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Townsmen Premium
HandyGames · 40,447 ratings · ★ 4.4
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Top complaints - extracted from 19 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"
13 negative reviews mention this · 68% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It's boring to watch how your town lives. Town doesn't feels alive, no lights in houses, no night, citizens don't use decorations. Game doesn't give you immersion when you watch your town." - User User
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"play"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Make some improvement if you need 5 stars from me, 1. When a building is demolished why the Thrail does not go to account, who has seen coins on the ground, the workers pick them at last and that too 20 coins at a time. 2 . I hate your band…" - Pankaj Patel
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"premium"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "You are not losing much by purchasing premium but it is impossible to play. After the purchase you no longer have ads but you still have to pay for crowns if you want to continue to play or you can wait just the same as if you are playing t…" - R0bo5haRk
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"version"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "You are not losing much by purchasing premium but it is impossible to play. After the purchase you no longer have ads but you still have to pay for crowns if you want to continue to play or you can wait just the same as if you are playing t…" - R0bo5haRk
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"money"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "painful slow, pay to make payable, pay $1 for app, buy $10 in pay walls to make it bearable, tutorials teach you to pay money... dont bother" - James Potosky
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"paid"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "AVOID. No refund available. This is a shadow of the superior version Townsmen a Kingdom Rebuilt, which was taken off the play store. Extremely disappointing. This paid version is still play-to-win. What a rip off!" - Michael Park
7
"stars"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Make some improvement if you need 5 stars from me, 1. When a building is demolished why the Thrail does not go to account, who has seen coins on the ground, the workers pick them at last and that too 20 coins at a time. 2 . I hate your band…" - Pankaj Patel
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"continue"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "You are not losing much by purchasing premium but it is impossible to play. After the purchase you no longer have ads but you still have to pay for crowns if you want to continue to play or you can wait just the same as if you are playing t…" - R0bo5haRk
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"free"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "You are not losing much by purchasing premium but it is impossible to play. After the purchase you no longer have ads but you still have to pay for crowns if you want to continue to play or you can wait just the same as if you are playing t…" - R0bo5haRk
10
"paid version"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "AVOID. No refund available. This is a shadow of the superior version Townsmen a Kingdom Rebuilt, which was taken off the play store. Extremely disappointing. This paid version is still play-to-win. What a rip off!" - Michael Park
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"things"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I played this game before. it had no ads and increasing time was free and part of the system. although i bought this game for .99¢ its not even worth that. ads for things on any premium game is downright robbery! and you want people to stil…" - Mandy Shultz
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"purchases"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I played this game before. it had no ads and increasing time was free and part of the system. although i bought this game for .99¢ its not even worth that. ads for things on any premium game is downright robbery! and you want people to stil…" - Mandy Shultz
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Make some improvement if you need 5 stars from me, 1. When a building is demolished why the Thrail does not go to account, who has seen coins on the ground, the workers pick them at last and that too 20 coins at a time. 2 . I hate your bandits, they give me mental pressure. 3 . Can you make the tutorial area bigger?. As that is the only one I like, I play for hours but I want peace of mind and loads of area , I enjoy decorating 😆
You are not losing much by purchasing premium but it is impossible to play. After the purchase you no longer have ads but you still have to pay for crowns if you want to continue to play or you can wait just the same as if you are playing the free version.
Another scummy bait game, you pay for premium and are still locked out of basic ease of life features, the game is incredibly slow unless you have them, don't support companies like this, let them rot.
painful slow, pay to make payable, pay $1 for app, buy $10 in pay walls to make it bearable, tutorials teach you to pay money... dont bother
AVOID. No refund available. This is a shadow of the superior version Townsmen a Kingdom Rebuilt, which was taken off the play store. Extremely disappointing. This paid version is still play-to-win. What a rip off!
shutup
The game keeps force closing for several times
not a good game.
I played this game before. it had no ads and increasing time was free and part of the system. although i bought this game for .99¢ its not even worth that. ads for things on any premium game is downright robbery! and you want people to still make purchases hahaha no way im uninstalling and refunding. this game isn't good because of your obvious money grabbing ruining a decent game.
I purchaged game and played. But after reinstall i am unable to load my game progress. There was error in loading my game played data. I lost all progress
The $0.99 is to remove the ads. Game still asks you to pay to continue. There are still ads to watch. Outdated graphics and user interface brings the game's overall appeal to a 3 out of 10.
Bruh I paid for this game. Previously fast forward system was free with premium version but now it is behind ads and in app purchases. This not good guys what's the difference between free version and paid version now
Good game. My complaint is that even with the paid version, it still pops up ads for micro transactions that pause the game until you close the ad. Can we at least let the game continue to run while those pop up are open? Edit: I originally gave 3 stars but dropped it to one. The in game adds to purchase Thalor has gotten very, very annoying. I will get up and go do something while the game runs trying to build up Thalor to build with and come back to a Thalor ad that has paused the stupid game
Ruined a good game by adding greedy in-app purchases.
Fun but limited. no update. its been so long. starts to get boring.
It's boring to watch how your town lives. Town doesn't feels alive, no lights in houses, no night, citizens don't use decorations. Game doesn't give you immersion when you watch your town.
The game is pretty good but I find the constant repairs and smoldering fires to be a little irritating, if the devs adjust that, then it is perfect. Also, please stop harassing me for a rating on the app store, it's also irritating and why I've given you 2 stars.
I accidentally baught a game with microtransactions and ads when I was looking for paid games specifically to avoid those things. the game is... okay. But It takes hours to get anywhere unless you pay real money. There's a fast forward button, but you have to pay for it. Nah, I already paid money. I'm not paying more to unlock features of the game I paid for. I tried having it run in the background like an idle game but it keeps stopping the game to advertise the fastforward button.
this is supposed to be a pay to play game. you pay for the game, you get the whole game. the poor and greedy decision of the publisher implement a 'live service like' model where almost everything is time locked when you build/upgrade, and you can speed things up with currency that you buy with real money, while also didn't get the 'live service' parts like events and content updates. The game itself is really fun and good with cool pixel art as well, the deal breaker is how greedy they are
Sentiment summary
86%
Positive (4-5★)
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Neutral (3★)
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Negative (1-2★)