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Detective Files: Mystery Cases
SayGames Ltd · 1,815 ratings · ★ 4.1
4.1
★★★★★
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Top complaints - extracted from 54 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.
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"game"
23 negative reviews mention this · 43% of all complaints
★★★★★ "when levels would end, ads wouldn't load and I had to exit the game. when I reopened I'd have to redo the level I just completed. I don't mind ads but when they stunt my ability to progress I won't keep playing" - Opal Peaches
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"level"
18 negative reviews mention this · 33% of all complaints
★★★★★ "when levels would end, ads wouldn't load and I had to exit the game. when I reopened I'd have to redo the level I just completed. I don't mind ads but when they stunt my ability to progress I won't keep playing" - Opal Peaches
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"watch"
9 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "There's nothing quite as annoying as when an app asks if you want to watch an ad to double your rewards, you say no, and then they show you an ad anyway. Immediate uninstall for me when that happens." - Gavin Loudon
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"forced"
8 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Easy, boring. Forced adds even with Playpass." - Herbie
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"levels"
7 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "when levels would end, ads wouldn't load and I had to exit the game. when I reopened I'd have to redo the level I just completed. I don't mind ads but when they stunt my ability to progress I won't keep playing" - Opal Peaches
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"playing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "when levels would end, ads wouldn't load and I had to exit the game. when I reopened I'd have to redo the level I just completed. I don't mind ads but when they stunt my ability to progress I won't keep playing" - Opal Peaches
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"every"
6 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Borring and you are forced to watch commercials on every level." - Camelia M.
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"every level"
6 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Borring and you are forced to watch commercials on every level." - Camelia M.
📋 All 54 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").
when levels would end, ads wouldn't load and I had to exit the game. when I reopened I'd have to redo the level I just completed. I don't mind ads but when they stunt my ability to progress I won't keep playing
too much force ads
The game is just riddled with so many ads! even inside the levels... i got 4 - 5 back to back ads from just 1 level... wth devs???
love these kind of games but this one is way too easy
Borring and you are forced to watch commercials on every level.
you will watch ads much, much longer than you actually play. Total waste of time
annoying ads
uninstalled after playing about 5 minutes and spending half that time looking at ads.
Not interesting or challenging. Only 'mistake' is when the clues are ambiguous or just plain incorrect (either side of an object being open, but only one side correct without addition info; referring to 'right' or 'left' in relation to the viewer or in relation to the character, but not consistently only one or the other, etc.). Not worth playing.
Too much ads appear after completed each stage.
this game is just a cash grab full of ads its ads keep bothering me when I am in other apps like god is this the only game out there
it's terrible
I can't complete a single level without an ad im forced to watch before I continue
I've only gotten to level 5 and I've already had to watch 4 commercials. he'll no!
forced ads after lvl 7, you have to pay 8$ to remove. I think its gross when you're FORCED to watch ads.
The game itself is good BUT there is an ad after every level. Very discouraging!!!!!!
An ad at each level with no option to go ad-free is too much. For the first 6 levels that averaged an ad per minute.
this game, ate my kid. like actually ate my child. can not believe the audacity. Great game!
was fun for a few levels. then i skipped a day of playing, and got level 8 which was exactly the same as a level id already passed.
too many long ads
too many ads interrupting the game.
Great game but after watching videos it never gives you credit or an arrow to move one. Click bait
the game gets boring.. There's like no other interesting factors about it. You play the game and guess where each person goes, sometimes it has a bad description to tell where a group of 2 goes, but then at the end it just shows someone being guilty and ask you to watch a video FOR EACH LEVEL TO IMPRISON THEM, AND ITS BASICALLY FOR NOTHING, JUST SOME COINS. they could definitely add different factors to the game to spike up the interest
There were ads after I paid for the game
too many ads
it froze didn't let me play it at all. Pls fix this game it. So I didn't get to play this game 😡 👎🏻.
jail the murder is stuck behind ads.
Too many ads.
Ads!!!! If you enjoy ads after every level..... you found your game. 45 second level equals a 2 minute ad. Not sure if I like the game or not. $8 to remove ads.... or free to uninstall
hate hate hate all the stupid ads. can only get through 1 level and then two ads that take forever and can't skip. I would give 0 stars if I could.
Forced ads. Too easy of puzzels.
I hate forced ads. there are so many ways to work them into the game without interrupting it. its such an obvious money grab. it'd have to be a really good game for me to put up with it and sadly this isnt it
Easy, boring. Forced adds even with Playpass.
There's nothing quite as annoying as when an app asks if you want to watch an ad to double your rewards, you say no, and then they show you an ad anyway. Immediate uninstall for me when that happens.
Too many ads. expensive with no rewards
NM. Forced ads... 😔💔 Started after level 8 I'm so far getting an ad after every level
UPSET!!! I got to level 45, and it stopped working, I could not move the people to where they go. I tried everything to get it to work. I had to uninstall it.
too many ads.
this is EXTREMELY FRUSTRATING!! it is such a fun game, but the adds are never-ending... I usually have to restart the game multiple times, and get frustrated and quit playing it.. 🥴
Cute puzzles but FAR too many ads.
The game itself is interesting. I am sure by now everyone one is awfully exhausted by endless ads in simple games but seems like no developer really cares 🤷 I finished 4 levels and after 4 levels got tired from the ads. after you finish a level you can choose: not to watch an ad or to watch it for more coins. But when you choose not to watch - guess what? - BINGO! - you watch an ad 🎉 and you cannot simply close the ad, you are permanently thrown to the app store uninstall with no regret
Not what I thought. I have done the same game/mystery like 4 time in a row.
it's a good puzzle game but there's so many ads, as soon as you get after 6 or 5 levels you gotta start watching ads after every level which gets quite annoying and also to imprison the people after level 1 you also gotta watch ads which makes no since why have only one round where you can imprison people but then hide it behind an ad wall after?? Makes zero sense at all.
ad
I am on level 10, husband of wife fine easy, husband is cheating solved. the detective ok fine, 3 spots left, the assistant of the detective 1 in 3 chance to get it right. AND ALL THREE WERE WRONG AND I FAILED THE LEVEL. so either you didnt program it right or it was a 0% chance of getting it right
way too many ads and no way to opt out.
I loved this game at first until I noticed things... It's repetitive and gets boring after a while, same scenes & people. Plus all the grammar errors makes it seem like a child made this.
game is fun, but the ads are forced and far out-do the time you actually spend playing.
lots of ads and there really no difference in the game play. same players different names.
Users who say this game has no ads, must not have played it. On the first level, there are no ads, not even a banner ad. After that, you get ads after every level, and a permanent banner ad. Clues leave you guessing, and too many ads. Cute concept, but no thanks.
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Sentiment summary
70%
Positive (4-5★)
12%
Neutral (3★)
18%
Negative (1-2★)