Train of Hope: Survival Game 12+

The concept of the game is ok and graphics and storyline are decent. However there are 2 main concerns for me.

First The system is completely rigged at getting bucks out of the players with no real idle reward (15 min top) and a ridiculous amount of energy needed for each task. So either you pay to get energy (@developers: ratio from gems is bad so either change ratio or increase gems !!), you connect every hour, or you go at a slow pace. I am at the 4th stage and I am done with all construction and updates for the base for a couple of days while I still have at least 50% of the story milestones to accomplish because of lack of energy. So only thing to do is wait for energy bar to recover and move of a couple of inches …. Side note: do the math when you see “free” energy refill behind some obstacles , 50% of the time it is going to cost you way more than the benefit…

Second the combat system is not bringing a lot and the builds/balance of the opponents is bad (in which game a tank get one-shot by a Zebra?)

Overall not the best investment and certainly not a FTP

Any 5 stars this game has are probably paid for or from the dev/company.

As mentioned by others there is not enough energy to do more than 3 things in some cases (each big piece is 15 energy, and you only get 45 max). Granted you get 1 per minute back but who wants to wait for 15 minutes, especially if you are doing an event - which in itself is impossible without spending money (on third map). The items you need to find for the event are so buried you need maybe 100K energy. I am not kidding because the worse part is you get 2 days to do it. Minus the 8-16hrs of sleep you should be getting so about 1 1/2 days to burn through a ton of energy that you don’t get.

I do participate in micro-transactions (buy small packs here and there) but this game is not worth your time or money which is too bad. I like the concept of it

Firstly, once the initial energy they give you is gone you can only accumulate 45, which will clear about three things on the map. So you can play for about 10 seconds for "free". You must buy energy with real money to continue play. I'm not against spending to play and I have spent some money on this a couple of times.

I'm on the third settlement and in order to complete this level, your heroes need to be up to level 20 or you cannot win the fights but there's no way to collect enough stars to do that without buying more packs. Even after completing the carousel and the water reservoir, which give you free stars every 25 minutes or so. You can get 750 but to even go level 19 you need over 11k. multiply that x 5-7 heroes and you can see the deficit. It will take a month before I can even do another fight if I logon every 25 minutes and collect free stars lol

This is 100% a pay to play game. Not pay to advance faster… Strictly pay to play. I will use up with energy that I have and delete it.