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Flambé®: Merge and Cook
Microfun Limited · 10,620 ratings · ★ 4.8
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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"
20 negative reviews mention this · 91% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointed. Just another match game that has way too many steps to get each item. Wish I could find one that wasn’t like that." - New businesses?
2
"energy"
10 negative reviews mention this · 45% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Gonna have to uninstall. I absolutely LOVED this game, but then I realized the further you get the less likely you’ll be able to merge or actually compete to win in the challenges. The board fills up too fast, you merge to get mediocre prizes and can’t even customi…" - blairhasopinions
3
"play"
7 negative reviews mention this · 32% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Grubbing…. i love this game so much! i play it a lot and have spent around $60 on it. however, the prices keep going up and up. things that were $1.99 went up to 2.99, then 3.99, then 4.99… something that was 1.99 is now 6.99. extremely rude in my opi…" - sophia spivey
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"merge"
6 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Gonna have to uninstall. I absolutely LOVED this game, but then I realized the further you get the less likely you’ll be able to merge or actually compete to win in the challenges. The board fills up too fast, you merge to get mediocre prizes and can’t even customi…" - blairhasopinions
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"other"
6 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointed. Just another match game that has way too many steps to get each item. Wish I could find one that wasn’t like that." - New businesses?
6
"another"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Disappointed. Just another match game that has way too many steps to get each item. Wish I could find one that wasn’t like that." - New businesses?
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"less"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Gonna have to uninstall. I absolutely LOVED this game, but then I realized the further you get the less likely you’ll be able to merge or actually compete to win in the challenges. The board fills up too fast, you merge to get mediocre prizes and can’t even customi…" - blairhasopinions
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"actually"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Gonna have to uninstall. I absolutely LOVED this game, but then I realized the further you get the less likely you’ll be able to merge or actually compete to win in the challenges. The board fills up too fast, you merge to get mediocre prizes and can’t even customi…" - blairhasopinions
9
"money"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Grubbing…. i love this game so much! i play it a lot and have spent around $60 on it. however, the prices keep going up and up. things that were $1.99 went up to 2.99, then 3.99, then 4.99… something that was 1.99 is now 6.99. extremely rude in my opi…" - sophia spivey
10
"people"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money Grubbing…. i love this game so much! i play it a lot and have spent around $60 on it. however, the prices keep going up and up. things that were $1.99 went up to 2.99, then 3.99, then 4.99… something that was 1.99 is now 6.99. extremely rude in my opi…" - sophia spivey
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"playing"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cash Grab. Deleting, will not be re-downloading While I absolutely was enjoying this game, you practically can’t do anything without purchasing. Tried playing it without purchasing, I couldn’t complete the challenges in time, or the events. Not worth…" - Ašhlėy
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"long"
4 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Would be fun without long recharge times. It’s is frustrating to be playing and have to stop not because energy runs out but you have to wait for the resources to recharge. An hour, really? If we have energy we should be able to play." - 911Vixen
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Disappointed
Just another match game that has way too many steps to get each item. Wish I could find one that wasn’t like that.
Money Grubbing…
i love this game so much! i play it a lot and have spent around $60 on it. however, the prices keep going up and up. things that were $1.99 went up to 2.99, then 3.99, then 4.99… something that was 1.99 is now 6.99. extremely rude in my opinion, i shouldn’t be paying more now because i’ve already purchased things. if anything it should be the other way around. completely put me off of this game and i am beyond disappointed. do better for people that have spent money on your game.
Don’t bother-Pay to win game *Money Grab-Merge and Cook Kate’s adventure is WAY better with energy
Don’t even bother with this game. You can play for less than 5 minutes, then you have to buy energy. Generators run out absurdly fast too. A much better merge game that gives you many videos to watch for energy, videos for hard to get products and is very generous with energy given on events is Cook and merge Kate’s adventure. Kate’s adventure appreciates its players and is very fair to us. Flambé is just a money grab who doesn’t care about its players.
Annoying
I know this is a game with “energy” that you have to wait for or pay for. I get that. What I don’t like is that there are also cool down timers for the generators. So you can have enough energy, but still can’t use it because the generators are cooling down. Dumb!
No rewards in ReceiptPal
I didn’t play in this game before. But i played the same games earlier. I like this type of game (merge games)
I am upset, because I didn’t play this game earlier and i didn’t get my rewards.
Thank you
I am upset, because I didn’t play this game earlier and i didn’t get my rewards.
Thank you
False advertisement
Seen an interactive ad and downloaded the game, played for a while to see if the merge was a starter and I’d get to play the game in the advertisement . Low and behold it was not it was simply clickbait to get people to download the app .
Ad is misleading
This game is nothing like the ad that caused me to download it, it’s just a merge game, the ad showed a completely different game. I don’t understand the marketing strategy of lying about what the game is because as soon as people download and realize it’s not what was advertised they’ll just delete the game, just like I’m doing
Used To Be My Favorite
Sadly this game is no longer my favorite game. They used to offer 3200 energy for $19.99 and they have basically cute it in half and give you some diamonds which don’t really get you anywhere because the amount you need double the amount each time you want but 100 energy. I used to love it because I could play for a long time like two days with the amount of energy you could buy and I could actually complete the card collections and the mini games but, now they have gotten greedy like every other game and you have to spend a fortune so I’m going to use u the diamond I have and delete it v
False advertising
This is not the game that is advertised
Not as shown
Game is nothing as shown. It is a merge game.
Downgrade
Can’t just buy the energy packs anymore which was the most cost effective…
AI is horrible
I deleted this game the same day I downloaded it. It was boring and had too many ads. I’m reviewing this app because I got an ad for it on another game and the entire thing was made using AI. It’s very obvious and lazy as hell. I will never trust an ad or flyer using AI. There’s nothing good about AI. It’s terrible for the planet, uses an amalgamation of other people’s work, takes creativity out of everything, and it doesn’t even look good!
Gonna have to uninstall
I absolutely LOVED this game, but then I realized the further you get the less likely you’ll be able to merge or actually compete to win in the challenges. The board fills up too fast, you merge to get mediocre prizes and can’t even customize your own game. I think I’d rather find another game than even think about paying for energy at this point. 👎🏼
Cash Grab
Deleting, will not be re-downloading
While I absolutely was enjoying this game, you practically can’t do anything without purchasing.
Tried playing it without purchasing, I couldn’t complete the challenges in time, or the events.
Not worth my time anymore
While I absolutely was enjoying this game, you practically can’t do anything without purchasing.
Tried playing it without purchasing, I couldn’t complete the challenges in time, or the events.
Not worth my time anymore
Would be fun without long recharge times
It’s is frustrating to be playing and have to stop not because energy runs out but you have to wait for the resources to recharge. An hour, really? If we have energy we should be able to play.
Game is Fun but Fraudulent
So overall I like this game and have been enjoying it for many months. Its something kind of mindless to do to pass time or relax. And it has different elements that keep you engaged. HOWEVER on two separate occasions this app has charged my card for in-game purchases that I did not make. And the purchases happen on days when I dont even open the game and haven’t even touched my ipad. So I am going to be deleting it because i cant keep disputing these charges. I let apple know the first time it happened and got a refund but no explanation of what happened. It makes me wonder if there have been other charges I missed. So be vigilant if you download it.
Takes way to long to build ingredients
Would be a fun game but has way too many steps for one recipe. Saying it’s cost less is pointless because by the time I build scrapped vanilla I will lose and am losing interest and I’ve only been playing 3 days.
Expensive bundles!
Like the game. Don’t like that you can’t get the 2x multiplier for everything like other games, it’s limited time. Don’t like how long it takes to recharge generators. And the bundles now?! $10 is the only option?!? Used to be able to get a ton of energy for $4, even $6. I refuse to buy the $10 or $15 bundles for special events. Thanks for saving me money, I guess.
Flawed energy system
I got this game because I love their game Seaside Escape. I thought this one would have the same features I love so much about the other one but I was sorely mistaken. In seaside, your gems and energy are recuperate more quickly which makes it less of a hassle to spend/use them. In flambé, energy is hardly won. It regenerates slowly yeet spends quickly. It can take a full day, if not days, to fulfill one order simply because you’re waiting for your energy to re-up. It’s obviously a ploy so that you’ll make in app purchases but even that is not worth it. I’ve purchased energy twice-one being a .99 deal for gained energy based on coin revenue which *was* worth it- and the other the typical 1.99 payment. I’ll never make another one. 2 dollars for 100 energy that runs out in a snap is not the incentive you think it is. Unfortunately, this greatly lessens the enjoyment from the game and instead of enticing deals that make you want to spend your actual money, it’s a cheap scam-esque system that makes you not want to play it at all.
Infuriating
Very addictive game, I’ve actually stopped playing all my others because I’m hooked but here’s on thing that always makes me stop playing. Me taking the time and using energy to get an item (conch) only to come back some time later to it no longer existing. Nobody likes wasting their time man.
It’s ok…
I always run out of energy way too fast and it got to a point where I just deleted the game.
The ad is misleading
I like the game but from the ad it made it seem like it was a different game an u actually was gonna be cookin
Sentiment summary
97%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)