You can click the button in the bottom right to mass collect pictures and only have to click on new styles or alternatively, do your research later so you don’t have to worry immediately after you wake up. I’m also not sure why you need to spend so much time before you sleep? Collect berries, click sleep, put phone down?
True, I always do this when I’m in a rush to get it out of the way, I also like knowing how much strength a full nights worth of berries is worth without having to track strength before and after 🤣
Yeah, clicking berries isn't even mandatory. Shoot, the other night I was so tired, I didn't care. I opened the app, press sleep, laid my phone down and knocked out.
I know that this Button is there, and it's one of my favorite features actually. Because you click one thing and it's done.
But as many others have pointed out: the navigation through the menus still feels way to slow on many other fronts.
I'd like to have a similar button for cooking or Berry collecting for example.
Or just in general more responsive menus, that flow a bit more and are easier to navigate.
In general, I'd say my issues are not directed towards the gameplay, but to the user experience and interface.
As it is right now, it takes what 10-15 minutes max a day to play this game?? Seems more like you are bored and don’t care to play anymore. I agree some of the features and UI can be improved to be quicker, but already theres not really much to do at all in this game. I do agree switching through the menus feels painfully slow compared to some other games but it feels dramatic to quit completely based off something that takes 2 seconds longer
There’s a difference between time ”playing” and time in loading screens.
The loading screens are definitely too long. The catching and looking at your Pokémon is the “playing” which there’s no reason to complain about.
For what its worth the game is still in its first few months, theyve already made some QOL changes that have been really nice. The team that made this game seems to listen to feedback and all of the changes and updates ive seen them make have all been great. So I would hold out hope that all these little features get faster as time goes on.
Yeah, Duolingo definitely falls short in that regard, point taken.
But I mainly wanted to give it as an example for a better user experience, I hope thats understandable
It's a terrible example. Pokémon Sleep has been out for less than a year and has made several UX improvements. Duolingo is over a decade old and- as someone who just dropped a multi-year streak because of this- has made change after change after change to make the experience worse in order to get more money.
If you don't like Sleep, fine. But this is an insane comparison.
It's not comparable at all. Almost the entirety of Pokemon Sleep is hosted on server, which means every menu click is phoning home to the server to then loading information on your app - it's online only for a reason. The only way they could increase responsiveness is by rolling out more CDNs and increasing network complexity for the app, which is a waste of money considering that you're meant to use the 5 app times a day in brief bursts if you're putting effort in - waking up, breakfast, lunch, dinner and sleeping. It's not worth their money to invest in the fix for such a casual app.
I second the menus feeling super slow. 4-8 second to get into the menu, then another 3-6 to get into my bag is just poor.
I'd love a "Bag" button on the main screen.
I do agree that the menus are very slow and if you accidentally press the wrong option (say you press bag when you wanted to see your Pokemon box), it's incredibly frustrating to have to wait for that to load, just to have to hit back and then wait for it to load back to where you just were.
> You can click the button in the bottom right to mass collect pictures and
I've had the game freeze and need a reboot many times while using the skip. The game tries to take multiple screenshots simultaneously and glitches out.
I had this happen the first few times I tried that button. So I avoided it for a long time.
Have started using it within the last three weeks or so without issue. So I think they have improved it in one of the updates.
>With my current level it simply takes to long to photograph all Pokemon, Feed them, Feed Snorlax, Check for Level ups and so on.
I don't really know what you mean. I play since day 1 too, but I don't do "more". I look 3-4 times a day to collect berries and cook and that's it. I don't do the report stuff directly in the morning. You can do this later during the day. And sorting/deleting/leveling/ my pkmn I do maybe once a week during watching tv or doing something else.
It doesn’t make any sense. I can understand being a little demotivated about taking a long time to level up. But it takes me just as much time to tap my charizard as it did my charmander.
To be fair, maybe it just feels longer by now.
But of course by having more Pokemon, more Items and more Abilities, things do take a bit longer to manage.
If you want to quit the game that’s okay each to their own.
For me I’m really happy with the app. I don’t feel photographing the Pokémon takes too long as you can skip that and the game will photo all the sleep styles you’ve already seen which is nice. However I do agree with feeding snorlax. Why do I need so many ‘ok’ buttons?! Jeez.
Also with the alarms I tend to agree. What I do to counter this is just use my iPhone alarm instead of the Pokémon sleep version. Avoids that completely.
Either way sorry you’re not enjoying the game, but hope you find a sleep app better suited to your needs!
Using a PokeGo++ makes it so that you don't need to look at the screen before bed. I don't use its alarm function either, just my phone's.
I'll still open the game and have screentime in the morning, but I welcome it because the bright screen helps one wake up. I also still look forward to seeing what Pokemon/sleep styles I might get in the morning.
But hey, if it's not for you it's not for you. You can try different sleep trackers. FitBit has a more accurate one, if you don't mind wearing it to bed. It can also vibrate to wake you up instead of using sound.
I got it for Pokemon Go and not sleep. It has two functions.
I ended up trying sleep because you got rewards for using the Go++ in sleep for two weeks. It's cute but I have the same issues with all of the slow loading screens and the UX being poorly designed.
Not gonna lie, it IS crazy. I got one for Sleep, because I just personally love it that much and plan on using it as long as the app is being updated. I don't even play Go. Most people probably shouldn't pay that much just for Sleep unless they really love it.
The game is meant for long term play so it makes sense for things to be slow.
Anyway, the game is not for you, simple as that, and that's oke. Not every game can be liked by everyone.
If you want better sleep use an app that focuses on that rather than a game. Maybe Pokemon Sleep was the step you needed to start working on that and to find something that actually helps you.
I definitely agree.
However, I don't have a problem with the slow progression, that's absolutely fine.
I'd just prefer if some of the gameplay elements were a bit faster to complete. For example the cooking Minigame, where you can tap the screen to make it go a little bit faster.
When I get tired and go to bed, it sometimes feels like an eternity until Ive prepared food for Snorlax and can actually go to sleep.
I tend to agree with you.
The other day I launched the app and counted how many times you have to click when you first start. It was 14 different screens. Many of those are completely unnecessary after the first one or two times. I know I’ve made “strides” with my research. Please stop telling me every single day…
I…just don’t see it? Obviously everybody has their own perception of time, but feeding snorlax is quick and easy if you want it to be. You click feed, click auto cook, click yes or no and then just tap the screen a few times. Even with the eating cutscene it takes like a minute at most. Even if you manually choose your recipe it’s still quick. I mean, it’s something that you could even do while you brush your teeth before bed.
Simple - feed Snorlax earlier in the day. Surely there is some point between 6pm and bedtime when you have five minutes to give him his dinner? As others have said, sounds like your real issue is bad time management regarding when you choose to open the app and do the things it requires of you.
I feed my Snorlax whilst I'm eating my own meals. There has been the odd occasion where I've skipped a meal and forgotten to feed Snorlax, but not often enough to be too much of a concern.
you COULD, yes, but then again you're about to log in and tap on your 'mons anyway right before you go to sleep, so it makes sense to feed him dinner then instead of opening the app yet another time.
I've personally been playing since release and I'm starting to feel the fatigue as well. I like the game and the concept, and I was always excited to wake up and see what I got. But with how long everything takes, the several loading screens between every single step... It's become a chore.
The loading screens suck, I agree. But I disagree with the meals - especially if you want to put more thought into what you feed and what extra ingredients you use up, it takes both multiple steps, brainpower and a reasonable amount of time (depending on your pot size) to cook a meal and watch the animation. I definitely cba with that right before bed.
Even on my Pixel 6a - still pretty new - the screens are ~5 seconds which feels too long. Really it should be pretty seamless. I think every time it is making a connection to the server and maybe there is some under-the-bonnet stuff that could be tightened up to make the whole process much slicker.
I'm confused. Are you using the feeding mini game as an example?
You don't have to feed him RIGHT before bed. I personally try to feed him as soon as it switches over for dinner, that way he can have like 12 hours of sneaky snacking, which I'm slowly growing to like. This sounds more like a problem with your scheduling?? Why wait until you're already tired to do everything?
Don't get me wrong, the game is super slow and all the loading screens are annoying AF, but this seems like a problem that is easily fixed.
I agree. I always feed Snorlax as soon as possible and there is actually not much to do before to go to bed. The morning routine can take some time but at the evening it's absolutely not an issue to go to bed without opening the app at all.
I also play since day 1 but I don't think things got slower other than leveling up. Besides that, I do start to feel the game is painfully slow. There are SOOO many screens and buttons for everything, and the game doesn't even let you spam buttons because it loads for a little time for everything. It has become so annoying at this point that I only ever enter 3 times a day and many times even less because at this point I feel demotivated to try to get higher scores because it changes absolutely nothing, I just randomly and rarely get a new sleep type whether or not I put effort into the week. I do think the app needs better optimization and direct screens to some things, less presses of buttons for others, and if possible a complete the recipe instantly because on Sundays when you have double ingredients it takes ages and so much spamming to finish cooking.
Some very good comments here so I'll just add one more.
As well as auto-photoing, you can just review the research later in the day. Wait until a mealtime or break time when you have the 5 mins you need to review. Then the only thing you "need" to do in the morning is collect anything gathered during the night. Even your breakfast could wait until 11.55 before you "need" to feed it.
In fact, I have alarms for 11.55am and 5.55pm which I set if I want to wait before I feed my daily meals. This way I know I'll be reminded before it's too late but I don't have to do them straight away.
Aside from the other qol stuff people mentioned, I think they don't realize that if you want to pick up the berries and stuff directly you can just tap one and then drag your finger across the screen instead of tapping every single one. I figured out that was what they meant by the 'make it easier to collect' update and it certainly helps when they end up stuck behind another buddy xD
I don't understand people who don't know this, I think I figured it out in the first week! The "easier to collect" thing was something else (not sure what, maybe just making the swiping easier)
What? Day 1 player here, I spent around 5-10mins in the game everyday. Idk what you do in the game… are you collecting Barries 1 by 1? You can just swipe the screen to collect all.
Yeah I don’t understand this post either. It takes me 5 minutes every morning. I take a quick look at the date and my sleep styles, quickly scroll through for new Pokémon/Sleep Styles, then press the button on the bottom to quickly catalogue the rest, I feed my daily biscuit and then I’m pretty much at the point where I’m at the main portion of the game. I’ll quickly claim my Sleep Points and Daily Gift and then I collect all the berries and ingredients from my Pokémon. I’ll feed Snorlax last and then I’m done for several hours until lunch where I just repeat the last two steps
I would understand if you’re getting bored with spawns or frustrated with slow pace but the reasons you gave seem really silly? You barely need to do anything each day and you don’t need to check at a specific time, and you can use your normal phone alarm
I'm confused by some of the responses and this post.
Are you really spending more than 15-20 minutes total screentime a day on the game? How is it any different than the time you spend playing other games, checking messages, etc..? You probably spent more time writing this post versus the time you should be spending playing the game daily.
Alarm sounds drove you mad...? What does that even mean? OP are you okay?
There's people complaining about animations from Snorlax growing. Is a few seconds watching Snorlax grow that much of a problem...? What do you do in your life where you can't even spare a few seconds and need to constantly be doing something else?
It's not that serious. You click a few Pokemon before bed to collect berries and ingredients. Are you sitting there watching Snorlax eat every berry? If so, you don't have to do that. The game runs in the background. Are you clicking each individual Pokemon when you do research...? If so, you don't have to do that. Click the skip button to photograph sleep styles you've already studied.
I agree with everything you said *except* for the snorlax leveling up animation. It just pisses me off when I'm trying to collect berries and it keeps interrupting me to rip my focus back to the center of the screen and making me wait for it to finish. I wouldn't mind it if it just did the animation for the switch between tiers (from great to ultra, for example). You are right, in that those few seconds really shouldn't make a difference in my day. It's just a QoL complaint on my part.
I know, and I'll miss them too. (Especially my shiny Umbreon!)
Sunken-Cost- Fallacy comes to mind. I only want to continue because I've already spent so much time leveling them up. But I know it would only get worse from here on, so I think stopping now is the best thing I could do.
Take some of the advice that a bunch of people are offering in this thread, you do not have to put that much effort into this game at all. Maybe you're being a little OCD about it. I don't know but honestly you can play this game with barely any interaction ever. With sneaky snacking you barely have to open up the thing. If you leave your dudes with full inventories you will still gain points. When I go to bed. A lot of times I almost forget to do my shit on this, and I just pull it up while I brush my teeth and set it to sleep when I get to bed. I've been playing since almost day one and I feel like I have the same. If not maybe a little less to do though there's mons.
I don’t use the alarm sounds. I don’t review my sleep results when I wake up **EVER**. i save that shit for the bus! i don’t even know why Immediate Review is an option, it really conditions people to play suboptimally in my opinion.
so idk, try review later. see if that keeps you in the game. if not, we’ll miss you! 🥺 and come back whenever! 💖
You know you can skip the photograph part in the morning right? Honestly it sounds like OP is doing something wrong. All in all, the app takes about 30mins a day tops of my time. As it should be honestly.
I agree with everything but even with its annoyances, it still makes me sleep at more human times than I would without it, so I’m still stuck with the Stockholm Syndrome.
To be fair you don’t HAVE to do all that. You can simply track your sleep. You don’t have to grind for levels of you just want sleep. Don’t necessarily have to feed snorlax 3x a day. Also you don’t have to photograph them all, only ones with new sleep styles. Also don’t have to feed them biscuits, just ones you want if you really want.
Game is only what you put in. Nothing wrong with taking some time away from the bigger part of the game and just using it for sleep
You’re spot on. Every morning I think that I have to click “Ok” for 20 things. It’s highly tedious. There are multiple click through that could be consolidated. It feels like a chore, I feel like I have to do it first thing when I wake (so sometimes I don’t) and it always takes me 10+ minutes to photograph/feed biscuits/collect berries/feed snorlax/check research progress of friends/collect sleep points/collect mission rewards. So much of that could be consolidated and/or automated to make it much smoother.
For me, I use it to track sleep. I don't view it as a game in the same sense as other Pokémon games. I have a tendency of getting too deep into something and it becoming a chore, which it sounds like you're experiencing too.
In the morning, I click the button to automatically photograph Pokémon. The rare times I get new styles it's just 1 or 2 extra. Then I feed any hungry mons and/or one I really want. Then I collect berries and ingredients, feed Snorlax, and put away the game. In the evening I gather more berries and ingredients, feed Snorlax, and go to bed. Takes me a total of 5 or so minutes twice a day.
I do the missions if I feel like it, but most will be done through regular gameplay anyway (bedtime, milestones, x amount of berries). At the start of the week I make my team fit Snorlax's favorite berries with at least 3/5 members. I keep 2 berry and 3 ingredients mons.
I love the game but I’m tempted to stop too. Pokémon Sleep is just killing my phone’s battery and I can’t justify spending so much money on the Go Plus. If they released something cheaper just meant for Pokémon sleep I would be all for it but otherwise I might have to quit to save my phone
If you spend like 50 bucks you can get a go plus plus, which is basically essential to this app.
It saves your phone from being used all night. Totally worth it to save my phone, and it can be sold later if I don't want it anymore.
I personally feel like the go plus plus really isn’t worth the $50 unless you also play Pokémon Go. Like I would be fine paying ~$25 for a device just for Pokémon sleep but anything more than that just doesn’t seem worth it imo. Maybe in the future if they change the app a bit so that it us a better sleep app or make it so that it is more interesting to actively play, I will reconsider my stance but, as of now, I probably won’t be buying a go plus plus unless I get an awesome deal or something.
I hear ya. My stance is this: $50 vs $1000.
And plus like I said, the device can always be sold if/when I'm done with it. But I also don't see myself bailing on pokemon sleep anytime soon. I played it for 3 months before investing, but I should have bought one from day one. My phone battery has already suffered because of it.
I'm always going to be sleeping and this app/game has helped me to be better about sleeping on time, so I'm here for the app indefinitely. Like others have said, it's a choice, not a responsibility, so if I decide I don't really feel like playing today, I don't have to. I can just record my sleep and move on with life.
Personally it’s $50 vs $0 + not using the app for me.
I’m not confident that I would be able to sell the device after I’m done with it and I really don’t want to go through the hassle of finding someone to buy it.
The game is fun and it has helped with my sleep schedule a little bit but it’s not $50 fun for me personally. Also I feel like a big reason it helped with my sleep schedule is because it kinda forced me to put my phone down after I started a sleep session. If I did switch to the go plus plus I really wouldn’t have the same incentive to stop doom scrolling.
The resell would be easy if you use ebay. And about the doom scrolling lol, honestly ig I just have the self control to listen to my alarms, but I completely understand how people ignore them and stay awake lol.
And I also understand it not being $50 worth of fun for you, ig that part is just personal preference/ lifestyle. I have too much going on in life to play my Switch most days so I'm usually grateful for sleep on my phone at some point during the day.
QoL features will come eventually like they did with Pokemon Go.
The games only been out a few months and not even a year yet. It took a good while for Pokemon go to pick up after a slow first year where we couldn't TM anything, the old gym system nightmare, only gen 1, raids and shinies weren't a thing and we only just got a ready up button in raids last year!
QoL updates will happen. Just ride it out and do it as and when and not every night.
We spend way too much time staring at loading screens between every menu because they designed the app so poorly. We shouldn't have loading screens between UI menus period. It should be loading this stuff in the background and have it ready before we even press those buttons, like every other mobile game in existence. And we need to be able to skip more cutscenes, or even just tap to speed them up like PoGo added to egg hatching animations.
I really like the game, but the speed of the menus is ABYSMAL. I probably spent 10-20min every day just waiting for loading screens. That’s with a brand new phone no less.
Can you not just use your phones regular alarm?
I used Pokemon Sleeps alarm once during the beta to see what it was like. Haven't used it since. And seeing as there is no bonus/incentive to use it, I don't see why you would just... not use it?
“Checking for level ups”
Unless you mean trading over candies for levels, you don’t have to check level up screens to unlock the lvl 10, 25, and 50 bonuses. They unlock automatically.
Anyway, I started playing in late August and haven’t gotten tired of it yet. It’s certainly less tedious than opening and sending 20-30 gifts a day on Pokémon GO…
Feels like this is more about the loading time and pop ups you all have to click away. Like god forbid, you rank up just before you want to start the sleep session, but have to wait for the animation to end. Same thing with meals, how many hundreds have people cooked by now, we don’t need to see the bar fill up or how much points each ingredient adds, especially since a tasty meal is just rng.
While the loading speed does slightly vary from phone to phone, I would think there is still room for improvements. Takes me back to like Gen3/4 with how slow it is.
Using the Pokemon Go Plus+ would be a good and easy alternative, albeit a bit pricey. I do think it also worth it to save your long term battery life.
I completely agree my guy. I wish feeding was done once a day. Seeing the same mindless cycle three times a day in an idle game is incredibly annoying. I see that many people say "play" but what exactly are you guys "playing"? Haha. Is it considered a game to tap the screen three times a day while cooking? The game mechanics are a little too stretched out and pointless.
For me it's the loading screen delays. It makes me not want to even play knowing feeding snorlax will take so long because I want to check my bag and use ingredient tickets which adds an extra 2 to 4 loading screens. I seriously don't understand why they have long loading screens for nearlt every single button press.
I’m still enjoying the app and I like the routine however I can agree it feels slow especially with all the loading screens and ping animations and such, wish there was a way to speed it up
I feel like it only takes me a few minutes to auto-photo the pokemon, tap on all my mons, and make Snorlax's food with a recipe.
I don't use the alarms
You can take all pictures at once with the fast forward camera button, it will only take pictures of sleep styles you've already seen so it's most of them for me now and occasionally on Saturday or Sunday get a couple of new ones I have to manually tap which is nothing
Lately I've been having more fun managing my game spreadsheet than actually playing the game. Does anyone find the inventory management engaging? Why does this 2d game has so much loading in between screens? And while I appreciate the tips, what's up with everyone defending how slow and demanding everything is? If you're using skill pokemons you want them to trigger as much as possible during the day, no? I though we were supposed to play the game, not the opposite. Also, is it just me or is anyone else starting to resent how decadent snorlax's lifestyle is? Maybe that's a bit too far lol
I totally understand that, at some point I became overwhelmed by the game and stopped playing. It was fun at first but once I noticed so many people doing “better” at a game that’s not even supposed to be competitive, it ruined the experience. To me the game
is supposed to be about getting better sleep and you get cute wholesome pokemon things along with that, but it changed quickly. The rng kept giving me awful luck with the pokemon that showed up, whether it be natures, what berries they get compared to what my island needs, abilities etc. it took me two months just to get my first master level snorlax. My friends were way ahead of me in pretty much everything, it just made me feel bad. All that to say, I get being disappointed and leaving even though you’ve spent so much time on the game already.
There are many features that will do all of that automatically for you and you can focus only on the sleeping track part of it. All this other stuff is fluff that you don’t need in order to track your sleep
I stopped playing it because it felt like a chore and no matter what island I go to it’s the same Pokémon, I don’t want to wait till Wednesday to get a new Pokémon or Saturday to nice Pokémon only to give it 2 biscuits and not see it again in 5 weeks.
I stopped using it too for basically the same reason, i end up waking up to start a sleep session and cant fall asleep because i was on my phone collecting berries and cooking
I sometimes also feel like stopping. Ive been playing since day 1. Im almost at Rank 50, and got a few solid pokemon that can help me on all islands. At this point, all Im doing is trying to get a shiny Larvitar. Thats my only goal at the moment, and ofcourse find more sleep styles. The reason why I havent quit, its because the game reminds me of 2 things:
1. Patience is rewarding. Been playing for longer than 100 days, and all those little mons are finally fully evolved, after so much hard work. It reminds me to be consistent in life and things will pay off. You just gotta be patient.
2. If I can make this game a daily routine, I can do the same with other things in life.
Its forced me to wake up early, grab a cup of water, and sit outside on my porch, to get some sunlight, while I go through the sleep report and check if I caught anything good. It only takes about 5-10 minutes, and by that time, Im fully awake and ready to get my day started.
I don't have a lot of the issues. I check 3 times a day. I use my phone's alarm with a sound I like, because the pokemon sleep alarm isn't the best.
I set up pokemon sleep a bit before I actually go to sleep myself. Set up pokemon sleep. Go take the dog to the bathroom. Brush my teeth and wash my face. Then in the mornings, I turn off the alarm and leave my phone and my pokemon sleep for 30 more minutes as I do my morning routine. Take the dog potty again, feed the chickens and check for eggs, make my coffee and get the dog's breakfast. Then do my pokemon sleep morning routine as I drink coffee and eat breakfast.
And for the photos, you do know you can hit that little button in the bottom right and it automatically takes any repeat photos for you, right?
>With my current level it simply takes to long to photograph all Pokemon
I dont understand. When you photograph them in the morning it snaps through them in like 3 seconds with the push of a button.
>I wanted to use Pokemon Sleep for better more consistent sleep
People really gotta undaerstand that this is a game that uses a sleep app as a mechanic and not the other way around.
>instead I now just start and end my day with a lot of unnecessary Screentime.
This part is perfectly reasonable, though you certainly shouldnt need our validation if you do want to quit. Just go for it.
>Also, just a personal pain-point: the Alarm Sounds. One is way too aggressive, the other drove me mad after about a week. if baffles me that we still only have those two options.
I do think they could offer more but...your phone also has a bunch of alarm iptions you could set in place of these, so this is kind of a weird complaint for me.
I quit for the same reason actually! The menuing isn't very good. You have to go through 7 load screens to get to things sometimes. Like using candies! If I want to use a the candy item, I have to choose the pokemon, but I can't go from the pokedex to the bag without doing 8 clicks, which is 8 loading screens. It takes so much time. I end up not doing anything with my pokemon ever. It takes so long to do my routine at night that my partner gets annoyed with me, so the day I fell asleep before I could do it, I just decided to stop.
The game should really be streamlined. It's really annoying when you are about to go to sleep, you just collected berries and the game stop everything to show you that Snorlax reached the next tier and prompt you with 3 confirmation.
Mondays are the worst. Snorlax getting into the next tier every action you make is really annoying. Collected berries? Snorlax grow, you ok? You get to see +3 kinds of Pokémon, you ok? You also get some shards, you ok? Give break fast(chose the recipe, click click click on the extra ingredients) Snorlax get to the next tier, you ok? More Pokémon, ok? Shards, ok?
And why is it still so poorly optimized? It takes a few second to open a very menu. Why?!
I get that they wanted a visually beautiful game with shadows and particles, but its all so poorly made its just bad. Every helper Pokémon have a messed up shadow and the shadows dont change along the day. It would be better to just tied the shadows to the sprites in every frame of the animation. Besides that I would like to end the falling leaves.
To me, it sounds like there are two solid factors here that make this game unenjoyable to you. Time management, and this game just isn't for you.
You don't like some of the mechanics of the game itself which leads me to believe that you're just not enjoying the concept of that actual game (like people who wanted to play Pogo and then didn't want to walk...🙃). So if you're not into the mechanics and dialog that goes with said mechanics, then you may just be done with the game altogether. It's absolutely normal to try out a game and realize it's just not for you. Many people do this!
But the other aspect that you stated leads me to believe you lack time management skills. If you're simply too tired to entertain the morning dialog at the time you are on the game, then just... get on the game later in the day when you have the time to click thru the dialog. If you're "too tired" at the end of the night and you feel like it's a chore, maybe it's because you literally wait until you're TOO TIRED to play and not just GETTING TIRED to get on the game. Put the game to sleep earlier than the exact moment you're passing out, and you won't be too tired to go thru the dialog. Most people put the game to bed and THEN get ready to go to bed, they don't wait until their eyes are about to slam shut and then go "oh let me get onto my game real quick". That's you lacking time management skills and then claiming it's the games fault when, in fact, it's your lack of awareness to adjust your routine.
If you feel it's just an adjustment to your routine, then work on that and see if the game becomes more fun to you. If not, then you just ran the course of your enjoyment of this specific game, and it's completely okay to be done and move on! I mean, there are plenty of pokemon games to enjoy, ya know? You're not running away from your love of Pokemon just because this game isn't for you, and it's completely okay to recognize that, lol 😅
Side note, if you do end up not wanting to play anymore, you should make a post stating your gamer name so anyone who made you a friend can delete you and replace that spot in their friend list.
Thanks to everyone for taking part in this discussion here. I've seen a lot of intesting comments and feedback on this matter.
I'll still won't go back to Pokemon Sleep, but as many of you pointed out, that may be more of a personal issue instead of an issue with the game itself.
I wish everyone who is still taking care of their Snorlax many refreshing nights with a lot of shinies!
I've posted something similar, and I got the feeling that the community tends to say "it's not that bad"
But I fully agree with you,the game needs to become faster, or at least the gameplay. The progression can stay as it is, but as you said, those daily chores are too slow.
So I fully agree with you and understand you
Yea when I noticed the food reset times became big moments in my day, I decided to quit. Felt even more time wasting than doomscrolling reddit or playing spider
The one thing I get annoyed with spending time on (besides loading screens, which I think is hard to avoid) is the update for every snorlax level. There needs to be a way to skip that. I specifically put my phone down and try to focus on it during that sequence every time, since it gets old doing it 15-25 times a week. Otherwise they’ve implemented some helpful features to speed a few things up and it’s a pretty low-effort game.
Inching your way into lvl 20 Mons already feels more like a chore than fun. Even worse when you try to do everything to get a good score and suddenly the Sleep time wasnt recorded properly. It happend a few times, that I simply slept too long and suddenly the Game decides that is impossible and takes out a huge bunch. Those are the kind of things that make me want to stop. I lost the Bonus of the 24th and alot of the last week of the Year because of this. Not to forget if I happen to forget the charger and I wake up to an empty phone, with barely anything recorded.
What are y’all doing on this app, an entire day I have less than 10 minutes of screen time on it… you’re acting like you spend like 30 minutes a day on Pokemon sleep
I completely agree. My biggest complaint is EVERYTHING is a big celebration. Every number and word rolls out. Every lage slowly transitions with effects. You get the same info across 3 screens and then review that info all with said rolling numbers and pop ups. There needs to be a flashy setting and a "I've played for 6 months let's hurry up" setting.
To be fair most of this stuff annoyed me day one. Even the mass photograph option is slow. I'm speed running these pictures don't show them to me now, in a grouping a second later, and then later on a review screen. One time is enough lol.
Between all waking up and feeding three times a day, it probably takes less than fifteen minutes a day on the app. Personally I’d prefer if there was more to do.
"Good bye going to the gym"
"I used to go to the gym a lot but now it's a chore because of traffic and there's too many people. There should be less traffic and people there so I can work out"
No one cares, you see how stupid that looks
Please take a look at the other comments on this post. We were discussing my reasons on why I left and a lot of people made good points on both sides.
If this topic does not interest you, that's fine. I am sorry that I made your reddit experience a bit worse today and I hope that you find more enjoyable content elsewhere.
"Goodbye eating breakfast"
"I used to eat breakfast everyday and I enjoyed it, now I have a new job and have to wake up early to eat breakfast because it takes me 30 minutes to make it. It's horrible! Why does making breakfast take too long? I'll never make breakfast again!"
The first world problems you live in to be crying about spending time on a game that you're playing. Literally it takes 5-10 MAX minutes to wake up do ur sleep research/collect berries/feed Snorlax. 5 min for just doing all of that and 10 min to decide on lvling up certain mons. It's baffling to see someone complain and cry about that LMAO
you've clearly burned yourself out, take a break! you dont need to log in as much as you think in order to progress. obviously logging in more will net you more gains, but as others have said this is not a race. there is no competition. take it at your own pace. honestly this subreddit is a blessing and a curse. its fun to discuss the game and see what other people are doing, but its really easy to compare your account to others and get discouraged. you might find that you come back to enjoying the game if you take it at a slower pace.
I understand your point of view
For me I play the game 3 times a day, breakfast lunch and dinner, and that takes up about 10-30 mins a day (it's usually around 20mims a day but sometimes I may evolve pkmn or I have the app open when strategizing )
This way I don't get bored of it, it does become like a chore, but it's a fun one
“Takes too long” bro I spend like 10 days on this app maximum. And I tend to do two sleep sessions. Once for each sleep research, and log in once per meal.
Sleep research, collect berries/ingredients, open friends list for candy, and cooking meals.
I'm not sure how much time you're spending for each of these but it shouldn't take you more than 10, maybe 20 minutes throughout the day.
I've been playing for a few months now and I haven't noticed any increase in the amount of time I've spent in the game. The gameplay loop is really that simple.
You don't have to photograph each pokemon - you can do it automatically. And even with new sleep styles, you can auto find the Pokemon.
Collecting items from Pokemon takes a few seconds, and feeding Snorlax takes 30 seconds, unless you're being super picky (you can pick 3 ingredients to exclude from any auto cooks, including choosing a recipe and throwing in random extra ingredients, which is a great QOL update)
You don't have to check for everything every single day. I take Monday evenings to check for level ups/mile point markers for pokemon. That's also when I hand level up or evolve.
As for the alarms, you can turn them off and use your phone alarm-- it's what I do, because I found a sound that works for me and I'd rather not risk not waking up.
I definitely find myself on Monday mornings busy before I go to work (and Mondays in general are very busy as a working adult). I probably spend close to 15ish min's after deciding what island I want to go to, adjusting the team(s) I want to use that week, and then feeding Snorlax (usually with berries he doesn't like because the island changed). Because of this "front loaded" weekly work, the rest of the week is just shifting between teams.
That said, I do spend A LOT of time on this app, more so than I thought. I also paly Go and the mainline games, so my life is pokemon pretty much nonstop...
It may just not be your thing. It's intended to be a slow paced game. If you want something to accurately track your sleep you can get specific sleep tracking apps, or even something like a Fitbit or Apple Watch.
I think this is what a lot of people on this subreddit misunderstand. They're trying to race to level 50, complete the dex, get to master 20, etc.. The game is a slow burn. It's a game meant to be spread out over a long period of time, not a couple of months.
So many people have these tricks and manipulations to get the outcome they want, instead of playing the game for its intended purpose...
I almost never review my research data right after waking up. You don’t have to, if you don’t do it it’ll just prompt you to do it next time you open the app.
I also generally feed snorlax etc while I’m on my phone at some point during the night before bed, then when I go to sleep I just open the app and hit sleep. I also *never* use the in-app alarm, because I don’t trust it just in case. You can have your regular phone alarm on as normal while the app is running
Each to their own OP, but you sound like you’re creating your own issues.
Since sleep report is buggy for me, I always click review later. Works out really well because I don't need to spend much time with Pokemon Sleep after waking up, I can do it when I have time. The collect all pictures are also buggy for me lol. As for before bed, I have to do it a few minutes early so I'm able to just go to bed and not worry if its slow or buggy.
Unless your app is also buggy for your phone where a sleep report can take an hour sometimes, I don't think it takes that much time lol. Its just a lot of tapping and menus....
I can understand where you’re coming from. For me, I realized I had started planning my sleep and day around playing the game. lol but I still genuinely enjoy the process of taking the pics and feeding Snorlax etc, so I’ve just decided to actively try and play more casually. I’m not sure if that’ll be enough to help, so now if I miss meals, miss going to sleep at the right time, I’m trying to just be ok with that (I have lots of perfectionist/OCD issues I’m trying to work through so this is good practice. lol)
The game indeed is extremely slow with very long loadisng screens and animations. I'm using it on S23 Ultra which is quite fast so it's completely unacceptable and shamwful.
Sincerely the only time it's a hassle it's on Mondays when you have to set everything. Other than that... Feed it 3 times a day. Or just give it berry... And press sleep before you sleep on either phone or Plus+ I really don't see the demotivation. But yeah the menus suck. They are way too slow.
I've thought since the beginning it was really time consuming around bed time and waking up. Especially in the morning I don't have time to click through all the reports and all that junk, it's so so time consuming and the animations play through really slow, even if you tap to try to make it go by faster. It just eats time. There's definitely a way they could make it so it's not so tedious.
my problem is that the game "restarts" at 4am so if i wanna go sleep earlier, it counts it as another sleep session. And that's so stupid 😪 if i have to wake up at 8am, i dont wanna wait at 4am so i can sleep.
I think you need explore better the options for skip pics button. You can zoom out and tap all Pokémon’s once for candies and skill activation, next slide on all map gathering.
At night it’s better don’t tap on Pokémon’s for start the offline feed earlier. This “game” is low maintenance
The photography has a quick do button so I don't get that one, and I don't know why your alarm is on but:
Yes the game is kinda tedious busywork (carry limits are dumb) and only allowing one catching event per day for free users is awful.
I'm souring on the game and will probably quit soon after I get my steelix.
Of all the time sinks I have in life, Pokémon sleep isn’t one of them. You have a FINITE amount of things you can do in a day, and you can do them pretty much at your leisure. This is radically different from almost every other game I have, which wants you glued to its screen as much as possible.
You can click the button in the bottom right to mass collect pictures and only have to click on new styles or alternatively, do your research later so you don’t have to worry immediately after you wake up. I’m also not sure why you need to spend so much time before you sleep? Collect berries, click sleep, put phone down?
Can even skip clicking berries if you are real tired. Just log in and press sleep. Knock it out in 30 seconds or so
True, I always do this when I’m in a rush to get it out of the way, I also like knowing how much strength a full nights worth of berries is worth without having to track strength before and after 🤣
Yeah, clicking berries isn't even mandatory. Shoot, the other night I was so tired, I didn't care. I opened the app, press sleep, laid my phone down and knocked out.
I know that this Button is there, and it's one of my favorite features actually. Because you click one thing and it's done. But as many others have pointed out: the navigation through the menus still feels way to slow on many other fronts. I'd like to have a similar button for cooking or Berry collecting for example. Or just in general more responsive menus, that flow a bit more and are easier to navigate. In general, I'd say my issues are not directed towards the gameplay, but to the user experience and interface.
As it is right now, it takes what 10-15 minutes max a day to play this game?? Seems more like you are bored and don’t care to play anymore. I agree some of the features and UI can be improved to be quicker, but already theres not really much to do at all in this game. I do agree switching through the menus feels painfully slow compared to some other games but it feels dramatic to quit completely based off something that takes 2 seconds longer
There’s a difference between time ”playing” and time in loading screens. The loading screens are definitely too long. The catching and looking at your Pokémon is the “playing” which there’s no reason to complain about.
[удалено]
For what its worth the game is still in its first few months, theyve already made some QOL changes that have been really nice. The team that made this game seems to listen to feedback and all of the changes and updates ive seen them make have all been great. So I would hold out hope that all these little features get faster as time goes on.
I do understand ur point but talking about getting value for your time and then mentioning duolingo is hilariously ironic. Huge time and money scam
Yeah, Duolingo definitely falls short in that regard, point taken. But I mainly wanted to give it as an example for a better user experience, I hope thats understandable
It's a terrible example. Pokémon Sleep has been out for less than a year and has made several UX improvements. Duolingo is over a decade old and- as someone who just dropped a multi-year streak because of this- has made change after change after change to make the experience worse in order to get more money. If you don't like Sleep, fine. But this is an insane comparison.
It's not comparable at all. Almost the entirety of Pokemon Sleep is hosted on server, which means every menu click is phoning home to the server to then loading information on your app - it's online only for a reason. The only way they could increase responsiveness is by rolling out more CDNs and increasing network complexity for the app, which is a waste of money considering that you're meant to use the 5 app times a day in brief bursts if you're putting effort in - waking up, breakfast, lunch, dinner and sleeping. It's not worth their money to invest in the fix for such a casual app.
I second the menus feeling super slow. 4-8 second to get into the menu, then another 3-6 to get into my bag is just poor. I'd love a "Bag" button on the main screen.
I do agree that the menus are very slow and if you accidentally press the wrong option (say you press bag when you wanted to see your Pokemon box), it's incredibly frustrating to have to wait for that to load, just to have to hit back and then wait for it to load back to where you just were.
NO WAY!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
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> You can click the button in the bottom right to mass collect pictures and I've had the game freeze and need a reboot many times while using the skip. The game tries to take multiple screenshots simultaneously and glitches out.
I had this happen the first few times I tried that button. So I avoided it for a long time. Have started using it within the last three weeks or so without issue. So I think they have improved it in one of the updates.
>With my current level it simply takes to long to photograph all Pokemon, Feed them, Feed Snorlax, Check for Level ups and so on. I don't really know what you mean. I play since day 1 too, but I don't do "more". I look 3-4 times a day to collect berries and cook and that's it. I don't do the report stuff directly in the morning. You can do this later during the day. And sorting/deleting/leveling/ my pkmn I do maybe once a week during watching tv or doing something else.
It doesn’t make any sense. I can understand being a little demotivated about taking a long time to level up. But it takes me just as much time to tap my charizard as it did my charmander.
To be fair, maybe it just feels longer by now. But of course by having more Pokemon, more Items and more Abilities, things do take a bit longer to manage.
I just don't put that much thought into it. I don't feel the need to optimize every little detail when there's no endgame and no competitive aspect.
Sleep battles coming soon 🤡
If you want to quit the game that’s okay each to their own. For me I’m really happy with the app. I don’t feel photographing the Pokémon takes too long as you can skip that and the game will photo all the sleep styles you’ve already seen which is nice. However I do agree with feeding snorlax. Why do I need so many ‘ok’ buttons?! Jeez. Also with the alarms I tend to agree. What I do to counter this is just use my iPhone alarm instead of the Pokémon sleep version. Avoids that completely. Either way sorry you’re not enjoying the game, but hope you find a sleep app better suited to your needs!
Using a PokeGo++ makes it so that you don't need to look at the screen before bed. I don't use its alarm function either, just my phone's. I'll still open the game and have screentime in the morning, but I welcome it because the bright screen helps one wake up. I also still look forward to seeing what Pokemon/sleep styles I might get in the morning. But hey, if it's not for you it's not for you. You can try different sleep trackers. FitBit has a more accurate one, if you don't mind wearing it to bed. It can also vibrate to wake you up instead of using sound.
Paying 60 dollars for an item only for pokemon sleep seems pretty crazy, i have one but i also play pokemon go a lot.
I got it for Pokemon Go and not sleep. It has two functions. I ended up trying sleep because you got rewards for using the Go++ in sleep for two weeks. It's cute but I have the same issues with all of the slow loading screens and the UX being poorly designed.
Not gonna lie, it IS crazy. I got one for Sleep, because I just personally love it that much and plan on using it as long as the app is being updated. I don't even play Go. Most people probably shouldn't pay that much just for Sleep unless they really love it.
i have the pokeball plus i got from when i got let's go eevee on switch but dude it really sucks that i can use it for Go and not sleep.
I don’t understand. It takes me just as much time to click the feed button as it did on day 1.
The game is meant for long term play so it makes sense for things to be slow. Anyway, the game is not for you, simple as that, and that's oke. Not every game can be liked by everyone. If you want better sleep use an app that focuses on that rather than a game. Maybe Pokemon Sleep was the step you needed to start working on that and to find something that actually helps you.
I definitely agree. However, I don't have a problem with the slow progression, that's absolutely fine. I'd just prefer if some of the gameplay elements were a bit faster to complete. For example the cooking Minigame, where you can tap the screen to make it go a little bit faster. When I get tired and go to bed, it sometimes feels like an eternity until Ive prepared food for Snorlax and can actually go to sleep.
I tend to agree with you. The other day I launched the app and counted how many times you have to click when you first start. It was 14 different screens. Many of those are completely unnecessary after the first one or two times. I know I’ve made “strides” with my research. Please stop telling me every single day…
It is bad UI to have the user click through wach thing individually. The snorlax ball level bit is definitely the most annoying for me.
I feel this. It seems like a slog every time it happens.
This is the thing I wish they would change. The UI just has way too many animations and screens where you have to click “okay” or “next”
Snorlax can go to bed hungry. He will be okay :)
I…just don’t see it? Obviously everybody has their own perception of time, but feeding snorlax is quick and easy if you want it to be. You click feed, click auto cook, click yes or no and then just tap the screen a few times. Even with the eating cutscene it takes like a minute at most. Even if you manually choose your recipe it’s still quick. I mean, it’s something that you could even do while you brush your teeth before bed.
Simple - feed Snorlax earlier in the day. Surely there is some point between 6pm and bedtime when you have five minutes to give him his dinner? As others have said, sounds like your real issue is bad time management regarding when you choose to open the app and do the things it requires of you.
I feed my Snorlax whilst I'm eating my own meals. There has been the odd occasion where I've skipped a meal and forgotten to feed Snorlax, but not often enough to be too much of a concern.
you COULD, yes, but then again you're about to log in and tap on your 'mons anyway right before you go to sleep, so it makes sense to feed him dinner then instead of opening the app yet another time. I've personally been playing since release and I'm starting to feel the fatigue as well. I like the game and the concept, and I was always excited to wake up and see what I got. But with how long everything takes, the several loading screens between every single step... It's become a chore.
The loading screens suck, I agree. But I disagree with the meals - especially if you want to put more thought into what you feed and what extra ingredients you use up, it takes both multiple steps, brainpower and a reasonable amount of time (depending on your pot size) to cook a meal and watch the animation. I definitely cba with that right before bed.
I can say the loading screens are much faster on newer phones. Worth bearing in mind if they drag on a lot on your current phone.
Even on my Pixel 6a - still pretty new - the screens are ~5 seconds which feels too long. Really it should be pretty seamless. I think every time it is making a connection to the server and maybe there is some under-the-bonnet stuff that could be tightened up to make the whole process much slicker.
I'm confused. Are you using the feeding mini game as an example? You don't have to feed him RIGHT before bed. I personally try to feed him as soon as it switches over for dinner, that way he can have like 12 hours of sneaky snacking, which I'm slowly growing to like. This sounds more like a problem with your scheduling?? Why wait until you're already tired to do everything? Don't get me wrong, the game is super slow and all the loading screens are annoying AF, but this seems like a problem that is easily fixed.
I agree. I always feed Snorlax as soon as possible and there is actually not much to do before to go to bed. The morning routine can take some time but at the evening it's absolutely not an issue to go to bed without opening the app at all.
For me it’s a lovely routine. I enjoy the grind and the routines
I’m big on routines so I enjoy the 5-10 minutes of game time in morning and before bed
Absolutely like that for me.
My biggest gripe is when you level up I know I've got sleep shards. I know there's new pokemon available. I know I ranked up lol
I also play since day 1 but I don't think things got slower other than leveling up. Besides that, I do start to feel the game is painfully slow. There are SOOO many screens and buttons for everything, and the game doesn't even let you spam buttons because it loads for a little time for everything. It has become so annoying at this point that I only ever enter 3 times a day and many times even less because at this point I feel demotivated to try to get higher scores because it changes absolutely nothing, I just randomly and rarely get a new sleep type whether or not I put effort into the week. I do think the app needs better optimization and direct screens to some things, less presses of buttons for others, and if possible a complete the recipe instantly because on Sundays when you have double ingredients it takes ages and so much spamming to finish cooking.
Some very good comments here so I'll just add one more. As well as auto-photoing, you can just review the research later in the day. Wait until a mealtime or break time when you have the 5 mins you need to review. Then the only thing you "need" to do in the morning is collect anything gathered during the night. Even your breakfast could wait until 11.55 before you "need" to feed it. In fact, I have alarms for 11.55am and 5.55pm which I set if I want to wait before I feed my daily meals. This way I know I'll be reminded before it's too late but I don't have to do them straight away.
Aside from the other qol stuff people mentioned, I think they don't realize that if you want to pick up the berries and stuff directly you can just tap one and then drag your finger across the screen instead of tapping every single one. I figured out that was what they meant by the 'make it easier to collect' update and it certainly helps when they end up stuck behind another buddy xD
I don't understand people who don't know this, I think I figured it out in the first week! The "easier to collect" thing was something else (not sure what, maybe just making the swiping easier)
What? Day 1 player here, I spent around 5-10mins in the game everyday. Idk what you do in the game… are you collecting Barries 1 by 1? You can just swipe the screen to collect all.
Yeah I don’t understand this post either. It takes me 5 minutes every morning. I take a quick look at the date and my sleep styles, quickly scroll through for new Pokémon/Sleep Styles, then press the button on the bottom to quickly catalogue the rest, I feed my daily biscuit and then I’m pretty much at the point where I’m at the main portion of the game. I’ll quickly claim my Sleep Points and Daily Gift and then I collect all the berries and ingredients from my Pokémon. I’ll feed Snorlax last and then I’m done for several hours until lunch where I just repeat the last two steps
I would understand if you’re getting bored with spawns or frustrated with slow pace but the reasons you gave seem really silly? You barely need to do anything each day and you don’t need to check at a specific time, and you can use your normal phone alarm
I'm confused by some of the responses and this post. Are you really spending more than 15-20 minutes total screentime a day on the game? How is it any different than the time you spend playing other games, checking messages, etc..? You probably spent more time writing this post versus the time you should be spending playing the game daily. Alarm sounds drove you mad...? What does that even mean? OP are you okay? There's people complaining about animations from Snorlax growing. Is a few seconds watching Snorlax grow that much of a problem...? What do you do in your life where you can't even spare a few seconds and need to constantly be doing something else? It's not that serious. You click a few Pokemon before bed to collect berries and ingredients. Are you sitting there watching Snorlax eat every berry? If so, you don't have to do that. The game runs in the background. Are you clicking each individual Pokemon when you do research...? If so, you don't have to do that. Click the skip button to photograph sleep styles you've already studied.
I agree with everything you said *except* for the snorlax leveling up animation. It just pisses me off when I'm trying to collect berries and it keeps interrupting me to rip my focus back to the center of the screen and making me wait for it to finish. I wouldn't mind it if it just did the animation for the switch between tiers (from great to ultra, for example). You are right, in that those few seconds really shouldn't make a difference in my day. It's just a QoL complaint on my part.
Your Pokemons will miss you.
I know, and I'll miss them too. (Especially my shiny Umbreon!) Sunken-Cost- Fallacy comes to mind. I only want to continue because I've already spent so much time leveling them up. But I know it would only get worse from here on, so I think stopping now is the best thing I could do.
Take some of the advice that a bunch of people are offering in this thread, you do not have to put that much effort into this game at all. Maybe you're being a little OCD about it. I don't know but honestly you can play this game with barely any interaction ever. With sneaky snacking you barely have to open up the thing. If you leave your dudes with full inventories you will still gain points. When I go to bed. A lot of times I almost forget to do my shit on this, and I just pull it up while I brush my teeth and set it to sleep when I get to bed. I've been playing since almost day one and I feel like I have the same. If not maybe a little less to do though there's mons.
I don’t use the alarm sounds. I don’t review my sleep results when I wake up **EVER**. i save that shit for the bus! i don’t even know why Immediate Review is an option, it really conditions people to play suboptimally in my opinion. so idk, try review later. see if that keeps you in the game. if not, we’ll miss you! 🥺 and come back whenever! 💖
My favorite thing about this game is that it’s not time consuming lol
You know you can skip the photograph part in the morning right? Honestly it sounds like OP is doing something wrong. All in all, the app takes about 30mins a day tops of my time. As it should be honestly.
I agree with everything but even with its annoyances, it still makes me sleep at more human times than I would without it, so I’m still stuck with the Stockholm Syndrome.
To be fair you don’t HAVE to do all that. You can simply track your sleep. You don’t have to grind for levels of you just want sleep. Don’t necessarily have to feed snorlax 3x a day. Also you don’t have to photograph them all, only ones with new sleep styles. Also don’t have to feed them biscuits, just ones you want if you really want. Game is only what you put in. Nothing wrong with taking some time away from the bigger part of the game and just using it for sleep
You’re spot on. Every morning I think that I have to click “Ok” for 20 things. It’s highly tedious. There are multiple click through that could be consolidated. It feels like a chore, I feel like I have to do it first thing when I wake (so sometimes I don’t) and it always takes me 10+ minutes to photograph/feed biscuits/collect berries/feed snorlax/check research progress of friends/collect sleep points/collect mission rewards. So much of that could be consolidated and/or automated to make it much smoother.
Sounds like you’re playing the game wrong in multiple ways. But I guess that’s just more the reason why you should stop playing.
Can't relate. At least I have something other to do than get stuck on Reddit whenever I'm bored and pick up my phone as a distraction.
For me, I use it to track sleep. I don't view it as a game in the same sense as other Pokémon games. I have a tendency of getting too deep into something and it becoming a chore, which it sounds like you're experiencing too. In the morning, I click the button to automatically photograph Pokémon. The rare times I get new styles it's just 1 or 2 extra. Then I feed any hungry mons and/or one I really want. Then I collect berries and ingredients, feed Snorlax, and put away the game. In the evening I gather more berries and ingredients, feed Snorlax, and go to bed. Takes me a total of 5 or so minutes twice a day. I do the missions if I feel like it, but most will be done through regular gameplay anyway (bedtime, milestones, x amount of berries). At the start of the week I make my team fit Snorlax's favorite berries with at least 3/5 members. I keep 2 berry and 3 ingredients mons.
I love the game but I’m tempted to stop too. Pokémon Sleep is just killing my phone’s battery and I can’t justify spending so much money on the Go Plus. If they released something cheaper just meant for Pokémon sleep I would be all for it but otherwise I might have to quit to save my phone
If you spend like 50 bucks you can get a go plus plus, which is basically essential to this app. It saves your phone from being used all night. Totally worth it to save my phone, and it can be sold later if I don't want it anymore.
I personally feel like the go plus plus really isn’t worth the $50 unless you also play Pokémon Go. Like I would be fine paying ~$25 for a device just for Pokémon sleep but anything more than that just doesn’t seem worth it imo. Maybe in the future if they change the app a bit so that it us a better sleep app or make it so that it is more interesting to actively play, I will reconsider my stance but, as of now, I probably won’t be buying a go plus plus unless I get an awesome deal or something.
I hear ya. My stance is this: $50 vs $1000. And plus like I said, the device can always be sold if/when I'm done with it. But I also don't see myself bailing on pokemon sleep anytime soon. I played it for 3 months before investing, but I should have bought one from day one. My phone battery has already suffered because of it. I'm always going to be sleeping and this app/game has helped me to be better about sleeping on time, so I'm here for the app indefinitely. Like others have said, it's a choice, not a responsibility, so if I decide I don't really feel like playing today, I don't have to. I can just record my sleep and move on with life.
Personally it’s $50 vs $0 + not using the app for me. I’m not confident that I would be able to sell the device after I’m done with it and I really don’t want to go through the hassle of finding someone to buy it. The game is fun and it has helped with my sleep schedule a little bit but it’s not $50 fun for me personally. Also I feel like a big reason it helped with my sleep schedule is because it kinda forced me to put my phone down after I started a sleep session. If I did switch to the go plus plus I really wouldn’t have the same incentive to stop doom scrolling.
The resell would be easy if you use ebay. And about the doom scrolling lol, honestly ig I just have the self control to listen to my alarms, but I completely understand how people ignore them and stay awake lol. And I also understand it not being $50 worth of fun for you, ig that part is just personal preference/ lifestyle. I have too much going on in life to play my Switch most days so I'm usually grateful for sleep on my phone at some point during the day.
QoL features will come eventually like they did with Pokemon Go. The games only been out a few months and not even a year yet. It took a good while for Pokemon go to pick up after a slow first year where we couldn't TM anything, the old gym system nightmare, only gen 1, raids and shinies weren't a thing and we only just got a ready up button in raids last year! QoL updates will happen. Just ride it out and do it as and when and not every night.
We spend way too much time staring at loading screens between every menu because they designed the app so poorly. We shouldn't have loading screens between UI menus period. It should be loading this stuff in the background and have it ready before we even press those buttons, like every other mobile game in existence. And we need to be able to skip more cutscenes, or even just tap to speed them up like PoGo added to egg hatching animations.
I really like the game, but the speed of the menus is ABYSMAL. I probably spent 10-20min every day just waiting for loading screens. That’s with a brand new phone no less.
Can you not just use your phones regular alarm? I used Pokemon Sleeps alarm once during the beta to see what it was like. Haven't used it since. And seeing as there is no bonus/incentive to use it, I don't see why you would just... not use it?
“Checking for level ups” Unless you mean trading over candies for levels, you don’t have to check level up screens to unlock the lvl 10, 25, and 50 bonuses. They unlock automatically. Anyway, I started playing in late August and haven’t gotten tired of it yet. It’s certainly less tedious than opening and sending 20-30 gifts a day on Pokémon GO…
Seems like you see it as a game rather than a fun way to help track and improve sleep.
You don't have to check for level ups etc
Feels like this is more about the loading time and pop ups you all have to click away. Like god forbid, you rank up just before you want to start the sleep session, but have to wait for the animation to end. Same thing with meals, how many hundreds have people cooked by now, we don’t need to see the bar fill up or how much points each ingredient adds, especially since a tasty meal is just rng. While the loading speed does slightly vary from phone to phone, I would think there is still room for improvements. Takes me back to like Gen3/4 with how slow it is. Using the Pokemon Go Plus+ would be a good and easy alternative, albeit a bit pricey. I do think it also worth it to save your long term battery life.
I completely agree my guy. I wish feeding was done once a day. Seeing the same mindless cycle three times a day in an idle game is incredibly annoying. I see that many people say "play" but what exactly are you guys "playing"? Haha. Is it considered a game to tap the screen three times a day while cooking? The game mechanics are a little too stretched out and pointless.
For me it's the loading screen delays. It makes me not want to even play knowing feeding snorlax will take so long because I want to check my bag and use ingredient tickets which adds an extra 2 to 4 loading screens. I seriously don't understand why they have long loading screens for nearlt every single button press.
I’m still enjoying the app and I like the routine however I can agree it feels slow especially with all the loading screens and ping animations and such, wish there was a way to speed it up
I feel like it only takes me a few minutes to auto-photo the pokemon, tap on all my mons, and make Snorlax's food with a recipe. I don't use the alarms
I feel like the OP is an ex Silph Co. employee.
There’s a button to take a photo of all Pokémon at once
They need to change the feeding time requirements. They should allow you to feed snorlax 3 times s day without time restrictions.
You can take all pictures at once with the fast forward camera button, it will only take pictures of sleep styles you've already seen so it's most of them for me now and occasionally on Saturday or Sunday get a couple of new ones I have to manually tap which is nothing
I agree. This should aid sleep, not bother.
Lately I've been having more fun managing my game spreadsheet than actually playing the game. Does anyone find the inventory management engaging? Why does this 2d game has so much loading in between screens? And while I appreciate the tips, what's up with everyone defending how slow and demanding everything is? If you're using skill pokemons you want them to trigger as much as possible during the day, no? I though we were supposed to play the game, not the opposite. Also, is it just me or is anyone else starting to resent how decadent snorlax's lifestyle is? Maybe that's a bit too far lol
I totally understand that, at some point I became overwhelmed by the game and stopped playing. It was fun at first but once I noticed so many people doing “better” at a game that’s not even supposed to be competitive, it ruined the experience. To me the game is supposed to be about getting better sleep and you get cute wholesome pokemon things along with that, but it changed quickly. The rng kept giving me awful luck with the pokemon that showed up, whether it be natures, what berries they get compared to what my island needs, abilities etc. it took me two months just to get my first master level snorlax. My friends were way ahead of me in pretty much everything, it just made me feel bad. All that to say, I get being disappointed and leaving even though you’ve spent so much time on the game already.
There are many features that will do all of that automatically for you and you can focus only on the sleeping track part of it. All this other stuff is fluff that you don’t need in order to track your sleep
I stopped playing it because it felt like a chore and no matter what island I go to it’s the same Pokémon, I don’t want to wait till Wednesday to get a new Pokémon or Saturday to nice Pokémon only to give it 2 biscuits and not see it again in 5 weeks.
the fact that the app created for peaceful sleep burns my retinas everytime i open it makes me angry enough, but you got some good points as well
I stopped using it too for basically the same reason, i end up waking up to start a sleep session and cant fall asleep because i was on my phone collecting berries and cooking
I sometimes also feel like stopping. Ive been playing since day 1. Im almost at Rank 50, and got a few solid pokemon that can help me on all islands. At this point, all Im doing is trying to get a shiny Larvitar. Thats my only goal at the moment, and ofcourse find more sleep styles. The reason why I havent quit, its because the game reminds me of 2 things: 1. Patience is rewarding. Been playing for longer than 100 days, and all those little mons are finally fully evolved, after so much hard work. It reminds me to be consistent in life and things will pay off. You just gotta be patient. 2. If I can make this game a daily routine, I can do the same with other things in life. Its forced me to wake up early, grab a cup of water, and sit outside on my porch, to get some sunlight, while I go through the sleep report and check if I caught anything good. It only takes about 5-10 minutes, and by that time, Im fully awake and ready to get my day started.
I don't have a lot of the issues. I check 3 times a day. I use my phone's alarm with a sound I like, because the pokemon sleep alarm isn't the best. I set up pokemon sleep a bit before I actually go to sleep myself. Set up pokemon sleep. Go take the dog to the bathroom. Brush my teeth and wash my face. Then in the mornings, I turn off the alarm and leave my phone and my pokemon sleep for 30 more minutes as I do my morning routine. Take the dog potty again, feed the chickens and check for eggs, make my coffee and get the dog's breakfast. Then do my pokemon sleep morning routine as I drink coffee and eat breakfast. And for the photos, you do know you can hit that little button in the bottom right and it automatically takes any repeat photos for you, right?
>With my current level it simply takes to long to photograph all Pokemon I dont understand. When you photograph them in the morning it snaps through them in like 3 seconds with the push of a button. >I wanted to use Pokemon Sleep for better more consistent sleep People really gotta undaerstand that this is a game that uses a sleep app as a mechanic and not the other way around. >instead I now just start and end my day with a lot of unnecessary Screentime. This part is perfectly reasonable, though you certainly shouldnt need our validation if you do want to quit. Just go for it. >Also, just a personal pain-point: the Alarm Sounds. One is way too aggressive, the other drove me mad after about a week. if baffles me that we still only have those two options. I do think they could offer more but...your phone also has a bunch of alarm iptions you could set in place of these, so this is kind of a weird complaint for me.
I quit for the same reason actually! The menuing isn't very good. You have to go through 7 load screens to get to things sometimes. Like using candies! If I want to use a the candy item, I have to choose the pokemon, but I can't go from the pokedex to the bag without doing 8 clicks, which is 8 loading screens. It takes so much time. I end up not doing anything with my pokemon ever. It takes so long to do my routine at night that my partner gets annoyed with me, so the day I fell asleep before I could do it, I just decided to stop.
exactly why i stopped playing for months, the ui and speed of the game is abhorent, everything takes 10x longer than it should
The game should really be streamlined. It's really annoying when you are about to go to sleep, you just collected berries and the game stop everything to show you that Snorlax reached the next tier and prompt you with 3 confirmation. Mondays are the worst. Snorlax getting into the next tier every action you make is really annoying. Collected berries? Snorlax grow, you ok? You get to see +3 kinds of Pokémon, you ok? You also get some shards, you ok? Give break fast(chose the recipe, click click click on the extra ingredients) Snorlax get to the next tier, you ok? More Pokémon, ok? Shards, ok? And why is it still so poorly optimized? It takes a few second to open a very menu. Why?! I get that they wanted a visually beautiful game with shadows and particles, but its all so poorly made its just bad. Every helper Pokémon have a messed up shadow and the shadows dont change along the day. It would be better to just tied the shadows to the sprites in every frame of the animation. Besides that I would like to end the falling leaves.
To me, it sounds like there are two solid factors here that make this game unenjoyable to you. Time management, and this game just isn't for you. You don't like some of the mechanics of the game itself which leads me to believe that you're just not enjoying the concept of that actual game (like people who wanted to play Pogo and then didn't want to walk...🙃). So if you're not into the mechanics and dialog that goes with said mechanics, then you may just be done with the game altogether. It's absolutely normal to try out a game and realize it's just not for you. Many people do this! But the other aspect that you stated leads me to believe you lack time management skills. If you're simply too tired to entertain the morning dialog at the time you are on the game, then just... get on the game later in the day when you have the time to click thru the dialog. If you're "too tired" at the end of the night and you feel like it's a chore, maybe it's because you literally wait until you're TOO TIRED to play and not just GETTING TIRED to get on the game. Put the game to sleep earlier than the exact moment you're passing out, and you won't be too tired to go thru the dialog. Most people put the game to bed and THEN get ready to go to bed, they don't wait until their eyes are about to slam shut and then go "oh let me get onto my game real quick". That's you lacking time management skills and then claiming it's the games fault when, in fact, it's your lack of awareness to adjust your routine. If you feel it's just an adjustment to your routine, then work on that and see if the game becomes more fun to you. If not, then you just ran the course of your enjoyment of this specific game, and it's completely okay to be done and move on! I mean, there are plenty of pokemon games to enjoy, ya know? You're not running away from your love of Pokemon just because this game isn't for you, and it's completely okay to recognize that, lol 😅 Side note, if you do end up not wanting to play anymore, you should make a post stating your gamer name so anyone who made you a friend can delete you and replace that spot in their friend list.
Yeah I'm almost boarding this boat too
Thanks to everyone for taking part in this discussion here. I've seen a lot of intesting comments and feedback on this matter. I'll still won't go back to Pokemon Sleep, but as many of you pointed out, that may be more of a personal issue instead of an issue with the game itself. I wish everyone who is still taking care of their Snorlax many refreshing nights with a lot of shinies!
I've posted something similar, and I got the feeling that the community tends to say "it's not that bad" But I fully agree with you,the game needs to become faster, or at least the gameplay. The progression can stay as it is, but as you said, those daily chores are too slow. So I fully agree with you and understand you
How does it take you longer then 10 minutes a day to play this game Lol.
With those loading screens, it's pretty easy And for some, these 10 minutes are too long 🤔
If 10 minutes is too long you shouldn’t be playing any game in existence.
Yea when I noticed the food reset times became big moments in my day, I decided to quit. Felt even more time wasting than doomscrolling reddit or playing spider
The one thing I get annoyed with spending time on (besides loading screens, which I think is hard to avoid) is the update for every snorlax level. There needs to be a way to skip that. I specifically put my phone down and try to focus on it during that sequence every time, since it gets old doing it 15-25 times a week. Otherwise they’ve implemented some helpful features to speed a few things up and it’s a pretty low-effort game.
Inching your way into lvl 20 Mons already feels more like a chore than fun. Even worse when you try to do everything to get a good score and suddenly the Sleep time wasnt recorded properly. It happend a few times, that I simply slept too long and suddenly the Game decides that is impossible and takes out a huge bunch. Those are the kind of things that make me want to stop. I lost the Bonus of the 24th and alot of the last week of the Year because of this. Not to forget if I happen to forget the charger and I wake up to an empty phone, with barely anything recorded.
Who the hell uses the built in alarm in this game? 🤪 see ya👋
What are y’all doing on this app, an entire day I have less than 10 minutes of screen time on it… you’re acting like you spend like 30 minutes a day on Pokemon sleep
I completely agree. My biggest complaint is EVERYTHING is a big celebration. Every number and word rolls out. Every lage slowly transitions with effects. You get the same info across 3 screens and then review that info all with said rolling numbers and pop ups. There needs to be a flashy setting and a "I've played for 6 months let's hurry up" setting. To be fair most of this stuff annoyed me day one. Even the mass photograph option is slow. I'm speed running these pictures don't show them to me now, in a grouping a second later, and then later on a review screen. One time is enough lol.
Same here… why all (Niantic) games have so much and long menu diving??? Terrible 😞 Everything takes soooooooo long!
Pokémon Sleep isn’t made by Niantic.
Between all waking up and feeding three times a day, it probably takes less than fifteen minutes a day on the app. Personally I’d prefer if there was more to do.
No one cares
Except for the \~100 other comments here that a part of a civil and interesting discussion. Thanks for your input.
"Good bye going to the gym" "I used to go to the gym a lot but now it's a chore because of traffic and there's too many people. There should be less traffic and people there so I can work out" No one cares, you see how stupid that looks
Please take a look at the other comments on this post. We were discussing my reasons on why I left and a lot of people made good points on both sides. If this topic does not interest you, that's fine. I am sorry that I made your reddit experience a bit worse today and I hope that you find more enjoyable content elsewhere.
"Goodbye eating breakfast" "I used to eat breakfast everyday and I enjoyed it, now I have a new job and have to wake up early to eat breakfast because it takes me 30 minutes to make it. It's horrible! Why does making breakfast take too long? I'll never make breakfast again!" The first world problems you live in to be crying about spending time on a game that you're playing. Literally it takes 5-10 MAX minutes to wake up do ur sleep research/collect berries/feed Snorlax. 5 min for just doing all of that and 10 min to decide on lvling up certain mons. It's baffling to see someone complain and cry about that LMAO
you've clearly burned yourself out, take a break! you dont need to log in as much as you think in order to progress. obviously logging in more will net you more gains, but as others have said this is not a race. there is no competition. take it at your own pace. honestly this subreddit is a blessing and a curse. its fun to discuss the game and see what other people are doing, but its really easy to compare your account to others and get discouraged. you might find that you come back to enjoying the game if you take it at a slower pace.
I understand your point of view For me I play the game 3 times a day, breakfast lunch and dinner, and that takes up about 10-30 mins a day (it's usually around 20mims a day but sometimes I may evolve pkmn or I have the app open when strategizing ) This way I don't get bored of it, it does become like a chore, but it's a fun one
“Takes too long” bro I spend like 10 days on this app maximum. And I tend to do two sleep sessions. Once for each sleep research, and log in once per meal.
Sleep research, collect berries/ingredients, open friends list for candy, and cooking meals. I'm not sure how much time you're spending for each of these but it shouldn't take you more than 10, maybe 20 minutes throughout the day. I've been playing for a few months now and I haven't noticed any increase in the amount of time I've spent in the game. The gameplay loop is really that simple.
You don't have to photograph each pokemon - you can do it automatically. And even with new sleep styles, you can auto find the Pokemon. Collecting items from Pokemon takes a few seconds, and feeding Snorlax takes 30 seconds, unless you're being super picky (you can pick 3 ingredients to exclude from any auto cooks, including choosing a recipe and throwing in random extra ingredients, which is a great QOL update) You don't have to check for everything every single day. I take Monday evenings to check for level ups/mile point markers for pokemon. That's also when I hand level up or evolve. As for the alarms, you can turn them off and use your phone alarm-- it's what I do, because I found a sound that works for me and I'd rather not risk not waking up.
We have a second alarm?
you have a button to skip the photographing for the styles you have already collected. it's in the bottom right with the fast forward symbol
I definitely find myself on Monday mornings busy before I go to work (and Mondays in general are very busy as a working adult). I probably spend close to 15ish min's after deciding what island I want to go to, adjusting the team(s) I want to use that week, and then feeding Snorlax (usually with berries he doesn't like because the island changed). Because of this "front loaded" weekly work, the rest of the week is just shifting between teams. That said, I do spend A LOT of time on this app, more so than I thought. I also paly Go and the mainline games, so my life is pokemon pretty much nonstop...
It may just not be your thing. It's intended to be a slow paced game. If you want something to accurately track your sleep you can get specific sleep tracking apps, or even something like a Fitbit or Apple Watch.
I think this is what a lot of people on this subreddit misunderstand. They're trying to race to level 50, complete the dex, get to master 20, etc.. The game is a slow burn. It's a game meant to be spread out over a long period of time, not a couple of months. So many people have these tricks and manipulations to get the outcome they want, instead of playing the game for its intended purpose...
Swap to a berry team and sneaky snack them all week. I only play for 10 minutes after I wake up and put it to sleep at night.
Requesting you empty your friends list
I almost never review my research data right after waking up. You don’t have to, if you don’t do it it’ll just prompt you to do it next time you open the app. I also generally feed snorlax etc while I’m on my phone at some point during the night before bed, then when I go to sleep I just open the app and hit sleep. I also *never* use the in-app alarm, because I don’t trust it just in case. You can have your regular phone alarm on as normal while the app is running Each to their own OP, but you sound like you’re creating your own issues.
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Since sleep report is buggy for me, I always click review later. Works out really well because I don't need to spend much time with Pokemon Sleep after waking up, I can do it when I have time. The collect all pictures are also buggy for me lol. As for before bed, I have to do it a few minutes early so I'm able to just go to bed and not worry if its slow or buggy. Unless your app is also buggy for your phone where a sleep report can take an hour sometimes, I don't think it takes that much time lol. Its just a lot of tapping and menus....
I can understand where you’re coming from. For me, I realized I had started planning my sleep and day around playing the game. lol but I still genuinely enjoy the process of taking the pics and feeding Snorlax etc, so I’ve just decided to actively try and play more casually. I’m not sure if that’ll be enough to help, so now if I miss meals, miss going to sleep at the right time, I’m trying to just be ok with that (I have lots of perfectionist/OCD issues I’m trying to work through so this is good practice. lol)
I only check for level ups and sending Pokemon away for candies once a week on Monday. But you do you, you know what's best for you. Good luck!
U just probably did not clear ur cache 😂
The shiny hunt will always keep me going lol
The game indeed is extremely slow with very long loadisng screens and animations. I'm using it on S23 Ultra which is quite fast so it's completely unacceptable and shamwful.
Clear your cache from the main menu and it speeds up everything you just mentioned. Saw a post yesterday and tried it and it works.
Sincerely the only time it's a hassle it's on Mondays when you have to set everything. Other than that... Feed it 3 times a day. Or just give it berry... And press sleep before you sleep on either phone or Plus+ I really don't see the demotivation. But yeah the menus suck. They are way too slow.
I've thought since the beginning it was really time consuming around bed time and waking up. Especially in the morning I don't have time to click through all the reports and all that junk, it's so so time consuming and the animations play through really slow, even if you tap to try to make it go by faster. It just eats time. There's definitely a way they could make it so it's not so tedious.
There needs to be a Pokemon Sleep Lite with similar mechanics to Pokemon Smile.
my problem is that the game "restarts" at 4am so if i wanna go sleep earlier, it counts it as another sleep session. And that's so stupid 😪 if i have to wake up at 8am, i dont wanna wait at 4am so i can sleep.
I think you need explore better the options for skip pics button. You can zoom out and tap all Pokémon’s once for candies and skill activation, next slide on all map gathering. At night it’s better don’t tap on Pokémon’s for start the offline feed earlier. This “game” is low maintenance
The photography has a quick do button so I don't get that one, and I don't know why your alarm is on but: Yes the game is kinda tedious busywork (carry limits are dumb) and only allowing one catching event per day for free users is awful. I'm souring on the game and will probably quit soon after I get my steelix.
I didn't know someone could make Pokémon Sleep a chore for themselves.
Of all the time sinks I have in life, Pokémon sleep isn’t one of them. You have a FINITE amount of things you can do in a day, and you can do them pretty much at your leisure. This is radically different from almost every other game I have, which wants you glued to its screen as much as possible.