Blackbears has a great clan idle (sorta?) game that’s been poorly executed. – Drilla: Idle Digging Game Review

I’ve been playing the game for roughly 6 months. I’m in the 12th league of the game, about 320KM drilled and over 1000 in my towers. This game IS NOT just an idle phone game. They have a side mini game called “towers” which is basically their version of the game 2048. I wouldn’t mind it but they force you to do it because of how important the towers are to the stats. What takes you 2 weeks to do with the drill, you can do in ONE DAY with towers, especially if you have real cash to spend. The clan system is actually really cool and in my opinion, what makes the game and keeps me coming back. About every week you can compete in a clan war with a similar stat level clan! They usually last about 2 days. Unfortunately, the game lacks a clan war log. You only get 30 gems if you win too, which totally defeats the purpose of wanting to use any gems when competing in a war. Battle of clans 2.0 is coming out soon and I can’t help but feel like we’re just gonna get another update with slim to minor changes. You do NOT get rewarded. Recently they changed the gold system forcing people to restart from scratch. End game becomes near to impossible to progress with cash without spending the real stuff. You get 75 gems if you login for 5 straight days. 75 is not enough. To do a tower or purchase a drill part with gems would cost you at least 50-150 gems! Ads are unfair. You waste 30 seconds of your time to get resources that are worthless. Selling resources garners you no money either, making it impossible to progress in the game. Blackbears just doesn’t seem fair when it comes to members who’ve been playing for a long time. I have nothing to show for, and I don’t receive any special benefits after playing for so long. Disappointing. CONCLUSION: Drilla is a repetive idle game with a side mini game that overshadows it. The clan system is very interesting and easy to interact with but needs tweaks, preferably adding clan logs and more roles for clan members. Blackbears also fails to reward their veteran players, leaving them to resort to real cash. Progress is slow and leaves you hanging for weeks with nothing to do besides spinning a wheel, ad after ad. The game is buggy and the guys are from Russia, so they don’t speak English well, and they don’t even make effort to help out players who are reporting and dealing with game bugs. Drilla POTENTIALLY COULD BE a great clan idle game once Blackbears decides to focus on the player and not the money. HERES MY TIP BLACKBEARS: You reward your players by making sure they have a reason to keep coming back everyday to play your game. If you can’t figure out how, you’re in the wrong business.
Review by cyxzo on Drilla: Idle Digging Game.