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Story Star Life Simulator Game
Chimpanzee, LLC · 4,926 ratings · ★ 4.8
4.8
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Top complaints - extracted from 8 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"
6 negative reviews mention this · 75% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Waste of time. Unless you are willing to spend money to get unlimited energy you will literally slowly pay for your own energy to decrease throughout the game. Not only that but it is virtually impossible to get a book published. I can have 89 quality and…" - goodreviewer3927947263
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"energy"
3 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Waste of time. Unless you are willing to spend money to get unlimited energy you will literally slowly pay for your own energy to decrease throughout the game. Not only that but it is virtually impossible to get a book published. I can have 89 quality and…" - goodreviewer3927947263
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"impossible"
3 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Waste of time. Unless you are willing to spend money to get unlimited energy you will literally slowly pay for your own energy to decrease throughout the game. Not only that but it is virtually impossible to get a book published. I can have 89 quality and…" - goodreviewer3927947263
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"books"
3 negative reviews mention this · 38% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Waste of time. Unless you are willing to spend money to get unlimited energy you will literally slowly pay for your own energy to decrease throughout the game. Not only that but it is virtually impossible to get a book published. I can have 89 quality and…" - goodreviewer3927947263
📋 All 8 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
Waste of time
Unless you are willing to spend money to get unlimited energy you will literally slowly pay for your own energy to decrease throughout the game. Not only that but it is virtually impossible to get a book published. I can have 89 quality and 90 artwork and pitch it to a 55 rating publisher and they will turn it down every single time. Even if the book matches the types of books the publisher puts out they will still decline it. It’s a very cool game but unless you spend money it’s a waste of time.
Ridiculous
As usual with these games - there’s no sense of progression and it feels like it takes 10-15 in-game years to even really get a career started.
good game but bad programming
It's clearly intentional that this dev wants you to pay to have a permanent energy upgrade because 20 times in a row. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.I have been hit with -2 energy from having to pay earned money in the game to evaluate my energy level. That is a crock. if you're paying rather than skipping the energy evaluation then you should have a better chance to improve your energy level especially if you're doing other things like being healthy and eating good food. Nothing in the game is directly seem connected to one another. which makes it an awful life Sam except for the dev of wanting IAP money to push the energy level.
A Literary Fail
Absolutely no way this game has a 4.8 rating when it is almost impossible to accomplish the goals of this game. I raised all of my skills AND STILL couldn’t sell to a publisher. I tried and tried. I created videos, posts etc and sold at most 30 books a week over several years.
I was so excited about this game, just to be let down.
I was so excited about this game, just to be let down.
Energy Problems
I love the game and have played many of the games by this developer. My big problem is that the energy feature feels broken. My energy falls from aging and doctor’s appointments too quick with no way to get it back up and there comes a point where it is impossible to do anything to gain energy.
Quan Millz
I’m Quan Millz
Very interesting game but hard for no reason
Can’t get publishers or enough fans to buy books no matter how famous or good you get. Also very buggy! Stopped getting reviews on my books as well as book awards stopped showing up. That needs to be fixed so that a lot of us can enjoy and keep playing this game.
Hard
Kind of hard
Sentiment summary
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