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Idle Area 51 is an iPhone and Android Games App, made by PlaySide. Today, it has gone through many interations by the developers - PlaySide, with the latest current version being 1.7.8 which was officially released on 2021-06-30. As a testament to the app's popularity or lack thereof, it has gathered a total of 6946 Reviews on the Apple App Store alone, with an average user rating of 4.8 out of a possible 5 stars.
Salvage as much alien tech as possible from the downed UFO and take it to your super secret desert facility for research in Idle Area 51.
Start small and build your operation from scratch. Unlock the secrets of alien biology, UFO construction, high-powered laser weaponry and interstellar travel and gain more funding from the shadowy government department overseeing everything. Maximize the efficiency of your facility by speeding up your processes; buy more vans, get more salvage, increase your research stations, train your workers and grow your operations!
But you’ll need to work fast. Keep an eye out for the little green guys, get your tinfoil hats ready and expect a visit from the Guys in Black! Start a misinformation campaign to throw the public off the scent, watch out for raids on your facilities and upgrade your operations with goodies from interplanetary Star Gates and mysterious Quasars.
You’re in charge of the facility so develop your strategy, reduce costs, increase revenue and know that the choices you make will decide the fate of your operation ...and maybe even the world!
My favorite idle game I have ever played!
Idle 51 is when you can do research about aliens. The game is based on a real place but we are not very sure if aliens are real,or not. In idle 51, you are the commander of making alien technology for the United States and allies (I think). You make this technology, you get better reward and cooler things. Idle games usually have someone deliver something and that something is this game is salvage from a space ship crash. That someone is van drivers. If you are just checking the ratings and have not downloaded, download it!
Mute
I love this game but right after I watch a add it sound stops working think you can fix that and do you think there can be a way to look a past upgrades I would love to be able to look back and remember what the stuff that makes me money look like and can there be a description of the upgrades like what they are and what’s special about them thanks bye. Ps I hope this game will be here for a very long time.
Really good but
So I’m a iPhone gamer but I switch to a lot of games and when I came by this one I stoped going to new ones there’s only one issue too many bugs sometimes I don’t get my idle money even if it’s says I got it plus it reset my bio research back down to 0 I have it max (not talking about going to another area I’m talking about the quasars ) but over all one of the best idle games
Good game but gets very unbalanced
I’ve seen other reviews saying the same way but the unloading and loading are the first to get super expensive and leave like 6 or 7 vans and van bays just waiting around pretty much useless. Please fix this problem, other than that game plays great up to this point
Great Game
I absolutely love this game. I’ve played for an hour straight and I love it. I haven’t come across a single ad, and it doesn’t request for you to spend your money in you face 90% of the time like other games. I 100% recommend this to anybody reading this.
Facilities
Hey, your game is great and I really enjoy playing it! The only issue is the facilities. I added the Antarctica facility when I was in the middle of upgrading one of my stations, and although I have two facilities now, I’m not sure how to get back to the previous underground facility so I can finish upgrading. Can I just never return to the underground facility ever again, or can I save the Antarctica Facility and return to the Underground Facility? And if so, how? Thanks.
Great idle game, problems that show a lack of play testing
This is a very fun game. I think the game is very polished on the surface, but a number of things lead me to believe this game wasnt adequately play tested. Ad rewards are based on amount currently in the bank (about 40% of what you have from what I can tell). This means the fastest (by FAR) way to earn money is by watching ads (1.4^x, with x being number of ads watched). So this could be seen as intentional and the game is an ad cash grab or poor design. Additionally, the UI layout, although pretty, makes little sense. I do not need the in-app purchase buttons always on the screen, if I want to buy them, I would click the shop. Furthermore, I think the prestige mechanic is unclear and doesn’t feel as rewarding as other idle games. (40x -> 50x is a 1.25x upgrade). Additionally with this mechanic, I’ve found that the way prices are calculated seems very unbalanced and unpredictable. In this regard I’m pointing at loading and unloading times being totally different every prestige. Same with a strange balance of cost to build versus cost to unlock the related resource feels completely unrelated.
Do we honestly need another one of these cookie cutter idle games?
Seriously, i can get behind a lot of other idle games that have unique aspects, but this one is as basic as it gets. The ‘Area 51’ aspect of it hardly has anything to do with it, and it’s just the same things over and over. Let’s use an idle game I REALLY like for example, the game IdleSupermarket and Hotel Empire. These games are games where you build up your place to look better and better. With hotel empire you get a basic small hotel, and you slowly build it up to look way better and bigger. You can literally add a ski lift. You can also upgrade to different locations and the hotel is themed after it, it’s really nice. This game has none of that. You can upgrade to different locations that look kind of different, but it might as well be the same thing. There is nothing unique about the locations. It’s a game you play at 4:00 am with your mouth wide open, your brain off. And your only body part moving is your thumb and your eyes to occasionally blink. And If that’s what you’re looking for than there are just much better games.
Just too buggy
Playing this on an iPhone 11, it’s just too buggy to be playable. For the first week I had it on my phone it wouldn’t even load when I opened it, it would just sit frozen on the opening loading screen for forever. Eventually I opened it one day and it worked to my surprise. I played for a while and got to the second “level” ie the warehouse level, and after that the game became unplayable. Every time I open it it tells me I have differing amounts waiting for me from $2 billion to about $50 billion, and after I collect that amount, I’m completely unable to upgrade anything. Everything is grayed out as if I don’t have enough money. If I completely force close and reopen the app, it again tells me I have some random number of billions of dollars waiting for me but as soon as I collect it, I can’t upgrade anything. The game has come to a complete stop only on the second level. I would pass on this one until they fix the bugs that make it unplayable
Pros and Cons——-> update
Had to take away a star as there is not enough content here. Either give us more worlds or allow us to start the game over with better loading and unloading times. The update didn’t ad any new content- snore. Also- I’ve had no new missions for months. Pros: cute graphics, excellent score, stylish game w/fun theme. Cons: unbalanced. You can upgrade everything except the loading and unloading times which lag progress the most. How can scientists reverse engineer Alien spacecraft but not know how to automate a loading assembly line or manage a traffic bottleneck? Also the ramp up for cost of upgrades seems random and kinda wack-a-doodle.
Unhappy
I was fine with purchasing No Ads to help generate currency more quickly. I got to the Moon event level by the next evening. I was doing well with the event (I obtained the 3rd highest goal with only two more award goals to go) when I received ‘NAN’ for the amount of currency where i previously had over 500 CC. Since receiving NAN I cannot generate any revenue. Its been 24 hours and the issue has not changed. There is no easy way to contact the devs. I am starting to regret this purchase within 3 days of buying. I will update if/when this resolves. In the meantime: beware.
So is it incomplete or what?
I don’t know why they insist on giving you options to pay when the farthest you can go is outpost? DONT waste your money as you can advance quickly and there is only three stages thus far? I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled several times to see if it was a quirk on my end. Quests don’t work since I’ve gotten to outpost, and I can only build the first structure. There is only a blank build screen. But the options to pay $5 - $10 work perfectly. 🤦♂️
Bugs causing huge loss of progress and real world money
Twice now I’ve come back to the game after doing other stuff on my phone only to find I have lost hours of progress: • Idle bonuses are much lower than expected (I even paid for the extra 10 hours of idle time storage) • Buildings I’ve upgraded are missing and the days of progress are gone • The spin wheel never lets me spin it now that I purchased the “No Ads” Game play is fun enough that I’ll give it an extra star but since the whole point of an idle game is idle play and this one punishes you for going idle (with this huge bug) it really should be a 1 star. I’ll be asking Apple for a refund on my purchases since they aren’t working but will revise my review if the dev patches the game before I uninstall it.
Started off great but very glitchy
So when I first started playing, the game seemed awesome. It’s not one of those games that require you to pay to play. With that said, I did spend a little to support the game since I liked it. During the first event however, the game glitched halfway through and wouldn’t allow me to progress any longer. I immediately emailed support and let them know. No response. I emailed them again a few days later. Still no response. Now the event is over, and I didn’t receive the prizes I should have due to the game glitch and I still have yet to hear back from them. Now I feel like I’ve wasted my money that i put into the game and into that event.
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