Modern Community in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ My favorite game but I can no longer give it 5 stars

This is probably my favorite game, but it is extremely hard to beat the levels and I would know because I’m on level 1097! I love the story line and upgrading an entire town. I even love having a cute dog and upgrading my characters clothes. But… sometimes it takes 10+ times to beat a hard level. I consider myself intelligent, but this game has me questioning that sometimes. I have to laugh to myself when it says “hard level” because almost all the levels are hard. I think I’ve maybe beat 2-3 challenge levels where you get one chance to play the challenge level. I think that had something to do with luck though. A game makes money when it’s popular, fun, challenging, and winnable more than it’s losses. I’ve deleted many apps that aren’t fun or are TOO HARD. I actually LOVE this game! Please give us more moves, especially when we have 4 challenges ~ for one star, or something! I’ve been playing Homescapes for years and I don’t ever see myself deleting that app because you can actually beat the levels. Please help us! I don’t want this to be just another app I loved but stop playing because it’s too hard! If popular census all say the same thing… “the game is too hard,” one good review isn’t going to win anyone over to download this game, or worse….. deleting it and writing about bad review. I’d love to change my review back to 5 stars.

★★★★★ Great game but needs a few changes for long term players

I love puzzle story games but i am very picky about which ones i will keep. My absolute favorite game is Storyngton Hall. However, this game has quickly become a close second. The storyline is engaging and the puzzles are just hard enough to keep you going. My only gripe is that you do not earn any coins from completing levels. Yes you earn money to spend on silly things like decorating your apartment or clothes, but you can only earn more coins by playing special events or by buying them. This is not a long term sustainable model. While i do spend real money on games that i enjoy, it would be more of a motivation to keep trying to win levels if i knew it would replenish my coins so that i could use them in an emergency (like when you only need one more move to win but have run out of moves and need 900 coins for 5 more) PLEASE change your rewards so that you earn coins not cash from levels and earn the cash for silly extras from the events.

★★★★★ Mostly pay to win

Like most people are saying, the game started out fun. The story is fun, the graphics are fun, the gameplay was pretty fun. Nothing too original from a match puzzle game. However, the levels eventually get really difficult to beat and it’s insanely expensive to refill lives or buy new boosts. You only get 5 lives and use one each time you fail to complete a puzzle. It costs $2 to get 1000 coins and in order to continue a game you’ve failed to complete you have to spend 900 coins. Sure, there are plenty of events that let you win boosts or give you unlimited lives for a certain amount of time, but you use it all trying to beat the one level you’ve been stuck on forever. I’m on lvl 345. It’s also pretty expensive to complete tasks. Each completed puzzle gives you 1 star and most tasks cost at least 2 or 3 stars to complete. It’s also pretty impossible to get anyone to let you join their group. I kept applying and never got accepted so I had to create my own group and I can’t even request new lives because I have no members in my group. Also the level difficulty is not always a true indication of how difficult the puzzle will be. There are some levels that should have been easy that I had to waste way too many lives on to complete. It unfortunately gets old really quick and it’s time to uninstall the game.

★★★★★ Lacks content for longterm play.

I have enjoyed this game a TON since I’ve first downloaded it. You play a mini game to earn stars and fix your community, I have been playing for a couple weeks now and have already completed all the mini game levels available. In their most recent update, they added a ton of new characters to improve their lives and I would LOVE to do that. However, while adding all these new items and stories they forgot to add more than about 15-20 new levels. You may think that it took a lot of time to beat those levels however they granted me with an hour of free hearts so I just played and played until I couldn’t progress in the story/building anymore. Please please add more levels so that your players can continue building their communities. I don’t see the point in having the option to build yet there’s no levels to earn stars, making building impossible until there are more levels. Earning the disco balls from the after party is pointless.

★★★★★ In love but frustrated

I love this story line. Many games I play with story lines, I skip through. However, I’m hooked on this one. I love everything about this game. The characters, the remodeling, the puzzles. But I am rating it 3 stars only because it seems ridiculous how a puzzle leveled “easy” can be one of the hardest levels, when I can beat a “challenge level” on my first try. While obviously the puzzles will get harder the farther you get into the game, it seems as though the creators do this so you are inclined to buy boosters. As the game continues on, you will need 2-3 starts to complete each task (a star is earned from winning a level). That’s fair, as it’s more challenging, but some levels just can make one outraged as no one wants to attempt a level labeled “easy” 20+ times. I think a fair solution to this would be to have events that grant stars and not just boosters. I played an event to its wits end, to win many boosters, just to waste them all on one level and still not succeed. It takes the fun out of game

★★★★★ Broke my phone

Now, I’ve noticed a few other reviews complain about the same thing I’m about to put. And each time the developers answer saying they will work on it. Well I’m still here and playing and I can tell you, they have NOT worked on it. I threw my phone out of frustration bc a level labeled easy I still haven’t passed. It’s been 3 days. And it takes 15 minutes to refill 1 life, and you only get 5. So you have to wait a very long time only to get 5 lives. It cost 1 life to play a level. I’m going on day 3 now of an “easy” level, I’m out of boosters bc I’ve tried to use them to just freaking get past. Then after 5 tries, I have to wait over an hour just to lose all of my lives again. I’m deleting it off my phone. I’m not even on level 50 yet and I’m already rage quitting. If you want your players to have a fun experience like you said, then make things actually logical. 15 min wait for 1 life? Easy levels being harder than the challenges? Cost of renovations go up but the rewards of winning a level stay the same? This is all a scam to get you to buy stuff. STAY AWAY

★★★★★ Love this but could change

Don’t get me wrong I love this game can’t stop playing but I have been stuck on level 149 for 3 days now and with the fact u only get 19 plays makes so hard to complete even with the extra help Since this review my rating has gone down the levels are so frustrating, I quit playing the game as much and when you say something about it, they say they understand that they are hard but they are beatable that’s not what I’m asking. I understand that they are beatable games but it’s super frustrating to have to play a level for days to pass the level and the fact that it’s 900 coins to get extra, plays is way too much and the fact that there is no other to get coins other than to play levels or the little gifts that they give you before you start playing each day is crazy to me and makes me want to delete the game I am on level 279 currently and have been trying to get though it for a few weeks now on and off I do believe that even tho I’ve seen some similar reviews like this nothing is being changed