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City Island 5 - Building Sim

Sparkling Society - Build Town City Building Games · 473,497 ratings · ★ 4.6

4.6
★★★★★
473,497 ratings
5 ★
373,412 (79%)
4 ★
55,805 (12%)
3 ★
16,939 (4%)
2 ★
8,818 (2%)
1 ★
18,506 (4%)
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Top complaints - extracted from 10 negative reviews

Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.

1
"game"
6 negative reviews mention this · 60% of all complaints
★★★★ "hanging game,lag in my mobile,i cant playing" - no Thing
2
"playing"
3 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★ "hanging game,lag in my mobile,i cant playing" - no Thing
3
"money"
3 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cute graphics, too many ads, everything costs money, no real way to win gold" - Tammy Monroe

📋 All 10 negative reviews

Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").

★★★★ no Thing 5/1/2026
hanging game,lag in my mobile,i cant playing
★★★★ Wise O'Ros 4/28/2026 v5.5.0
Advertising is annoying and not impossible to exit even after 15 seconds
★★★★ A Sanders 4/18/2026
If you want to win prizes playing ridiculous events that involve you viewing 8 to 10 hrs of ads and ads popping up every 3 minutes then this is the game for you. It's like the Corleone family created this game. No helpful building queues to track your building progress. Just ads and ads and ads. Also this game Mafia group literally holds you hostage to extort 33 coins from you to buy some milestone gift you opt not to compete for. you say no it's ok and the screen forcing you to purchase stays
★★★★ Arpit Jaiswal 4/12/2026
very bad my storage is 4gb space and after full download it show can't download free space very bad don't download
★★★★ jonathan kruger 3/29/2026 v5.4.0
great game if that's what your into,but the company itself sucks.none to little support. I got rejected because of a simple question on facebook for another game.
★★★★ Robin Slye 3/20/2026 v5.4.0
After watching videos for the silver, gold and diamond keys , it is not updating the key total for silver, gold and diamond keys. Just within the last 30 minutes I have watched a total of 4 videos for each type of key and my total number of keys have not changed. The balances remain the same. please fix your app.
★★★★ Sean Adams 3/19/2026 v5.4.0
now playing random ads during game.
★★★★ Tasha Cleroux 3/8/2026
In app purchase mandatory to advace in game. Games should be playable without real money.
★★★★★ Tammy Monroe 4/25/2026 v5.5.0
Cute graphics, too many ads, everything costs money, no real way to win gold
★★★★★ Levente Nagy 3/11/2026 v5.4.0
At first it seemed interesting, but it quickly became boring. Many buildings can only be purchased with coins (not money you get after buildings) which take an extremly long time to obtain without paying. The money doesn't accumulate by itself...you constantly have to log in just to click a few times. In summary: another game that seems promising at the beginning, but quickly becomes clear that if you don't pay, it stops to be interesting.

Sentiment summary

91%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
6%
Negative (1-2★)

✓ Strong positive sentiment - clone path is harder, users like the existing app.