LOVE

Pros: YOU get to control when you see ads! This is by far the aspect that keeps me coming back. If you run out of ‘energy’ you can watch ads to get more energy to play longer. You also get to skip through the storyline so you can get back to the main point of the game. It’s very satisfying to complete orders on top of advancing throughout the game with cute decor to create your little world! Cons: lots of pop ups for new challenges show up after opening the app after not playing for awhile..but you get used to it because you expect it and even then it’s not that bad. **i’ve never made any in app purchases and don’t plan to because once i do that could be a slippery slope

Great game, possible racial bias

I suggest you take a look at the possible inherent racial bias that may exist in your game. All the brown and Black characters seem to have some deep character flaws or promiscuity about them while most of the White characters appear to have more moral or socioeconomic power or acuity. It makes your very good game come across as socially ignorant and I know this game is far better than that. I support the LGBTQ+ community but as a Black heterosexual woman, it skeeves me out that all of the White women in the game are portrayed as feminine and desirable while the one brown or Black woman is A. gay or bisexual and B. frumpy and not feminine. This perpetuates a false narrative that minority women aren’t feminine, and that they are all masculine lesbians. Frankly, the majority of Black women I know are morally admirable, feminine, and in heterosexual relationships. This includes Black and brown women in my family, friends, and colleagues. Same for Black and brown men. Your one Black man in the game is highly suspect and flamboyantly feminine. In my life, the majority of gay men I know are White. Most Black men in my life are straight, traditionally masculine, fiscally conservative, socially centrist, and are family men. Please take a look.

I can’t give this game negative stars

This game has a decent amount of polish put into it and the gameplay is as you’d expect. The problem though is that the developer actively chooses to change the rules of the game to prevent you from professing without paying. I have spent over 200 in the game and was progressing just fine but as I approached level 47 I was met with a 1500% increase in star requirements while also seeing a reduction in stars that I receive. When messaging customer support asking for justification for this change I was ignored and my messages deleted. It’s clear that the team is only looking to extort its players for every dime it can. I’ve checked with other players hoping to understand what the overall situation is but was told that some were experiencing the same unfair treatment while others were not even on the same exact level. Shame on this developer for augmenting their game and targeting specific users while also inconsistently applying changes across their player base.

Stopped working

This was one of my favorite merge games I have been playing it for like 6-9 months. Two weeks ago I made an in-app purchase and I didn’t receive it which has happened before I just have to try to buy it again and it fixes itself and tells me that purchase was already made but I still didn’t receive it. So I closed the app and when I tried to open it again it wouldn’t load pass 90%. I deleted the app redownloaded it twice and it still wouldn’t load pass 90%. I tried to open the app multiple times a day for 2 weeks and finally decided to just delete the app. I made a lot of in app purchases and have now lost all my game progress and one of my favorite games. Fix whatever is wrong and pay me back for the in app purchases I didn’t receive or had the chance to use.

Completely Rigged

This game can be fun but they are money hungry. There are certain items that you merge that when you tap on it you have drink items or bread items. If one of your orders is a drink order be certain that you will rarely have a drink pop up. Especially if it is an item in the store for sale for example 65 gems for a simple drink order. Of course orders that need to be filled will require 2. You can burn through 100 energy and only have bread distributed for merging. I also made a purchase through the Top up app and received nothing. The response was that they don’t have a refund button. It was for $8.14. In the actual game so I have spent tons of money to play but that was first purchase through the official website App Store. They told me contact Apple or google but my purchase was made with my debit card not through Apple like it is in the game. So buyer beware

horrible support center

UPDATE: my chat with customer service was deleted and i never received compensation for my item. game is now unplayable and this whole situation is extremely frustrating because of how much time i’ve put into this game. This game is a good game with fun events and activities, however I recently lost an item which i need to progress in the game and to do anything in the game really, and the support chat/system is absolutely horrible. They did not respond to my message for days after I contacted every 12 hours or so to try and get an update. Any update they give me is just that they’re looking into it or the technicians found nothing wrong, despite showing many screenshots that would prove i had the item. i still have yet to receive my compensation and they just keep making me wait after not responding for days. absolutely horrible experience with their support group.

A few changes and it might be perfect

I actually grew to love this game but it’s slowly losing me I think it’s madness to have only 100 energy points and that’s all you ever get, especially since it’s a merging game you go through the 100 just to make one item if your lucky enough , and yes the game has events to earn items but if you don’t have the 100 lighting bolts then forget even taking part in any event or joining because before you make it back to 100 the event is over boooo!!!! But I am officially deleting today I am tired of getting into my groove just to not do nothing or for an event to come to earn 500 energy but can’t do anything if you don’t have the energy the amount of stars you need to build your island goes up why can’t your energy at least 300 but if this doesn’t bug you then you will enjoy it or if you don’t mind spending money but me I will be walking away from this game

Very fun in the beginning horrible after level 20

This game is pretty fun in the beginning but the XP ranks up dramatically when reaching level 20 and playing merge games it’s always nice to reach levels faster to experience your island/city/house grow. It is also made harder to level up as the stars on the board do not increase when leveling up so the max stars only give 62 stars. This isn’t a issue with other merge games such as Merge Major as it’s XP doesn’t rise by 2x after level 20:/ and who knows if it will rise to 3x or higher after each level after that. To give a perspective of how much XP rises after level 20 I’m currently level 21 or 22(I deleted the game) it requires 1400 stars to only get 20 XP(you need 440XP to go to the next level) and 100 energy(max) yields only around 200 stars(one energy recharges every 2 minutes).

Welcome to Gossip Harbor Follow Quinn Castillo as her picture perfect life on Brimwave Island crumbles around her.

AppAdvice Mon Oct 02 2023