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Pokémon Sleep
The Pokemon Company · 23,248 ratings · ★ 4.5
4.5
★★★★★
23,248 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 30 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"
14 negative reviews mention this · 47% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Painfully Slow. I enjoy this game but once you’ve played it a few times it feels like you’re stuck in a feedback loop. The gameplay is extremely repetitive, which is fine, but the app is designed in a way to try and keep you 100% paying attention while put…" - Seuter1723
2
"sleep"
9 negative reviews mention this · 30% of all complaints
★★★★★ "A sleep game hmm. A sleep game but you are only allowed to “record sleep” 2x a day what happens if you choose to sleep more because of sickness or working over nights. I get it’s a game but what’s the point of it tracking sleep if the devs pick and choose wh…" - BpersAreCool
3
"pokemon"
5 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Hiçbir Pokemon kalmıyor. Mew ve mewtu gelmiş bana ama hiçbiri kalmıyor gidiyor" - Lamiloşokikmal
4
"been"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Painfully Slow. I enjoy this game but once you’ve played it a few times it feels like you’re stuck in a feedback loop. The gameplay is extremely repetitive, which is fine, but the app is designed in a way to try and keep you 100% paying attention while put…" - Seuter1723
5
"long"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "A tutorial so long it has toll roads. This app holds your hand like you’re up at night making grilled cheese. It’s absolutely absurd." - 974495
6
"play"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Painfully Slow. I enjoy this game but once you’ve played it a few times it feels like you’re stuck in a feedback loop. The gameplay is extremely repetitive, which is fine, but the app is designed in a way to try and keep you 100% paying attention while put…" - Seuter1723
7
"track"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "A sleep game hmm. A sleep game but you are only allowed to “record sleep” 2x a day what happens if you choose to sleep more because of sickness or working over nights. I get it’s a game but what’s the point of it tracking sleep if the devs pick and choose wh…" - BpersAreCool
8
"track sleep"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Frustrating. A lot of small bugs and unintuitive interfaces that ruin the experience. Don’t try to genuinely track sleep if you take a nap in the day, you’ll ruin two days of tracking. Quit while you’re ahead" - fkgjdks
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"through"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Embarrassing. Fine enough game, but it has horrible UI and makes you to go through half of the wake-up process before checking if there is an update then kicks you back to the starting screen and forces you to redo all those menus again instead of just r…" - Q_1928
10
"minutes"
4 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Frustrating app. Wanna go to sleep? First tap through 10-15 minutes of unskippable, repetitively redundant, and unnecessary prompts and animations. JFC optimize this game." - calicohan
11
"fine"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Painfully Slow. I enjoy this game but once you’ve played it a few times it feels like you’re stuck in a feedback loop. The gameplay is extremely repetitive, which is fine, but the app is designed in a way to try and keep you 100% paying attention while put…" - Seuter1723
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"actual"
3 negative reviews mention this · 10% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Painfully Slow. I enjoy this game but once you’ve played it a few times it feels like you’re stuck in a feedback loop. The gameplay is extremely repetitive, which is fine, but the app is designed in a way to try and keep you 100% paying attention while put…" - Seuter1723
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Hiçbir Pokemon kalmıyor
Mew ve mewtu gelmiş bana ama hiçbiri kalmıyor gidiyor
A tutorial so long it has toll roads
This app holds your hand like you’re up at night making grilled cheese. It’s absolutely absurd.
Bad app!!!!!
App keeps giving me tutorials I don’t need
A sleep game hmm
A sleep game but you are only allowed to “record sleep” 2x a day what happens if you choose to sleep more because of sickness or working over nights. I get it’s a game but what’s the point of it tracking sleep if the devs pick and choose what’s “sleep” or isn’t it’s not like you get to save the pokemon for other games or even battle or trade you basically play with recording sleep so even if someone wanted to cheat the system who cares it only effects them not the entirety of the game.
At meal times, users are forced to update the client, which is terrible. It's completely unnecessary
At meal times, users are forced to update the client, which is terrible. It's completely unnecessary and a waste of players' time.
Other games and apps don't randomly reinstall themselves. I suggest optimizing this
Other games and apps don't randomly reinstall themselves. I suggest optimizing this
Can’t sync smart watch to account!!!!!!
Can’t use my smart watch to track my sleep! Fix this! Every time a event happens you guys always mess something up and now I can’t track my sleep
Notification for Incense Gift
Some of us don’t want to claim the Latias incense yet, the persistent notification is annoying. Don’t push me to use it.
If I could rate 0 I would.
They lack details on in game errors and offer no help to a resolution. If I could rate it 0 I would.
PLEASE LET THE GAME LOAD
You know how the first time you join, you have to look at and agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Notice. When you try to look at either at either of them they never load so I can’t agree and can’t play. I’ve tried everything and I don’t know what to do.
Helper boost should be included this week berry boosted drops
Not a fan of the fact, helper boost wasn’t included in the boosted berry drop skills. Really rather disenchanted by this.
Data miners
This app thrives on data mining. It uses a third party and it’s always collecting your data. This is highly concerning especially for children.
I hate Pokemon Sleep
I hate it because l had problems with it, and I I had a problem with it, and I deleted it and they deleted my whole progress that’s why I hate it. I gave it one star.
network error happens way frequently
network error happens way frequently
Too much pop in
I downloaded the app to track my sleep and have an actual alarm (this is the only alarm that wakes me up) but every time I go to sleep I have to take photos of Pokémon’s which I don’t care about. This takes like 10 to 15 minutes which is really annoying. Can you add a button to skip all that and just leave the main core sleeping mechanics
Unable to log in
I can’t get in the game I can’t log in because the privacy and the terms do not load I think that there is a bug in your update so either delete that update or make an update that fixes it
Music?!
Music was just working last night through a small speaker. I sleep with a meditation app. Of course you play the music first, put snorlax to sleep, then click “play” on the small speaker. It was working like this for as long as I’ve been playing the game and literally just worked last night. But tonight, nothing will play once I put Snorlax to sleep. Canceling my premium pass because my insomnia only gets cured with my sleep meditations. Not worth playing anymore if I cannot have my proper sleep rituals.
Worst game ever
I can’t have background sounds on a different app
Too much RNG
Yeah, this game is great if you either have a few millennia or infinite money to spare. Much better off doing literally anything with your free time coming from a life long Pokemon fan
Frustrating
A lot of small bugs and unintuitive interfaces that ruin the experience. Don’t try to genuinely track sleep if you take a nap in the day, you’ll ruin two days of tracking.
Quit while you’re ahead
Quit while you’re ahead
Useless and full of nothing
Sync with apple health doesn’t work even though the data is in there, I can see it. Also in good Pokémon fashion, prepare yourself for an eternity of useless fluff and tutorials that can be summarized in a sentence. Deleted the app in less than 30 minutes. Apple Health already gamefies my sleep, I honestly don’t need this much work to do it again
Bad
It wont let me start
Painfully Slow
I enjoy this game but once you’ve played it a few times it feels like you’re stuck in a feedback loop. The gameplay is extremely repetitive, which is fine, but the app is designed in a way to try and keep you 100% paying attention while putting in no effort to have you want to. You have to click multiple times to get out of a single text box you’ve seen 1000 times by now and between each click there is the slowest, drawn out transition to the next thing where you then have to click at least 3 times to continue, all the while you don’t have anything to do on these screens, they exist just to remind you of what you did a few seconds prior when actual gameplay existed. It’s such a weird way to handle the game that exists more as a tool than a game, like why would you want me to be really bothered every time I use it to the point im aggressively tapping to get out of the feedback loop? It needs to be fixed, it’s been ages.
Depressing RNG
The game is cute and can be fun, but the RNG at this point is just so depressing. I get this game is a marathon and not a sprint style game, but I keep debating uninstalling it now. I’m staying mostly out of time sunk fallacy
Embarrassing
Fine enough game, but it has horrible UI and makes you to go through half of the wake-up process before checking if there is an update then kicks you back to the starting screen and forces you to redo all those menus again instead of just returning you to where you were.
Horrible Advancement
Trying to advance through this game is absolutely horrible. It takes entirely too long to do. There is no way to earn the amount of berries needed. More meals for Snorlax I think I’m done playing
Frustrating app
Wanna go to sleep? First tap through 10-15 minutes of unskippable, repetitively redundant, and unnecessary prompts and animations. JFC optimize this game.
Total waste of Time!
So my main issues is the occurrence mechanics… How do I have 9 pokemon for my study and not one is hungry? Totally unfair and an obvious money grab… don’t trust 5 star reviews at all.
Inaccurate Sleep and Eyeroll Adults
My biggest pet peeve is for the sleeping tracker. It’s not accurate if you don’t sleep with it under you, if you sleep with a partner, if the partner gets up earlier or stays up later than you. I just wish there was a better way to keep better accurate track of sleep so I know for sure what my nights look like.
Also just as a sidenote but if you play this and you get upset when someone isn’t sending you the candy you want: grow up. This is a game to track your sleep. Removing someone on your friends list because they don’t give you “the right candy” is sooooo stupid for adults.
Also just as a sidenote but if you play this and you get upset when someone isn’t sending you the candy you want: grow up. This is a game to track your sleep. Removing someone on your friends list because they don’t give you “the right candy” is sooooo stupid for adults.
Getting annoying
I’m getting kind of tired of sleeping on schedule and on time but when there’s absolutely silence and no sound can be heard does the app assume I passed away? Why does it think the silence doesn’t count when that’s when I’m ACTUALLY sleeping. It registers all the other sounds fine but it’s really annoying when that first hour of my body finally relaxing and entering sleeping involves rolling over and fixing myself is what it takes for this app to think I’m perfectly asleep yet when I’m ACTUALLY sleeping it doesn’t count? Is there something you guys can do about it because it’s been a few nights now where only 20-80 minutes are counted asleep when I’m actually sleeping for 7-9 hours.
Naming option WAY too strict!
Seriously, it’s ridiculous. I rename mine to show their in-game stats and get the error that I can’t use a name often…. With the Pokémon’s actual name! Such terrible offenders have been Squirtle, Meowth, Pumpkaboo and a second a go, Growlithe. And you can’t go back to the original name, in the event you want to. Insanity!
Sentiment summary
88%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
8%
Negative (1-2★)