Armory & Machine 2 - Idle Soul 1.9.3

Reviews

2 ★, on 2021-01-21
The reason for lower stars is the scummy ad purchase system. It cost $99 to remove ads for 30days. That's insane. Game is fun. It takes a while to get to a point where you're not having press the screen a hundred percent of the time. Which as others have said is wrapped around watching ads.

2 ★, on 2020-12-19
The game itself is entertaining to a degree, but it's the sort of game you play on the toilet or the bus for no more than half an hour at a time a couple of times a day. It's technically free, but you hit the paywall same as every other idle game with a microtransaction model, by design. That's the thing, you're better off just buying an actually good videogame up front, not a sham manipulative "free" idle game like what mostly populates the Play Store nowadays.

2 ★, on 2020-12-19
This game was fun 6 months ago. You could get fuel at a far faster rate. You could resupply your armory relatively quickly. Those days are long gone. The game has been slowed to a miserable crawl, and ad mechanics have become a serious distraction from the core game. The mtx shop is laughably priced. Only $100 to remove ads for 30 days. It's been a sad downward spiral.

3 ★, on 2020-12-23
This sequel has a lot more to do, but a lot less entertainment than the first game. More than half of the game is literally useless: several materials are produced for no purpose other than produce more of those same materials. Better weapons must be bought in a very complicated market, and they are not permanent: you basically buy ammo, not technology, so when stocks go down, you can't produce them, you have to go to the market and buy more. May sound interesting, but it actually sucks.

2 ★, on 2020-12-10
This was such a disappointment coming from the first version of this game (which I love). This one just seems to be more of a cash grab than anything else. Not a fan of the new UI or some of the new labels. The original game had better mechanics, no progress resets, a dense display of useful information, and no slimy "gem packs" or "daily deals".

1 ★, on 2020-12-11
I can no longer recommend this. The speed of your progress slows down a lot, and game keeps on tempting you with in app purchases to speed it up again. And if you don't, the only way to stay engaged with the game is to constantly watch ads. If you don't, game gets boringly slow, and if you do, it gets really obnoxious. There are ways to speed up more, but they require you to compete with other players who are always going to win because they are using in app purchases. Screw this freemium game.