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Taboo
Marmalade Game Studio · 4,583 ratings · ★ 4.9
4.9
★★★★★
4,583 ratings
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Top complaints - extracted from 14 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"
7 negative reviews mention this · 50% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst implementation of the common party game. The game play is just horrible. It takes an age to move onto the next word. Within a couple of games, the words start repeating. I paid for this idiotic app, and i am ashamed of myself." - Owomaniya
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"cards"
5 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paying for every tabu deck does not make sense. I paid for the app to play with my friends thinking compared to free apps i will have considerable deck of cards. After I bought the app, I realized i need to buy each deck separately and it comes with one free deck and the deck is finished…" - okanasik
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"words"
5 negative reviews mention this · 36% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst implementation of the common party game. The game play is just horrible. It takes an age to move onto the next word. Within a couple of games, the words start repeating. I paid for this idiotic app, and i am ashamed of myself." - Owomaniya
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"deck"
4 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paying for every tabu deck does not make sense. I paid for the app to play with my friends thinking compared to free apps i will have considerable deck of cards. After I bought the app, I realized i need to buy each deck separately and it comes with one free deck and the deck is finished…" - okanasik
5
"play"
4 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Paying for every tabu deck does not make sense. I paid for the app to play with my friends thinking compared to free apps i will have considerable deck of cards. After I bought the app, I realized i need to buy each deck separately and it comes with one free deck and the deck is finished…" - okanasik
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"repeating"
4 negative reviews mention this · 29% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Worst implementation of the common party game. The game play is just horrible. It takes an age to move onto the next word. Within a couple of games, the words start repeating. I paid for this idiotic app, and i am ashamed of myself." - Owomaniya
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Paying for every tabu deck does not make sense
I paid for the app to play with my friends thinking compared to free apps i will have considerable deck of cards. After I bought the app, I realized i need to buy each deck separately and it comes with one free deck and the deck is finished in a couple of turn 🙁
Worst implementation of the common party game
The game play is just horrible. It takes an age to move onto the next word. Within a couple of games, the words start repeating. I paid for this idiotic app, and i am ashamed of myself.
Repeated same questions after 2 rounds
We loved playing the game for 2 rounds but after that, it kept showing the same cards. There should be more cards in the deck but we kept getting the same words. It was so boring and it shouldn’t happen. Not worth the money! When we asked for a refund, Apple said not eligible.
Repeat words every round
You can’t play more than one round without repeat after repeat after repeat. Not even worth 2 bucks if you want to play more than once.
Don’t buy this if you have the card deck
$2 for nothing original, same as the basic deck. Then $1 for additional cards.
Words Repeated after One Game
Very disappointing! Words already started repeating during second game and if you want more words they make you pay. Other reviews are clearly bots. I do not recommend.
Please Don’t waste your money
We bought this and played for 30 minutes before we ran out of new cards and started seeing repeats. Of course they would like you to spend more money to purchase additional packs. Someone should call the better business bureau.
My friend had to pay 1.99
This app was free 2 months ago now my friend has cancer and can’t afford this game no more because of cancer how dare big corporations do this to the people of America omagah
Rip off
The deck is super small and repeats words after a small amount of time. I purchased a deck and it only lasted like 10 minutes before repeating words. Big rip off.
Horrible user experience
No clue how to add people to groups. Took an amazing amount of effort just to connect with friends.
Stopped
Our game stopped in the middle of playing to tell us we had to pay. That’s ridiculous
Problem with video chat game 😕
Can’t play video chat version, it’s not working
Absolute trash app
Doesn’t work at all?…
Few cards
Its a fun game but the app store says it has 2000+ cards but only comes with 100 after paying for the app, I played 2 rounds and all the cards where already repeating.
Sentiment summary
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