Neuphoria : Survival

Keeps telling me to upgrade the tree I’ve upgraded everything else but it won’t let me upgrade

I’ve been playing this game for a few months now, logging in consistently every day. This game starts out as advertised, manually chopping down wood and building upgrades and defending your base from enemies. Then it evolves into a war game where you join a guild and battle other guilds and other servers as well. There are a lot of issues with balancing. My guild is the strongest on our server but we keep getting matched to go against guilds that are way stronger than us from other servers. Sometimes those battles are respectful and the opposing guild doesn’t slam us too much. Other times they are savage and block us from getting our own citadel, which is essential for growth due to the buffs it gives. The guild duels and server wars have been largely unfair. With the most recent update, it was the final straw. They implemented AI art and animations, replacing all the previous character art and movement with these blegh AI versions. Disgusting. It’s utterly impossible to look at without feeling disgust. I had played before due to the camaraderie I felt with my guild mates, but I don’t know how much longer I can stomach this AI slop. Very poor decision on the devs’ side.

The game frequently freezes and crashes. It’s poorly optimized and doesn’t run well even on flagship iPhones like the 17 pro max. The gameplay is the same as every other pay to win war game.

I thought this would be a relaxing collect resources and build your base and defend again monsters every once in awhile game. However, it quickly turned into a typical PvP city builder. Those games always boil down to who ever can spend the most money wins. Spend money for resources, time reductions, gacha characters, and other ways to get as much money out of you as possible. Unfortunate bait and switch that companies have been doing. They don’t need many players, they only need the select few who will spend thousands of dollars. Sad.

This is NOT a survival game. This is yet ANOTHER city building grinder.