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MONOPOLY: The Board Game
Marmalade Game Studio · 184,122 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 49 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.
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"game"
36 negative reviews mention this · 73% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Adds. App spams adds for a add-ons even though you pay for the game. Dont recommend" - Zacmaj55
2
"dice"
15 negative reviews mention this · 31% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Rigged game. The dice rolls are manipulated to keep you landing on chance or community chest to keep you or your opponents from landing on rental property with houses or hotels just to prolong the game. Also, the games fills empty seats with AI players …" - tripledollar
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"play"
13 negative reviews mention this · 27% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Glitch while playing. trade, buy house function doesn’t work sometimes in the middle of the game even i restart the app, game forced user to quit game and play new game very frustrating if you’re winning" - Hminhng
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"money"
11 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cost to much. There is nothing to unlock everything cost money." - Gunnyb24
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"property"
10 negative reviews mention this · 20% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Stupid mechanics. Literally can play for an hour then someone just gives away all their property" - William 🐍
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"trade"
9 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Glitch while playing. trade, buy house function doesn’t work sometimes in the middle of the game even i restart the app, game forced user to quit game and play new game very frustrating if you’re winning" - Hminhng
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"rigged"
9 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Rigged game. The dice rolls are manipulated to keep you landing on chance or community chest to keep you or your opponents from landing on rental property with houses or hotels just to prolong the game. Also, the games fills empty seats with AI players …" - tripledollar
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"every"
9 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cost to much. There is nothing to unlock everything cost money." - Gunnyb24
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"properties"
8 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No in-app Report function. Players should be banned for teaming up and making absurd trades like 1$ for opponent’s properties. 9/10 this happens and there is no ability to report this." - Report issue.
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"player"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Rigged game. The dice rolls are manipulated to keep you landing on chance or community chest to keep you or your opponents from landing on rental property with houses or hotels just to prolong the game. Also, the games fills empty seats with AI players …" - tripledollar
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"other"
7 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Still have ways to cheat the system. I just found that folks can cheat and pay $0 as rent. Another player landed on my property with a few houses, rent owed $750 and they did something weird. A proposed trade that lasted 20 mins. I exited the game thinking it was locked and…" - Gurisingh29
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"nothing"
6 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Cost to much. There is nothing to unlock everything cost money." - Gunnyb24
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Adds
App spams adds for a add-ons even though you pay for the game. Dont recommend
Always loose
Now I keep loosing it’s like it stuck on loose mode. Never winning like it’s stupid like someone who has 10 hotels should automatically win but the system somehow feels bad lets the person magically skip over it constantly. The game isn’t fair what’s so ever
Paid app with IAP
I paid for this but it still annoys me with in-app purchases.
Glitch while playing
trade, buy house function doesn’t work sometimes in the middle of the game even i restart the app, game forced user to quit game and play new game very frustrating if you’re winning
Cost to much
There is nothing to unlock everything cost money.
Stupid mechanics
Literally can play for an hour then someone just gives away all their property
What has happened?
Used to love this game but now every time I try to play it kicks me out right after I create a room and get a code. Or says no internet connection. Happening to everyone who is trying to play/join the room. We JUST bought the game for people who hadn’t ever played it and now it appears we wasted our money.
AI RIGGED
The game play is nice but the AI portion is rigged to make the computer win. They be your rolls and make the AI pawns have the upper hand. Never lands on yours spaces. Just not worth it.
It’s rigged or broken
The randomizer is not random. It’s manipulated. Statistically the probability of how the game decides who goes first, what cards are picked, the dice gets stuck giving the same predictable rolls, needs to be corrected.
Still have ways to cheat the system
I just found that folks can cheat and pay $0 as rent. Another player landed on my property with a few houses, rent owed $750 and they did something weird. A proposed trade that lasted 20 mins. I exited the game thinking it was locked and came back in. That player passed without paying $1.
I cannot figure out how they did it.
My screen showed a proposed trade but their timer was not counting down.
June 10th, 2.10am pacific time.
Also, if someone owes you money, they should not be allowed to give away everything to a third player leading to $0 paid to you.
This hack should be stopped.
I cannot figure out how they did it.
My screen showed a proposed trade but their timer was not counting down.
June 10th, 2.10am pacific time.
Also, if someone owes you money, they should not be allowed to give away everything to a third player leading to $0 paid to you.
This hack should be stopped.
Liar 5 Stars: Camel Jockeys ruined an American legend
Largest RIGGED game on the App Store. Stay away.
Rigged
Rigged asf
Too much freezing!
I’ve had great game get frozen and have to close the app therefor losing the game. This needs to be addressed.
No in-app Report function
Players should be banned for teaming up and making absurd trades like 1$ for opponent’s properties. 9/10 this happens and there is no ability to report this.
IT IS SPAMMED WITH ADS
I have never paid for a game, that doesn’t let you get past the menu without an advertisement
Paying $5 to have constant ads playing, upsells, “BUY THIS SKIN FOR $10”
I counted 4 ads from a regular login just now, where I am trying to just play against AI. I do not recommend this at all. Will be asking for a refund. Disgusting behavior.
Paying $5 to have constant ads playing, upsells, “BUY THIS SKIN FOR $10”
I counted 4 ads from a regular login just now, where I am trying to just play against AI. I do not recommend this at all. Will be asking for a refund. Disgusting behavior.
HORRIBLE glitches
I really don’t understand why it’s so hard to make this game work like every other game on the App Store. There are so many things wrong with this app and it sucks because I love the game of Monopoly. Maybe that’s why they don’t bother to fix anything because they know people will play it no matter what due to the nostalgia? Playing online with a friend is next to impossible to get right and then even when you do get it there are so many glitches. People that have already been Bankrupted are “considering a trade” and then after playing the same game for over an hour, all of a sudden it stops me from being able to purchase houses or mortgage/UNmortgage any property. The game just literally stops working but you are already so far o to the game that you don’t want to quit. Just REALLY disappointing. And the fixes
are probably SO EASY. So lame.
are probably SO EASY. So lame.
KEEPS CRASHING
Crashes 100% of the time on my iPad. Just disappears!
ALWAYSSS IN FAVOR OF ONE PLAYER/BOT
YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS UP. AT FIRST I WAS LIKE MABYE ITS THIS ONE GAME. OUT OF 20 GAMES I PLAYED 16 GAMES WERE RIGGED DISGUSTINGLY TOWARDS ONE PLAYER IT WAS SO OBVIOUS EVERY DICE ROLL WAS IN THE FAVOR OF THE PLAYER THE PLAYER WOULDNT LAND ON MY PROPERTY FOR 10 ROUND TRIPS BUT SOMEHOW I ALWAYS LAND OR I HAVE TO PAY TAXES ON PROPERTIES THAT ARE HALF OF MY MONEY AND THEN THE OTHER PLAYER WOULD GO TO JAIL THREE TIMES IN A ROW WHILE EVERY DICE ROLL IM PAYING EITHER TO PLAYER OR TO BANK FOR SOME PENALTY. AGAIN I OBSERVED THIS FOR 20 GAMES AND IT WAS SO OBVIOUS THAT THIS ISNT LIKE REAL MONOPOLY ITS SIMPLY FAVAORING A RANDOM PLAYER EVERY GAME FROM THE BEGINNING SO THERES NO STRATEGY HERE FOR DEALS AND TRADES, ID YOU ARENT THE PLAYER THAT THE ALGORITHM HAS CHOSEN FROM BEGINNING, YOU WILL LOSE NO MATTER WHAY. SO DONT WASTE YOUR TIME PLAYING THIS STUPID GAME. IT RIGGED AND MOST OF THE TIME YOU NOT EVEN PLAYING AGAINST REAL HUMANS AND ITS JUST BOTS RIGGED AGAINST YOU. PLEASE DONT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME ON THIS GAME.
Why extra paying ?
After purhase why there should more purchase. Maps should be free
Keeps closing
This game is a rip off. Every time I try to play it, it closes at the dice selection option. Don't WASTE your money on it!
Glitches and faulty - don’t wast your money or time
The app glitches and allows cheating. Player lessons landed on my property owing 1500 rent, then transferred all their property without paying. They then landed on my second property(with the red die) went bankrupt and transferred no property. This cheating (avoiding rent by transferring all property for $1) after landing on the space makes the whole game a waste of time.
Game Matching
The matching in this game is so dumb and buggy not worth 5 dollars
I love this game but.
I bought Monopoly on my phone a while ago and I have it on my iPad too. I recently have been trying to play in every single time I try to play it just crashes my game and closes. I can’t load into an off-line game I can’t load into an online game I get to pick my character, my dice, and then it crashes. I really really have tried every single thing to get this game to work. I’ve deleted it and reinstalled it. I can make sure there wasn’t an update. I’ve updated my devices. I would love a refund if I cannot get this game fixed
Un fair
Every game I play everyone but me will gather up a ton of property’s and I will get nothing game after game
Last update killed the game on my dad’s iPad mini.
He has cancer and this was the only game that gave him any kind of joy. And now because of your last update he cannot play the game anymore. Why did you break the game? It crashes before it will ever enter an actual game.
Game keeps crashing!!!
For the last 3 weeks the game shows a message stating that “it’s lost internet connection”. Nothing is wrong with my internet. I’ve reinstalled the game many times but nothing works.
Buggy
I player quit the game by trading everything to other player and bankrupted himself from that point on the game confused me for him and won’t let me trade, buy properties, it only let me roll dice and accept other’s offers. It a shame you can’t make a good app with all the resources that you have at your disposal.
Scam Game
I'll get straight to the point. This game is a money maker where you can buy an add-on to give an upper hand in a game. The dice mechanism as mentioned in previous comment are program to avoid landing on space or prevent you from going around the board. It's sad but it is what it is. Don't buy this game.
Fix you’re game
People cheating giving all they money just cause you don’t wanna trade with them do something about that
Unplayable
Every single game I have gotten into people just trade all of their property away to one singular player for a dollar making every game unplayable with no punishment. Online is unplayable
Dice are rigged
I owned 2 monopolies and had 3 players pass all 6 of my properties over 10 times without touching them.
Disappointed
The game itself is so Good but Its Clearly obvious The game gets scripted, its not just luck
I have more properties with houses than my opponent but they never land on my properties but i land on theirs every round till i Remove my houses one by one
It doesn’t feel random at all at this point its just ragebait.
I hope you can fix the Randomness of the dice. Thank you.
I have more properties with houses than my opponent but they never land on my properties but i land on theirs every round till i Remove my houses one by one
It doesn’t feel random at all at this point its just ragebait.
I hope you can fix the Randomness of the dice. Thank you.
Why no Chinese
No Chinese
Bad deal
Full of bugs . I played it up to a high level then it just dropped me back to level one for no reason. You buy all extra and for nothing.
Single Player Bot TOO East!
Even on “hard,” the game feels ridiculously easy! There’s little challenge and it quickly becomes a waste of time. Gameplay feels repetitive and boring.
Ai OBVIOUSLY CHEATS
I played a game filled solely with ai players other than myself, and the ai did many things that are just clear cheats to help itself. It unmortgaged 6 properties on its turn using only 300 dollars, the price of which should have been upwards of 450 if I remember correctly. Then when I get the controls on my turn and roll, suddenly the ai places a hotel on a mortgaged property, unmortgages it, meanwhile it’s still my turn and there is still a property in this color set mortgaged. It is just the clearest example of blatant cheating, it goes against many of monopolies rules all at once. I have had experiences somewhat similar playing with ai or even playing with ai replacements for real players and honestly it has made me very much dislike this game; I would like to request my money back.
Cheating
Are the developers ever going to find a way to stop the CHEATING? Being able to report them for review?
If not, can I get my money back?
If not, can I get my money back?
Dice is rigged!!!
It’s actually my first time writing a review and I feel compelled to do so. There are obvious patterns with the dice which controls the game to suit the developer’s agenda. In the multiplayer mode, I’ve noticed there’s always a none human player(bot). I know this because each player has a level and you’d clearly see this bot character has none with an obvious none human name.
The dice is rigged to favor this bot the most with only 1 cycle around GO and it already has 6-7 properties meanwhile real players are with either one or two. I took my time to play the game so many times and this same pattern is constant. This game is a beautiful game that should be enjoyed with the randomness of a dice but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
On several occasions I’d have some properties with hotels on them and 2 different cycles around GO will have nobody landing on them but around them. Yet the dice takes me to that one property I’m hoping not to land on. It seems the game was developed to keep older people and kids in the app trying so hard to win a game. I’ve noticed they’re other people complaining about the same thing in the reviews with no responses from the developers.
This game was paid for to even be able to download it. The least you guys can do it to make it a fair game and allow for strategy, luck and bargaining chips be the determining factors for who wins not a rigged dice!!!
The dice is rigged to favor this bot the most with only 1 cycle around GO and it already has 6-7 properties meanwhile real players are with either one or two. I took my time to play the game so many times and this same pattern is constant. This game is a beautiful game that should be enjoyed with the randomness of a dice but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
On several occasions I’d have some properties with hotels on them and 2 different cycles around GO will have nobody landing on them but around them. Yet the dice takes me to that one property I’m hoping not to land on. It seems the game was developed to keep older people and kids in the app trying so hard to win a game. I’ve noticed they’re other people complaining about the same thing in the reviews with no responses from the developers.
This game was paid for to even be able to download it. The least you guys can do it to make it a fair game and allow for strategy, luck and bargaining chips be the determining factors for who wins not a rigged dice!!!
Worst Version of Monopoly Ever!
If you’re gonna have Monopoly‘s name on this, you need to have one classic board that’s not cluttered with the ridiculous garbage that you’ve created on the board. It’s hard to believe Monopoly let you put their name on this trash.
Rigged dice
Bro, I always land on other squares or the taxes and I never get good luck when it comes to chance this game is very rigged would not recommend
Absolute Greed
$245 dollars for all of the stuff in this app is not simply an insult, it is a joke. No, sales do not make this better, you can still spend that much regardless! They are charging this much for sculpts that can be popped out in a day and graphics that are rinse and repeats. Not to mention that the dice RNG is atrocious to the point the game feels scripted. Please do not spend almost $250 bucks for $10 worth of content!
Throwing a match from trade offers
There needs to be a way to stop people from offering trades over and over and in effect suspending the gameplay. This is a terrible glitch. Please fix it.
Rigged game
The dice rolls are manipulated to keep you landing on chance or community chest to keep you or your opponents from landing on rental property with houses or hotels just to prolong the game. Also, the games fills empty seats with AI players to populate tables faster and is bias to the AI
Mechanics
The game is great. But I land on taxes way more than I should. To the point that it is annoying and ruins the game.
Distracting graphics
Too many distracting graphics - the busy city in the middle of the board has nothing to do with the game play. Too many upsells (constant messages to buy tokens, dice, board themes, etc). The simple game board has withstood the test of time, I’d rather they kept it simple without the annoying graphic distractions.
Fun when it’s not freezing
I like this game a lot, the graphics are fun. However, a big issue is the game freezes constantly. I’m using a brand new device things like that I’d expect on an older device. If the developers could come up with a way to not have all the movement maybe that could help, like a toggle if you want the dramatic graphics off to help performance. Or if something entirely different is going on in the background but that would make the experience significantly better if that could get resolved.
Good against others, bad for yourself
I play by myself while waiting in parent pick up line at my kids school or in offices or things of a similar nature. I don’t sit around on the couch and play, but here is a few things to keep in mind:
I played about 50 games against the cpu with 1 set to hard. Once you set a cpu to hard, it has nothing to do with trading anymore. You will never have more than 3 properties on the first board rotation, the hard cpu will always have 4, and any other cpu will have 3. Every chance or chest card they pull will always be to collect money,get out of jail free, or pointless in the early game that they do not have to pay, meanwhile, you will always pay or move. The difficulty of the cpu’s has nothing to do with trading, the dice and board work against you. Making sure you don’t have enough to trade with.
It also has a weird leveling system whereas you play, you gain experience that levels your profile. If you choose to start one. Problem is, it’s pointless. You do not unlock anything. You don’t gain anything. It’s just a random number next to your name. The only way to get new pieces or boards is to spend money. And some of it is outright ridiculous. $45usd for a set? On a mobile game that you already bought for $5. Granted, at least theirs no ads which is nice. But you get spammed constantly to buy boards and dice n stuff. It’s annoying.
It gets the job done as long as the cpu is set to medium or lower, it’s more random. I would absolutely give it more stars if the above was different. At least they have interesting modes and ways to play.
I played about 50 games against the cpu with 1 set to hard. Once you set a cpu to hard, it has nothing to do with trading anymore. You will never have more than 3 properties on the first board rotation, the hard cpu will always have 4, and any other cpu will have 3. Every chance or chest card they pull will always be to collect money,get out of jail free, or pointless in the early game that they do not have to pay, meanwhile, you will always pay or move. The difficulty of the cpu’s has nothing to do with trading, the dice and board work against you. Making sure you don’t have enough to trade with.
It also has a weird leveling system whereas you play, you gain experience that levels your profile. If you choose to start one. Problem is, it’s pointless. You do not unlock anything. You don’t gain anything. It’s just a random number next to your name. The only way to get new pieces or boards is to spend money. And some of it is outright ridiculous. $45usd for a set? On a mobile game that you already bought for $5. Granted, at least theirs no ads which is nice. But you get spammed constantly to buy boards and dice n stuff. It’s annoying.
It gets the job done as long as the cpu is set to medium or lower, it’s more random. I would absolutely give it more stars if the above was different. At least they have interesting modes and ways to play.
Good game, but fix the cheaters
This Monopoly game is very good, but cheaters can get on as two players with the same name/account in one game. So they just build and trade by their own self. As far as I can tell there’s no way to report cheaters.
Game crashes
I haven’t been able to get the game to load past picking dice out for a couple of weeks. I have updated my iPad, deleted and reinstalled the app more than once. I have paid for content. Annoying.
Sentiment summary
92%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)