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Island Building : Merge Games
byss mobile · 15,673 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 29 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"
25 negative reviews mention this · 86% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Slightly boring , upgrade grill takes two hours!!!!" - Scott Handy
2
"watch"
6 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Full of ads. Every 10 seconds you have to watch an ad to advance in the game. I don’t see how this is called a game you spend most of your time watching ads on this app" - Lvaaaa
3
"computers"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Why. I’m not bored as the first 15 minutes of play. all you do is merge computers and buy stuff for your house. I thought it would be a bit more exciting from the ads I’ve seen but I overestimated it a bit too much. This is just any other merge …" - the squigg
4
"nothing"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth your time. This game is not designed to entertain the players, basically has nothing interesting. The purpose is to only let you click the ads, which only benefits the creator of the game. I don’t understand what kind of people will waste time on it t…" - susanasun
5
"money"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Not worth your time. This game is not designed to entertain the players, basically has nothing interesting. The purpose is to only let you click the ads, which only benefits the creator of the game. I don’t understand what kind of people will waste time on it t…" - susanasun
6
"level"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Game ends at level 60. Nothing to do and there are never any updates. This is a dead game." - 15KC15
7
"island"
4 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Glitching. My game is currently glitching. When I click on the plan to take me to my island or to the hotel my game will just shut off. It’s really aggravating Bc I enjoy playing this game." - brytnea
8
"think"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "False advertisement. Not only do I think these reviews are fake but for you guys to sell something you don’t even receive. it said no ads yet not only did I get ads I got 3 of them in one! Yet you want what $4.99 or $5.99 a month??? It didn’t even work…. Then t…" - Kingazule
9
"something"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "False advertisement. Not only do I think these reviews are fake but for you guys to sell something you don’t even receive. it said no ads yet not only did I get ads I got 3 of them in one! Yet you want what $4.99 or $5.99 a month??? It didn’t even work…. Then t…" - Kingazule
10
"gold"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "False advertisement. Not only do I think these reviews are fake but for you guys to sell something you don’t even receive. it said no ads yet not only did I get ads I got 3 of them in one! Yet you want what $4.99 or $5.99 a month??? It didn’t even work…. Then t…" - Kingazule
11
"boring"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Slightly boring , upgrade grill takes two hours!!!!" - Scott Handy
12
"upgrade"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "DO NOT BUY THIS GAME. Slightly boring , upgrade grill takes two hours!!!!" - Scott Handy
📋 All 29 negative reviews
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False advertisement
Not only do I think these reviews are fake but for you guys to sell something you don’t even receive. it said no ads yet not only did I get ads I got 3 of them in one! Yet you want what $4.99 or $5.99 a month??? It didn’t even work…. Then to make things worse you send a vip pack to “go gold”?!?! Wild.. never in my life.
DO NOT BUY THIS GAME
Slightly boring , upgrade grill takes two hours!!!!
Forget it
Any reference to Trump, parody or otherwise, is why I will NEVER play your game again. Are you people crazy?!
Commercials Commercials Commercials
The game benefits the creator of the game all I have seen were commercials every step of the game. Can’t even have fun.
Long tutorial
Tutorial too long.
Stole sounds from another game
The game will probably face a copyright issue soon, they stole audio from slime rancher. I already saw them deny it. Don’t support this game. I’m in the official discord server for slime rancher and already notified them.
This game steals sounds
This hame is a sound stealer form another game slime rancher.
Not worth your time
This game is not designed to entertain the players, basically has nothing interesting. The purpose is to only let you click the ads, which only benefits the creator of the game. I don’t understand what kind of people will waste time on it to make money for the game developers because it is totally NOT FUN.
Game ends at level 60
Nothing to do and there are never any updates. This is a dead game.
Fun but ran out of quests
It was fun until there was no more quests. Stopping and Ming back in around 6 months to see if more added.
Full of ads
Every 10 seconds you have to watch an ad to advance in the game. I don’t see how this is called a game you spend most of your time watching ads on this app
Glitching
My game is currently glitching. When I click on the plan to take me to my island or to the hotel my game will just shut off. It’s really aggravating Bc I enjoy playing this game.
Too many political ads
I had to delete the game. There were far too many political ads. Why in the world are there political ads in a game of merging computers???
Just one thing
Please add a function where u can transfer your data game to a new device
Rigged
The wheel is rigged constantly getting the same prize over and over again and it's always a booster . It takes forever to receive your items along with the fact it already take a long time to receive the coins to buy the items .
🤮🤮🤮
It was weirdest game I ever thought not that good too hard and horrible
Very disappointing
I absolutely loved this game until I got to level 5 on the town and level 48 on the island I am now on level 50 with still nothing available in the to do list to further my island or my town I emailed the developer three times within the last two weeks the first email they were willing to help the second they stated they were working on fixing it and the third I received no response with still not having any improvements to the game I think it’s time to delete it this game isn’t worth it if the developer doesn’t care enough to communicate/ fix simple problems
Misleading
The advertisements I saw for this game were misleading, said that I would make an island of my dream but I’m only able to merge computers.
Stupid game
Just matching boxes and the game make you to watch ads to go to next level!
Dummest game ever
This sounds like it should be fun but all you can actually do is merge computers and wait. What a waste of time!
After level 45 the game ends
You can grind this game in a month or two. Then it ends. You cannot upgrade your island afterwards. New patch was also heavily forcing in game purchases.
Purchase problems.
Love the game. I bought a starter pack, but it told me the purchase failed. I got a refund from Apple. I tried the VIP, and it confirmed I was approved and scheduled to be charged, but it gave me nothing of the perks, nor removal of ads; like I never had any benefits. Is there a way to solve? I’d really like to buy IAP.
Why
I’m not bored as the first 15 minutes of play. all you do is merge computers and buy stuff for your house. I thought it would be a bit more exciting from the ads I’ve seen but I overestimated it a bit too much. This is just any other merge game just with computers. I would not install this game.
What is the end goal to this game
The game is questionable as to what is the goal of the game besides merging boxes. Building takes so much time and points to get an item but to get the gold coins I have to go through a ton of boxes and ads, after awhile it’s boring and the ads too watch becomes to much
Good game but begging for money
Overall a good game but prize wheel is favored for Profit Boosters and Gift Bonanzas, make you watch ads, and it’s very hard to get gold bars without buying them
Horrible ads
I enjoyed this game okay, gradually figuring things out as I went. But I couldn’t stomach the violence and sex in so many of the ads, so I deleted the game from my device before the end of the evening.
Makes no sense
Alli seem to be doing for 1st 30 minutes is matching numbers, (on pictures of cartoon computers). 2 2’s, 2 3’s, 2 4’s and so on. Up to 14 and still don’t explain what the heck the game is actually about. It keeps saying i get a free booster, which i dont even notice what it does, but first you get stuck watching ad after ad and still not knowing what is happening. Its boring as can be so far. I watch more ads than matching numbers. Dont people get it? I come to a game to play that game, and not for searching for new games. So interrupting the game with ads about other games, dont ya think its not a good thing? You send me to see other games, so maybe ill like one and leave this one. Thanks guys for sending me elsewhere to spend my money instead of here. Fortunately, by you sending me to at least 30 ads in 30 minutes, those ads did find me something else as this one is as boring as can be. So i guess for the devs here, the ads will send people running from boredom very quickly.
Good game, but broken.
I’m having fun, and am willing to support the developers by watching ads, but when I watch an ad to get an upgrade or purchase something from the store, I don’t get the thing. I’m not going to waste my time watching ads if it doesn’t give me the offered benefit.
Fun until they steal your money 😠
I just tried to make a purchase and as soon as it said success, the game said I canceled the transaction and I didn't. Yes I was charged. Annoying!!! Also their support is non existent
Edit: it came through 2 days later. Maybe having a support contact in game or on your website would be nice...
Edit: it came through 2 days later. Maybe having a support contact in game or on your website would be nice...
Sentiment summary
91%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
4%
Negative (1-2★)