Lobster Empire Reviews

I've started 2 games now only to have both suddenly stop working while ships were out fishing. Tried closing the program and restarting with no success. Would really like to give the game a chance, but it is unplayable in its current state.

Buggy. They delayed the game for months because they were fixing bugs so that their beta tester will rate them higher. I got to the 3rd or so "mission" and the game started to bug out. People would not complete the sailing trip, the exp screen freezes blank, no useful tooltips, everything glitched to the point where the game froze. I tried to load the save and it gets worse. You get all of the ! popups and if you click on any one of them, it freezes your game. The only redeeming factor of the game was that the concept was cute.

Boring! Mobile clicker as some say is really fitting. Business simulation = 0. You are only allowed to have one ship per type. Why? Why not sell the small one and buy a big one? No! Keep small and make it impossible to buy more of the bigger. Crew can level up. Nice! But takes so f...ing long! All is so slow paced. This is also only reason why I got so many hours with this game. I wanted to have it since first announced. Bought in sale, and kept it with the hope it might change... Guess it will never happen... Oh, and worst thing ever! One song in loop! Brainwashing at its best...

After the update to version 1.0.2a the get got to be great.For the money worth every pennie.Love it is not simple need to do a lot of thinking and making hard decisions to win the game,

bought that game couple days ago ... realy like the concept and game play but sadly there is still many breaking bug in it.. almost every time u reload a game u either lose ur quest and upgrade that are ready to buy or the game bugs and u cant play anymore. occured twice already after quite a few hours of play... cant ask a refund now cause its too late. so be warned .. avoid that game until those bugs are sorted out, because the breaking bug occur after the refund time usualy. not a bad game.. made me have fun for many hours but very frustrating to lose all progress after so much effort and time in it -.-

This a good little game it had a few bugs that are now fixed needs some added content to keep me going on it but one thing I'm guessing was over looked was the size of the lobster (824 inches long) that would make them 68 foot plus in size and would need godzilla to harvest them not a small boat =)

long story short - nearly all the reviews are pre-update. I haven't noticed any bug until now and the game itself is something between okay and good. The release with the bugs wasn't lucky, but it now seems as the game would be really bad which simply it isn't.

So here is my review for the game. I have only played 30 minutes to know that this is not a great game (played till I furfilled the first goal, 20.000 gold). - The sprites used for the characters are just ugly. I love pixel art and this game just did it wrong. - Back ground art looks meh and lazy - There is 1 ''song'' that keeps repeating itself which is really annoying to listen to - The text font is just terrible to read - You literally click on a boat, choose which 2 will operate it, choose map, randomly put a pointer on a specific piece of ocean and hope for the best. - There is no explanation as to where you have a higher change of finding more lobsters and the circles make no sense - After you have set all for the boat trip you just look at your screen and wait - I do not know why you would hire more people to work for you when only 2 can get on the boat - Gameplay is just boring. I thought this would be a bit of a management game, so you set out the route for the boat and when the boat is on its way you can do other things, a big nope for that. So overall, the game is just boring for me, looks horrible and an annoying ''song'' that keeps looping was the last straw for me to refund this game.

***Updated review....I refunded again! I repurchased this game at the devs request after the last update. I don't see any improvement at all. Forget the awful music/sound effects and the super cringy dialog. This game has no strategy to it. There is no upgrading boat parts and buying gear for fishing....you just simply click some buttons to start a mission then a weather event may pop up and you have 2 options like go through the storm or go around and waste fuel and then thats about the end of the mission, you get some xp and some random amount of crabs. I seen that Game Dev Tycoon was an inspiration for this game, both games cost the same but this game is not even close to the depth and content that Game Dev Tycoon has. .....And who in the world speaks like characters in this game??? Remove all the dialog and start over with it, find a better story with believable english. Immersion killing..... original review: I had been following this game forever and was so excited for release day. Release day came and was so dissapointed once I played it. There is little strategy to be played and it lacks depth, its shallow...I mean real shallow. Its boring. The dialog is just awful awful awful, it must be written and then translated by someone who speaks little to no english. I know its a cheap game but its so so bad I still can't recommend buying it. Definitly not was I was expecting and not worth 5$.

This game plays like a mobile clicker, not a strategy simulation game. For the first hour, you're left with nothing to do but click on a boat every minute or so. If you continue, it's advertised to have more content, however, it takes too long with boring clicker mechanics to get there. Additionally, the late game appears to be functionally the same. If you are looking for a clicker, I still think there'd be better, more rewarding options.