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Dungeon Maker : Dark Lord
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Top complaints - extracted from 22 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"
12 negative reviews mention this · 55% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bug. It’s a cool game but unfortunately I can’t sync my progress between my iPad and my iPhone. It says the data in my cloud save is from a different account than the one I’m signed in to. It’s the same Game Center account and the same apple acc…" - Xthelegend51
2
"iphone"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bug. It’s a cool game but unfortunately I can’t sync my progress between my iPad and my iPhone. It says the data in my cloud save is from a different account than the one I’m signed in to. It’s the same Game Center account and the same apple acc…" - Xthelegend51
3
"every"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game keeps crashing after every battle. Not very fun to have to reload the game after every battle due to crashing constantly" - Kaoes99
4
"update"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Progress lost. All my progress is lost since the last update. Yes, i backed up on iCloud and tried getting it from iCloud. Disappointed and never touching this again." - Dreaming of Wolves
5
"progress"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bug. It’s a cool game but unfortunately I can’t sync my progress between my iPad and my iPhone. It says the data in my cloud save is from a different account than the one I’m signed in to. It’s the same Game Center account and the same apple acc…" - Xthelegend51
6
"ipad"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Bug. It’s a cool game but unfortunately I can’t sync my progress between my iPad and my iPhone. It says the data in my cloud save is from a different account than the one I’m signed in to. It’s the same Game Center account and the same apple acc…" - Xthelegend51
7
"things"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "UI changes bad. I like the game but the new UI changes just make things more difficult. They should be changed back, it’s more confusing the way it currently is, and not player friendly especially for newbies" - Tea Caz
8
"changed"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "UI changes bad. I like the game but the new UI changes just make things more difficult. They should be changed back, it’s more confusing the way it currently is, and not player friendly especially for newbies" - Tea Caz
9
"several"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "bug. i survived the challege mode（several at the same time）for 500days in legend ended out receiving no reward；is this a bug？so frustrating" - ayhfde
10
"recommend"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Frustrating Game. The game is relentless in punishing you and the unlock is too slow. Highly not recommend." - Zawarudo xiil
11
"crashes"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Was amazing needs fixing.. I liked this game a lot and would sometimes play for hours. Tried to play today and noticed game now crashes upon opening." - MobExtra
12
"completely"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "UI ruins great game. As much as I like this game, I would not be playing it if I had only come across it recently. Some months back they had a major update that completely changed the UI. Unfortunately the new UI looks horrible, is much harder to navigate, and …" - Hyrushoten
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Great but....
I transferred to a new phone but I can’t restore any purchases (it’ll say I purchased but not give me anything) made on my previous one
Game keeps crashing after every battle
Not very fun to have to reload the game after every battle due to crashing constantly
bug
i survived the challege mode（several at the same time）for 500days in legend ended out receiving no reward；is this a bug？so frustrating
Frustrating Game
The game is relentless in punishing you and the unlock is too slow. Highly not recommend.
Progress lost
All my progress is lost since the last update. Yes, i backed up on iCloud and tried getting it from iCloud. Disappointed and never touching this again.
闪退，ipad air2闪退，浪费钱
闪退
Crash on startup
Games was great, but now it can’t even start.
Was amazing needs fixing.
I liked this game a lot and would sometimes play for hours. Tried to play today and noticed game now crashes upon opening.
No longer supports iPhone 6
Great game but I have feen multiple comments about this issue edit: they told we several months ago that they where working on it as of the last update it won’t even launch on iPhone 6
Crashes every five minutes on iPad 4
Stay away from this company. I have sent email, Facebook posts, and instant messages and they DON'T CARE! They only want your money and are NON-RESPONSIVE. If I could give them ZERO STARS I would!
RET. SSG Jason L. Elliott
RET. SSG Jason L. Elliott
Faulty cloud save
Loved the game so much and had so many fun times and lost all my progress because the cloud save function is garbage worst I have ever seen. Really loved the rest of the game.
NEEDS AN UPDATE BADLY, CONSTANT CRASHING!
This game crashes on my iPhone 6 running the latest 12.4.3. Every time I pick a card and it goes to load the next screen it crashes, then I restart the game and it plays the card I was trying to play! Please fix the crash as it’s unplayable as it is right now! It’s a very fun game and I will change my review to 5 stars after an update that’s fixes the crashing problem, but right now it’s an unplayable 1 star game!
Looks Ugly
The art style completely changed. Things look like runescape now. old and ugly.
Doesn’t run properly
Do not buy!!!
Display issues on iPhone XS Max
Cars in the game are cutoff by the notch on the XS Max
BUG STILL NOT FIXED!!!!!
Paid money into a game that has been unplayable for a month.
I do not recommend this game.
I do not recommend this game.
Bug
It’s a cool game but unfortunately I can’t sync my progress between my iPad and my iPhone. It says the data in my cloud save is from a different account than the one I’m signed in to. It’s the same Game Center account and the same apple account.
UI changes bad
I like the game but the new UI changes just make things more difficult. They should be changed back, it’s more confusing the way it currently is, and not player friendly especially for newbies
无敌的怪物太多了！
随着玩的次数增加，出现无敌怪物的概率越来越高，我甚至在第五天就遇到了不死怪……
UI ruins great game
As much as I like this game, I would not be playing it if I had only come across it recently. Some months back they had a major update that completely changed the UI. Unfortunately the new UI looks horrible, is much harder to navigate, and provides less information. I dropped the game for several months in the hope that they would rollback the change, but that didn’t happen. The game is just good enough and I’ve invested just enough for me to keep playing despite how bad the UI is. I recommend giving the game a quick try to see if you can live with the UI as if you can get past that the rest of the game is amazing.
It has potential, please read this devs!
There are some very good things about this game, but they are far outweighed by the bad. The good first: great spritework, nice UI polish, great ideas, very stable. Now the bad, and man is there a lot... to start, the game is just WAY too easy. A baby could beat this game, literally, it takes 0 brainpower. If you have fingers to tap the screen you can do literally anything and win forever. Any choices you make are completely unimportant because all of your monsters are absurdly overpowered, and even if they weren’t you could just spam your dark lord ability and tear through levels. The game could be so fun, but the difficulty level just makes it REALLY boring. So enough ragging on the game, how can we fix it?
1. Severely limit mana regeneration rate, and reduce the damage of the dark lord abilities. This should only be used as a last resort if heroes make it to your lord, and even then it shouldn’t instantly kill heroes. Leveling up the dark lord right now is useless because they never take damage anyways. Let the player be scared to take damage.
2. Only allow 1 monster per room, completely rebalance monster vs hero health/damage. Even 5 star monsters SHOULD be dying every fight. Heroes can never make it through a single monster room in the current build of the game. You can simply put 3 5-star monsters on the first tile, and all of the heroes will die there endlessly, it’s sad.
3. Reduce chance of monster drops (eggs). Getting a high level monster should feel important. The player should not have 5 max level monsters through fusions at the end of stage 1.
4. Small complaint, but the music is very lackluster. 2 songs that are basically just 8 bar loops... the quality isn’t bad, but there need to be more, longer, and less droning music.
Hopefully reading some of this helps your dev team rebalance the game. I wouldn’t have written all this if I didn’t think the game could be great, but it falls so short for all of the wrong reasons right now. The code is great, the spritework is great, the sound design is pretty good... please just hire someone to balance the game!
1. Severely limit mana regeneration rate, and reduce the damage of the dark lord abilities. This should only be used as a last resort if heroes make it to your lord, and even then it shouldn’t instantly kill heroes. Leveling up the dark lord right now is useless because they never take damage anyways. Let the player be scared to take damage.
2. Only allow 1 monster per room, completely rebalance monster vs hero health/damage. Even 5 star monsters SHOULD be dying every fight. Heroes can never make it through a single monster room in the current build of the game. You can simply put 3 5-star monsters on the first tile, and all of the heroes will die there endlessly, it’s sad.
3. Reduce chance of monster drops (eggs). Getting a high level monster should feel important. The player should not have 5 max level monsters through fusions at the end of stage 1.
4. Small complaint, but the music is very lackluster. 2 songs that are basically just 8 bar loops... the quality isn’t bad, but there need to be more, longer, and less droning music.
Hopefully reading some of this helps your dev team rebalance the game. I wouldn’t have written all this if I didn’t think the game could be great, but it falls so short for all of the wrong reasons right now. The code is great, the spritework is great, the sound design is pretty good... please just hire someone to balance the game!
Some bugs
Like the but would be better if they fixed bugs
Most annoying bug is the skill description of the thing your hero is using pops up in the muddle of the screen during battle and won’t go away. Really distracting and can’t see what’s happening. Devs if you read this please fix
Most annoying bug is the skill description of the thing your hero is using pops up in the muddle of the screen during battle and won’t go away. Really distracting and can’t see what’s happening. Devs if you read this please fix
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)