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I can say, with no doubts, that this game is one of my favorite games in apple store. I often download new games, but I delete them in a few days, or few weeks. This is the first game that I’m enjoying for so long. I’ve been playing for 3 months now. It’s getting harder which is good, because I don’t want to get bored, which happens when game doesn’t progress, and it’s the same thing all the time. About bugs. Yes. It has some bugs that I hope they gonna fix in season 13. But overall, game is great. It’s challenging, it’s fun, it’s worth watching some videos to keep playing and earn some energy. And it’s good that you have to wait a little bit for more energy. Because you can get sick of the game very fast if you play it for 2-3 hours non stop. And those who complaints about it, guys, read a book, get active, do something in real life. Don’t be stuck in a game for 3 hours. It’s not healthy.

I remember in the 90’s when this game first came out as a computer game. It was fun and creative and thoughtful. I loved figuring out all the puzzles and keeping as many Lemmings alive as possible. As an adult, I always wished they would bring it back, and when I found out they did, I didn’t hesitate to download it and begin the childhood adventure all over again. The levels are just as fun and creative as I remembered. I love the new additions of the different ‘types’ of Lemmings you can collect through the eggs. Overall, this game is a nice update for a new generation and nostalgic for those of us who grew up with it. One downside, which is why I’m giving it 4 stars only. The whole spending energy per level makes sense, since ever app game out there uses this system. However, I think it’s ridiculous that there is no way to level up and gain a higher amount of energy, so you end up only being able to play 2 or 3 levels at a time, and then waiting for 6 hours before being able to play again. I refuse to pay money (especially the amount they ask for) just to play more. I wish they would come up with an update that introduced a leveling up system where we can gain more energy to play more than a couple levels at a time. I won’t stop playing, it just won’t be my top game.

I really enjoy the game and have progressed pretty far. The developers have done a great job adapting the game I remember from Commodore days to iPhone! The only complaint is the monetization through strictly limiting replay and either throttling play or requiring $6.99 every 2 hours (as far as I can tell). I would like to share this game with nieces/nephews because I think it's both fun and great at teaching logic/programming concepts but I don't know how I could hand it to a kid and let them learn by trial and error with the constant need to pay money and watch ads. Would happily pay for an ad-free non-crippled version. Please add some kind of "permanent unlock for $$$." Otherwise, I'd add that the levels are too easy. I'm 10 or so worlds in and solve every level on the first or second try. Harder levels with more ability to retry levels 5 or 10 times would be a great improvement. Kids are going to play quickly and fail a lot on each level, which is fine and how they learn, but the game's energy system is set up to punish this which is a real shame.

This game is a lot like the original one which I love of course but there are a few issues I have with it. One being the new updated “look” of the lemmings, imo aren’t as nice as the old ones (idk why). Also the daily spin is a scam and so are the spins when you win a bonus game/lemming challenge. It’s rare that you win eggs too and when you do you’re normally stuck with a duplicate of a lemming you already have. Which can be very annoying after like the 100th time seeing the same ones over & over again. Also I have no interest in “buying” eggs with my earned coins because even THOSE are duplicates more then 80% of the time. Another thing is the amount of “energy” spent per game is only equal to about 3-4 lvls, if you’re lucky. Nevertheless I will continue to play this game along with my 5 year daughter who absolutely LOVES this game. It’s helped her with not only navigation, but also speed, critical thinking and problem solving skills all while enjoying the game along with me and the little voices at the end as they enter they’re portals are so cute! Anyways I hope that one day the developers will find a way to make the game more incentivizing for they’re non-paying app supporters! Much love to everyone on the team & I’d also like to Thank you all for keeping such an old game like this one alive & well. I appreciate your efforts!! 🙏🏼😌

I have been writing and rewriting this review in my head for days but today was a last straw. This game is fun and the original was one of my favs in the 90s. However this is only getting 2 stars because of greed and inconsistencies. The daily spin is not truly daily, I have watched at midnight the daily spin go from 1 min to 23 hours 59 mins with no spin. It happened to me today I went to bed last night before midnight and when I went in for the first time today no spin. It is not just the spins. The energy is a problem. I read another review that mentioned the point of these games is to keep you playing for hours. If I have no energy I cannot keep playing. Don’t tell me that you can watch a quick video to get energy. You can do that once in a while and then you only get 10 energy which is not enough to get through most of the levels. You don’t have the option to watch 6 videos and get 60 energy and you can’t control when to watch a video. Another thing, why can’t the total amount of energy increase as you level? The original game if a builder made steps and it was in the wrong place a digger could dig it clear without blowing up a lemming. The different lemmings are cute and fun to collect and I think it is great that they show up in the puzzles. I don’t know if I am going to keep playing. 6.99 is just too much to play for only two hours.

While the gameplay itself is fun, you will quickly find yourself running out of energy, forcing you to either stop playing or buy more. Which, while annoying, is common fare in free to play games. But the real problem with the energy mechanics comes into play when you get into the ‘tournament’ feature. I have not seen anything as blatantly ‘pay to win’ as that. Basically, whoever saves the most lemmings in a certain amount of time wins and gets the best prizes. So...more energy directly equals more lemmings. How is someone supposed to fairly compete when they burn through all 60 of their energy in a few levels then have to stop and wait an hour and a half for another 20 before even being able to play again(and even then for only like 2 or 3 levels before running out again), when other people with more money than sense can just keep shelling out the 7 bucks needed for 2 hours of unlimited energy or otherwise keep buying coins to buy energy and power ups with? It is inherently unfair to those who either don’t have the money, or otherwise can’t purchase the over priced micro transactions. I don’t like that. Would have been an easy 5 Stars for being fun and full of nostalgia, but gotta knock off 3 stars for the blatant greed and imbalance of the energy mechanics and micro transactions.

This isn’t Lemmings, as in the original DOS game. It’s highly simplified. The original didn’t have us obsessed with energy like this one Say I try a level with 60 energy. I can waste it and get through the level but then come against that constraint in a subsequent game. At that point I can’t try to optimize the first level; only watch a video, if they offer it, pay $, or go away. Unlike in the original this version does not allow you to access an individual lemming. You can only access 1 of 64 or so cells and set up which of about 4 things each can happen to be when a lemming accesses it. If there are 64 cells and each can be 1 of 8 different things there can only be 512 games possible. Take out the impossible games there might only be 100. That’s why they don’t allow you to repeat much. I just play this until I run out of energy and then quit wasting my time. I’m not going to pay $2.99 or so to continue the foolishness. That said, those energy quanta are valuable to me, if I spent time repeatedly watching the same stupid video to get it. So when I bust through the last question mark (?) block and the destination doesn’t unlock because of some bug, its sort of like the vending machine didn’t give me my candy bar; someone owes me money.

I was so excited to see this initially since I remember playing the original, and the lemmings have been given a cute update. But that’s about it. I remember the point of the original was to use the different skill resources they gave you to get through each level, you had to place the right lemming skill at the right place and got extra points for being efficient. For this version the lemmings build planets as they succeed each level, but after building about 4 of these and the intervening asteroids, you’re still stuck with just building stairs, digging, blocking movement, and an umbrella for falling. I understand the need for in-app purchases to keep the company going but the purchases are for trap disables or these “tribal eggs” (when did lemmings come out of EGGS??) that you collect to open additional levels which still only use those few skills to get through. And the special lemmings “expire” if you don’t collect each tribe fast enough so then you either start over or purchase the tribes again. Granted you can earn coins just through play and not pay actual cash. But overall it’s too much obvious attempts to keep you playing and maybe buying stuff without enough interesting challenge to keep you engaged for long.

Deleted it!! Loved this game for quite a while but when they added exient to their credits list, the game suffered. I got bored. The challenge levels are the best but you need a ticket to get there and those are super rare to get - especially when the ad-induced extra spin doesn’t work (which is more often now). Several little things within the game just pile up to too much negativity. Starting with “sad puppy”. Also, the ‘blood’ of dead lemmings remaining on the level (a fairly new change in the game) even though you retry the level. Why? Today I opened my first egg of the new season and the subtitle read, “just die already” (or something close to that. I’ve deleted it so I can’t check). Who needs that when you play a game to escape life’s real struggles? Shame on you, Sad Puppy. Bring something good to this world. The game play is good and building a world (like the hot cocoa or the disco/music/boom box) is super cool and imaginative - well done!! - but overall, I feel more frustrated and down when/after playing than energized and up. You bum me out. I’m don’t need that. Done. Btw, Are the ads exient’s fault? Since exient came aboard those ads take too long to load - IF they load - and then you don’t get what you’ve been waiting for anyway! Ugh!!!

As extensively noted the developer has created a frustratingly obnoxious way to handicap gameplay—which these days is par the course, altho the costs do seem especially ridiculous in this particular case. Beyond that, the bonus items available are pretty much useless & the only actually desirable items aren’t even available apart from buying roulette-style spins for bonus items, meaning there’s no guarantee you can even get what you’d like—not to mention the energy handicap is really the only reason the bonus items even exist anyways. To add to yr likely frustration, the game also starts from the 5th level or so to blatantly re-use maps from earlier levels, which hardly makes it reliably fun since you’ll start to justly wonder why it looks familiar. Obviously the level maps must have a solution so can’t be randomly created but it’s incredibly lazy & unethical for the developer to try their worst to get players to pay then turn around & not even invest in ensuring the game has sufficient unique levels to cover all its stages. There’s other issues here also such as traps that are plainly odious & impossible to totally avoid, but along with the constant ads, the game gets bogged down in unpleasant details & they pretty much negate the fun of it.

This truly could have been a fantastic game. They basically took “Lemmings” and created a dumbed down mobile version, which isn’t entirely bad. The problem with this game is the greed. Instead of a $4.99 or $9.99 full game unlock, they offer a bizarre pay-to-play model where you get unlimited energy for 2 hours by paying $6.99. You can also buy a small or large number of coins, but I’m guessing they want you to go for the two hours. Once you run out of energy, you’re stuck paying $6.99, buying coins, or turning off the game... which is also bizarre. The wait time to regain energy is so long, I’m literally not in the app for several hours throughout the day. I know they need to make it painful enough that I feel obligated to part with my money, but they make the wait time so long, there’s no possible way for anyone to get addicted. The last thing they should have me do is close the app. That is your product, and you should want me to be signed in at all times. You should make me want to part with my money, instead of making me frustrated that I can’t play... Personally, the business model just doesn’t make sense, and I really hope people stop giving into this. I know statistically, 1% or 2% of people tend to be the big cash cow for these pay-to-play apps, but people please... $6.99 for 2 hours. It can’t get much greedier than that! All that being said, I still would have preferred it to be more like the original.

I was so excited to see this game from my childhood revamped and redone. It has disappointed, though. There doesn’t seem to be any of the ingenuity of the original, like needing to figure out what to make the lemmings do in order to make them get through a level. I’ve played at least a level a day for a couple weeks, and all they can really do is build stairs, dig, and use umbrellas? Not very interesting. Nor are the design of the levels unique like in the original. And, you’ve put it on a mobile platform but haven’t allowed us to zoom in to see what our lemmings are doing? Perhaps that’s the issue - on the original you had to click on each individual character; now you just click on a “box” and get whatever lemmings arrives there first. Poor design. Also, I get that the company needs to make money, but this seems hawkish and ridiculous. Every other second it’s asking you to pay for something to get more or do something (perhaps that’s what I’m missing? But why do I care what the lemmings look like/what tribe they’re in, and why would I pay money for that?!). If it was a well-developed game that held my interest, I would gladly pay to download it and own it, instead of contestant in-app money asks.

Unfortunately what is a really well reimagined version of the original lemmings game that makes it very playable on touch interfaces has over time just become a broken money grab. What I mean by this is along with playing the game you get to collect (and once collected they show up in your game) various lemmings in different outfits. While they are purely cosmetic and don’t impact the game play when the game first came out you could get them by playing the game and watching ads. Now the system is just totally broken. I recently returned to the game after quite some time of not playing and it is almost impossible to collect the lemmings essentially removing the “fun” from the game. After playing about 12 levels so far and watching every ad when the opportunity arises I’ve only been able to collect 1 lemming. (I have actually gotten a second one but it was a duplicate and when I watched yet another ad to reopen the egg the broken randomized gave me the exact same lemming yet a 3rd time so it was converted to gold coins. Unfortunately at this point the game just isn’t worth playing and certainly isn’t worth spending a single penny on when your money will be taken from you and you will still end up with nothing. It’s a shame this game has been ruined.

Lets start with the obvious...yes this game captures some of the nostalgia of the franchise. Onto the bad: The tooks available along with the traps are too simplistic. Some levels are designed to frustrate rather than spark a sense of ingenuity or creativity (meaning they are there to soak energy, energy is recovered over real world time, and the game monetizes purchasing time). These stages arent hard to figure out, but can soak that precious energy away through simple placement and timing mistakes. Giving the player just 3 seconds to look at a stage before they have to start spending resources, can easily lead to poor placement at first glance. It really is a shameless way to try and get people to spend money. Further, pause doesn’t pause. They added a silly gatcha mechanic with additional monetization techniques added on top. Three different in-game resources used as currencies. Tournaments where you compete against others (where you really just compete against yourself). Limited time aesthetics (which again you can pay for ones you missed). No way to replay levels (if you passed but didn’t perfect it). “Pay-to-win” style power ups. Random roulette-style bonuses as a mechanic is just glut on an already over-bloated money grabbing system.