dragons earn isn’t accumulated continuously over a longer amount of time. Rather it has a (very low) max limit, and they stop gaining coins after that. Having a sort of a limit is reasonable. But I find myself keeping the app open and tapping my dragons every minute or so just to earn up coins. When I would really like for that to be an idle thing that happens. But maybe encouraging players to keep the app open is a design choice. Either way, I feel like I should get way more than 6 coins from my fully leveled Woodpip (for ex.) after a full days idle time.Besides all this, this is a wonderful app and I look forward to where they take it!