Castle Cats - Control a cat army! By PocApp Studios

Look very nice
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I'm not sure what I expected.. more graphics or gameplay, maybe? I'm not sure. I'm a little disappointed that there's not any animation for quests and such.

 

I already sent you feedback over TestFlight but let me do some more:

- I did. It know how to collect the resources at first. I repeatedly clicked on the bubbles instead of the things themselves.
- I almost did not find the resources on the far right
- then I have to agree with the post above: the gameplay is extemly basic and after 1-2 minutes you need to take a break of several minutes already. Everytime. The sidequests have no narrative at all, no combat/gameplay to speak of. As is it is basically "wait for timer y to run out and then start timer y" since and repeat. This is basically every f2p game out there minus the actual gameplay. I am baffled because...
- ... The graphics look nice and there is a charm about this game that makes me really liking it. I just wish there was more to it. It is in fact so bare bone basic, that I just started it up again to see if I was missing something but I just could not find anything to do after like 3-4 minutes.

I think I am missing what your goal with this game is at the moment cause I highly doubt that in a market of f2p timers in most games, one would download and play a game with nothing more to do than manage timers. Again. This game has a wonderful vibe to it, it seems to be super quality on the surface but the gameplay is incredibly repetitive, one sided and just dull.

Sorry for the relatively harsh words, but I think honesty is the only thing that will help you guys.

I am looking forward to the changes you will make. It has potential.

 

Minor issue. In the introductory bit, when you put the conan card into play it says something along the lines of "now it makes the chance" and then just cuts off.

Not a big deal, but still...

Also, I have to agree with the others here. I cleared rats, but there was nothing saying something cute and satisfying, like "The shopkeeper was thankful... And we got a good meal to boot!" Or some other similar type thing.

There also appears to be no reason why I'm gathering cats and doing good deeds. I love the idea of gathering cats and doing good deeds. I'd just like to know why.

 

Looks/sounds like a perfect game for me! With two kids, wife, my dog, and work it is hard to play hours and hours in a game. I can check in while going to the bathroom. The choice for cats as the heroes is very interesting. Did you see the news article/study about 6 months ago about cats? Summary; the cats would eat you if we weren't bigger. The Pugomancer is a good choice for the villain.

 

Sure -


As an idle-management game, I was expecting maybe a small window appears, or the screen transitions to something we can watch as the Cats battle it out with whoever it is they're fighting. Or, if it's a gathering quest, maybe the Cat is shown digging for herbs, or mining, or whatever. Something to watch instead of a timer counting down to tell you whether you pass or fail, I guess.

Originally, I was kind of under the impression it was going to be more of an RPG or a guild manager with some battle elements as described above. I feel like adding some type of "action" we can watch, not even so much participate or interact with, would definitely add some good quality to this.

I'm not sure I have a good point of reference or example to provide you. The best I can say is.. being able to watch the characters in action would be great. Adding fun little emotes or something on the Cats as they progress through the quest they're assigned would be cool too.

Anyway.. I'll continue testing it.

 

Another aspect I think would be nice would be a more interactive "home base". Something that I could add decoration to, or put some kind of boost buildings or such.

I'd like to feel that I'm building something, as opposed to just scrolling back and forth among the same few buildings.

 

Hey Tim!

I was hoping you can give us some more specific feedback on our feedback. It's hard to offfer advice when we're not sure if any of it is going to be used. As of now, I've seen 4 or 5 really good ideas here, and I'd be willing to suggest more--as a continuation of those ideas--but we don't know if any of our suggestions are going to make it into the next update of the game. All we're getting is a "thanks, we'll think about it."

As it is, I feel like we've reached a point where little more can be said. The game just isn't deep enough to add more thoughts. The artwork is lovely, the characters are cute, and the gameplay is nonexistant. Unfortunately, there isn't enough depth in the game to offer any more thoughts beyond what was mentioned.

Please let us know your thoughts!

-Ludka

 

I really enjoyed the artwork from the game. I did however wish there was more to it than just sending cats out and waiting. A lot of games when you send people out you'll Will still see them interacting with the environment I believe The Avengers Academy is a great game to look at for this. Whenever you send an avenger out on a quest you will see them doing the quest in the screen.

Another thing that was really hard was upgrading. I feel like in order to pad the game upgrading was made very difficult. I did a lot of quests to get the materials to upgrade (Some I wasn't ready for because of not having the right cat skills but nothing else was available.) and then after upgrading as much as I could I had to wait a long time just to upgrade the cats level. Once again I would like you to look at the Avengers Academy upgrading the characters is fair and it gives you a goal that is achievable.

With a little extra artwork and adjusting what is required for upgrading I think the game can be a lot of fun

After all the playing I did I never got past level two with the cats. It's really hard to grind one the payout is so little you feel like you're spinning your tires and I'm going anywhere. I do believe with some tweaking this can be a very fun game so keep up the good work.

 

Please add a story book so we could review the story if we wanted to. As of now story progress is very slow and you only get a sentence or two per quest. With the story book we could always read the story up to the point we have achieved.

 

Thanks Tim!

I like the new update. One minor thing I'd suggest: in the cat-alogue, it seems like it'd be more intuitive to swipe to flip pages between the different cats. Also, maybe add a second page with stats on it? How many quests attempted, quests completed, time spent as an active member of the guild vs inactive, etc. That sort of thing.