If you are ready to run your very own pet paradise, this is the game for you. Petdise Tycoon is a casual game that is all about pets and the people who bring those pets in. From the developer Xiaojian Chen, Petdise will feel like a real business and keep you busy with constant upgrades around the building.
From the Ground Up
When you first open Petdise Tycoon, you are greeted by an empty building that you are meant to build into a great pet paradise. You start with just one grooming room and go from there. Eventually, you build up the paradise with several grooming salons, training rooms, a store and more. The tutorial walks you through hiring new employees and making money to expand the business.
There are a lot of upgrades to do when the game first begins, which teaches you how to upgrade your rooms, employees and the research center. While sometimes it feels a little slow to develop, it is fun to build up the paradise and learn the stories of the clients that come visit you. There are also VIP clients that come in and rate you on how you’re doing. The objectives also help you learn what to upgrade, but it is really easy to jump ahead by upgrading other rooms or employees while building up another one.
No Screen Space
While I had a couple of issues with Petdise Tycoon, the main one was the lack of space on screen. Anything that you would need has a button, but it makes it difficult to tap parts of the screen without accidentally opening something you didn’t want to open. I believe these could have easily been put on a different screen to make it easier for players to see the main game area. It became even more difficult when ads would pop up and take up more of the screen.
The other issues I had were smaller ones, such as the upgrading system making it slow to get anything done. You could only upgrade one research task and one room or employee at a time. This makes it difficult to get things done quickly, and sometimes it put me behind in fulfilling objectives.
One of my favorite but also least favorite things were the ads. None popped up while playing Petdise Tycoon, but there was no shortage of ads that you could elect to watch. If you needed more money to speed up the construction time of something or just to make everyone walk faster, there was always an ad to watch. But they would also take up parts of the screen and sometimes it felt like you had to watch them. There were plenty of reasons to do so, such as being an easy way to accrue diamonds for the upgrades.
Not Much Growth
While it took a while to build all of the rooms, after it was all built up, the objectives start to veer towards ranking up the rooms and employees or serving a certain number of clients instead of building rooms and opening more options.
There are events where you let a scientist do research in your facility, for example. These events are normally about something more exotic than the small animals you see, such as cheetahs or bionic fish. They require you to build the lab, but also give you extra rewards to further your gameplay. After a while, these events start to feel like the main interesting thing in the game.
There are many things that I enjoyed about Petdise Tycoon, such as building multiple rooms to help pets, learning the stories of some of the customers that came in and upgrading things to make the place an even bigger and better facility. However, it felt like it ended too quickly and there was nothing else to build. Once all the rooms and employees are complete, there is not much else to do.
