Dragon City

aka: Dragon City Mobile
Moby ID: 64075
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Dragon City is a monster breeding game originally dedicated as a Facebook application game.

The player takes on the role of a dragon breeder. Monsters in this game wholly consists of dragons, which are hatched from eggs or breed between two different types of dragons. Dragons produce gold in their habitats, which will allow the player to purchase adjacent land, build more habitats to acquire more dragons, purchase food, and various other activities, all of which for the single purpose to help the dragons under the player's care grow larger and stronger. Speeding up activities or purchasing special items/dragons will require gems, which may be purchased with real currency. Dragons may also optionally be sent for player vs. player (PvP) combat.

Hatching Dragons

There are 12 different dragon elements, all of which may require specified habitats for them to live in. A flame dragon for example will require a flame habitat before an egg or dragon is purchased. Initially, the player acquires dragons by purchasing an egg and hatching it at the hatchery. Depending on the type of egg, hatching will require a specified of time for incubation. The hatched dragon may then be placed at a specified habitat, where the dragon will steadily produce gold for the player. Dragons will grow bigger when given a specified amount of food. The larger the dragon, the more gold it produces for the player.

Breeding Dragons

When the player possesses two types of dragons, preferably from two different elements, the player may opt to send those two dragons to the breeding mountain to mate. Dragons of two different elements will produce a new type of dragon. Mating will require an amount of time. This new dragon may be sent to live in either habitat of its parents. For example, a flame dragon and an terra dragon will produce a volcano dragon. This volcano dragon may live in either a flame or terra habitat.

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Waste n’ Shame

The Good
There is plenty to do throughout this game. Hatch, raise, feed and mate your dragons so you can make more of them. The designs of those dragons are cute and eye catching and there’s never a shortage of breed variety. It can be fun to experiment to make new hybrids and see what powers they can gain as they grow. Apart from the little mini-games that throw in a generous amount of treats and rewards, the main highlight of the game is the arena where you can simply have your dragons battle other dragons, pretty much akin to Pokémon battles. Learn the strengths and weaknesses of the dragons and grind your way to get even more rewards. Getting those rewards is like getting pocket money, so make the most of them.

The Bad
With such cute little dragons abundant, what could possibly go wrong? It’s blatantly obvious when you get into the game. You open the game up - adverts. You get into a mini-game - adverts. Your dragon gains a level - adverts. Too many adverts just plastering your screen and rudely interrupting your gameplay, which is a tad disrespectful. Those adverts also border the playing area, which is a complete mess as it deprives you of your view of the islands.

While you have the freedom to fight in the arena as many times as you like, the other mini-games are severely limited by the tokens which you have to gain by doing nothing but waiting for your gold and food to raise before you collect them, killing an otherwise comfortable flow. It’s like a snooker game which takes fifteen hours per turn. Altogether this rips out all the fun from the whole game itself.

The Bottom Line
Dragon City. What a wonderful place you would love to be in. Just how can you resist with all the cute little hatchlings asking the player to be their mommy? Well the limitations for the game are not encouraging. Those adverts that pop up all the time ar doing the exact opposite of what they are intended for - they are making me want NOT to buy. This kind of commercial practice is worse than an arcade quarter munching machine, because you don’t have the freedom to play, no matter how good you are. The developers should take it from players. They don’t care about the adverts, they don’t care about what they get out of spending, it’s all about playing the game, and spending too much on offers is not cool. This game potentially follows in the footsteps of PlayCoMo’s failed Little Dragons title. It’s more entertaining to actually play the role of a dragon such as Spyro. If games like this fail to bring lasting fun, you just quit.

Android · by Kayburt (30255) · 2023

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Game added March 7, 2014. Last modified February 3, 2024.