Looking for honest feedback on my game

Hi everyone,

Over the past few months I’ve been working on one of my biggest projects yet. I know it’s nothing impressive compared to what others can make, but for me, It’s a big improvement compared to my other projects.

It’s a tycoon game with a custom building system.
I have tried to sponsor the game for a few houndred robux (I know, that’s not enough) just to test out the playtime and CTR a bit. After looking at the analytics, I’ve noticed that the playtime of players rarely exceeded 5 minutes, sometimes even 2 minutes.

So I’m asking for honest feedback on what I could do to keep players playing longer and generally improve the game.
After some feedback, I’m willing to invest a couple thousand robux in sponsors, but first, I want the game to be ready.

Here’s a link to the game: Zookeeper Tycoon

Thanks in advance!

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My honest feedback would be that I would’ve left after seeing the “choose the save slot” popup. First of all, why do players need to see it on their first launch, when you have to make a good impression and show the game as soon as possible. Second of all, clicking the slot items do nothing. I must click load, which will likely load nothing, because this is my first launch.

The game itself is rough around the edges. There’s a texture glitch over the playable area (probably because two same sized parts are overlaying each other), after building some cages I cannot get rid of the lion cage over on my mouse positions. In build menu, once again, the big icon of the structure is inactive, player must click on the title. It’s not a huge flaw, just poor UX.

There’s no tutorial and the help button isn’t very helpful. I ran out of food and it still recommends me Lion Cage and it took me way too much effort to discover that there are farms, but at that point I’m out of money (from building too many Lion Cages) and have to sell (or quit).

Low playtime is likely related to how confusing UI is initially, it needs more handholding, at least to make sure players find farms. They should not be in OTHER.

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Thank you for your feedback, I’ll fix the issues.

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Hello, would it be possible to improve the graphics? I also see that your game is not played. You can invite people to play your game so that it becomes playable without there being no player :smiley:

Hi, I am planning to improve some buildings soon, thanks for the feedback.

Well, that’s why I will sponsor the game soon :smile: