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Tiny Tower: Tap Idle Evolution
NimbleBit LLC · 54,825 ratings · ★ 4.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 24 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 · 63% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many balloon guys/ad opportunities.. I remembered playing this game years ago so I was so excited when I found it again on the App Store. It’s still a fairly fun game, but I uninstalled it because of all the ads. You’re almost constantly bombarded with guys on balloons floatin…" - Former TT Enjoyer
2
"playing"
5 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many balloon guys/ad opportunities.. I remembered playing this game years ago so I was so excited when I found it again on the App Store. It’s still a fairly fun game, but I uninstalled it because of all the ads. You’re almost constantly bombarded with guys on balloons floatin…" - Former TT Enjoyer
3
"seconds"
5 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many balloon guys/ad opportunities.. I remembered playing this game years ago so I was so excited when I found it again on the App Store. It’s still a fairly fun game, but I uninstalled it because of all the ads. You’re almost constantly bombarded with guys on balloons floatin…" - Former TT Enjoyer
4
"watch"
5 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "ADS DONT HAVE EXIT BUTTONS. dont watch any ads for rewards they never let you leave the ad and dont give you your reward most of the time 🤦" - Nadi_my37
5
"tower"
5 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money grab. The game is constantly trying to sell you something I miss the old tiny tower it was fun but this game just wants your money. 5 minutes into the game and so many pop ups show up trying to sell me something or trying to make me watch an ad. …" - Pyro325913
6
"years"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many balloon guys/ad opportunities.. I remembered playing this game years ago so I was so excited when I found it again on the App Store. It’s still a fairly fun game, but I uninstalled it because of all the ads. You’re almost constantly bombarded with guys on balloons floatin…" - Former TT Enjoyer
7
"constantly"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many balloon guys/ad opportunities.. I remembered playing this game years ago so I was so excited when I found it again on the App Store. It’s still a fairly fun game, but I uninstalled it because of all the ads. You’re almost constantly bombarded with guys on balloons floatin…" - Former TT Enjoyer
8
"sometimes"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many balloon guys/ad opportunities.. I remembered playing this game years ago so I was so excited when I found it again on the App Store. It’s still a fairly fun game, but I uninstalled it because of all the ads. You’re almost constantly bombarded with guys on balloons floatin…" - Former TT Enjoyer
9
"tiny"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money grab. The game is constantly trying to sell you something I miss the old tiny tower it was fun but this game just wants your money. 5 minutes into the game and so many pop ups show up trying to sell me something or trying to make me watch an ad. …" - Pyro325913
10
"tiny tower"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Money grab. The game is constantly trying to sell you something I miss the old tiny tower it was fun but this game just wants your money. 5 minutes into the game and so many pop ups show up trying to sell me something or trying to make me watch an ad. …" - Pyro325913
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"opportunities"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many balloon guys/ad opportunities.. I remembered playing this game years ago so I was so excited when I found it again on the App Store. It’s still a fairly fun game, but I uninstalled it because of all the ads. You’re almost constantly bombarded with guys on balloons floatin…" - Former TT Enjoyer
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"been"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "We need more floors. I’ve been playing for years and really love the game but for the love of god, ADD MORE FLOORS instead of boring events." - it's jenn
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ADS DONT HAVE EXIT BUTTONS
dont watch any ads for rewards they never let you leave the ad and dont give you your reward most of the time 🤦
We need more floors
I’ve been playing for years and really love the game but for the love of god, ADD MORE FLOORS instead of boring events.
Waste
I HAVENT HAD ANY EVENTS IN MONTHS ALTHOUGH THEY KEEP ADVERTISING IT. IM NOT RECEIVING THE PARACHUTE GUY EITHER. IM SO ANNOYED. I ALWAYS UPDATE THE APP AND STILL NOTHING!
Money grab
The game is constantly trying to sell you something I miss the old tiny tower it was fun but this game just wants your money. 5 minutes into the game and so many pop ups show up trying to sell me something or trying to make me watch an ad. If you click one thing there is a pop up trying to see you something constantly.
Penalty for Time Travel is too Harsh
I understand want to discourage players from time traveling but the way Tiny Tower does it is awful and makes you quit the game all together.
Inventory cleared out, bitizens disappear, etc. and it’s not like you get them back after a while. They’re gone for good.
This is so frustrating as I had been playing this game for what seemed like hours a day for MONTHS. I will not be touching this game again. The penalty is way too harsh for a first offense.
Inventory cleared out, bitizens disappear, etc. and it’s not like you get them back after a while. They’re gone for good.
This is so frustrating as I had been playing this game for what seemed like hours a day for MONTHS. I will not be touching this game again. The penalty is way too harsh for a first offense.
Elevator levels
You run the elevator, if the level is too high the resident doesn’t leave. It’s been a problem for months. Until they fix this problem don’t waste your time.
Bug?
When I roll dice and land on the “bucks” I never get it. .ive landed on the 200-300 so many times I should have close to 20k easy but I don’t get the bucks 🤷🏻♂️
Virus?
It installed a extension on my browser without permission thank god i didnt open it deleted it immediately now i have a puzzle peice on my safari :((((
Ads are unbearable
It makes no sense that for a game that forces so many ads down your throat they are so unbearable. Half of them are broken and about other mobile games where u have to sit and watch a screen for 2 minutes before the X even comes up to remove the ad. Either have 15-30 ads AT MOST or create a different system. It’s supposed to be a chill game to kill a few minutes but what’s the point if ur stuck watching an ads for 80% of the time
now even you guys are greedy
i remember when this game was fun. now they want to install a browser extension. GREED!
Adds Safari Extension
This app add an extremely questionable safari extension. Unless you have no concerns about your privacy then go for it. It’s an instant DELETE for me!
fix glitches and ads
ads are so glitchy i constantly get stuck in them and have to fully exit out of the app. sometimes i don’t even get the reward i was supposed to get for viewing it. game also randomly freezes up and crashes
Used to be so good
This game used to be great. I come back to it being absolutely unplayable due to overwhelming amounts of adds. Can do literally nothing with adds everywhere and commercials and videos with sound and no close button after 30-60 seconds.
Great game play, bad app
The game itself is good but the app crashes constantly. Like every 30 seconds sometimes.
Lost game
I swapped from iphone14 to iPhone17 and everything swapped over, great. The event data from Christmas didn’t swap over so I googled and people said to delete and redownload game. I did that and I lost everything. Almost 800+ floors, over $1T in gold, my legendary bitizens and all floors were almost all maxed out. This is YEARS worth of stuff that’s gone because I was trying to make sure I could finish the Christmas event. Which is about 24hours away from being done.
This entire game is just ads now
This used to be mindless fun but Jesus Christ this entire game has devolved into ads. I hate this.
Ad Tower
Holy cow it was so hard not to get served ads or even get out of the ads when you had a spare 30 seconds to watch them. Deleted after 10 mins of trying to navigate through menus and pop-ups.
Bloated With Garbage
Excruciatingly overmonetized. No game here, just opportunities for you to watch ads and spend money.
Not worth the nostalgia
My first time playing TT was back when I had an Android, when it was with Glu mobile. I've played it again when I switched over to iOS back in 2015 and it was still the same as ever. I'm even playing their Vegas game now, but never have I expected to see the terrible fate of the classic game that I loved so much, become a cash grab. I loved Tiny Tower for what it was, not what it is today. 😔I guess I'll bury this game in the graveyard of games that I enjoyed and my hunt for a clone continues.
Too many balloon guys/ad opportunities.
I remembered playing this game years ago so I was so excited when I found it again on the App Store. It’s still a fairly fun game, but I uninstalled it because of all the ads. You’re almost constantly bombarded with guys on balloons floating from top to bottom of your screen. Sometimes it’s two at once. I’m not even kidding, it’s about 30 seconds or less after one disappears that another one comes. You don’t have to click them of course but they just became too annoying for me to ignore.
Just not the same.
I used to play Tiny Tower wayyy back in the day. 2012 to 2020 or so, sometime around then. I picked it back up about 2 years ago, and I had a lot of fun, it was just like how I remembered.
Sure it didn’t have that same “Pop” as it did back then, can chalk that up to childhood nostalgia, but the game was still the same. After about a year and a half of consistent play, I kinda dropped it again, but when I picked it back up I was rather shocked.
The state of the game is just so wholly different. There’s loot boxes, legendary bitizens that you get from very rare drops, a tech tree, and ads everywhere. Back then the only upgrade you ever really needed was the premium version, and the only reason why was the automatic elevator. Now you gotta fork over your entire paycheque if you wanna get anything worthwhile in these new features.
You can’t even really ignore it, cause the game bombards you with notices, and I just can’t stand it anymore. This game used to be something, it used to be simple, it used to be chill. I remember when the most complex thing you had to worry about was the layering of the rooms in your tower and the outfits all the bitizens wore. Not “how many fragments do I need in order to unlock a new productivity level for this room and how will this impact my legendary bitizen pulls?”
Its just not the same. Like watching your childhood dog grow old.
Sure it didn’t have that same “Pop” as it did back then, can chalk that up to childhood nostalgia, but the game was still the same. After about a year and a half of consistent play, I kinda dropped it again, but when I picked it back up I was rather shocked.
The state of the game is just so wholly different. There’s loot boxes, legendary bitizens that you get from very rare drops, a tech tree, and ads everywhere. Back then the only upgrade you ever really needed was the premium version, and the only reason why was the automatic elevator. Now you gotta fork over your entire paycheque if you wanna get anything worthwhile in these new features.
You can’t even really ignore it, cause the game bombards you with notices, and I just can’t stand it anymore. This game used to be something, it used to be simple, it used to be chill. I remember when the most complex thing you had to worry about was the layering of the rooms in your tower and the outfits all the bitizens wore. Not “how many fragments do I need in order to unlock a new productivity level for this room and how will this impact my legendary bitizen pulls?”
Its just not the same. Like watching your childhood dog grow old.
Crashes
It crashes dozens of times a day for me. Sometimes as often as every 30 seconds
Unsure yet
Please make more rewards for playing and sending people on the elevator more than it is. I’m deleting but I’m someone who saves their money so if I do in app purchases I don’t have to think about it. Covet collection is a good example of money with fair in-game rewards and something I play consistently. Each person I updated with Bux, it didn’t show. The money I purchased for bux is on me. Idk, I just wished it was more obvious when I spent my money, what I get. On top of that I’d like more bundles to buy. I’d pay actual money for the dream work VIP, and having more rewards and opportunities to update rooms would be great. Again. I’ve spent money, but unlike some other apps (ex, covet collection, anything NYT, BitLife, etc..)
Gifts on the rolls
It’s annoying I’ve done this a few times you’ll roll you get so far to get a roll but then with some of the certain gifts they won’t apply so like when it says $500 for the bucks that I rolled, I looked down at my balance of what I had And then I roll a 500 bucks and then I don’t receive it which is crazy but this is not the first time that this is happened
Sentiment summary
95%
Positive (4-5★)
3%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)