Gardenscapes and Travel Town
So, for reasons I'm not entirely sure why, I suddenly stopped playing Gardenscapes. After 8 years and 15,470 levels, I just lost enthusiasm last month. It was puzzling because I always played it before bed, first thing in the morning and was just constantly checking it through the day, especially when a competition or expedition was on.
The variety of competitions and mini games was great, until Playrix ditched them all in favour of expeditions in addition to the main storyline. It's really quite boring--there's nothing to look forward to. I was also slotted into a test group where expedition energy doesn't regenerate. I thought it was a glitch until a forum confirmed it. What a bad business decision! It was bad enough the cost of a few coins or the season pass went up as well. I didn't mind throwing a few bucks at the game since I enjoyed it a lot and it's ad-free, but yeesh.
I started playing Travel Town instead. There's a lot of variety and I was actually missing the Gardenscapes merge event. Travel Town is a fun game but, gotta warn you, highly addictive. All these games are, of course, and want you to play as long as possible, but some of them are more insidious than others.
The first 40 levels are so are really easy and then the daily rewards get progressively harder--read: cheap and stingy--as you need to collect more complex orders. Suddenly it can take a couple days to farm a donut. Of course, you can spend gems on shop items to speed things up.
In some ways it's a game about impulse control, because you can use your gems to make an order go by faster, pop the bubble to get the item instead of waiting for it to burst into coins. When the board fills up you have to make decisions about buying another storage slot or throwing away resources.
Definitely read all the tips you can about Travel Town before levelling up too quickly--you can throw a lot of resources away that could have been earning money!
The variety of competitions and mini games was great, until Playrix ditched them all in favour of expeditions in addition to the main storyline. It's really quite boring--there's nothing to look forward to. I was also slotted into a test group where expedition energy doesn't regenerate. I thought it was a glitch until a forum confirmed it. What a bad business decision! It was bad enough the cost of a few coins or the season pass went up as well. I didn't mind throwing a few bucks at the game since I enjoyed it a lot and it's ad-free, but yeesh.
I started playing Travel Town instead. There's a lot of variety and I was actually missing the Gardenscapes merge event. Travel Town is a fun game but, gotta warn you, highly addictive. All these games are, of course, and want you to play as long as possible, but some of them are more insidious than others.
The first 40 levels are so are really easy and then the daily rewards get progressively harder--read: cheap and stingy--as you need to collect more complex orders. Suddenly it can take a couple days to farm a donut. Of course, you can spend gems on shop items to speed things up.
In some ways it's a game about impulse control, because you can use your gems to make an order go by faster, pop the bubble to get the item instead of waiting for it to burst into coins. When the board fills up you have to make decisions about buying another storage slot or throwing away resources.
Definitely read all the tips you can about Travel Town before levelling up too quickly--you can throw a lot of resources away that could have been earning money!