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High Seas Hero: Dig & Build
Century Games Pte. Ltd. · 31,321 ratings · ★ 4.8
4.8
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31,321 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 58 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"
43 negative reviews mention this · 74% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh….. Click button to make noise until button no work anymore. The. Either wait for button to work or pay money. There’s no gameplay here. Maybe good for children 3-8, anything smarter won’t be tricked." - Kwardj
2
"money"
12 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh….. Click button to make noise until button no work anymore. The. Either wait for button to work or pay money. There’s no gameplay here. Maybe good for children 3-8, anything smarter won’t be tricked." - Kwardj
3
"play"
9 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Eh….. Click button to make noise until button no work anymore. The. Either wait for button to work or pay money. There’s no gameplay here. Maybe good for children 3-8, anything smarter won’t be tricked." - Kwardj
4
"nothing"
9 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Don’t trust people.. Thankfully I’m decent with internet safety so I haven’t fallen victim to any of the scams this app has to offer. First off, you will more than likely receive several friend requests right after starting the game, no multiplayer played, noth…" - notgoosnecc
5
"game game"
9 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
6
"servers"
7 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Update needed bad. Dead servers can’t compete in SVS let us transfer to high pop servers with our paid items! If not reimburse us for all money spent on your game" - RicoRandom
📋 All 58 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").
The game is a scam
The screenshots on the main page do NOT reflect the game you download. It’s very limited and good luck finding a good guild. The game is overly riddled with micro transactions. Not f2p friendly after a certain point. Has a slot machine type of game play to keep you engaged. Player beware
Update needed bad
Dead servers can’t compete in SVS let us transfer to high pop servers with our paid items! If not reimburse us for all money spent on your game
Вопрос
Почему у меня приложение постоянно переподклчается к интернету и виснет. Телефон хороший интернет дома быстрый в чем проблема?
Lame
This game is pretty boring. It’s also misleading. Ads online are a lie and the images on the store are a lie.
Not as advertised
No digging like what allured you to this game
C
Ko vào đăng nhập đc game
Disappointed
Looks great but just uses over dramatic fake ads to get clicks
Don’t trust people.
Thankfully I’m decent with internet safety so I haven’t fallen victim to any of the scams this app has to offer. First off, you will more than likely receive several friend requests right after starting the game, no multiplayer played, nothing, these are almost definitely scammers. I had 2 players add me and immediately try to get me to give my discord or whatsapp. They (more than likely) are pretending to be women to get vulnerable men into some sort of trap. Secondly, people are openly scamming in the global chat. And last of all the ui is full of little icons trying to get you to spend money. Lame business practices and little moderation will not pan out well for you in the long run.
Gambling problem
this game is pretty much a slot machine. beware
Nothing like the pics
Game is nothing like the pics it shows. Don’t waste your time
Not the same game
This is not the same game that is pictured. Pictured game looks fun to play, the game that I downloaded and opened is boring. Should have zero stars overall.
3v3
3v3 arena is trash. China uses the create new servers method while resetting game for everyone else. They know long time players have too much invested to quit and new players can be scammed thinking there is an endgame or something coming. Predatory method bc one you realize they purposely don’t have endgame, you’ll have spent too much time so low chance of quitting. Then they reset everything for new servers and trap new players and repeat. The keep making new servers method is very well designed addiction tactic. You’ve been warned so don’t ever think “oh one day they’ll merge servers, one day they’ll add stuff to do at max level, one day they won’t erase all my saved resources I’ve been saving for a year and ruin my build”. Nothing…. They make money by creating new servers over and over while keeping you hoping on the edge that they’ll add stuff bc “this game has so much potential “. It’s a trap.
Mindless and Boring
The ads for the game looked fun but the gameplay is boring or non existent. The game consists of mindlessly tapping and endlessly upgrading your boat just to reach another level and do the same thing again. There is zero strategy or skill involved. Don’t bother downloading
Don’t download
This game was really fun at first….but after a year basically if you don’t spend hundreds of dollars on this game you have 0 chance at all. Most servers are completely dead you have one guild in every server just playing cause they spent so much money on the game…. They don’t merge the servers they want you to go to a new server and some more money and lose all your progress from your dead server…the server vs server battle are pointless these devs don’t care about the game at all and the photos on the App Store is literally not even the game… I’m glad I didnt spend much money on this game this game is dead because the devs won’t listen to the community and won’t merge servers
Scam game
Avoid this game. Previews are fake, this game is a pure scam.
Avoid This Game
The game devs are offering in game rewards for a 5 star reviews after they released an update that made the game worse. Since I have integrity and don’t reward negligence, 1 star. Would go to 0 if possible.
Fake Reviews
Don’t believe any of the 5 star reviews, they pay users to rate them
Do NOT play
The developers changed and removed items that players already paid for. What was originally purchased is no longer what's being delivered in the game today.
This isn't about balance changes or updates - this is about paid content being altered or taken away after the fact. That completely breaks trust. If you spend money here, understand that what you buy today may not exist tomorrow.
There are players consistently supporting the game and pushing its limits, yet there's zero accountability when it comes to protecting those purchases.
Until the developers respect what players have paid for, l cannot recommend spending any money on this game.
14:47
This isn't about balance changes or updates - this is about paid content being altered or taken away after the fact. That completely breaks trust. If you spend money here, understand that what you buy today may not exist tomorrow.
There are players consistently supporting the game and pushing its limits, yet there's zero accountability when it comes to protecting those purchases.
Until the developers respect what players have paid for, l cannot recommend spending any money on this game.
14:47
New update sucks
You guys just erased months of progress from all of us. Each update is a regression in power. Glad I know when I get a new resource box in my inventory now. Don't consolidate your dead servers or anything. It's literally 1 and a very minimal maybe 2 active guilds per server. You guys will be lucky to have 10 people playing per active server after this.
Do not invest in this game
At first I really liked this game, and even spent money on it. However, it is so poorly run it is absolutely not worth your time.
Instead of working on important things like server merges to help player retention, they completely rework the entire game system to screw over the people who have already been playing. They will remove item and take away things that were already established in the game and that you may have spent money on with 0 compensation. It’s clear they do not care about the player base as nothing that actually needed to be worked on has been changed at all.
Instead of working on important things like server merges to help player retention, they completely rework the entire game system to screw over the people who have already been playing. They will remove item and take away things that were already established in the game and that you may have spent money on with 0 compensation. It’s clear they do not care about the player base as nothing that actually needed to be worked on has been changed at all.
Will delete your purchases
They will delete your in game purchases in the name of rebalance.
Game wont start
Game wont start
Don’t Recommend
Idk how we got such a high rating but after playing for half a year this game is just not worth your time
Lies
It’s definitely not like the ads
Bait & Switch Cashgrab
There's no way these reviews are legitimate. Every few updates they change the game entirely to get you to invest more in a different ship, forcing you to spend more. The balancing is garbage, every time one ship is the defacto best ship to play and of course they change that every few updates too.
No change
The people make the game fun, but the game itself is unfair to its core. Older servers have better equipment than newer ones yet newer servers still have to fight the old servers and it’s extremely unbalanced. No change just cash grab events and it’s also just the wrong game entirely that the app store presents than the game you actually play
Pay to win
Just another pay to win game…
If you don’t pay, you get bomarded by ads. So many different things you need to pay for if you want to enjoy the game.
If you don’t pay, you get bomarded by ads. So many different things you need to pay for if you want to enjoy the game.
Ai slop
This game is so buns icl ts pmo ai in the big 26
Double charged and told to get lost
Like the title says. I was double charged for a purchase. When send all the required information that tech support asked for, transaction time, information, logs etc. then, 24+ hours later when they finally respond- tech support throws it back on apple stating apple groups charges. I received two individual charges for 19.99 plus taxes etc within 2 seconds of each other. I was charged 40dollars plus for a single 20 dollar purchase. Scammed. I want my money back.
Literally unplayable 3
Game refuses to load if I am connected to a VPN
Every ad for this game is of a different game
This game constantly uses fake ads. It’s disgusting to try and pretend a far superior game is your own work. Do not support these devs. They will lie with their ads.
No es igual a la publicidad
En la publicidad sale un buzo explorando buscando tesoros y el juego es el típico juego automático de destruir enemigos
AI slop
The use of generative AI in this product makes me think the company is cheap and creates low quality games, and has dissuaded me from enjoying this game or any other game from the company
False advertising
This game is nowhere near a dig and build game. This is blatant false advertisement that is more misleading than a woman. The devs have what feels like completely abandoned ship on the crew they have assembled and left such gaps that they’re unfillable.
It plays itself
These is nothing about interaction or decision making, the only thing you can do is to click the obvious button, a monkey game!
Rigged game
This game has become a joke not listening to players and giving advatages to servers they like through transcendent equipment. I just have spent a decent amount on this game but no more.
Bad Experience
First off, there was no introduction or tutorial. Looks like this game was meant for seven-year-olds to just push buttons..
Misleading preview photos vs. actual gameplay.
In the Apple app store this game has photos showing and describing the game to play a certain way. I have played this game for the past 4/5 hours to verify what this game is.
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The game is a collection of “Idle and upgrade your base and buildings” game. If you find waiting on buildings to upgrade and then leaving the app to play another game fun, this is your game.
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This type of game was popular on Facebook and it still plays the same. I like it because of the graphics, but beyond that, you won’t be actually “playing” this game for long because of it’s design. You upgrade buildings and then wait.
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You will get to a point where you can’t progress without waiting. You’ll find another game to fill in those waiting periods and idk of that is fun?
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The game is a collection of “Idle and upgrade your base and buildings” game. If you find waiting on buildings to upgrade and then leaving the app to play another game fun, this is your game.
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This type of game was popular on Facebook and it still plays the same. I like it because of the graphics, but beyond that, you won’t be actually “playing” this game for long because of it’s design. You upgrade buildings and then wait.
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You will get to a point where you can’t progress without waiting. You’ll find another game to fill in those waiting periods and idk of that is fun?
Predatory
This game is just the most pay to win, predetory junk I have ever seen on here…the fact this has 5 stars is a joke. Seriously?
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Pls fix it
Not working
Not what you think
Game doesn’t look nothing like the photos . Game not worth it
Pay to win
This game is no like the pictures. Don’t waste your time and money on this dying game.
The game
The game is not a good game it’s so boring and there’s nothing to do
Don’t
Just a carbon copy time sink
Misleading ads
It’s fun for a short time, I got over it on the same day and it’s not exciting as the misleading ads make it seem.
Not like adds
I hate games that don’t make ads realistic to gameplay, simply for the fact their gameplay is trash. Button clicker idle simulator.
Not as advanced
I thought it was going be a cool under water mining and fighting game but it’s not even close
Buy a dog, pet it, you’ll be happier
It’s not a game it’s an app that tries to get you to tap on the screen in a random order nonstop. You can’t lose, you can’t win, you just tap, and tap, and tap. 0 strategy.
Paywall Paywall Paywall
This game prevents you from advancing past certain points if you don’t pay money. This game is the typical chinese made bloodsucking game. Absolutely disgusting
+ 8 more in the clipboard copy
Sentiment summary
96%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)