Chimera Island

So I have basically completed this game and decided to write a review showcasing the Pros and Cons of this game. Preface: Ignore the people giving it a negative review and try to experience this game for yourself. Many of the negative reviews are from people who are, for some reason, reviewing an indie game with a small production team as if it were a AAA Title. So please note... this is an Indie Game and I will be taking that HEAVILY into consideration while reviewing. (In a good way). Pros; Cute ~ This game is pretty cute and overall there 12 Chimera to Evolve and collect, each Chimera is evolved by training it to level 7 in a specific trait (Stamina, Wisdom, and Exploration). Potential ~ I can definitely see this game having a lot of potential as long as the Devs are willing to work on the game and add more to it. I honestly hope that they do add to it and not just abandon it as is. ~ Fun Environment ~ Updating the physical appearance of the training grounds and of the environment itself is a nice touch. Cons; Short ~ This game is very short and you do kind of run out of anything new to do after an hour or two in the game, It is my hope that the devs will add new locations and new chimera to train. Lacking Features ~ Something like an Arena, Challenge Mode, or Multiplayer Leaderboard would be a nice addition. The game currently lacks any replay value after the initial hour or two. Im leaving this game with a positive review but the positive nature of the review is based on the games overall potential. If the devs leave the game as is, admittedly its too short and lacks substance. But if they continue to update and put love into the game I can 100% see this becoming an addicting "Gatcha\Pokemon" kind of game.

First off, this is not an Idler. The closest part an idler in the game is waiting for your expeditions to be done, which is, at most, 50 seconds or so. This is based on my last, highest level expedition that I did before finished everything there was to do in the game. I have all the Chimera. I have fully upgraded the temple. I have completed all the quests. This only took 45 minutes. This next section is based on user tags, so I won't fault the devs for not following them, but it's worth mentioning anyways. Devs, if you want this game to be more like an idler, allow us to set up automated training & expeditions of some kind. If you're trying to focus more on the creature collector part, there needs to be more than there currently is. There are issues with dragging Chimera onto the exploration node, due to the camera getting stuck in a sort of overview. You can pan the camera out of bounds, which is something that should be prevented. One last thing. I have an older PC, and this game was stuttering/lagging pretty bad. I think it's the shadows, though I'm not entirely sure. I know the game hasn't been out very long, but overall, the game feels very underwhelming. I hope to see improvement.

This really take boring to a new level, they seem to of missed out any fun element to what I can barely call a game.

It's nice and relaxing. It looks easy but you do have to plan out how you want to use your resources and send out your Chimera with a plan. It's a simple version of Stardew Valley that is easy to pick up and put down without having to have a lot of time to progress.

This game was free and I will give it credit for that. That beeing said, its a NEAT experience, you can unlock everything in roughly 1 hour and unlocking all the creatures was interesting enough to drive me forwards until the end. That being said Its very bland, essentially a glorified clicker game to collect crystals, level your monster, have them do a mission and repeat. If this ever gets updated / the devs release a more fleshed out game with the same concept I would absolutely love to play that!

The game was very surface level. Mostly a waiting simulator with no depth in the evolutions of the chimeras aside from raising one of the three stats. I completed everything in the entire game as far as I can tell and then uninstalled it. not even really recommended as a time waster since it's so short.

Very short but it's free so why not