Focus Quest: Study buddy

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Crashes on Startup. The game looks like it would be fun, but the furthest I’ve gotten into it before it crashes is a split second after the initial loading screen.

2. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Does not allow for focus. Pushes you more to play the game rather than focus

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Starts good then you can’t focus or work cause you spend so much time in game.. I was super excited for this game and then I found out that you end up playing the game more than you do actually getting work done. There’s so much to do in the game that I started to resenting the app because I felt like it was trying to get me to play the game more and more. They kinda need to back off, making it so addictive and actually make it so that you can be productive and just play a little bit. Maybe even building in a time limit of you’ve been playing the game for 30 minutes time to get back to work

4. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   This app is awesome. But I rather not spend too much time purchasing and upgrading when the studying should achieve more for me. I like the concept

5. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

   Poor "randomization" and odds stacking. Took me 55 tries with rabbit foot to get divine gear (should have had around 4-5) - this happens constantly whether it's gear, skill chests, or mystic cabin items. "Randomization" needs fixing, or stated odds should reflect the true hidden odds and parameters.

6. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

   Great Focus Game; Terrible Whitelist. This app is rare in that it feels like effort was put into this being a game with utility, rather than many other focus apps which feel like slightly gamified utilities. I love that there are multiple progression systems to work towards. The one thing that most other apps have over Focus Quest is integration into Apples Screen Time feature for making a working whitelist system for strict mode. This apps unlimited whitelist system feels like an obsolete workaround that just never got updated. It actually really cripples the functionality for me, since I like to do flashcards on my phone, but unlimited whitelisting makes the distraction dissuading functionality of this game pretty much null. I would really like to see this updated to take advantage of Screen Time to make actual whitelists for strict mode, like so many other apps do.

7. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

   Maybe good but focus plant is better.. Focus plant has an offline feature. I wonder, why it doesn’t have that. Also if I could sync focus plant and this one with the tags, then it would be phenomenal. However, it’s a nice app. Keep it up.

8. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

   Fantastic app. This app is great but i do recommend a few things: - add a way to turn off the mechanic where you loose the focus quest if you tab out - add a way where you can change from a timer to a stop-watch type mode. - add a way to pause the timer/stop watch if possible. As someone with ADHD: - The rewards on this app have a lot of variety and there wont be a time where you run out of things to upgrade. Many shiny options and objects. There are other ways to get rewards other than just focusing which i love. - This makes working/studying seem more like a fun game than something that requires a lot of effort. It bridges that effort gap so easily. - I recommend at the end of a study session or work session to get through the storyline as a great way to wind down.

9. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

   Love the visuals and options to play. This has been the best focus app this far! I’ve tried many other ones and this was the only one that got me staying focused after the thrill of a new app is gone. Just wish there was a way to add friends so we can compete and motivate each other to get more points!

10. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Love it, but room to grow.. This app is a great concept, useful as a freemium game that has a moral bent, helping kids focus! Only thing is they need a better editing/translating as there are many typos.

11. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Good game, needs a couple things. I like this game and the story so far is interesting. One thing I would like to add is a similar pomodoro style set up focus times. I also think that the amount of experience and money you get should increase, especially as you level up. So far so good for the first day. I’ll update soon.

12. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    great but please make stuff cheaper. I know you guys need money from ads and locking stuff behind ads but I think you should make music cheaper because I think 500 is a bit much without paying. I think that even 200 would be good, please see this.

13. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Not getting subscription benefits or adequate support.. I paid for the subscription but am not getting the benefits, despite reinstalling, rebooting, etc. I also can’t connect support or report a bug without going to an external website, creating an account, and posting on a community forum — not contacting the support team directly or submitting a ticket.

14. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Love it!. Getting motivated is really hard for me as someone with ADHD so this is perfect! I love the story aspect!! Keep it coming! Thank you!

15. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    No ads not pushy for microtransactions.... 10/10 Goal oriented focus sessions with simple gaming element. Everything I needed!!

16. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Great for Neurospicy Brains!. I would recommend this for neurodivergents that find success by gamifying their tasks.

17. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    The art is so cute. The art is so much prettier in the game than on the app, and the game is surprisingly fun to play. It’s not boring at all and make studying a lot more fun. :333

18. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Amazing. I love focus timer apps that aren’t just timers

19. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Definitely enjoying this so far. I have severe ADHD so Ive been seeking out apps to help me be more productive. This is my first day using the app but I genuinely like it. There are other gamified productivity apps that can barely be called games. As someone who genuinely enjoy rpg games. Essentially turning my more mundane, yet important tasks into a game makes it far easier for me to focus. Now instead of being depressed because each day passes by with my life getting nowhere. I can use this app to be more motivated :)

20. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Best productivity game. Its simply the best productivity game they way it reverse engineered the whole mobile game addiction to be productive in real world is just great

21. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    I have some ideas…. So more music and white noise options. Maybe some bouncy electronic music and Avengers inspired stuff. Sparkle white noise, gentle breeze, cat purring. And a quest for when you finish the story could be fun. Like you design another character as a crush for your hero and then your focus time goes towards the story where you meet them, try to win their heart, go on an adventure together, etc

22. ★★★★★the app helps achieve the intended result

    Recommend 👍. I’ve had trouble focusing and studying for most of my life, and this app has helped me with discipline and I look forward to studying these days! Before, studying for 30 minutes was hard, but these days I can go for 2-3 hour sessions without getting distracted. 😀

23. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Best productivity gamification!. The best gamified productivity app I’ve ever used! It has all the elements I want from this kind of app!

24. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    집중할 때 쏙 틀어놓네요. 재밌습니다

25. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Game changer!!. This app was a game changer for my productivity!

26. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Gamify your time!. A great way to utilize gamification to increase focus and productivity in those of us with ADHD & ASD.

27. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    A very cute, and very motivational game!. I’ve been trying a few focus games over the last year or so since being diagnosed with ADD, and even before when I was still trying to figure stuff out. I can say with a lot of confidence that this is certainly one of the cutest and most helpful focus games I’ve used out of the many I’ve tried! The art style is simple, but very cute, and the game play is easy to understand if you’ve played other idle games before too! I really love that there is a story to go along with it too, it keeps me at least a little interested in coming back every day to keep going and to make my character more powerful to defeat bosses and progress through the story. The art style in particular was a big reason I tried, and found I really liked this game, as I’ve tried off and on with Habitica before, and although I do like Habitica, I’m always really into character customization and wasn’t a big fan of Habitica’s art style for the player characters. I’d love to see more character customization options if possible, even like a store or special quest area where you can earn new customization options by spending more time focusing, but I’m also not too far into the game just yet, so I might not have run into this sort of thing just yet. Otherwise, I really do like this game! It’s been a big help in getting me to do my work and not procrastinate like I did last year in college! Thank you devs for making such a cute, helpful game 🥰

28. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Great!! A must have!!. I was fighting my game addiction so I was trying to find a game that’s still *fun* but *not addicting* and *not time consuming*, and this one is just perfect! I really love the feature that you need to work / study / focus on things in order to level up. Now it’s been a habit for me to open it when I start to work. The great thing is, it gives you a sense of achievement as you work / study, since you gain exp and points etc! Also, the time you focused can be used in next story stage, so you can work for a whole day and read several stages at night when you have the mood! Or if you are like me who start to have a habit to open this whenever you start to work, as you can imagine, you will then pill up 4000min+ focus time during the week and read many story stages on Sunday :D The story is not very long (at this point to like stage 8.1 or 8.5 I think). But it’s not a problem. Even after story finishes you still can keep gathering points and exps to lvl up! One suggestion is, can we have a count up timer? Or keep the rewards proportional to how long we have focused, when we stop the session earlier? I oftentimes face the scenario that “I planned to work for 2hr but then at 1hr 50min someone called me and I have to leave, so I must stop the app.” It’s discouraging that you lose all rewards when you do this.

29. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Great so far except for one bug. Just downloaded the app, I was going through the tutorial and everything seemed smooth so far and the storyline is pretty great. But when it came to the training part of the tutorial the training button doesn’t work :/ perhaps it’s a bug or something. Other than that it seems like a pretty great focus app!

30. ★★★★★overall positive experience· unspecific

    Awesome for a while. I really love how this app takes my need to progress in an adventure game and turns it into focus time! My screentime has gone way down since I started. I feel like I’ve really hit a standstill in the story though and I’m becoming less motivated to put in focus time. I’m over 117 hours of focusing at this point and I feel like the story hasn’t progressed since around 80 or so. It’s just a lot of “exploring focus land” and no other development, even when I level up. Otherwise, I love the app and have found it super useful.