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Gossip Harbor®: Merge & Story Negative Reviews

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Ok but life renewal is too slowGood game but I find myself not playing it as the time it takes to accrue life’s is too lond.Version: 3.6.0

The fun doesn’t lastThe further along you get with this game, the worse it gets. The majority of orders require a ridiculous amount of energy or you have to wait for everything to regenerate. The events give very little award, so end up being a waste of time. If you make a game very similar to other merge games, you should at least try and improve on them. The graphics and characters are decent though..Version: 3.1.5

Nice game but to much pay to playCould be a fantastic game but cannot play it for more than 5 minutes at a time. Then wait a few hours to play for another 5 minutes. Unless you fork out some cash then can play for another 5 minutes. Then more money for the next 5 minutes etc. I purchased the VIP pass, won’t do it again. To get the benefit of the money spend on VIP pass I need to spend extra money to complete enough tasks. Great game ruined by slow play and greed..Version: 3.36.0

What were you thinking…Honestly, I’d have highly rated this game before the sudden abrupt change in storyline. When you’re partway through a story about a fire, it’s not cool to suddenly remove that and start talking about a food poisoning (nonsensically, in my view, since I have no context for the new dialogue)…and then to go and blame the only non-binary character in the game? What the heck are you guys thinking!?.Version: 2.7.5

Like others say, needs some tweakingThis is not the kind of game you can play for more than 5 minutes at a time. Not because it’s not fun (it has the potential to be a great game), but because you get 100 energy to make items but run out of energy so quickly and have to wait for it to refill. And I’ve seen the dev comments that say you can take part in in-game events and win energy chests, but if that measly bit of energy takes about 2 mins to use up, then developers, can you see the problem? Please, please fix this game. When dozens of reviews say the same thing it’s time to listen. I’m not going to keep spending money to buy energy that gives me 2 more minutes of gameplay. Help us out by considering the following: more energy for watching ads, no limit on ads for energy, and more options to pop a bubble by watching an ad. Otherwise I’m soon going to abandon this game because only being able to make 1 high level item every couple of days just leaves me with nothing to do..Version: 3.37.0

BadAnother game that is nothing like the ad. Makes me angry..Version: 3.36.0

StealingJust realized that this game stole money from me paying for things I never confirmed, devs are a bunch of thieves and if you’re worried about losing money, don’t download this game..Version: 3.3.5

Don’t waste your timePlayed this for quite some time. Graphics are good. Story lines are really not worth bothering but probably okay for kids. The problem with the game is it does not advance. It doesn’t progress. You merge items to higher levels but get nothing in return. Items come through at lower levels only increasing slightly takes ages and ages to make progress. I would not pay for stuff in the store as whatever you get you don’t make progress. It is a waste of time but if you wanna look at pretty pictures and like stories go for it. There are better games out there.Version: 3.35.0

No playtimeYou can only play this once or twice a day unless you spend money, otherwise it takes forever to recharge and play.Version: 3.9.10

Latest update is a disappointmentI love this game but the latest update is disappointing. It’s taken away the ability to earn coins and I don’t like how I can’t keep working on the tasks. I keep getting a message saying they are not available until the next day. This removes the point of the game to be able to work through tasks at your own pace. The responsiveness of the app is terrible. It freezes on the home page and takes forever to open any of the functions..Version: 3.28.0

False AdvertisingWas drawn in by the ads. They do not portray the game at all!.Version: 3.18.0

Poor customer serviceLoved the game. Spent a decent amount of money in it. Then one of the “side quests” glitched and didn’t give me the prizes for reaching the levels. Got in touch and they said the prizes were awarded in the game (they weren’t ) and that was it. So will spend my money elsewhere.Version: 3.37.0

Inappropriate ads!!I’m really disgusted by the ads that this (seemingly kid-friendly) animated game has. Please change your ads!!.Version: 3.35.0

FrustratingHate how the amount to buy energy goes up a ton each time! Very frustrating!.Version: 2.7.5

Expensive!The lack of energy is frustrating you constantly need to buy gems to buy energy to play. Every time you level up you would think your energy will be back to 100 but nope it stays empty. It’s the most frustrating expensive game I’ve played which is a shame as it could be good if energy was more accessible and you actually got energy by completing orders and leveling up..Version: 2.6.1

Good game but getting harder to playI’ve been playing this game for a while and put some money into it but it’s getting more difficult due to the picnic baskets. I’ve purchased more space in my inventory but one slot is now up to 225 gems which I feel is very steep and only going to get worse and I already have nearly two rows taken up on board full of them. With every event the picnic baskets are a reward so they’re unavoidable. Would be a 5 star game otherwise just a shame this lets it down.Version: 3.17.0

DisappointedDO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS GAME. in Feb I’ve posted a review on this game and my review is no where to be seen. You can’t play for more than 5 min. You don’t get enough energy the higher level you get all you get is x4 tap that gives you higher ingredients but not enough to finish any of the orders as you run out of energy. Then comes to the event, even if you spend money on the events, you can’t even finish them none of them!!! These daily “rewards” you can claim for free does absolutely nothing! Save yourself the time and money. The game is a rip off and isn’t fun at all. I’ve been playing this game for a long time and I’m done.Version: 3.36.0

Feel like a penalty for payingThe story is simple, but it is quite addictive to play. No brain needed. I look forward to completing the items and earn coins to slowly reveal the story. I like this game, but I feel like I got penalized for paying. I made a small purchase wanting to support this game and did think about making some more purchases in the future. But after paying, I can no longer get the daily energy chest by watching the ad and I get one less free 15 energy by watching ad. The daily energy chest at 10 gems is pricy. I get that the game wants people to spend more gems to support the game, but I feel very sad about the change after paying. Higher priced packs are offered. Items are less affordable. Less benefits for paying..Version: 3.34.0

Good but long waiting times unless you payThe game’s good in regards to the story, decorations, graphics and things to merge for orders. HOWEVER, you have to pay if you want to play for more than ten minutes every few hours. After the first few days, you have to use all your energy up to merge to complete only one or two orders, which only gives you enough coins to do one or two tasks, so you only get about 5mins of play time every time the energy refills, which is about every 2.5hrs. You can get extra energy from winning events or a free daily chest, but that takes long and you don’t get a lot, still only enough to do one or two more tasks..Version: 3.2.0

GemsAs soon as I paid for gems it now stays on paying 40 to get energy ; will not buy again ..Version: 2.7.5

GrossLiterally in love with this game until they forcefully changed the story to hook the main character up with their cheating ex. Gross af. I want to delete this game so badly of the gross change in plot but I invested so much time into the game it would be a crime to delete it. Ugh..Version: 3.9.10

Demented adYour ad depicts how a mother with two small children freezes to death. You guys are so stupid..Version: 3.13.0

UX problemI figured out a way to get over the cash dash so I decided to stick to the game longer. One UX problem I have is with the store, there’s no undo. I want to see the evolution of items sold in store but I usually misclick the info of the item sold in the bottom row with the purchase button of the item in the top row, and there’s no reverting the action. At least make a confirmation pop up before purchasing would be much nicer, so users can buy stuff wisely. Still a cash grab game, but you get what you pay for..Version: 2.7.5

GameAlways needing to update always pop up ads and always long waiting period of times for power ups or lives. Other then that very addicting game..Version: 3.37.0

The game is great BUTThe game is really good. I tried many merge games before and this one is the best one so far. The story is great, the design is great. I like most of the events which help you clear out your board. The only thing I have a problem with is the inconsistencies with updates regarding how many products you can get from your “spawning places” (fish, coffee, bread etc.). You used to be able to get out a good amount of stuff once you upgraded your spawning products. Now they pretty much reduced it by half and it’s such an annoying update. Being used to what was before to now not being able to get out as much as you can is really daunting. I hope the developers can fix that issue and go back to what it was before or at least raise the spawning of products by a little bit..Version: 3.15.0

Fun butI enjoy this game, especially to pass the time. The aesthetic is nice and the storyline is interesting. I just have two main complaints: 1. Although you can skip the story (not read it) you do have to play through it, which may mean using 150+ coins just for a meaningless conversation with another character. Not every interaction unlocks the ability to update any decorations, in fact most don’t. It’d be nice to use my coins to be able to decorate more frequently instead of using all of them to talk to characters 2. The amount of time it takes to merge certain items. Aside from the coffee and grocery bag, most items only can produce six items before needed to recharge. This means it can take literally days and even weeks to complete a single order. I’ve been trying to complete Sam’s Dalmatian order for 3 weeks and still aren’t close to completing it..Version: 3.15.0

-0Seriously a cash cow game. They make their money easily off of you and the paid advertisements. I only made it to level 13, while spending my money. Yes my fault, the point is. I only got to that level by spending money. The requests of the dinners are so ridiculously hard to make, and the game started feeling redundant. Basically you get no where fast. Even while spending money. Then they allow you to get extra energy by advertising. So they are making that money too. The they start encouraging you to play their other games for rewards. So basically, you will spend money there too. I honestly did not pay much attention to the storyline for the most part, however when I did, I was even more put off. What a waste of time and money. If you like repetitive game play this may be for you. And let me assure you, IT IS REDUNDANTLY REPETITIVE. And a cash cow. Technically a F2P game. However, if you really want to advance in a reasonable way. Then you must P2P. Update- got the typical cookie cutter response. It was as always seriously unhelpful. My review will remain at -0. Save your time and money. Unless you have excessive time to play into their other social media contests and hope you win anything. Fact remains. No matter how much energy you get. The game is still 2 redundant to get anywhere to be considered satisfying..Version: 3.21.0

Not Worth Playing Past Level 40This began as a really fun, really cute game. But the higher level you get, the less you can do. You slowly get pushed into a corner where you can either pay to continue playing, or you are stuck with a board full of useless items because it takes so long to get matches between running out of energy and recharge times. The higher level you merge something, the less items you get out of it. Wait time for a recharge also increases. This game becomes so frustrating that it is no longer fun to play. And the story line really is anticlimactic. I really don’t understand the logic behind making the game more impossible to keep up with. I just ended up deleting it. The developers fail to understand that a person plays a game to relax, not add frustration..Version: 3.29.0

Gossip Harbor ReviewReally fun to play!! But I think the timer for the energy lightning things should be lower like maybe 30 seconds instead of 2 minutes..Version: 3.1.5

Need More EnergyThis game is a lot of fun however it takes a LOT of energy to create items and forever for it to replenish. You can buy more which is fine for a couple of purchases then it goes up to 160 diamonds which is too much. There needs to be more energy options otherwise it just isn’t fun. I’ve spent a lot of money on buying diamonds because I genuinely enjoy playing but this is the biggest default. A lot of games let you watch ads for bonus energy and though that is annoying I’d rather have that option than spending real life money. The game is very addictive and I enjoy the storyline so far. The reason the main characters got divorced seems rash since the plot is trying to bring them back together. Anyhoo, I’ll still play but hopefully there will be better energy options..Version: 3.8.0

Good but annoyingThe game is good, the annoying thing is every time you click on the app, there are about 20 pop ups before you can actually play the game. You need to chill out with the Ads, pay-to-play and event pushing. I know where to click for everything, I don’t need to be trapped in a spam cycle anytime I want to play for 5 mins (which is how long the energy lasts before you cannot continue playing).Version: 3.37.0

SCAMThis game is a scam don’t buy!!!.Version: 3.12.0

Why?I hate your ads. It’s disgusting..Version: 3.1.5

Throttled right off the bat and not iPad friendly.Usually a game lets you advance pretty far before they start throwing roadblocks to get you to buy (which is fine, developers need to eat too) but this one throttles you almost immediately. Not enough energy and customers want the “big items” after the first few purchases. I’ve only been playing maybe an hour total and I’m at the point where I can’t sell to one customer without running out of energy. Also, this game is not iPad friendly. You must hold your iPad vertically, which wears my hands out because most stands (including mine) are made to set your iPad horizontally. One more thing that annoys me. This is another game that does not match the ads. I have not run across one puzzle where you have to build a window, paint a wall, make a bed, or adopt a child. It’s all “click this item using energy, make food, sell to customer.” An example is in the ads they make you think the little red head girl is an orphan that you have to pick whether you keep or ignore her but actually she’s your daughter that’s with you the whole time. The only good thing I have to say about the game is you find all this out rather quickly so you don’t feel like you need to spend money on a game you’re going to uninstall..Version: 3.34.0

Fun gameI want to give this 5 star review but I am disappointed with some things. I was buying energy and the jewels to help me get further, at first was good I felt I got my moneys worth then as I progressed it took more and more energy to complete the task. Full energy is 100, it take 2 hours for energy to refill, I just used (14 hours) and 700 energy and still have not been able to complete a task making a big round sandwich. Fulfilling the contest is really hard I was able to finish one at beginning then again it takes a lot of energy to complete these missions! Hey it is a game it supposed to challenging, I get that! After awhile playing without progress can get boring. I suggest sooner energy refills and more rewards of jewels to help along the way. Last I am sad to say I had to stop buying from the game as I kept getting double charged. Apple did reimburse me when I reported it, but it kept happening so I stopped. This is a very addicting game and lots of fun for awhile..Version: 3.18.0

Fun Mechanics But Annoying RomanceI really like the mechanics of this game: it’s very similar to Love&Pies, which I love, and there’s typically enough energy to play a decent amount of time. Like all these games, it gets to the point that you’re spending several days on one order, but this game does a decent job of adding in new orders or events to keep things interesting. The reason for my three star review is that the romance “options” for Quinn are awful. Both of the guys are annoying and pushy and whiny and the storyline seems to forgive their actions without any real consequence. It’s getting to the point that I skip every part of the story that involves the MC talking to either of them. I feel like both of them belong on an AITA post of Reddit. But ignoring that main story element, it’s a totally fine game!.Version: 3.23.0

Riddled with Ads.Before the game even loaded fully the very first time I tried to open it, an ad started to play. I closed the app, and tried again. Same thing. Immediately deleted..Version: 3.37.0

Money snatcherThis game could be fun. But you can only play it for a couple minutes before you lose energy. Unless you want to spend a bunch of $ refreshing it early. The ads for this game I saw made it seem way different than it is. My biggest complaint is how much energy it takes to merge enough to make one item. You only get 100 bolts of energy and it take 200 just to hope to come across the right item to merge. Stories are tacky, you don’t make any progress per story section and it takes a pile of coins to get to the next level. Not a problem if there was a chance to do more than one level before running out of energy. Fun game if you only want to play for 5 minutes. Otherwise, it’s a money snatcher trying to get you to buy stuff in order to actually play..Version: 3.28.0

AddictingLove playing this game during my free time.Version: 3.18.0

Story is lacking, merging is funThe images and colors are sweet, and the merging is a lot of fun/very addicting, but some of the more minor problems with this game is how expensive getting “energy” can be. You either have to spend real world money for gems to buy energy, or wait hours for it to refill. It’s not terrible and in a way it forces you to not play for too long. The MAJOR issue I have, is the storytelling. Which is honestly the biggest aspect of this game, since you’re solving “mysteries” and playing for the story. Spelling and grammar mistakes are just constant; words are missing, there are gaps in the story, the main character seems selfish and dismissive. Just when you think it’s maybe getting better, the supporting characters say or do something which is a complete 180 of what they had just said the “day” before. It’s a cute concept, but play this game because you want something mindless to merge, not because there’s an actual story or mystery to solve. I don’t ever leave reviews, but the “storyline” I just completed was ridiculous. Play Gardenscapes if you want cute storylines that make sense, merging mini games, and to not feel pressured to spend real world money every five seconds..Version: 3.27.5

Sadist, stupud gameThis is a sadist game with sadist ads.Version: 3.37.0

I like the game, but I don’t like the way you get energyI enjoy this game, the art, story and merging, but I will most likely stop playing because of the energy. I have to wait a long time for 100 energy and it gets spent up in less than five minutes. Obviously you can buy more by spending rubies but you don’t get those easily and will have to eventually spend real money if you want to keep getting energy. Honestly, I thought leveling up would give me back my energy, but I was sadly disappointed. All games I’ve ever played with energy, always refunds me it back after leveling up….. except this game. Because it takes a while for the energy to build back up, I pretty much only play this once a day, and since the game is slow to progress, I will inevitably delete it..Version: 3.12.0

Shopping pass is impossible!!Found this game via an ad from another game and downloaded it. Pretty good at first, but then after a few levels, every item takes 20 steps to make and the generators take forever on a time delay. Worse, I paid money for the shopping pass, and I’m barely to level 18 (of 36) and each higher level takes thousands of points to unlock! It’s literally impossible to get through the pass with the energy levels, time, and items needed to merge. The extra games (like recent food truck fire) eat up the energy for very little return. It’s honestly a good game, but the developers need to be a little more reasonable on rewards, energy banks, and number of merges to get items completed to keep people engaged. I’ve spent three days trying to make this stupid Dalmatian dog, and if I ever get done, it’s only for a small amount of coins and gems. I’m likely uninstalling and certainly not paying more real money to buy gems or energy with so little return on the fun. The worse part is you can buy energy with gems, but it keeps going up. First 100 is 10 gems, then 20, then 40, then 80! You “wait out” the game and it might give an add to watch for 15 energy (which is like 4 merges). Ugh, I’m getting angry just thinking about how much better they could have made this by being reasonable..Version: 3.6.0

THE best out of them allEdit: I may have spoke too soon about the energy and gem costs. Further in it ended up being just the same as any other. Sad. This one follows the same formula of merge games you probably already enjoy. Decoration, cute story line, cafe… BUT this one actually lets you play for a good little bit before you run out of energy. Even then you have opportunities to earn them in game and they aren’t asking for a large number either. Maybe 1 gem or 2. You easily get those already in the game without spending real money. For that reason I’ll actually spend my money to buy things from this game, as crazy as that sounds. It is very refreshing to have one of these games not be a huge cash grab. Not everyone has $10 to spend every day loading energy. I support that. There will be other people who feel the same way about this game. I hope devs are reading this and keep the game that way because I will continue to support you all for doing this and thank you..Version: 2.4.0

Another “pay to play”I’ve been playing around a month now. The game is good in comparison to other merge games, however it becomes unrealistic and another game that wants to force “pay to play” on you. The tasks are completely unrealistic for “free to play”. If you are not spending money you will become bored very quickly. Shame because I do really like the game, unfortunately it’s another “pay to play” scam, that makes you believe in the beginning it is not. The game clearly hopes that by the time it shows it’s true colours of the devs, you’ll be hooked and start spending. So many games like that now. It’s a shame..Version: 3.22.0

0 originality stole storylineIf you’ve downloaded many merge games you’ll easily recognize the storyline to another game here… and it was released as a match three years ago before they made a merge version a long while ago. Made me want to uninstall a minute in.Version: 2.4.0

Why the change?I used to love this game, has been my favourite for months and arguably I spend way too much time and money on it cuz they have good deals. But after the latest update, I’m deleting this app. Changing the prices from canadian to US is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. I got my boyfriend and friends onto this game and we’ve loved it but after this, I’m telling all of them to delete it. Do you realize how many canadians play this game? You’re about to lose many loyal customers, including myself..Version: 3.18.0

Rip off of other gameIt’s a great game, the problem is that it’s an exact replica of another game (a red haired woman who makes pies) with different graphics. I don’t know these things work, but it seems shady/lazy to not even change the storyline..Version: 2.4.0

Becoming frustrating, unplayable and story is kind of icky.The game is becoming unplayable with all of the events also taking up space on the board. It’s becoming difficult to even make basic orders without deleting some of the upgrade items like rocks, coffee beans, etc. Between coconuts sky journey balloons, Valentine’s Day orders, and other in game special orders for the kid, Carmen etc, there just isn’t room in the board for anything. The other challenge is the orders are always high level orders from producers that only release a few items at a time or take forever to obtain. With the seafood, you have to produce the prepped seafood which takes a while and doesn’t produce a lot of seafood. I’m not sure if the money you get from the seafood even takes into account the extra energy of producing the prepped seafood AND then producing the seafood orders. I always seem to get a lot of the scuba orders, but it isn’t balanced with the inflatables. I can’t count the number of peacock inflatables, high level sandwiches and coffees I’ve had to delete without an order coming up because of the more rare to get items, but seem to be a very common order. It’s always the seafood platter, high level scubas, tea jug, fry plate, and the odd high level seashell thrown in for me. I’m not sure how much longer I will attempt to play this game but the board space and the algorithm for what orders come up are a big issue. The gem cost for resetting order producers is absurd. For example, resetting the nautical storage bin is 2 hours or 97 gems, which is approx $3 CAD. This is not a reasonable price for me for resetting a single producer just to speed things up once. My other issue with this game is how they made Cole into a cheating husband and then introduced him back into the story as anyone worth being romantically involved. I think it would make much more sense if their relationship devolved over the restaurant poisoning incident, not infidelity. Cole is a very toxic person as the story stands and the fact the main character is even considering being romantically interested in him is seriously messed up. I think my story started with them at a casino and him having a couple ladies hanging off of him. Why isn’t he gambling away their savings and a suspect in the poisoning incident and this was the cause for their divorce? The gambling issue and the storyline about the poisoning would make the main characters responses seem a lot more healthy and understandable. Or honestly not even gambling or infidelity, just the poisoning storyline would still make a lot more sense..Version: 3.11.0

It’s okBeen playing for awhile now. The story has me confused at times. The orders get harder and harder to fill so you lose out on a lot of the extra events. Of course unless you spend to continue to get energy. No ads t popping up though so that is a great bonus these days..Version: 3.9.10

Was fun while it lastedThe game was fine until it got to Harrison’s challenge. I don’t like unfair competitions. The goal is to be the first to 200 pts. Played less than 15 minutes and someone already had first place on an event that’s supposed to last two days. Forget it. Uninstalled game right after..Version: 3.36.0

Scam on EventsThey all want you to spend gems after gems to complete events the latest event as flower one. 6 days to complete the event the problem is you only get 3-6 on every 100 energy spent. That’s if your lucky sometimes you don’t get anything. They don’t explain clearly, the event only saying you get flowers on lighting bolt items, doesn’t state how many etc. In Australian laws this is classed as misleading consumers, I will be taking this further..Version: 3.22.0

Not the game in the ad, P2(actually)PThe story and game are completely different than the ad about the homeless woman with the children making choices about their lives and trying to stay alive and using a merge game to fix their home to survive. The game is a merge game to make restaurant items for customers to fix up a restaurant. There are no choices about which way you want the story to go and it has nothing to do with these ads about people shivering in the cold or trying to survive. You can only play for a short time before hitting a wall where you have to purchase more “energy” to make items to merge. Otherwise you close the game after a few moves and come back later. I’ve only had it a few days and it’s already to the point that I can’t complete a single item before I need to pay for more energy, so I’m definitely going to delete now. If they were smarter, the developers would give you more to get you hooked and see a reason to buy. But I guess this works for their purpose, which is getting enough people to give them money that they don’t need to make a game you can actually play..Version: 3.33.0

GROSSI downloaded this app just to write this review. This app is listed as a CHILDREN’S game and one of the advertisements displays what very much so looks like a sexual assault. This is DISGUSTING and incredibly disturbing. Wish i could give it 0 stars but need to give it at least one in order to post this. Despicable..Version: 3.12.0

Pay to lose ⚠️I really enjoy this game and even purchased the expansion pack but ever since I did that I have now lost out on the daily specials which makes a huge difference to how long you can play due to getting less diamonds…. I regret paying £4.99 only to lose out on the blue chest daily special. If I may make a suggestion, you currently limit to 2 earn 15 diamonds adds a day I don’t see why you would limit this as you still get paid per add view, I would find it acceptable to have this unlimited Meaning we get to play longer if we choose to view adds. I now play the game less now I’ve paid £4.99 as that 1 daily special loss made all the difference such a shame. Paying £5 for a game on the App Store is never done lightly, one would think you could have been far more generous for those who pay…. I miss the days we could pay for a game and that was that but now all these games are just greedy with stupidly high cost in app purchases. This game could easily be 5 stars but making me lose out after paying put a bad taste in my mouth that’s the difference between 1 and 5 stars..Version: 3.15.0

Do not buy anythingOmg such a robber i buy a pack of 2,79$ energy daimond and they took 17,89 to m’y account.Version: 3.14.0

NO Gossip in this boring HarborAfter playing this game for over 4 months (quitting this game at level 55), the once promising premise faded away into a series of boring vignettes designed for children without plot and excitement. You’ll spend 90% of the time in the kitchen using energy to put together items until you fulfill the orders that will “pay” you to have access to the story of the game. There is never a payout, the story villain is never seen and after two incidents at the beginning of the earlier levels nothing happens, the protagonist's ex-husband comes back to her life and she simply allows him to be part of her business despite he cheating on her and gambling their money, subplots with her handyman who has a crush with the police officer in charge of the case also goes anywhere and the big issue is setting up a lot of things that never goes anywhere. There is not a sense of jeopardy or that you're rewarded with good stories after spending time and resources combining items to create food, If you want a repetitive and monotonous game with bad writing, play this game..Version: 3.37.0

Everything Takes Too LongI can see why the one person said she spoke too soon. This game started out pretty good, but as you go on, everything takes ENTIRELY TOO LONG to make. If you have 100 energy, it’s gone in literally, 2 minutes, just trying to make a coffee item or a sandwich. The coffee pots and baskets always spit out the same two pieces (very randomly, the food will spit out a bread), therefore, leaving you to make the same cup combinations 80 times just to get to the items further down the line of that series. Then you have to wait hours for energy rebuild. You can hardly finish anything in a day unless you purchase more coins or gems. The board isn’t that big and doesn’t hold much stuff, and then the game has a lot of those spaces pre-filled and you can’t move or use them until you build a piece yourself first. This game could be so much fun with a few changes..Version: 2.5.0

FUN, BUT HAVE TO WAIT TOO LONG TO RELOAD.I like this game and play it everyday. I enjoy finishing orders and playing for bonus points. I just find it annoying when theres no possible way to finish the special zone, diamonds etc cost too much, it takes too long to reload icons. Also preview story is what sucked me in, but the game is very different to what it made out to be..Version: 3.36.0

Money grabI love these types of games and it’s executed beautifully, however the refresh rate for energy to actually play the merge game is too slow, and it’s an obvious push for in game purchases, and not just to get bonuses like in most games, but to simply play the core game. Equally, when you use coins to advance your level, there should be an energy reward, otherwise it’s just a few minutes of gameplay every hour, which takes the shine off an otherwise fun game..Version: 3.15.0

Slow progressNot enough energy, things take too long to recharge and the bubbles are very annoying and take ages to burst clogging up space plus there’s never enough time to complete missions as energy goes in a couple of minutes then you have to wait hours for it to refill, bern playing a long time and only on level 54 and feel it’s getting boring now as everything takes so long..Version: 3.35.0

GameIt’s kinda boring.Version: 3.1.5

Where did the ads go?!Why don’t I get to watch odds for free items and lives??.Version: 3.20.0

Great game but last update not quite fairThe game is great and fun, but did not like the last update! Lori’s derby went from manageable to impossible now that the last task requires 1,000 coins (even with prepping for coins beforehand). Also did not like that they removed the level 2 red chest from the rewards…please revert it back to how it previously was!.Version: 3.28.0

Prepare for long wait timesI really want to love this game but as I progress in the game, it continues to disappoint me. Unless you have the money to buy the energy to produce items, prepare to wait for hours to become fully charged. On top of waiting that long for energy, there are some item producers that give you a limited amount of items to merge then it pauses for an hour or more before you can use it again. Also as you level up in the game it gets harder to complete one customer’s order as it takes a lot of item merging to complete it. I’m on level 19 and it takes me a day or 2 to complete some orders. There are some items or like 15 energy you can get from watching an ad but it’s very limited. I am still holding on hoping maybe the creator will make it easier or give us more options to gain items or energy but it looks like I’ll be deleting this game soon as my patience is running out..Version: 3.14.0

Based on Free To Okay model but worse!I’ve played around 30 minutes and have seen enough to uninstall again! The game uses the “Free To Play” model but cranks that up to 11! The recipes require you merging over 50 - 100 items per customer at around level 4! You’re locked behind the usual energy required but it’s per basic item you’ll need to merge up from! Each source of item is “random” so you’ll be spamming an item source in a hope of getting enough of the clearly rare item! For example teabags to get to iced tea - I had to spam the coffee maker 71 times for a 3rd merge level item!!!! Added to all this is the board tiles being locked out by time required items meaning you waste even more time waiting for something! I estimated I’d need to spend a week to get to level 5. And a month for 6!!! Free to Play models have become so over complex and stupid that I sincerely hope games like this cause their demise! Avoid this game is my advice!.Version: 3.35.0

Fun gameI like the game. I don’t mind spending a few dollars on a game I like either. I also enjoy spending a bit of time on games I enjoy as well. The story is fun, but I do dislike there is never enough energy to at the least get one maxed product of a certain item. I wish the energy was increased to 200 instead of 100. No … the 200 would probably not give you a maxed out items.. but it would allow us to play a bit more and feel like it isn’t taking an hour for energy to reload to use it again to not even be half way finished working towards an item. Also! The options like the dog house or the orange tree only dropping less then 10 items before there is a cool down is so sad. I have been working forever it feels trying to get this Dalmatian during my evening down time and I just wanna give up on it. I will change my rating if the game makes some updates to give us more energy and offers less time for cool downs on those “take forever items” or dishes put way more items before it initiates a cool down..Version: 3.37.0

A total painI don’t know if you copied love and pies or if they copied you but either way both games are identical with a few subtle changes pity you both made the same mistakes though. It takes way to long and far to much energy to get anything made you can play a whole energy usage with creating an order and the board is full of useless stuff who in their right mind would order a pet from a restaurant seriously…… in love and pies it’s cats. This could have been a big improvement on love and pies which was relegated to the bin months again but someone couldn’t be bothered so this game is going to the same place. If you are going to rip each others ideas off at least take the effort to try and improve them. If you made both games you learnt nothing from your first one..Version: 2.3.0

Oh well.. next?So I played until day 21 level 26 or something around those… and deleted the game. The long grind to get items was annoying but tolerable cause it is what it is… but they changed the entire storyline after I’ve been playing for a very long time they completely scrap that story from the game and do a different story with no rhyme or reason and no hey to catch you up here … when I asked in customer support about it they just brushed me off with the same generic response of thanks for your input. We are making adjustments on the storyline. So that was it for me… not playing a game that apparently didn’t have its own identity figured out before releasing. - loooooooong item trains - long waits for new energy - no customer care - changing the entire story (story I was playing has nothing to do with new story and no catch up to speed) - long waits to get items to make things to get stuff to make orders… yeah you have to do trains for those too they just don’t give you the stuff to do that with often - generic responses in any contact with developer company because their players don’t matter -random ratio is off. If you need something expect double wait times or just hoard what you can. - money hungry. To avoid a wait please pay rubies which you rarely get for free so spend money to buy them so you can try to enjoy our game before we leave you confused on the floor about what’s even going on. Excuse me while I go play something else..Version: 3.1.5

Loyal Player Feeling Very DisappointedI’m very disappointed in the latest move made by the developers of gossip harbour, I absolutely love this game and I play it daily BUT now they have astronomically increased the cost of items. I’ll give you an example of a few items and by how much the cost has gone up, Duck Floaty 15 Gems - 26 Gems, Spiky Shell 56 Gems - 270 Gems, Crab on a Plate 56 Gems - 560 Gems. I’m not opposed to price rises but rising them by that much is just absolutely ridiculous. They are starting to take all the fun out of it for me and if it comes to it I will find myself another game by a different developer. It just feels like your taking advantage of loyal players and that’s just not right, I absolutely will not support people that treat their players this way..Version: 3.25.0

Amazing!!!❤️ a few complaints thoughSo I ❤️this game but somehow I get through 100 energy in like 5 seconds and it takes SO long to recharge. AMAZING game though I totally recommend it for people how like drama filled things, I don’t like the fact that with the mini garden out the front in like the Halloween and picnic events that you can never finish it though without spending like 200 real buck so the games pretty good but it does need A LOT of work if the creators want the game perfect!.Version: 3.4.0

Do Not PayI was playing and then got drunk and paid once, my whole account has handicapped since, wasted so much of my time on them, there is no customer service just never ending ai, the email is fake, the in game complaints is fake, it’s just meant to waste your time to extend the grift.Version: 3.35.0

Too long between game playHad to wait too long to get more energy, abandoned the game..Version: 2.6.1

Energy frustration!!Please fix the energy issue with this game!! Not everyone can afford heaps of money to buy energy every 5 minutes! It is a wonderful game but items needed to make cost so much energy which doesn’t allow much gameplay time. It’s quite sad for a decent quality game..Version: 3.15.0

Removed ability to manually pop bubblesUntil this is resolved I will not longer support this game as I don’t have the time nor patience to sit around and wait for item bubbles to turn into coins. There is limited space as it is and not being able to pop bubbles ruins inventory management. Also the option to receive energy chests via ads has been removed for me so I have no reliable way of guaranteeing energy via potions unless I spend 10 gems to buy one. Until this are fixed I will no longer play this game as I refuse to waste money supporting greedy developers..Version: 3.8.0

Don’t give them. $$$I find it deeply insulting that as soon as you give them money, they remove almost all of the freebies. That’s the most ridiculous model ever, I should be rewarded, not penalized!.Version: 3.16.0

Getting harder to play.Just the more you level up, the orders are more harder to complete and there’s not much room on the board, storage too expensive on Gems. And it takes ages to get energy, 2, 1min adds for 15 energy each a day isn’t helpful. The chest a day cost gems too. And yes there’s bonus events but you can’t complete enough orders to play the event fully..Version: 3.8.0

Cole is ruining this game for me.I used to love this game!! However, the sudden and unexplained shift in the storyline, the board that’s far too small, and the requests that take far too long are ruining it. I also am frustrated that the SECOND I started spending the occasional $1-$5 on the game, free energy options disappeared. Now, let’s get to my gripes about the storyline. When you suddenly change a storyline months after the game comes out, you need to explain the new one to the players. I have absolutely no idea what’s going on anymore. The old storyline and the new one do not coincide at all. Also, Cole is absolutely insufferable and I would love the option to just dump him for good. Also, most of the decorations are terrible and don’t go well together in the slightest. I used to love this game, and I want to continue to love it so badly, but it’s just become such a hot mess that is borderline unplayable due to the small board and difficult orders..Version: 3.9.10

Wasted potentialLet’s start off with the fact that it isn’t anything like what the ads were showing. The game has a potential - the story line isn’t too bad, neither is the overall idea. The problem is that the energy you need to play it is used so quickly it’s impossible to play unless you want to pay. But even if you do - and I’ve tried that as well - it lasts for few minutes and you’re back to having no coins, diamonds, energy etc. Kind of pointless. The devs will say you earn taking part in the events but most of those you also have to spend money in order to get anything. Daily rewards are like nothing..Version: 3.37.0

Not a lot of adsThere’s a game called Love and Pies I’ve been playing for like a year and this is pretty much the same but definitely more pressure to spend actual money. And the storyline isn’t quite as good.Version: 3.6.0

Was a 5star now 1 starReally enjoyed playing this game, until a recent update when you can no longer watch an ad for an item in the store as well as watch ads to replenish some energy (you can only watch 1 now where before it was multiple). Very disappointing :(.Version: 3.15.0

GOOD BUT CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE.This game is getting boring, if changes are not made I will be deleting. there needs to be a way to cancel orders from customers you don’t want to take, the watch a video option to burst the bubble for an object needs to come back on and be frequent. Events are good but the rewards for each level are subpar. It doesn’t make the gamer excited to play on & achieve the levels like how other games do. Also I get inflation is effecting us all but there’s no need to increase the amount of what was the cheapest starter pack which was 0.79 or 0.99 to more than double at £2.49 makes no sense to loyal players like me if I keep paying 0.99 three times a week or more to then barely paying 2.49 because I know it’s not worth it..Version: 3.10.0

Never met a game that was so against you playing it…There’s no point in reviewing the story or gameplay - it’s the same as every other “mystery” merge game of this type. What I will comment on though is that I have never met a game that is so against you playing it as this one. The energy restrictions are so tight, especially compared to how much you need to spend to generate items you need after only a few levels. Obviously you can buy gems to top up energy but… you really shouldn’t. A few quid will only last you a tiny amount of time, so it’s not worth it at all. Maybe the developer fears that if they let you play for any longer a day you’ll find out the game loop is actually quite dull….Version: 3.1.5

Not worth ur timeI was gonna give this game 2 stars because while it’s a merge with good animations and the story was okay, but I’ve reconsidered to a 1 star. The game is so grindy of the same item. Also, it started off with a fire, then mentioned a poisoning, and now some gambling? Ive paid attention to all the story chats. Where is all this new info coming from? It’s making it super unenjoyable and I’ve deleted this game. We should have a journal compiling the story as each chat continues or each day. Also a situation with development was just the last straw. No physical evidence on their claim to show and very poor customer service. They obviously just want your money. Look at the items, they all cost jewels. And getting jewels in the game is so rare, so you’d basically have to buy them unless you’re extremely patient. Want to play an actually good game? Play Merge Mansion or Love & Pies. L&P is even more similar to this game and it’s actually good. Their items cost jewels but you start off with a good base of items and actual completable tasks that you dont have to run through ur jewels. Save ur time and money, play something else..Version: 2.7.5

How to annoy your playersI was really enjoying this game until they completely changed the story mid playthrough!! It is really annoying to not only have to main premise changed on you but worse still to now have a character you were made to dislike now be the one you’re trying to help??? On one hand I wish the story was changed back but that would only confuse newer players. It was just a poor decision on the part of the developers I guess..Version: 3.2.0

Disgusting adsWhy do you have such disgusting adverts. Absolutely filthy..Version: 3.19.0

Good game- storyline makes no senseI like this game, have been playing a while now. Agree with the comments about energy not lasting long but I’m not going to keep wasting money on this so just wait for them to rise again while I get on with my own day to day stuff. What I’m really disappointed with though is the story line. It’s started off great and I was excited about the idea of finding out who had committed the arson, and Quinn clearing her dads name, but that story line seems to have completely disappeared, character back stories have changed and to be honest I haven’t a clue what’s going on anymore and I’ve lost my interest in it, I only play the story lines to move up levels. Good game. Shame about the story.Version: 3.5.0

Impossible too enjoyI like this game, but it’s so hard too get anything unless you buy it. I’ve spent so much money and I get about 5 minutes of play for £6.99. All the quests are for the highest merge very rarely do you get easy ones. I will delete it if I can’t play for more than 5 mins, definitely better merge games that at least gives you a chance of enjoying the game. Don’t merge coffee, fish, shells, ducks etc, you get more items having multiple units, merge you get the same but longer wait time. Will not pay a single penny more because you get no where with the game..Version: 3.15.0

Not enough play valueA slick, and too effective, cash grab game. It’s impossible to have an enjoyable time with this game without spending money, and *even then* the actual gameplay is inadequate. The energy fills too slowly and doesn’t last long enough. Immersion doesn’t happen. There’s no reset, so messing up means the game is ruined. If an ad system refilled energy it might be better. Atm not worth downloading..Version: 3.5.0

Sexual Ads 18+This game should not be advertising with ads aimed towards adults. It says 4+ on the App Store. So little kids can play this and watch those ads. There are other ads that are also disgusting even though they aren’t adult ads. You have been told about this problem months ago. I reported the app to Apple because you aren’t even trying to fix it. I’m not changing my rating until those ads are gone..Version: 3.3.5

Storyline changeI would have rated it higher before, but the abrupt change in the storyline is confusing. Originally Carmen was the aunt and now it sounds like she’s not because Quinn’s dialogue indicates that she doesn’t have family ties to her. It’s Carmen’s family, Carmen’s parents, where as it should be Quinn’s grandparents. Also the weekly update of the storyline makes the game move really slowly. It would be better to have more put out at a time..Version: 3.6.0

It’s alright.It’s a cute enough merge game. I feel like I’ve tried every merge game on the app store at this point, and like someone else mentioned I’m pretty picky with them. If you’re thinking of downloading, here’s a rundown. Pros: cute graphics, you get a good amount of energy to start with, no ads unless you watch them, the storyline isn’t bad. I usually couldn’t care less about storylines so that last one is a plus. Cons: the merge lines are so unbelievably long, causing you to use an insane amount of energy to get a lot of the very early game items required, energy regenerates very slowly and takes a LOT of gems if you want to regenerate. My biggest issue is pretty much the same complaint that almost every merge game has — you download it, you play for about 15-20 mins, you get stuck with no energy and waiting for your items to regenerate for a long time. Which then forces you to either wait for a few hours for everything to regenerate again, or spend real money. It’s just an okay game. Very, very similar to the Love and Pies one. If you like that, you’ll probably like this one. No hate to the devs, it’s a well developed game with great graphics. Maybe just give people the option to watch some ads and give like 30-50 energy so they don’t get bored and uninstall instead of trying to wait for their energy to come back. People have short attention spans nowadays, like me. Or make the merge lines a little shorter. Both would be nice. But y’know, you do you!.Version: 2.7.5

Inaccurate AdsNot even remotely like the ads and it takes forever to merge some of the stuff to sell..Version: 3.38.0

No consist game playYou cannot play this solidly for a length of time due to the way the game is with energy and how much you have to merge in order to gain higher product. The game with energy only goes up to 100 this takes over three hours for it to regenerate and with merging need over thousands to get to the top one, so therefore you need thousands of energy. the numbers just don’t work out to be of benefit of game play, it also cost higher than other games to replenish with money. It’s not worth starting.Version: 3.25.0

Good needs minor changesI have tried several merge games and this is one of two that I really enjoy enough to log into daily to play. Visually, the play board is nice and the story is not horrible and is easy to skip through if you want to. However, it gets extremely frustrating to work towards one order for several weeks because most sources will release 6-10 items then need to recharge for an hour. I play to relax at night or on a lunch break so I’m not going to log on again an hour later when the source is reloaded. At level 22 I’m often not able to fill any orders because all 4-5 customer require items from the very limited sources. I purchased a promo package that awards rare items for filling orders and I can’t ever fulfill the daily challenge because there aren’t enough orders that don’t require extremely limited items (like level 10 shells that take 2 weeks to fill). It’s also frustrating to have the play board constantly cluttered with rare items that will take weeks to get the pieces to merge to create a finished source (beach baskets for example) I have started looking for other games to switch to because of this but otherwise this could have been a super fun game..Version: 3.7.0


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