Heartopia

game developers have a long way to go and while the game is cute and quote on quote "fun". I do think they are a lil money hungry with everything and don't think much on what they post. While I may never play again if I see they are improving and maybe making it easier to obtain cute house items or character stuff, I will potentially return. However, as of now I no longer play due to my large disappointment in the game. I hope they get better with everything and the game becomes more free to play friendly.

I played a lot of this game in early 2026 when it was first being advertised in the US, I spent money, I built quite a few grand houses and spent quite some time on it. The game itself is a bit buggy with the building mechanic needing a lot of time to get used to and of course the gacha system is incredibly predatory for both free to play players and players willing to spend some money. Of course these are to be expected nowadays, unfortunately, however my disintrest lies elsewhere. Now, I will preface that I do not have an issue with the chat translation being AI, this has been used before in many different games and for many different reasons its not nearly as bad as the other usage of AI in this game. For their puzzles, its AI city, they don't intend on changing it and while I ignored it for awhile because it wasn't that bad, I genuinely couldn't turn a blind eye to it anymore with how quickly generative AI and large data centers have been destroying life at home. My other issue came around the same time, of course if you look up the game online you'll find people recounting racism in the game, and I do not think in the slightest that this is an overreaction. Most people playing in the first place felt the game was incredibly white-washed from the hair selections being locked behind ingame currency paywall and a long tutorial to a visible lack of diversity in characters. The main issue came along though when a cutscene of one of their three darker skinned npc's ate a "bizarre" mushroom and started making monkey noises and started to quite literally jump around like a monkey. Now this cutscene was incredibly unneccesary seeing as this was the second time ingame this inedibility for these types of mushrooms were explained and of course, they really did not need to do that, at all. It also goes saying that this specific character, as described from many other accounts from people of color, was very barbaric in speech and generally came off as "like a caveman". All in all what came of this game was incredibly disappointing and ended up souring my taste for the cozy game.