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Pikmin Bloom
Niantic, Inc. · 64,525 ratings · ★ 4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 21 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"
12 negative reviews mention this · 57% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game is so frustrating. And Nintendo isn’t listening to player complaints. 26 days into the month and I haven’t been able to bloom a single iris. Stuck on the same challenge stage all month like everyone has been complaining the whole time. Endlessly getting the s…" - klür
2
"pikmin"
8 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game is so frustrating. And Nintendo isn’t listening to player complaints. 26 days into the month and I haven’t been able to bloom a single iris. Stuck on the same challenge stage all month like everyone has been complaining the whole time. Endlessly getting the s…" - klür
3
"frustrating"
4 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game is so frustrating. And Nintendo isn’t listening to player complaints. 26 days into the month and I haven’t been able to bloom a single iris. Stuck on the same challenge stage all month like everyone has been complaining the whole time. Endlessly getting the s…" - klür
4
"been"
4 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game is so frustrating. And Nintendo isn’t listening to player complaints. 26 days into the month and I haven’t been able to bloom a single iris. Stuck on the same challenge stage all month like everyone has been complaining the whole time. Endlessly getting the s…" - klür
5
"every"
4 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game is so frustrating. And Nintendo isn’t listening to player complaints. 26 days into the month and I haven’t been able to bloom a single iris. Stuck on the same challenge stage all month like everyone has been complaining the whole time. Endlessly getting the s…" - klür
6
"without"
4 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "NO FUN. I’ve been trying to complete the same challenge stage for 10 days but cannot move on because the game will not give me the nectar or flower I need to complete the stage, despite destroying 3 mushrooms a day. Being stuck on one challenge for…" - rizzfan44
7
"trying"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game is so frustrating. And Nintendo isn’t listening to player complaints. 26 days into the month and I haven’t been able to bloom a single iris. Stuck on the same challenge stage all month like everyone has been complaining the whole time. Endlessly getting the s…" - klür
8
"players"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game is so frustrating. And Nintendo isn’t listening to player complaints. 26 days into the month and I haven’t been able to bloom a single iris. Stuck on the same challenge stage all month like everyone has been complaining the whole time. Endlessly getting the s…" - klür
9
"update"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This game is so frustrating. And Nintendo isn’t listening to player complaints. 26 days into the month and I haven’t been able to bloom a single iris. Stuck on the same challenge stage all month like everyone has been complaining the whole time. Endlessly getting the s…" - klür
10
"niantic"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Another Pokémon go?. Isn’t Niantic selling our data? Be mindful as you map out your homes and neighborhoods. Suspicious." - Missing field
11
"mushrooms"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "NO FUN. I’ve been trying to complete the same challenge stage for 10 days but cannot move on because the game will not give me the nectar or flower I need to complete the stage, despite destroying 3 mushrooms a day. Being stuck on one challenge for…" - rizzfan44
12
"money"
3 negative reviews mention this · 14% of all complaints
★★★★★ "NO FUN. I’ve been trying to complete the same challenge stage for 10 days but cannot move on because the game will not give me the nectar or flower I need to complete the stage, despite destroying 3 mushrooms a day. Being stuck on one challenge for…" - rizzfan44
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This game is so frustrating
And Nintendo isn’t listening to player complaints. 26 days into the month and I haven’t been able to bloom a single iris. Stuck on the same challenge stage all month like everyone has been complaining the whole time. Endlessly getting the same nectars and decor pikmin. Every move in this game is so painfully and obviously trying to milk the players for more micro transactions. I’m done complaining and hoping each new update fixes the major issues with this app.the worst part is they gotten me attached to virtual aliens so now I feel bad deleting this app, but I’m sick of feeling like a gambling addict every day for a Nintendo game. Bye pikmin :(
Another Pokémon go?
Isn’t Niantic selling our data? Be mindful as you map out your homes and neighborhoods. Suspicious.
NO FUN
I’ve been trying to complete the same challenge stage for 10 days but cannot move on because the game will not give me the nectar or flower I need to complete the stage, despite destroying 3 mushrooms a day. Being stuck on one challenge for 2 weeks without budging is NO FUN. I refuse to pay more money to buy the flowers when you still charge $30 for Pikmin 1, an elementary game released over 2 decades ago.
Laughably incompetent dev team
Genuinely one of the buggiest apps I’ve ever used. It randomly logged me out while I was 5 miles from home ACTIVELY PLAYING THE GAME. No way to log back in without email verification to an email not on my phone. Screw Niantic.
One sided
The game is massively geared towards women. How about a little balance?
Searching GPS
They broke the game with an update likely to harvest my data. They are no longer satisfied with allow while using and decided I can’t play the game anymore. I can’t change the always allow option either because it’s greyed out. I guess the only option is to just uninstall, glad I didn’t spend money on it.
Need Pikmin Unlocks When New Lvl
Stopped playing for a month now because I have no pikmin storage. And yes, I can plant flowers to get coins to get more storage, but that just takes too long. And I can't progress in the game if I don't collect the nee pikmin.
Basically, please add more pikmin storage to new levels. I am level 55 but I am honestly going to stop playing this game because it's frustrating playing for a year now and having basically to no rewards for getting a high level without paying.
Basically, please add more pikmin storage to new levels. I am level 55 but I am honestly going to stop playing this game because it's frustrating playing for a year now and having basically to no rewards for getting a high level without paying.
Thanks, now please add more
Hello Niantic, Ice Pikmin were added, so I thank you. Next, can you please add a day/night cycle so we can have glow pikmin?
Crash
This game is fun, but it has been unplayable for over a week now. Every animation causes it to crash.
Still freezing and crashing after update
Unplayable after last two updates. App constantly freezing or crashing.
Doesn’t count steps
Tried for over a week to just get to level three, the app won’t sync to any health apps. It does allow me to hatch new Pikmin but every day it says I’ve completed zero steps. Support is also a joke and was no help, just an automated bot.
It sucks
I’m trying to log in but it won’t let you
Unplayable
Idk what updates were pushed but this game is now immediately unplayable; crashes at almost every action I try to take, even for something like sending postcards. It took me 10 tries to join a mushroom invite because it kept crashing every time I try to join. My friends are also experiencing crashing whenever they join mushroom invites and they’re on a new (released in the past year) Samsung phone.
Love the game but for the love of god please fix whatever buggy mess is causing these issues.
Love the game but for the love of god please fix whatever buggy mess is causing these issues.
Lost my pikmin characters
I lost my pikmin characters that I collected through my time at college because I couldn’t get into my account for whatever reason even though I paid to expand my pikmin group many times. Thanks for taking my money and not letting me log in.
Frustrating concept!
I don’t get why it’s a penalty to try and grab Pikmin while traveling and suffer months to collect gifts. It’s also penalizing to just play locally and get the same mushrooms over and over? The game is heavily skewed towards urban players who commute daily!
A review
Fun game but came back after a few months and the. Wouldn’t let me play the damn game because I’m too young to make an account apparently love how dumb this stupid app is
Frustrating
Fun game but far too much time spent waiting for the stupid app to connect. Utter rubbish when moving between networks or cell towers. Uninstalled at L97 because I just can’t take it any more.
Battery Drain
Love the app but it drains the battery so much more than any other game such as Pokemon Go. Please code the game better so it doesn’t drain so much just planting flowers or scrolling through Pikmin.
Always incomplete
Can’t win without paying up. Ever.
Eh
Could be better
Fix your app!
The app “recently active” players filter is broken! This is very important for mushrooms. Fix it please it been almost a week or more!
Sentiment summary
96%
Positive (4-5★)
2%
Neutral (3★)
3%
Negative (1-2★)