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Hooked Inc: Fishing Games
Lion Studios · 496,761 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 31 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"
16 negative reviews mention this · 52% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Glitchy. This game is very glitchy and often lags out. It is not my device because I have a newer iPhone model. Whenever I first open the app, my screen freezes for about 20 seconds then the gameplay contunues normally. Also when I swipe out of the …" - Fuchsia_flower63
2
"freezes"
12 negative reviews mention this · 39% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Freezes nonstop. As soon as I open the app it freezes and never lets me play" - Bread0-0
3
"freezing"
8 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lagging and freezing.. Your app freezes two times every single time I open it and it won’t allow me to advance in the game. Every time I open the app it freezes and lags then I’m back to the last level I left off at. I could not get past bobber 70 no matter what …" - qqqqwwqqwweerree
4
"every"
8 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Glitch. Everytime I load up the game it freezes I’ve deleted the game and got it back. Nothing will fix it." - Teaganizabeast
5
"play"
7 negative reviews mention this · 23% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Freezes nonstop. As soon as I open the app it freezes and never lets me play" - Bread0-0
6
"seconds"
5 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Glitchy. This game is very glitchy and often lags out. It is not my device because I have a newer iPhone model. Whenever I first open the app, my screen freezes for about 20 seconds then the gameplay contunues normally. Also when I swipe out of the …" - Fuchsia_flower63
7
"load"
5 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Glitchy. This game is very glitchy and often lags out. It is not my device because I have a newer iPhone model. Whenever I first open the app, my screen freezes for about 20 seconds then the gameplay contunues normally. Also when I swipe out of the …" - Fuchsia_flower63
8
"without"
5 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I lost my gems!. While I was playing Hooked Inc: Fishing Games I bought 80 gems worth of item upgrades, I had to leave so closed the application, and opened it later only to find the upgrades, gems, and 200 fishing experience missing without a trace!" - Unknown 83,246
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"gems"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Glitchy. This game is very glitchy and often lags out. It is not my device because I have a newer iPhone model. Whenever I first open the app, my screen freezes for about 20 seconds then the gameplay contunues normally. Also when I swipe out of the …" - Fuchsia_flower63
10
"past"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Lagging and freezing.. Your app freezes two times every single time I open it and it won’t allow me to advance in the game. Every time I open the app it freezes and lags then I’m back to the last level I left off at. I could not get past bobber 70 no matter what …" - qqqqwwqqwweerree
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"progress"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Very Laggy and app Crashes often. The app crashes every 15 or so minutes and I lose major progress billions of coins I’ve had to repeat getting. It was a super fun app in the early 2020’s now it’s laggy trash" - LyssieLeigh21
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Keeps resetting my stuff
I go back to the first part and 5 mins later it glitches out and sends me back on xp and I my level for watching ads and it’s really annoying fix it
Freezes nonstop
As soon as I open the app it freezes and never lets me play
Glitchy
This game is very glitchy and often lags out. It is not my device because I have a newer iPhone model. Whenever I first open the app, my screen freezes for about 20 seconds then the gameplay contunues normally. Also when I swipe out of the app and I make upgrades before, they often don’t save and I’ll still lose my money or gems. If you are watching an ad for extra rewards and clic to download the app that is being advertised, it will often refresh the game and you not receive th reward for watching the ad. Very frustrating. Edited this to a one star. The ads are awful and they glitch the whole game.
Glitch
Everytime I load up the game it freezes I’ve deleted the game and got it back. Nothing will fix it.
I lost my gems!
While I was playing Hooked Inc: Fishing Games I bought 80 gems worth of item upgrades, I had to leave so closed the application, and opened it later only to find the upgrades, gems, and 200 fishing experience missing without a trace!
Lagging and freezing.
Your app freezes two times every single time I open it and it won’t allow me to advance in the game. Every time I open the app it freezes and lags then I’m back to the last level I left off at. I could not get past bobber 70 no matter what I did.
Freezing
freezes the minute I open the game
The game is unplayable
The game freezes after being open for one second and just makes the game completely unplayable
Reset
After a 100 days of daily login, the game now free freezes now and every time I open the game, I have to rewatch an ad to get my same level of login that I had for the last two weeks. Half of my treasure hunting that I do comes up empty where it doesn’t even give me a reward. It just takes the treasure maps and then gives me nothing. every time I open the game, it makes me rebuy every single upgrade except for the boat upgrade so even though I have a level 14 boat, I have to buy even the most basic upgrades every time. it has completely reset my mission progress for the goals that daily or whatever the numbered goals twice now so I’ve gotten to redo them multiple times very unpleasant. Very frustrating to play. Game freezes randomly every few actions. Playing on iPhone 16 with lots of extra operating space.
No updates
They haven’t had an update in two years. It’s now buggy as hell and crashes all the time.
Bug and progression lost
Losing progression in murky waters and eats away at gems and in a constant loop of freezing
Losing progress
No matter what I've tried I cannot get past murky waters. This POS will reset my progress back there, but still take any money/gems that were spent in my time past that point.
Used to be a good game
Used to have minimal ads and let you open the game now when I open it every time without fail it won’t even load past the lion it just freezes not to mention when it was loading like a month ago it was so riddled with ads unplayable unless you spend money and if you do you may not even be able to play it delete ts rn and get something better.
It’s okay
The game is a fun concept but it hasn’t been updated in 2 years so the bugs have completely taken over. I can’t even open the game anymore without it freezing two seconds in and then eventually crashes. It freezes after every single click or action and made it impossible to play at all. The screen froze more times than you got ads, which I guess is nice, you just can’t play the game either.
Freezing
It’s been freezing so badly lately. It’s unplayable now
Game
Game kept on freezing.
Terrible game
This game lags so bad! Freezes every four seconds I deleted it within 20 minutes of having it on my phone. Horrible 😭
RIP OFF
$5.99 to disable adds. AND IT DOESNT DISABLE ADS. Absolutely pathetic move
From the developers.
From the developers.
Ads REQUIRED to progress
I have ads blocked on my network, so can’t progress past a certain mission.
Stop with the ads!
Way too many ads, I get they’re needed, but not every 3 seconds. Also pretty obvious they review bombed this review section and flooded it with bots giving 5 stars. It would be a great game if y’all weren’t so greedy and shady…
Can’t even get it to load
Just not able to get it to load loved the game before but now won’t load
Willing to be a 5 Star if you can solve my problem
I bought the no ad bundle and I still have ads. Would love a response or something.
You can’t f2p without drowning in ads
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too many ads
the amount of ads make it dreadful to play
Yo why my game freezing
Yo my game was working fine and I love it and all but now it freezes when I load it sometimes I get like 10 seconds but then freeze can you pls fix this
Very Laggy and app Crashes often
The app crashes every 15 or so minutes and I lose major progress billions of coins I’ve had to repeat getting. It was a super fun app in the early 2020’s now it’s laggy trash
Freezing lately
Been playing for about 6 months but the last week now it freezes when you open the game. Then the lucky wheel bonus will go away and the buoys reset if I click out of the app and back in (not closing it). Super annoying and making me not want to play anymore!
A refund
I spent $15 on a pack on accident and I need a refund
Boxes
Why does there need to be a ad almost every box click on so annoying
Ads
There are SO MANY ADS I can’t even load the game without getting an ad that makes u play solitaire for 10 MINUTES. I just want to play the game not watch 32 playable ads that can’t be skipped. Can’t open a box without watching an ad THIS THING HAS MORE ADS THAN SPOTIFY
Why do you do this?
Why do you do this?
Fun but drowning in ads
Starts off strong but isn’t long before the game smothers you in ads.
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)