Idle Area 51

Name: Idle Area 51
Rating: 4.76938 (9952 reviews)

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Idle Area 51

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User Reviews for Idle Area 51

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I love the game overall and the graphics too, but when it comes to buying upgrades, it is way too expensive. I can’t spend like 10 to 20 dollars just to get the game working faster, and I think the price for the loading bay and the unloading speed is way too expensive. I am barely making any money anymore because I can’t afford the next upgrades for the unloading and loading bay. When I upgrade to the next area, I get a lot more money because the money multiplier multiplies a lot, but the price of the loading and unloading bay also multiplied by the same amount or more. Why can’t the price for it be cheaper because this is the biggest issue with the game. Now if I want to make my loading bay faster than 1 minute, I have to spend over 400T dollars. This is really annoying and if the issue doesn’t get fixed soon I will probably delete the game,

401kamato, Mar 20, 2021

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.

Alejandro Lopez Clavel, Jun 08, 2021

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

Bhumaz, Apr 08, 2021

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.

Bishop0101, Jun 12, 2021

Love the game BUT.

Love the game but, The balance in the cost of the salvage area in relationship to loading and unloading speeds is a bit off. Loading spikes way faster than everything else. So I’ll have 11 vans sitting at all times making all the extra bays and vans bought in unloading basically useless. But I love the style and graphics. Definitely would like to see more over all content. This is my review based on pretty much only playing idle games for years and years. Thank you creators can’t wait to see where this game goes

killerjman26, Mar 09, 2021

But glitchy… but overall love the game!

I love this game. I love idle games a lot and this one just sticks out to me. Recently as of posting this, the app has been updated. I think the update might be off or something because ever since I updated the game it’s been glitchy. If there’s a way for me to add pictures I would because I really can’t explain how glitchy the app became for me. Some upgrades would lock as if you didn’t have enough money for them. And some of my labs were stuck at $0 cost no matter how much I upgraded them. I moved onto the next upgrade (part of the story) to see if it would fix and it didn’t. The story moved on like normal but it’s still glitchy. But before and other than the glitching, the game is awesome and honestly one of my favourite idle games on the AppStore currently.

Lady8bug57, Sep 23, 2021

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!

Legend777777777777777999999900, Mar 15, 2021

Great game but, a major exploit

I think this is a really fun idle game from what I’ve play, I had beaten the second world after a day or so and decided to pay for no ads. After I got no ads then I would click on the “Men in Black” pop up to get money for free basically, and I just set my phone down to do the dishes and would just keep clicking the “Men In Black” every time they would show up. That’s when I noticed that the amount of money they give you is based off how much money you have in the bank, which is a very poor design choice. While I spent 30 minutes washing my dishes and cleaning and clicking the “Men in Black” every time they popped up. I went from having like 20 million, with “MiB” pop up giving me 1-5mil, next time they gave me 9~Mil, then they gave me 15 mil, then 30 mil, then 100 mil, then 200 mil, eventually during the time I was washing dishes and not really playing the game the MiB had started giving me 500 Billion, and it just kept going until I had 50bb saved up in an incredibly short time. It’s a huge exploit and I could basically beat the whole game without ever buying a single upgrade for anything if I just keep collecting the MiB bonuses as they keep increasing practically double every time since they scale up with how much money you have stored. It’s a fun game from what I’ve seen but I would call this a bug/exploit that shouldn’t be there.

MobileGamer9000, Oct 24, 2022

Ok, but some issues

It’s a typical idle game, nothing special. Some of the translations are broken and just say “English” instead of whatever the English text would be. It also doesn’t warn you when a button is going to play an ad, so you end up getting surprised by what is sometimes a pretty long ad (one was over a minute). The quests icon will also have an indicator on it as if something is done, but when you open the list none are done. I ended up uninstalling the game, mostly because of the surprise ads, but also because it seemed to be the same as many, many other idle games I’ve played.

MrOBrian, May 02, 2023

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.

SARGE 121210, Mar 29, 2021

Description

The aliens have CRASH landed! 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!