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Everyone remembers Tamogotchis. While they offered no real purpose beyond tickling my latent need to organize and nurture a needlessly intricate system, they did a pretty good job of holding my attention. For a time, at least: you could only optimize those feeding and care cycles for so long before realizing you're kind of spinning your wheels, having long since run out of things to do.
I run into the same problem with most Nimblebit games. Pocket Trains and Pocket Planes push all the right buttons, but once you've constructed a transportation empire that spans a few nations you start to realize that pushing any further means doing much of the same, only on a larger scale. Tiny Tower was always the worst offender. Build commercial spaces to raise funds. Use those funds to build residential spaces, attracting new residents who'll staff your commercial spaces. Rinse and repeat until pressing the button that'll raise and lower the elevator to dizzying heights becomes too onerous—then you delete the app and find something else to kill time with.
Fully operational dabble station
So. Tiny Death Star. I can't tell you what the allure is here, as I see things playing out in much the same way. The game is deceptively hands-on, which is something of a double-edged sword. The "action" again revolves around keeping commercial spaces stocked with supplies for patrons to purchase: this time, Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader are opening up commercial outlets to fund the construction of the Death Star. Stocking goods in the first few shops will only take a few minutes, but that'll quickly climb to over an hour as you add outlets to your fledgling space station. You can always spend Imperial Bux to speed things along; they're Tiny Death Star's alternate currency, and can be earned for completing random objectives or forking over real cash. Or, you can roll up your sleeves and get to babysitting.
Toy stores on the Death Star? That trench run suddenly seems less noble.
Manning the elevator was always the most infuriatingly intriguing part of Tiny Tower, and tiny Death Star is no different. Visitors to the Death Star show up at random and request a random floor; you push and hold the up button on the elevator until it reaches their destination, at which point your awarded with a paltry tip in gold coins. The real rewards involve a bit of luck: If a visitor requests a floor that happens to be a residential space, and there's space available to rent, they'll move in. Residents will operate your shops, stocking the shelves and selling wares. But more importantly, if a visitor requests a floor that hosts a shop that's currently stocking something, they'll shave sixty seconds off of the time you're waiting for those goods to be prepared.
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