Review Insights · App Store
Sunshine Island: Farming Game
Goodgame Studio · 11,689 ratings · ★ 4.7
4.7
★★★★★
11,689 ratings
🎯 Build a better version
Top complaints - extracted from 19 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"
15 negative reviews mention this · 79% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No game. Downloaded and never got a chance to even play, won’t load past 46%" - eli01331
2
"play"
8 negative reviews mention this · 42% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No game. Downloaded and never got a chance to even play, won’t load past 46%" - eli01331
3
"playing"
7 negative reviews mention this · 37% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much all at once. I was excited to download this game because I like farming games. I enjoyed the story line and when started the game it seems easy growing feeding your cow and making other things that you need to move on towards your next levels. You have…" - Zhrsn53
4
"money"
5 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Greedy game. I’m very disappointed in the fact that the developers are so greedy and can’t fix the glitches in the game because I have spent a lot of money on the game and customer support doesn’t help at all! They just want more money and more money fo…" - Where is my $5 sign up bonus
5
"boring"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Greedy game. I’m very disappointed in the fact that the developers are so greedy and can’t fix the glitches in the game because I have spent a lot of money on the game and customer support doesn’t help at all! They just want more money and more money fo…" - Where is my $5 sign up bonus
6
"play game"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
7
"thing"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much all at once. I was excited to download this game because I like farming games. I enjoyed the story line and when started the game it seems easy growing feeding your cow and making other things that you need to move on towards your next levels. You have…" - Zhrsn53
8
"playing game"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
9
"downloaded"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "No game. Downloaded and never got a chance to even play, won’t load past 46%" - eli01331
10
"games"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much all at once. I was excited to download this game because I like farming games. I enjoyed the story line and when started the game it seems easy growing feeding your cow and making other things that you need to move on towards your next levels. You have…" - Zhrsn53
11
"things"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much all at once. I was excited to download this game because I like farming games. I enjoyed the story line and when started the game it seems easy growing feeding your cow and making other things that you need to move on towards your next levels. You have…" - Zhrsn53
12
"trying"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too much all at once. I was excited to download this game because I like farming games. I enjoyed the story line and when started the game it seems easy growing feeding your cow and making other things that you need to move on towards your next levels. You have…" - Zhrsn53
📋 All 19 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").
No game
Downloaded and never got a chance to even play, won’t load past 46%
Greedy game
I’m very disappointed in the fact that the developers are so greedy and can’t fix the glitches in the game because I have spent a lot of money on the game and customer support doesn’t help at all! They just want more money and more money for their own business model that they have been increasing their prices for everything! The fact that they sell their stickers packs for $100 dollars is ridiculous because they have nothing in them that is worth buying and they are selling diamonds for $125 dollars and they are just greedy! They are just a cash grab and they don’t care about their customers or their players being satisfied with the game they don’t fix the problem with the game glitches that are having in the game and everything is just plain boring to me! I am beyond disappointed in this game design and I don’t want to play this game all day long because I have a life!
The dog and treats
This is very confusing and I don’t know if I have give the dog a treat or not. I may have to delete the game instructions aren’t clear
You Guys Made My Mom Addicted
My mom plays this game like it’s a 9-5 job… no joke she averages 50-60 hours per week. It’s the first thing she opens when she wakes up! Please save yourselves
Boring, not fun
I tried this game for over a year. Although the developers consistently create new content, they are missing the mark. Ads are so long and needed frequently, after a few minutes of playing, you’re left with nothing to do but the same tasks over and over again, they make mini games impossible so you have to watch ads, use gems, or pay money. I gave it a shot but got discouraged and disappointed consistently. Not my idea of fun!
Unnecessary Overly-Priced
Everything in the game is overly-priced. The individual plots of land that you need to purchase in the game to build on, increase drastically after purchasing one plot of land.
It would not be so bad if the game increased the prices on a stead trackable, yet fair few coins basis, such as one plot being 8 coins, then the next plot being priced at 10 coins or 12 coins…As you could then bank on the next plot being 2 more coins or 4 more coins after that through out the game. Sadly, no! The game is programmed to be unnecessarily GREEDY! I am talking about true greed! Especially, the third island. The prices are set so high, the third island is practically unaffordable unless you, the player, is willing to shell out $25.00 or more in real money to purchase fake, worthless in-game coins to buy one plot of land, which again, will increase in price for the next plot of land,
If one plot of land is priced at 10,000 coins, the next plot of land will jump to be drastically priced at 30,367 coins. After that, the next plot of land can jump again to be 48, 652. See how unnecessarily greedy and unpredictable the prices can increase randomly.
Here is the real bad thing about the game. Each plot of land can only be used to hold one building, because unlike other time management building games, this game is programmed for the buildings to be large, so no plot of land can ever hold more than one building.
On top of those unnecessarily greedy features, the game never gives out any large amounts of coins a player can quickly use to to purchase any land and buildings in the game. No! The land and buildings want an ever increasing thousands upon thousands of coins, but you, the player, can only be rewarded a few coins at a time, well under 200 coins.
Since EVERY DAMN THING IS OVER-PRICED, that means, if you play the game for over a month…You will still not be able to earn the 30,000+ coins needed to purchase more land. Again, the game deadlocks you, the player, out of playing the game unless you are willing to place yourself in real-life financial debt to purchase fake, worthless game coins.
Oh, and you will find out quickly that game has various different color treasure chests, that you think will be traditionally designed like other games, in which a black chest is a basic small reward, a silver will have a better prize reward than a black treasure chest. A gold chest will then give out a lot more valuable rewards, than a silver chest. Sadly, no! It does not matter what color any treasure chest is in the game, the reward is always insignificant! If you need 3,000 shovels along with the drastically over-priced amounts of coins, good luck…A treasure chest will only give you a random item that will ALWAYS be programmed to give you items that are well under 60 shovels, nails, or hammers. Considering you need those items for every plot of land purchase, separately from needing more of those items for each and every building purchase, and each and every building upgrade…Again, it will take you several months to accumulate enough of those items to be able to do one lousy land purchase or building upgrade.
So the bottomline is that the game is programmed to be “cash grab” game by the game studios that produce the game. In today’s business-world, it is well-known in the online computer gaming industry that any online game studio business that programs their respective game to be a “cash grab” game, is a game production studio that has extremely bad financial managers that cannot control the bad spending habits of the company executives.
It is always bad business for any business to allow every manager to have a company vehicle…Let alone more than one vehicle for a spouse to have access to use, book non-stop business flights, and have out-of-control spending habits with their corporate credit cards. That is all unnecessary purchases that make any company bleed money. The over-pricing of everything in this game, indicates that the production studios associated with this game all have extremely bad management and employee spending habits. “Cash grab” equals “very bad financial management habits.”
It would not be so bad if the game increased the prices on a stead trackable, yet fair few coins basis, such as one plot being 8 coins, then the next plot being priced at 10 coins or 12 coins…As you could then bank on the next plot being 2 more coins or 4 more coins after that through out the game. Sadly, no! The game is programmed to be unnecessarily GREEDY! I am talking about true greed! Especially, the third island. The prices are set so high, the third island is practically unaffordable unless you, the player, is willing to shell out $25.00 or more in real money to purchase fake, worthless in-game coins to buy one plot of land, which again, will increase in price for the next plot of land,
If one plot of land is priced at 10,000 coins, the next plot of land will jump to be drastically priced at 30,367 coins. After that, the next plot of land can jump again to be 48, 652. See how unnecessarily greedy and unpredictable the prices can increase randomly.
Here is the real bad thing about the game. Each plot of land can only be used to hold one building, because unlike other time management building games, this game is programmed for the buildings to be large, so no plot of land can ever hold more than one building.
On top of those unnecessarily greedy features, the game never gives out any large amounts of coins a player can quickly use to to purchase any land and buildings in the game. No! The land and buildings want an ever increasing thousands upon thousands of coins, but you, the player, can only be rewarded a few coins at a time, well under 200 coins.
Since EVERY DAMN THING IS OVER-PRICED, that means, if you play the game for over a month…You will still not be able to earn the 30,000+ coins needed to purchase more land. Again, the game deadlocks you, the player, out of playing the game unless you are willing to place yourself in real-life financial debt to purchase fake, worthless game coins.
Oh, and you will find out quickly that game has various different color treasure chests, that you think will be traditionally designed like other games, in which a black chest is a basic small reward, a silver will have a better prize reward than a black treasure chest. A gold chest will then give out a lot more valuable rewards, than a silver chest. Sadly, no! It does not matter what color any treasure chest is in the game, the reward is always insignificant! If you need 3,000 shovels along with the drastically over-priced amounts of coins, good luck…A treasure chest will only give you a random item that will ALWAYS be programmed to give you items that are well under 60 shovels, nails, or hammers. Considering you need those items for every plot of land purchase, separately from needing more of those items for each and every building purchase, and each and every building upgrade…Again, it will take you several months to accumulate enough of those items to be able to do one lousy land purchase or building upgrade.
So the bottomline is that the game is programmed to be “cash grab” game by the game studios that produce the game. In today’s business-world, it is well-known in the online computer gaming industry that any online game studio business that programs their respective game to be a “cash grab” game, is a game production studio that has extremely bad financial managers that cannot control the bad spending habits of the company executives.
It is always bad business for any business to allow every manager to have a company vehicle…Let alone more than one vehicle for a spouse to have access to use, book non-stop business flights, and have out-of-control spending habits with their corporate credit cards. That is all unnecessary purchases that make any company bleed money. The over-pricing of everything in this game, indicates that the production studios associated with this game all have extremely bad management and employee spending habits. “Cash grab” equals “very bad financial management habits.”
Personality survey
There is a new icon that takes you to a personality survey. Not sure why the developers need to be asking my children if they feel depressed or alone when they are playing a family farming simulation. Immediately deletion of this game for invasion of privacy. I asked for a responses from customer service and they still have not replied. Typical from the customer service like the time they didn’t give out the prizes for an event because of a glitch
Scammers !!!
Beware ! I Played this game for YEARS. Spent real money on it. When I logged in yesterday I got a notice that they suspended my account. No explanation no refund on all the money that I spent. Just that that’s it, You can’t get into the game anymore. It would be funny if I wasn’t so annoyed at all the cash wasted now. I’ll be filing a claim with Apple bc this is not legal !!
Technical issues
Since the last update and the game will not load
Esta teniendo problemas
Deberian arreglar el juego no carga desde el inicio o pir lo menod a mi no me carga se queda en el 75 % y baja a 54 y asi se mantirne
Instant paywall
You don’t even get to play more than 2 hours before it becomes incredibly boring and monotonous. Do not waste your time
Tooooo many ads!!
This game is so much fun to play when you first start playing it. After a while it’s starting to get boring. Plus the amount of ads that you have to watch just to get whatever you are trying to get is annoying! Stop having us watch the stupid ads for every little thing! Also have an option where you pay $20 for an ad free game! Most of your time is spent watching the annoying long ads which is why some people stop playing your game!!
People are hacks on this game
Since I downloaded this game my computer doing wired stuff page open close moves thing when I’m not touch things. You work hard to get you stuff wake up day to go play all your stuff is gone someone taking my stuff . Delete game and now computer is ok came here with game still delete ed to warn people be careful
Went back to level 1
I paused playing this game for a few months and then when I am ready to play again, I’ve noticed I have to start on level 1 again. I was in level 40 something. Not sure if I want to play this game anymore.
Too much all at once
I was excited to download this game because I like farming games. I enjoyed the story line and when started the game it seems easy growing feeding your cow and making other things that you need to move on towards your next levels. You have gems to fast complete of growing, building etc and I like that you earn gems so you’re not just running out trying to do a quick finish. You have quick missions to complete to expand your community. Although, as I kept playing and completing more tasks I started to feel overwhelmed with tasks and missions to complete. I feel like there is way too much to do at once and on top of that to fill orders board started to glitch like I was missing part of the board that shows the orders to fill. I have opened up another Island to grow offer and you have to toggle back and forth to different islands to fill an order which I felt is was too much. Other than that I love the Islands theme and using the Hawaiian Culture I myself is from Hawai’i. Maybe not to bombarde the player with missions all at once kinds slow down the pace a bit. Thanks, this is just my opinion.
Way too many tasks
And the constant “buy this”, “ buy that” is overdone.
game progress
dunno if it’s like a glitch or just a way for the game makers to get money- but as you’re progressing your account level, the XP doesn’t track properly- for example, you’ll have 21,000 until you level up next- you’ll complete two challenges and gain 20,000 xp, and you only have 1,000 to go now until you level up. you’re getting tired so you decide to go to bed, you wake up and open your game, and it now says you need 17,000 xp until you level up
Frozen at 46%
Updated this morning 02/25, played fine until about 20 minutes ago, now frozen at 46% when trying to open.
Game
I am going to see this loud and clear. stop playing the game for the players. The players downloaded this game to play the game not for you to play the game for us and tell us exactly how to open things weird open things and what to do. why play the game if you’re just gonna play it for us and tell us what to do what’s the fun in that? what is the point in downloading your game that you want your players to play when you don’t allow the players actually play the game you take the fun out of the game then the players delete the game and they write bad reviews because they don’t want to play your game because they can’t play it change it make it so where are the players have a choice to actually play
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
1%
Neutral (3★)
5%
Negative (1-2★)
