Really fun game, needs more content. – Blacksmith Lab Idle Review

I found this game originally as a flash game and thought to myself, "what if there's an app for that?" Well there is! I played it to completion in a matter of a few days, now this isn't a true idle game. 1. It doesn't run in the background. 2. It relies heavily on the player tapping and calculating how much of a tool you need to save up before you can pass the mission. Now I really like this game, but it's not a give star yet. All of the current features of this fame are great. But it needs more. Not different, just more. I had expected the missions to be endless, unfortunately after about 50(?) missions or so they stop coming. Which pretty much makes the game insignificant. But I thought, i'll just see how much money I can get, but after a few well timed returns on my investments in the stock market with several hundred million it became too large and reset, giving me the word "test" where the amount gained should've been, leaving me penniless and confused. Another suggestion is the upgrades, there's not near enough once you get far into the game, and they aren't effective enough if you choose to let the game idle. One more thing. The events that happen need some tweaking. Like yeah the fire that shuts down all autoclicks is fine. But perhaps you should have individual events for example,"workers go on strike, forge is shut down" or "Arcane storm, enchanting disabled" and just more events in general. I particularly like the thief event. Perhaps you could make it a small chance to receive the money back. And provide a police upgrade to increase the small chance up to 90 or so percent, so there is a small chance of still losing it. Perhaps you could add other ways of increasing production. something like a population count, and people come and go, but you can hire people to stay permanently. Basically I just want more game to play. So a synopsis would be this. 1. More missions, with more combinations of tools, and perhaps missions to purchase upgrades. 2. Abbreviated money values so I can hoard everything!!! Remember it's okay to go into like "aa" "bb" ect. Unless you'd rather not have those particular values. 3. More events and reduced chance to return stolen money. 4. More upgrades, such as a "police" upgrade or perhaps.... 5. Perhaps you could combine the stock market and bank investment into one menu and use the other menu for hiring people. Perhaps they could give temporary bonus or click rates. And maybe an upgrade to increase the amount of people you can hire, perhaps they should take a salary every so often? 6. A reset button to restart the progress. Most importantly just make the game more or less endless. Anyway, i was excited to see that the app was still being updated and I look forward to more content in the future! I love the game!
Review by Mechamaster20 on Blacksmith Lab Idle.