Name: Homescapes
Rating: 4.6 (226498 reviews)

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Homescapes

Playrix

Released: 2017-09-19

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Version 5.8.2

Free 0%

Version 5.8.2

Released: 2017-09-19

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#76 in Top Grossing Apps

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#12 in Top Grossing Apps > Games > Casual

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#11 in Top Grossing Apps > Games > Puzzle

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#31 in Top Grossing iPad Apps

#12 in Top Grossing iPad Apps > Games

#8 in Top Grossing iPad Apps > Games > Casual

#7 in Top Grossing iPad Apps > Games > Puzzle

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Description

Welcome to Homescapes, the most heartwarming game from Playrix's Scapes™ series! Solve match-3 puzzles to restore a wonderful mansion on a verdant street. Exciting adventures start at the doorstep!

Beat colorful match-3 levels to renovate and decorate rooms in the mansion, unlocking ever more chapters in the exciting family story along the way! What are you waiting for? Make yourself at home!

The game features:

● Unique gameplay: help Austin renovate the house by swapping and matching pieces!

● Interior design: you decide what the house will look like.

● Exciting match-3 levels: tons of fun, featuring unique boosters and explosive combinations!

● A huge, beautiful mansion: discover all the secrets it holds!

● Fantastic characters: watch them live their lives and interact with each other in the in-game social network.

● A cute pet: meet а naughty and fluffy cat.

● Invite your Facebook friends to help you create your own cozy atmosphere in the house!

Homescapes is free to play, though some in-game items can also be purchased for real money. If you don't want to use this option, simply turn it off in your device's Restrictions menu.

Enjoying Homescapes? Learn more about the game!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/homescapes/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homescapes_mobile/

Questions? Contact our Tech Support by sending an email to homescapes@playrix.com or check our Web Support Portal: https://plrx.me/IBV471F9lo

What's New in Version 5.8.2

Here comes a winter Homescapes update!

WINTER ADVENTURE

• Go on an expedition with Austin and Edison Wood!

• Explore the North Pole and solve its mysteries!

• Find the legendary artifact to get a unique decoration!

SKI RESORT

• Help William gain the confidence to start skiing again!

• Turn the yard into a real ski resort!

• Collect all the decorations to get a unique decoration!

JAZZY MAKEOVER

• Help singer Peggy perform a musical confession of her love!

• Become a real stylist! Peggy's outfit, hairstyle, and accessories are in your hands!

• Beat levels and renovate the jazz club!

ALSO

• Lunar New Year! Restore family photos and get amazing rewards!

• Season of Presents! Win prizes by beating levels! Activate the Golden Ticket to get Santa's Sleigh and other awesome prizes!

• Week of Rewards! Complete tasks in levels to win prizes! Activate the Home Pass to get a super booster that'll help you beat levels faster! And that's not all—other awesome prizes await!

• A new chapter! Restore the old wedding hall for Hillary's ceremony!

• New element: Tape Measure! Make matches to roll it up!

• New element: Pool Balls! Use power-ups to remove them!

Seller

Name

PLR Worldwide Sales Limited

URL

https://www.playrix.com/homescapes/index.html

Information

Developer

Playrix

Version

5.8.2

Size

293.5 MB

Game Center

VPP Device Licensing

Yes

Rating

Rated: 4+

Compatibility

iOS 10.0 or later

Devices

iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPad (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad (4th Generation) (4G), iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro11FourthGen, iPad Pro11FourthGenCellular, iPad ProSixthGen, iPad ProSixthGenCellular, iPad TenthGen, iPad TenthGenCellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation), Apple Watch Series 4, Apple Watch Series 5, Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS), Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch Series SE (GPS), Apple Watch Series SE (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS), Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS), Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) (GPS), Apple Watch SE (2nd generation) (GPS + Cellular), Apple Watch Ultra

Languages

English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

App Store: Customer Ratings

Ratings & Reviews

4.6 of 5 (226,498 Ratings)

App Store: Customer Reviews

2022-11-24

SET UP TO FAIL AND FOR MONEY SPEND

The game set ups by the developers is so obvious it’s set up to fail and to force money spend. 30min infinity lives and still not able to clear ‘easy’ level 52 in tournament of champs (Level 10,000+). FINALLY get to last move with plane clearing way for doughnut to drop for successful tick, but still with ONE green candy to get to complete level…did the plane target one of the MANY green candies left????? NO!!!! Instead it targeted a bubbled green candy to force game over and obviously use the ‘play on 900 coins’ options….and of course, it knows you have no coins so it’s forcing money spend.

SO ANNOYING AND FRUSTRATING.

Developers and app support purposefully ignoring users feedback.

FAKE ADVERTISING, MONEY GRABBING BORING GAME

2022-11-23

Great game by unicorn dreams

All I can say is I LOVE THIS GAME !

2022-11-21

Great

This is such a fun game I can play it all the time! You create are explore it’s just brilliant! ❤️🥰❤️

2022-11-20

❤️❤️❤️🎉

🦄💕💕💕💕💕💕💕❤️🥰🎉xxx

2022-11-19

Payment issues

Lately, i’ve been experiencing issues when paying for coins. You make the payment but the game doesn’t update. This is not good especially if you are stuck on a very hard level.

2022-11-17

Fun

I like this game Becase it is fun

2022-11-17

Problem

I don’t know why almost for 4months my game is not working well. The map for another area is not available. Please look into it please.

2022-11-16

Not for me

I deleted this game ages ago as I simply didn’t like it. Now I’m being bombarded with ads as if I’d never had it in the first place. What is really annoying is that the ads run for well over a minute, between, video, stills, link to App Store, then a blank screen for a while. If developers think this encourages folks to download, they should think again.

2022-11-16

Disappointed

Have been playing this for about 2yrs, got to over 4500 levels, then last week the game crashed and I’ve lost everything, was going to start over but couldn’t be arsed going through all that again, very addictive game and enjoyable, sadly I will be deleting it now.

2022-11-14

HORRIBLE GAME!!

If you want stress in your life download this absolute joke of a game!!! Super hard levels after every 2 levels, just to make you spend money and buy coins!! Meant to be fun to play! You get stuck on one level for absolute weeks!! Disgusting creators, they need to die

2022-11-14

Fake ad

Worst way to induce a game is just like this Would give 0 stars if I could. It's just another candy crush ripoff

2022-11-13

Addictive but irritating

The game itself is great, when you have the lives to play. You get 5 lives and when they are gone you have to wait and wait for them to be replenished. Which is fine until you get up the levels and the 5 lives are gone straight away.

The game itself is hard. And the level of reward definitely doesn’t match the effort.

Lots of in-app purchases if you want to move on quicker otherwise you have to face the prospect you will be stuck at levels for days at a time whilst you wait to be able to beat it.

It’s a good game but the waiting and messing about is irritating beyond belief!

2022-11-12

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Hmmmmmm deez nuts

2022-11-12

Fun

Good game to play, challenging and fun at the same time

2022-11-12

Too many Tournaments!

This game is getting ruined by constantly being stuck in tournaments! I don’t mind them now and again but constant, as soon as you finish the next day your in another one. Can’t even opt out! Please stop forcing tournaments I want to collect stars and complete the game

2022-11-09

Too hard

I really enjoyed this game at first but the puzzles gets stupidly hard after a few levels and that’s just the normal level never mind hard and super hard difficulty. Struggled my way to lvl 110 and don’t see the point anymore of playing. I go on the game use my lives to try and beat one lvl, wait for a refill, fail to beat lvl, wait again for refill… this goes on for quite awhile until I get a lucky rare break with power ups. Not fun and boring and pointless keeping the game on my phone

2022-11-09

👎

Honestly this is the most unsatisfying nerve wrecking game i have ever played, first of all the game looks exactly like “toon blast” with the same algorithm except the part that you have to build the house from ground up, second of all the movements on this game are SUPER weird and SUPER kinky, third of all such a shame for the advertisement team, i’ve seen the ads of this game almost everywhere but i didn’t get anything close to what they show on the ads, just another pay to win game..

And yeah we have so many hard games but at the end of the day you enjoy playing those hard levels and pass on with joy, but this game? Makes you wanna throw your phone out the window.

At the end if you don’t care about your mental health, go ahead and download it and have fun i guess?

2022-11-06

Downhill

After renovating the first house it just becomes about stupid stuff like making a school for some kids and private adventures for them I don’t care about that I wanna renovate the houses not spend 3 in game days and countless stars doing stupid stuff for some

Kids I just skip the dialogue because I couldn’t care less all I wanna do is make the houses look good you don’t even get much choice about the second house like the whole living room is pretty boring because it’s pre picked you just have to spend stars to get it refurbished in a way I personally don’t like the mini games don’t even make sense sometimes like you have to use a balloon to get over a bridge rather than wooden planks? Too far in to stop now but just pointless tasks annoys me a lot

2022-11-05

Great game

Great game to play l can lose a couple of hours of enjoyment.

2022-11-05

Game

I really enjoy this game, but on the ad it says it is basically just the mini games which I love, but sadly there aren’t many. Please add more mini games then I will

review you five stars!!! From pollydolly age 10

2022-11-05

Defeated

Was really enjoying this game until level 130 - not enough lives and far too difficult to solve. Did finally solve this but level 490 has really defeated me, so after a week of trying to solve I’m giving up and signing out of this otherwise enjoyable game.

Bye Austin level 1509 has definitely defeated me, its impossible to solve I think I would need to have a Masters degree in solving this.

2022-11-05

The best game in the world

It’s better then candy crush i LOVE IT

2022-11-05

Mind blowing

Ok Homescapes is

Amazing and once you start somewere else it feels great

2022-11-05

Good game

Is a very fun game and has lot of different tasks to to so you

don’t get bored so I think you should get it.

2022-11-04

AWSOME GAME

I have had this game for 5 months and after 4 days I was addicted this game is so fun to play wherever you go

2022-11-03

Frustrating

I was enjoying this game, but alas it became impossible to progress without paying inordinate amounts of money. I wish they would just charge a fair price and allow people to enjoy the game.

2022-10-31

Amazing game<3

This game is amazing I forget my whole life playing this,it’s just the best game ever !

2022-10-31

Poor taste.

I have only seen the adverts for what can only be decided as disgusting.

A rich couple looking down on a mother with her daughter struggling to keep themselves warm.

If I could vote minus I would.

Hang your heads in shame for pushing this crap especially in the current climate.

2022-10-31

Too difficult

This game is cool at first, but in no time the levels get way too hard and points / stars aren’t easy to gain etc. They definitely want you to spend money but it’s not really worth that.

2022-10-31

Deducted coins

I’ve spent more than I care to admit on power ups and coins on this game. It’s genuinely a good game but after recently spending another 89p to buy 1000 coins, I tapped some kind of bomb on one of the levels (which was disguised as some kind of present) and it deducted the 1000 coins I’d just bought. Felt really ripped off. Lesson learned! I will never buy anything else.

2022-10-30

Review matter

After seeing a lot of adverts for the mini games I’ve decided to come check out the reviews. It seems lots of people say the mini games (problem solving) only come around every 20

Levels so then what is the game? I won’t be downloading (and potentially spending) on fake advertising for a game that doesn’t exist? I thought it was all about the mini games!

2022-10-30

Addicted to this, pls add controller support

Fun to play

2022-10-30

Bit too hard

I’ve been playing this game a lot and I find that many levels are quite hard take take many lives to complete. I find most of the time there is not enough moves to complete the level. I have seen people on levels 2000 but I am stuck on 130.

2022-10-29

Not what it advertises

I recently installed this game thinking that it’s all about solving a bunch of mini series, cos that’s what you’re led to believe in the ad, well that’s not the case. I’m on level 28 and so far I’ve only had 2 mini series to solve. How are you supposed to get these mini series? As for the levels themselves they’re ridiculous, the amount of moves you get to solve some of the levels is stupid because there’s nowhere near enough moves to solve them. You get about 13 moves to solve a hard level, sometimes it’s impossible. I installed it for the mini series, but that’s not what I’m getting. I’m already bored with it as I end up playing the same level over and over again as it’s impossible with so little moves to complete it. Might have to uninstall I think, it got hard very early on in the game!

2022-10-28

Amazing game

Brilliant match three game and the mini games are very fun. You can follow along with the story.

2022-10-28

Homescapes

I think this game is easy but not easy enough for me to get bored of it.

2022-10-26

worst game

people should be able to restart the game easily. it’s so annoying having to wait for someone to respond!!!

2022-10-26

Rip off

When almost complete level and run out of moves that needed one more move to finish then needed more real money to pay… why not press to play ads to get more moves than bloody taking money…. And same to power ups…

It should be fun not ripping people off…

2022-10-26

Addictive but spend money

Yes it’s an addictive game. However it is so set up, to make yo7 spend money. Yes early levels are not so bad and you don’t spend money, but later on the higher you get it is made so that when you play tournaments you get to a certain point where you might only need to get rid of one piece and the pressure is on to spend because it is addictive. You will also find that on tournaments when the pressure is on to do well, especially if you are in a team, you will get a super hard level so frequently it puts pressure on you to spend. When there is no tournament you can have quite a few easier games. The game is made to make you spend money. Draws you in to a point that you spend what seems an insignificant amount but after time it adds up. Also no mini games the higher you get up. I got this game because I looked the like of the mini games. You hardly ever got those games. Once again draws you in.

You will also find that you get free time on some of the power ups. However, before you get to use the you are bombarded with ads or the animation talking so by the time you get to use them, a minute or so has already gone.

2022-10-26

Gets annoying

This game was really good when I first got it; the levels were easy and I could upgrade things really quickly. But then you start getting through more rooms and the levels just get harder and harder and renovations cost more and more stars. The levels then get so hard that you almost have to use one of the level boosters so you quickly run out of them and then your stuck. Another thing is that the mini games that all the ads go on about literally almost never happen they come roughly every 20 levels and sometimes I feel like it gets longer and longer until the next mini game. So I won’t be playing this again. Generally disappointing to me

2022-10-26

Rip off

I have been playing this game for some time now. The tournament of champions is a complete rip off- a level (10151) has been set that nobody can beat. I have looked through the leaderboards and none of the best players in the world can beat it and, funny thing, the players listed in the tournament of champions who are above that level cannot be found in they top player charts…..in fact I’m not sure they even exist? If they are all somehow new players who aren’t at the top of the rankings and they all got incredibly lucky and beat a level that the worlds very best can’t beat then that is quite remarkable.

I’m asking Apple for a full refund of anything I have spent on this game. It’s just not right.

2022-10-26

Criball

Good game x

2022-10-23

Housescapes

Love

2022-10-23

To many unwanted games

Used to be a great game, but now all you get is requests to play solo or other people ive never heard off, all i want to do is play my friends, no solo games or others, even though ive turned off all obtions they still come througj

2022-10-22

The brilliant app

It is fantastic thank you for making the app

2022-10-22

Read me

This is an extrodinary game with the new levels that are actually in the ad it’s amazing and fab 5 stars

2022-10-22

Lies like usual

I’m on a high level in this game and i only have seen one of those mini games. The adverts for these games are misleading and wrong. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to do this as it’s false information

2022-10-21

A varied game

A different type of game with a variation of aspects.

2022-10-21

not fun

i thought this app would be like the adds but it’s really not. it’s literally just the match game but about every ten levels there is a mini game which is really easy and short. don’t get this if you want to play it for the mini games or you’ll be really disappointed like me. it’s also just boring after a few levels and gets quite repetitive.

2022-10-21

Great game but don’t always receive bonuses

I’ve been playing this game for a while now and although I enjoy it when I win coins or other bonuses I have noticed that I don’t always receive these, maybe it’s a fault within the game but it does happen a lot.

2022-10-05

Big potential and big upsets

The game itself has pretty decent art and the idea is also with lots of potential. But I’m done playing it. This game is fully based on luck and doesn’t require any skill. Doesn’t matter if you’re level 3 or 300 - if the coloured blocks (and boosters, if you have any) don’t drop the way you need them, then you’re screwed. So many times I’ve had all boosters drop next to each other in hard-ish levels. And as soon as you touch one of them, all get triggered and wasted in that one spot where you didn’t need them. Then the only thing that can save you (more often not though) is if there’s over 20 moves left, to have chance of creating new boosters. Another thing I didn’t enjoy was the skip option. If you skip after completing a level, then you only get minimum coins reward (50, 100, 150 - depending on how hard the level is), but if you don't skip, you can earn extra 15-30 coins each level, which are worth a lot, because the punishment of 900, 1200 etc coins will hurt you badly. Basically the skip option is useless. And in the end, the punishment for failed level is way bigger than the reward for completing one.

2022-02-06

Used to be a fun game but not anymore

Nice graphic and story, at the beggining…but became absurd now, you need to play at least 3-4 games to achieve the stars in order to do a stupid task e.g. for the main character to watch a movie, or to call someone or to apply an irrelevant object in the room, not about renovating anymore… I’m now at level 1296, barely renovated a few rooms, everytime when it’s an event going on, levels are hard and super hard, not able to pass without boosters or some sort of luck and after working a lot on an event, e.g. to transform a character and their room, to not be able to finish it because you get stuck on a frustrating level and times runs out.

If you have a life and want to play in spare your time to relax, it’s not fun anymore, obviously you can pass levels if you buy boosters…for something that is imaginary… A good tip is just not to play the game for a few weeks, than miraculously they “ miss you” and reward you with free lives and boosters… and if no event is going on, you pass level on a charm. I’m playing other games in parallel and feel that I’m advancing more on those, and they give more possibilities to complete tasks…

Sorry guys, I know it’s a bussiness but make it at least fun, and relaxing, not frustrating, life is as it is…

2021-12-06

Don’t waste your money

1) I initially enjoyed this game but having reached level 590+, I’ve had enough! It’s cost me a small fortune to get so far and now the games are very similar and so boring. There are FAR too many hard and super hard levels which, again, cost a fortune to get through. I’m done ! 2) I did actually leave the game for a while but came back to it during Covid-19 lockdown. My first review stands. As you get further along in the game it becomes more & more expensive and costs never less than 2 lives for anything and often 3x3 lives. Some of the levels are so hard and take so long to get through (unless, of course, you keep spending on them) that they get VERY boring. This time I’m DEFINITELY through.

3) The game now seems to have developed a lot of glitches. several times I have not received purchases or they disappear. And the customer support is simply awful. You get a request for a screen shot and then ……nothing, sometimes for days.

2021-11-17

Getting too hard

I’ve been playing this game for a couple of years now, along with Gardenscapes, so have reached a reasonable level in both. What appears to be happening now though is that even ‘easy’ levels are taking far too long & using too many resources to beat in comparison to when I first started. I’m currently on level 3841 in Homescapes which is not classified as hard but am completely stuck despite half an hour of play. Hard & super hard levels are popping up more frequently & I appear to have to earn more stars in order to get household items than at the start + often have no choice as to what they are. I want to be challenged in a game & don’t want it to be boring or too easy but I only play this for short periods with a cup of tea so will sadly probably stop as it’s becoming very frustrating & no longer fun! Something for the developers to maybe consider is that I’ve never managed to finish a mini renovation challenge & it would be nice if you could somehow have a choice to revisit at a later point & complete them.

2021-10-20

Gone downhill

I’ve been playing this game for years now (I’m on level 6635) & what used to be a fun stress relief to do in my free time has now become a very frustrating pass time that I recently put down & didn’t touch for a couple of months.

The game has been made much harder by developers with fewer moves per level sometimes too few (especially when it involves something that has to be hit several times with a boost before you get what you actually need from inside it) I have been stuck on the same level for a full week recently as I refuse to spend any money. Some of the challenges are way to hard & the amount of coins needed for extra moves is way too high compared to the amount of coins you earn per game, additionally this amount has been the same in all my years of playing & I think it needs updating.

Also the events have gone downhill, there used to events on a weekly where you could earn unlimited lives & sadly this seems to be a thing of the past.

It’s a shame as this used to be my favourite game but sadly is no longer enjoyable I suspect once I find another game I enjoy playing this one will be deleted.

2021-10-08

Great game

I’m seeing reviews that say it’s too difficult and you have to spend money. That’s not my experience. I’m on level 2750 and haven’t spent a penny. I find it too easy when I win free boosters for a time and race through every level first go. I’m not saying this to show off. My tips would be to save up your boosters until you really need them. I always have 4 goes without extra lives or using boosters before I use anything to help. That way I save them for if I’m really stuck. Another hint is to really pay attention to what you are supposed to achieve like just because you see cookies doesn’t mean that you have to destroy the cookies. Done waste goes doing something that you don’t need to do to win. Best hint - if it looks like it can’t possibly be done in the number of moves you are given, you need to join a ball with another booster to fill the board with bombs, rockets or planes so focus on that. I like following the story of Austin. It’s kinda sweet and fun to pick furniture. Personally I save up until I have 100 stars and can do a whole day at a time as I find the story easier to follow that way. I’m not really a game player so I’m delighted to have found this game that is challenging enough to be interesting yet has a story suitable for children instead of fighting or violence with decent graphics and best of all, completely free! I’ve not spent a penny so far.

2021-10-07

I don’t recommend this app.

If like me you like games that challenge you and help you to chill, do not get this game. When I started, the majority of games were just about right, some where more challenging, but it didn’t take long to beat them. Then the number of attempts per game were drastically reduced and the majority of games are pretty much impossible to pass, unless you spend your hard earned cash of course. I found myself getting so stressed at times and speaking with other players they were the same. I belong to a team and the turnover was unbelievable, people just gave up and left. It’s a shame, because the idea of the whole game is great. I’ve read replies to some comments from developers on here to contact their team. One of my biggest gripes with this game is trying to contact a human! You just go around in automated responses. I don’t expect somebody sat there 24/7, but getting through is almost as frustrating an experience as some of the games. I just don’t understand the developers, players won’t hang around when there’s so much choice out there for us to move to.

2021-08-21

Money trap!

I dont usually leave reviews but just thought I’d say that I did love this game and I’ve played it up to level 4,600 but I’m now at the point where it’s so hard it’s taking me days and days to complete one level unless I spend real money - and I’ve already spent enough and refuse to part with more! It’s becoming so tedious I’m thinking of deleting it. It’s no fun anymore. I’ve parted with enough real cash for silly boosts only to find myself stuck again a few levels later. The game requires your involvement but you soon lose interest when you’ve been stuck for days and days on end. The developers only response seems to be ‘it is possible to beat every level without spending money…etc etc’ but what’s the point if it takes you to forever and by the time you finally do, you’ve lost all interest in the characters and the game? I think this game was rated 4.9 not long ago so I see it’s dropping fast in popularity. It’s a shame the developers are not listening.

2021-07-13

Too difficult

Do NOT download this game if you don’t have a lot of time to burn! Originally I downloaded this to play for a few minutes here and there between work and home life but this isn’t for people who have a busy real life recently seems like all normal lvs have had the available moves reduced and even the hard and very hard ones have been reduced for example i got a lv where 10 moves where available i was stuck on it for months as i only had some time here and there! Only way i was lucky is if the pieces on the board fall correctly or you use power ups or if you have none you buy some with real money! Which is probably why they have done this to push players to spend on power up packs. But instead it’s become too frustrating for me! Stuck on one level for more than a month! Not really a game you want to play if you make no progress! I like the game but its not for me as it requires too much of your time considering most levels have too little moves to accomplish a level! May as well put very very hard on all levels! 10 moves!!!! And the goal was impossible i had to spend over 2k coins to buy 10 extra moves to do that! You know what your doing you know its not possible to do it in that! You force the hand of the players to buy more in game currency with real money! I have no time for it so here is my last review then the app is gone! It never used to be this hard!

2021-06-09

Starts good, gets tedious quick

Once you get past the first 40 levels (if even that) it becomes clear that the minigame is based on pure luck, which really takes the fun and enjoyment out of finally getting one star when you realise you haven’t gotten better, you just got lucky with your draw. It’d be more rewarding if the levels weren’t so unexpectedly hard with such little return. Only getting one star then having to use it on “feed the cat” and other pointless actions which add nothing to the game just makes the game more frustrating. No matter how much time you put in, getting stuck on a level for weeks, just to get set back by random extra actions you have no choice but to do makes it boring. I liked it at the start where you could just go through the levels and actions intermittently, but now I’m on level 50 and i have no idea how anyone stuck this out so much further, since it seems to me you’re just left to hope that maybe this time the “problem-solving” game will actually allow you to do so. No matter how good you get, it’s still a luck of the draw situation and you can’t reuse lives to restart or anything so you’re screwed. Just quite disappointing since getting to renovating the house is fun, but the game shortly becomes just you trying over and over again to get stars and failing. Game becomes borderline impossible or not worth the effort after a while.

2021-06-05

Redesigns addition has made this a very frustrating game

I’ve been playing this game for years and it’s great but since the recent addition of “redesigns” it is now also incredibly frustrating. These limited time add on games appear randomly and look like nice additions to the game play - however they are actually impossible even if you play for hours. They always coincide with super hard levels that take hours to complete and eat into the time available to complete the game. It is almost impossible to get even half way through before the games end and you “fail”. The normal game play resumes and you magically get a load of easy levels to whiz through until the next time a redesign level appears. Really I only play this now to see how far I can get on one of the next ridiculous redesign level. Have made it half way once! It seems that the game has been redesigned just to try to take the players money which is understandable but still a shame. Unless you want to be really frustrated I would say stay away from the redesign levels and then it’s a nice little game. Three stars simply because after all these years I feel annoyed that I am still wasting my time on this and not getting anywhere. The joke is purely on me!

2021-04-22

Difficulty increases too quickly - be prepared to spend money

The concept of this game is great. However, it gets too difficult far too quickly. Rewards do not reflect the difficulty of the levels, it should really reward more coins, boosters and stars for passing levels. You can get stuck on a level for days, maybe even weeks, unless you want to spend money on in-app purchases, which I won’t do. One of the most annoying things is you can’t start a new game if you want to try again once you realise you really should keep hold of your boosters and coins as far as possible. Even if you delete the app and download it again, it remembers your progress and you can’t opt to start a new game. I would rate this game 5 stars if all of the above were changed - increase difficulty at a slower rate, reward more coins, boosters and stars and allow players to start a new game if they want to. These downfalls will see me giving up on this game very quickly, whereas I would have otherwise played the game long term. Such a shame. Time to look for an alternative I guess....

2021-04-13

Very addictive

At first I loved the game - seemed to be a lovely idea to redecorate and renovate a cottage. It is however anything but. This game is in fact a candy crash saga in disguise topped with a boring story about a butler, who becomes really annoying with levels very difficult to complete. Forces you to make a purchase, and five bucks gets you nothing really, just more lives faster for two weeks, still cannot beat the levels after having dozens of goes at it. One would need to purchase coins, and do it over and over again, as it comes at a few thousand coins to finally finish a level. Ridiculous. And the rewards are very little, technically spent the whole day to finish a task and still nowhere near. One would need many boosts to be able to complete one game, but even if someone would think of purchasing a pricey package would only get a few boosts of each kind, that won’t even last for 3 or four games. And one have to spend, once again thousands of coins if wants to carry on with one particular game. Not fun, really annoying. Mini games are bit childish but fun, there should be more of them with a chance of getting more rewards. This game is just a money making trap.

2021-02-25

Great game but needs tweaking 🤔

I really enjoy this game but I find that the one star reward is utterly ridiculous, so much so that I am likely to delete it🙃 The idea of being able to “do up rooms & have different adventures” is great but to be stuck on one level for days & then finally get one star ( and then you need two stars to start a new day and 3*3 stars to finish one of the next challenges 🤯) is taking the joy out of the game. (I’ve had this game on both my iPad & my mobile for about 3 weeks. ) With regards to weekly team challenge- the first week we did ok, were placed in teams that, even if we weren’t at the top, they were still within reach. Week 2 the 3 first teams had 1000’s of points before we even started😳 Hardly encouraging to continue 🥺 Please sort these tweaks out, I know that you want people to spend money ( which I did in the beginning, but when it becomes clear that those who do all the time will be the only ones with a chance to move forward, then I feel less keen to do so) All the best A.D.

2021-02-01

Great but a few other things🥲

Ok so I love the game and all, but sometimes it just annoys me due to the fact that you have to be stuck on levels for days on end, and I’ve been stuck on a really early level like level 20 for about a month now. Also I find that I’ve downloaded the app, but I still get the ads on other games. Other people have said the same things as me, and I 100% agree that they should make the levels easier and change the ads; as well as adding more of what the ads say the game is about, like those pin removing puzzles. A friend of mine is really high up, and said that eventually you need to pay coins to continue, which you pay real money to get if you don’t have enough. The game will be so much better with everything I said above, with lots more people keeping the game and not deleting the game. Now I will keep the app for longer to see if any good changes have been made, and trying to check every so often.

Thank you for reading and understanding my review. Have a good day or night, and try to stay happy in these unfortunate times.

2020-12-28

Addictive but...

I have seen many ads for this game so I finally decided to download it. I liked it at the beginning because the levels were a bit simpler and you got to do more of the renovating part. Now I am on level 37 or something like that and the level is way too hard even if I use a lot of power ups. I thought it was called HOMEscapes because we got to renovate homes. However I do really enjoy the mini-game and would like to do more of those to get stars because I can’t find apps that do that. Please recommend an app that just does that for me because I would prefer that. Also, if I wanted to do the hard levels when trying to get stars then I should’ve just downloaded candy crush or something but I don’t like those types of games so I don’t think this game is quite what I like. The only thing is: it is quite addictive which I don’t truly understand why because, as I said, I don’t really like the candy crush type of games. I guess the renovating part and the mini game I like too much. I also enjoy the storyline of it.

2020-12-26

Great game but...

Edit: After most recent update today the game seems buggy. I have reinstalled a number of times, it throws errors on some of the updates. After another reinstall updates completed successfully but no progress is shown. I am completing tasks using the stars but can’t see any of the completed tasks actually happening. I am currently in a new area (after garage) but it’s unlit. I apparently assembled a tree and was asked to select lights for it but nothing is showing on screen.

Probably my favourite Match-3 game, great graphics and the design aspect keeps one interested, but there are way too many tasks requiring two or three stars to complete. Pretty much everything in the living room for example so far, which spoils the feeling of progress and just leads to frustration. (Edit: this is getting worse, 3 stars required to fertilise a tree is ridiculous, unnecessary stringing out of gameplay.)

They are quite generous with the bonuses and infinite lives time but it would be nice to be able to choose when you want to introduce your power-ups, rather than it being dropped on playfield at the beginning.

2020-12-21

In agreement with everyone else

Well think I’ve been playing for a bout 2years now, almost up to level 3000, the game is quite addictive in itself, does get a bit tiring when every time bonus games games come up you end up being stuck in a level most of the time the bonus is on the timescale hence why it’s hard to complete the bonus. And also seems most of the levels are reoccurring now but even harder, I’m not wasting my hard earned money to buy extras! As for buying extra lives with your coins I think it’s a bit harsh it costs 900 coins!! Come on guys it’s about time you come in line with the other games, lower the cost of coins you earn to buy extras please!!! I love this game it’s great but you really need to look at coin prices and change them, seriously!

And after reading a lot of the reviews they are all basically saying the same, does that not tell you something, or are you just going to keep ignoring them? Also only noticed a reply to a couple of reviews, so what’s the point of having the option to write a review when they get ignored?

Time to make some changes don’t you think?

2020-12-01

Used to be a good game before they got greedy.

This used to be a very good game before the creators got greedy. the team events are usually unsuccessful as each player needs to pass an average of 35 levels each in order to qualify to win the prize. Given that every other level is hard, very hard or extremely hard this is nearly impossible without having to pay. As previously mentioned by another reviewer they also have golden ticket events where even if you can get through the levels you still don’t win anything near the same amount as the people who pay for it which makes it entirely pointless to even bother trying. Again mentioned by another reviewer recently the add switch allow you to earn much-needed Queens will play however they do not pay out and you cannot even exit out of them so it just crashes your game. I have no problem with people who pay being given parks but people who can’t afford it should be able to earn the same items with hard work, this seems to evade their comprehension. Trying to get any issue fixed by to attempting to reach them on any platform just goes ignored.

2020-11-30

Disappointed as no resolve on my lost game progress

I’ve been trying to get the issue of my lost game progress sorted for over a month now and still no resolve. I’ve tried to get help 3 times now over the contact us now section in game and After answering tonnes of questions and being told an agent will get back to me, which takes over a week each time, you then get the exact same response that says “I’d like to apologise for the delayed response. We were having issues with our support system, which is why we weren’t able to get back to you in a timely manner. Don’t worry, we will make sure this doesn’t happen again!” The conversation then gets closed a day later if you do not respond and then you have to start all over again. This is ridiculous how are your support systems still not “fixed” in over a month? Why after having to wait over a week for an agent to respond (all 3 times), do I get less than a day to respond back before you close the conversation? And will I ever get my progress back?. I used to really enjoy passing the time playing this game but I’m not willing to start from the beginning of the game to continue playing it after it randomly lost my progress. I’d like some answers as I have been more than patient enough!!

2020-11-11

Could be good

It’s a nice idea and graphics but it spoils it with the little rewards and high price for extra moves, plus there are bugs that are hard to report if they are spotted after they happen. For example on occasions on 2 star game, if you only have one star it deducts one but on the next go it still deducts 2 as if you already didn’t pay one before. The unlimited lives don’t always add on top. With 18 min left I won 15 unlimited minutes which replaced the 18 I had before so not really a bonus. Spinning the wheel for a jackpot has a pre-programmed outcome as I noticed when I closed the game without claiming the reward, it spins again when I re-open and always gives me the same reward regardless when I press the Stop. So I tried this 5 x and all results the same... coincidence?? Losing patience with this game. If the coins went a longer way I’d be more willing to buy.

I see useful comments in previous reviews made 1-2 years ago and it’s still the same issues so developers don’t seem to have much interest to take these on board.

Get it if you are bored and want to spend days earning 1 star to answer the door, make a phone call or feed the cat rather than making any improvement to the house. But really, aren’t there better things in life to spend time on...?

2020-10-28

Could be a lot better.

So pleased I read the reviews before wasting my money on a golden ticket which is a very temporary boost. I’m all for supporting developers, but I get fed up with how many stars have to be used for so few things and such a lot of efforts (given you can be stuck on a level for hours or days - result is one star. Some of the renovations are downright ghastly (curtains draped over the stove for a TV show for example) and I’d like the option to ignore. 2 stars to put up a poxy hedge. An option would be good - should Austin do X or Y? So you control the destiny a little more.

I’d like to think winning a level is based on skill but often it isn’t. It’s down to if the algorithm wants you to win that time. When choosing a booster you should be able to select when to implement it - and where. You can’t. It’s placed in at the beginning and invariably is activated by another unwanted chain sequence. My advice is to not waste your boosters.

I also worked hard last weekend to come 3rd. For that I should have received 5 planes boosters. They didn’t get awarded so that was a complete waste of a Sunday. Come on developers, listen to your gamers. I’d be happy to pay a fiver for a real long term reward but as it is, I’ll stick with the free version.

2020-09-22

Be wary

I absolutely loved this game and played it for years prior to even spending a penny. A year ago I would give the game 5 stars. The graphics are good and it’s really enjoyable. I didn’t mind paying for a few things I wanted, mostly for events because it was contributing to my enjoyment of the game and as you see in the first review - the rewards can be quite stingy.

After a while the developers/company start adding “golden tickets”, be aware that the cost of this is not worth it as they originally advertise that you keep what you pay for but in fact it is actually for the 5 day duration of the event. Who in their right mind would bother to pay for 5 day boost of a game? Especially when they originally advertised that the changes are permanent. As a result you actually do not get what you pay for. After contacting them about it they basically ignore you and try to fob you off with 30 mins of free play- beating in mind what you purchase is way more than that. After asking for proof of the page where the terms and conditions are they give you an updated version of some obscure terms and conditions reference that they rewrote like the day before. I think they have no respect for the intelligence of their players. Honestly crush candy, everyone else is.

2020-03-06

Love it.

I have so many issues with this game, all have been listed in other reviews: too expensive for +5 moves, making power up’s and not being given them during game play, not enough coins rewarded for completing levels, free game play wasted (should have a pause function), being stuck on one level for days on end & numerous stars needed for insignificant tasks.

However, I love this game & can’t stop playing it; haven’t since I first downloaded it a couple of years ago... I’m almost on level 3000 - house completed, now onto the surrounding areas.

I save up stars and spend them when I know I have enough to complete a full day (around 60-70 stars usually) and I never let them drop below 50, as it became sooo frustrating to need one/two stars to complete a day/task, at the same time as being stuck on a level for weeks & not able to complete anything!

I never spend money on this game but I play strategically and this works for me but I’ve been playing long enough to know how to plan the board to my advantage.

My friend downloaded the game, he doesn’t play as often as I do, maybe once every couple of months and the last time he signed in he completed over 100 levels on the trot, had an hour free on all 3 power up’s at the start of each level, finishing each level in just a few moves and he ended up with 28 hours free game play. So I guess the key to easy and non challenging game play, is to not play very regularly 🤷‍♀️

2020-03-03

Interesting concept behind the game but rewards are too little!!

I discovered this game last year whilst playing another game and thought let me try it. I have given it a fair chance to see if things would improve but they haven’t. I enjoy the concept of this game, I.e. restoring a house, but sadly am thinking of unloading it because the coin deductions are way out of sync with the minuscule rewards you earn when winning a game🙄how can you take away 900 coins and win a game that gives you back, more often than not, less than a hundred coins? That’s ridiculous and suggests this game is intended to bleed you dry financially and give Apple further profits! It is also frustrating that each time I have watched a video to earn coin rewards, the supposed coin rewards HAVE NEVER BEEN ADDED TO MY WALLET, although it pours itself into the wallet as if it is going to do so; my balance remains the same!!! What is that all about?? You need to take a good review of this game!! I’ve already stopped playing Gardenscapes for the same reasons...case in point, where are my 300 coins for getting past level 1000??? They have not increased my total AGAIN!!

2019-12-30

My favourite game!!!

To everyone who says they have to spend money on this game in order to succeed, or that it's too hard, or down to luck - I'm on level 2461 and I haven't spent any money to do it. Some levels seem hard but if you have patience and keep at it, you will beat it.

The game hands out plenty of free power-ups on a regular basis and if you find a group with other regular players, you can chat to them and get loads of free lives from them. There are also weekly events that you can take part in that also hand out free power-ups and allow you to compete with others.

Other than that, it's a fun, match-3 game that can be very satisfying and addictive. I enjoy choosing the items to go inside Austin's house and learning the little storylines behind each renovation project. There's very little of this game I don't enjoy, and I can play it as much or as little as I like. Of all the games I've downloaded and played, this is the one that has held my interest over the long term. It's not exactly the most profound or complex game, but for me it has been the most consistently enjoyable and rewarding.

2019-12-11

The only game I play

I have been playing this game for more than a year and I’m still addicted. It can be frustrating as some levels are very hard to complete (some of the “easy” levels are harder to beat than the “difficult” ones!) but after a day or 2 of multiple attempts the game will let you complete them. The extra mini games are great and a good opportunity to stock up on coins/boosts, plus, in tournaments you’re up against other players and the prizes are worth it if you can get to 1st place. (For example, I just won 2 hours unlimited life and 7 boosts for coming 2nd place, and 3000 coins for coming 2nd in a team tournament!) I must admit that some of the furniture/interior design choices are pretty bad (sometimes I just think they’re all really ugly) but it’s a game at the end of the day - not your own house. I’m currently at level 972 and haven’t ever purchased anything in the game; there’s no need to spend real money if you can play the game well - one of the reasons why I love it!

Thanks for creating this game and for updating regularly with new features. I definitely recommend.

2019-10-02

DONT BE FOOLED!

The adverts for this game give you the impression it’s a puzzle game which it’s not. For example they show you a kitchen with a fire and underneath you have several buttons to press one of which is a fire extinguisher button which extinguished the fire and then you will see smoke and you think about opening a window or something similar. So it looks like an interesting puzzle game where you have a problem and then take one of the offered solutions. In fact this game is just a copy of other similar games where the levels get so unbelievably hard you have to buy extra lives or boosts to have any chance of completing a level. The story of Austin the butler renovating the house is just to hook you into the game as yes it does give you choices of how you renovate the house by choosing wallpaper etc, each room has over 100 games to complete before you move onto the next room. Some of the levels are ridiculously difficult and I’ve spent over £300 in about 2 months and completed over 500 levels and I’ve not even finished 4 rooms and I’m a pretty good player so only buy extra lives or boosts if I genuinely cannot complete a level without having to do so. If they made it clear upfront the advert is nothing remotely similar to the actual game I would have never downloaded it, so be warned...

2019-09-01

We weren’t born yesterday, fellas.

The whole game gets stupidly annoying really. I know it’s my own choice to keep playing it! It is entertaining, I’ll give it that. But seriously, how many flipping stars do you need to do really really basic tasks?

I’m on level 590-something, and I realised a long time ago that it was all about how many times you’ve played a level. I suspect there’s just a pre-set number of times required to play a level before ‘oh, look, you’ve done nothing differently but it’s time for you to complete the level!’ and magically, you complete the level. Sadly this gets higher and higher the further you progress in the game. And now I need an increasing number of stars to do really mundane things too. Really? And ‘ooh, look, you’ve nearly finished this bit. Why not spend some cash just this once?’

Yes, it’s a fun game. (But frankly I want to do up the house, not fix the flamin’ car and phone people up). But it’s a load of fixed nonsense really. Shameful. But a fairly peaceful way to pass the time.

2019-08-17

An Amazing and addictive game but the advert is very misleading.

Recently when playing other games I’ve come across adverts for this game (which I’ve had for some time now) and the content of the video relates to absolutely nothing of the in game content. He’s never in a life threatening situation and we do not save him or accidentally make things worse for him. We play some levels and re-build an estate. It’s rather annoying when you see an advert like this, I understand the appeal to make it interesting but you’re attempting to advertise to the wrong audience. Advertising to people who are stereotypically on their phones 24/7, by which I mean teenagers, doesn’t really fit your supposed demographic. Again I’ll come back to the annoying part of these misleading adverts; what I see in an advert is what I expect to get. If I see a man surrounded by fire I expect to see that in the game and him surrounded by fire and with a chance of dying if I make the wrong choice. In this game however, there are no wrong choices and it’s based on your own interior and exterior taste. You should focus your adverts more towards your actual audience unless you want to completely redesign your game to reflect the adverts you are producing.

2019-07-24

Great game, but don’t buy the coin packs

Not really a fan of these games as they take far too long to get what you need to fulfil the tasks. Saying that, my other games got a bit boring after a while so gave this a shot. Got quite addictive and with the free lives for hours on end, I managed to use them to play as many games as I could, which really helped on the difficult levels. I was so close to finishing a level and I wouldn’t normally pay for playing a game, but I succumbed to buying the apprentice pack with 2 of each booster and 5500 coins as I only had 398 coins and couldn’t get another set of lives. Purchase complete and felt like this time I’d be luckier. Went to play and had the boosters but only had 5178 coins?!?! Contacted customer support and after a few days of them only given 1 generic answer early in the morning, they concluded with your account was sent the 5500 coins purchased. If that was the case then I’d have them as well as the 398 coins I’d started with. Like I said, good game but don’t buy the coin packages, if it wasn’t for that then I would of given it 5*

2019-07-07

Deleting

Well, I’ve given it a good go. On lvl 263. But it’s been a struggle. The levels are so difficult (even the normal ones, never mind hard and super hard!) The only thing that’s kept me in the game this long is the progression of the house. And even that’s minimal at lvl 263! I’ve only done the entrance area, his bedroom, the kitchen and a part of the garden. I can sometimes spend days doing an easy level. So, weighing up the pros and cons, and all the frustration. I’ve decided it isn’t worth it. The only way you can get ahead in this game is by spending money (which I’m sure is the point) When all I want is a little distraction and relaxation and fun for a small portion of my day.

You’ll also notice when playing the game, that if a level is too difficult and you spend days on it with no end in sight, then abandon it for a few days out of pure frustration, you will all of a sudden find you have all the luck in the world on your return. How convenient. Especially when the 50+ times you’ve played it before didn’t yield the same results. It’s almost as if the game is predicting your abandonment and future deletion. ??

Anyway, if it wasn’t for the difficulty levels, and the obvious money making tactics. I would really like the game, even with the long winded progression of the house. Shame really.

2019-05-11

Gambling machine

All I have to say about this game is it’s all down to luck. No skill needed. Just like a gambling machine. You put your £1 coins in to try and win the jackpot but you will only win when the computer wants you to win. This is exactly the same concept. You could use 40+ lives on one level and it will not let you win. You leave the game for a bit, come back to it and attempt the level once again. This time it will give you as much help as possible. Turning your moves into power ups allowing you to beat the level with 10+ moves remaining. Currently on level 232 and I can count on one hand the amount of levels I’ve passed without losing a life. Levels are repetitive, difficult and frustrating. I like the concept of rebuilding the house, but many stars won are used on daft actions such as “use 1 star to answer the door” or “use 1 star to feed the cat”. These actions do not bring anything to the game and I’d rather use the stars on actually renovating the house. Due to the nature of difficulty in passing levels this has been given 1*. I understand developers want to make money, but I’d rather pay for the game upfront than give money to a company forcing players into spending their hard earned cash on pushy power ups that have have no guarantee in completing a level. As far as advertisement of this game goes, maybe the makers should be sued for false advertisement, as the adverts of problem solving game has no resemblance of the actual product.

2019-04-26

Becomes monotonous !

A good game but the rewards are too sparse. Some levels take forever to complete and you end up spending money to get extra moves out of frustration. That is the whole point I suppose, raise revenue, but eventually the game becomes boring and monotonous. The rewards of free lives for a set time always seem to come at a time that is inconvenient and I haven’t got an hour spare to sit and play. It is a shame that you cannot reach the point of having free lives for an 30 minutes and some how ‘bank’ it for when the hardest levels come up. A smart little game though, but trivial tasks in return for stars make it silly at times. I hate having to work through levels just to change gates/benches/tiles etc to fit in with seasonal holidays. Really ? Already earned those stars and paid for the improvements, now having to earn the stars all over again to end up with Christmas/Halloween/Easter decorations all on the same screen ! I no longer play this game as much, it has become predictable and repetitious. Don’t spend real money, just find a better game that truly is free.

2019-04-01

In 2 minds

Downloaded this game a few months ago, and was absolutely obsessed straight away. It shows you all the rooms you get to redecorate and you’re instantly excited, but the more you go on, the harder the levels get. (Obviously) but when I say hard, I mean hard. You get stuck for weeks on one level and get right to the point of completion but you just miss out by one move. So angry! And It’s such a shame because you work so hard to get just one star and then end up having to waste it on something that has nothing to do with the room.

Starting to get a bit frustrated with how hard the levels are because it’s not even like you feel rewarded when you pass one. Feels more like an effort rather than a challenge. In app purchases aren’t too bad, but to continue a level you need 900 coins which aren’t easy to get, so also another issue for me is the amount for something things within the game. Considering how much money I’ve spent on this game, my house should be complete by now.

Im in a love hate relationship with this game. As much as it’s frustrating, you can’t stop playing. Maybe when an update is due, make the new levels a bit easier please.

2019-01-13

Fun but number of stars you collect to move on needs changed

I love this game and Gardenscapes. As you progress through the game the levels get harder (which is expected) but you also need to collect more stars to complete a task and move on. This is the only thing I don't like about the game as I am now on level 100 odd and there is still SOOOOO many rooms left plus the garden, none of which have been touched and I'm starting to think I'll never see what most the rooms could look like. You also sometimes waste stars and moving on time by using stars to complete silly little tasks, for example, I had to collect 2 stars to fix the sink in the kitchen, for it to then not even be fixed but even worse and then I had to collect another two stars to stop the leak. Was much better when you just needed one star to complete a task, especially for ones that require you to do it more than one. The only reason I end up not playing the game for a while as it's so off putting, especially as sometimes I need to do a level multiple times to pass it and collect a star in the first place. Gardenscapes is the same.

2018-12-16

Great

I really like this game and how you complete games to upgrade the house but the wait for lives is way to long and some levels are way to hard for me, also getting money is really slow so when I spend 900 on 5 extra moves but still fail the level it’s a real pain but even if I do complete it after that I gain less than 100 coins which is a bit unfair but a really easy way out of this would be to make a mode where you have infinite money and stars so that you can refurbish the house freely without having to go through the pain of having to play the same level over and over again, this way you could let our inspiration run wild other than go dry because of painstakingly hard levels. I care more about the story line of the characters so this way I’ll be able to remember more of it and not just say “ but why is this happenin?” “Who is that?” You could still have the option to do levels if we wanted and have infinite lives and boosters to still challenge our selves every now and then. This kind of defeats the point of the game but I believe that more of the point is to refurbish and listen to the story line.

2018-08-24

Homescapes= An ok game (quite a long review but please read)

I’ve been playing homescapes because my friend recommended it so I gave it a go, at first I thought “Huh, this is quite easy!” But now I’m on level 43 and am stuck on it. People may make hacking websites and no matter how many times I try it, it NEVER works. All I’m saying is that Homescapes is a lovely game and I love the story behind it but you have got to make it a bit easier! You never know someone out there might be still playing this for months, years and still be on the same level! At least on the daily rewards you could put like on day seven you get seven stars etc. I’ve deleted the game and I really didn’t want to but I’ve been stuck on the same level for two weeks. Homescapes isn’t meant to be like that, it should be hard, but not so hard that you get stuck like I did. Homescapes, please sort it out because I really want to finish the game but how can I if you don’t help us and if you’re thinking right now , “We give you so many power ups and you want more!?” Yes we do want more because the game is literally impossibe. Trying to get rid of cookies and and sixty four pieces of grass with just under twenty moves isn’t possible. Only a child genus or a robot could do this.

P.S. Sorry that it’s quite a long review but I hope you can relate.

2018-07-09

Initially good, but so difficult.

I think this game is ridiculously difficult. I have played it every day for absolutely ages and am on the verge of deleting it. There is no way to complete some levels except if you happen to be playing when the powers that program in the middle of the night, happen to give you a break. It is so hard to complete a level and then you can only complete a task by getting four stars. You could renovate a whole house in real life whilst you finish the mansion stairs. And forget about getting your cat to the top floor of that tower block. It ain’t going to happen unless you purchase a pile of coins. The game needs to be easier, the renovation choices need to be more impressive, Gardenscapes and Homescapes need to be merged into one slightly easier game, so that people completing one area can be doing parts of the garden, while they wait for lives in the house. Personally, I did not want a fish tank in my hallway, nor a library corner. I would never see a bedroom off the ground floor in any British Mansion. But there was no choice in this game. This could be a brilliant game, if it was developed further. As it is, it’s just a money- spinner for the game developers.

2018-04-07

Starts well, becomes unenjoyably frustrating

I reviewed this game not long after I got it and gave it 5 stars as I like the story and it’s an enjoyable waste of time! However, after having it for a while (level 600) I am not enjoying any longer and have stopped playing. I still like the concept and the story and regret this, but it has stopped being fun.

I get that the levels will get harder, and I’m fine with that. I also get that it should take longer to complete tasks as you get further through the game and am fine with that too. However, one recent task (ONE task) had two parts, both requiring 4 stars, which then turned into ‘whoops we messed that up so now we have to do the same thing again’ requiring another two-part, 4-star each task. So 16 really difficult levels to complete one part of a task. Every task is like this now. If some were like it, but then you had a few 2 star complete tasks, then it would feel like you were getting somewhere. But 16 difficult stars to complete one thing, followed by 8-stars for the next and so on is just dull, and I’ve lost interest because it means the story has become far too slow. A real shame.

2018-04-05

Good game, fun to watch as well as play.

I downloaded this on a recommendation from a friend. It’s fun to play, challenging at times, and has some great differentiators (the side quests, the development of the house) which I think set it apart from the usual candy crush like games.

Some negatives:

1 - I typically access Facebook by an app. When I started playing this game, I’d given up FB for lent, so the app wasn’t on my phone. I was pretty disturbed, when I re-added the app last weekend, that it was clear from changes (the appearance of photos in the challenges, etc) that the game had attempted to mine my data, even though I hadn’t linked it to FB at all. Not nice.

2 - I think the game is planning to take the main male character down a romantic route with a female minor character. There isn’t an option to have your main character be anything other than male and (apparently) straight - bit of a shame they couldn’t offer a little more diversity, or else just leave the characters as friends.

2018-02-22

Greedy

I am intrigued by the shadowy rooms which are still to be refurbished but I may be an old woman by the time I finish them. I don’t mind that some levels are really hard to complete - but it’s far too expensive to buy extra moves when you are really close so I just get stuck. I think on the whole the phone app gaming market is getting greedy. Now they have found a revenue model they are milking it. Now I’m sure developing games takes a bit of time and money, but at the end of the day this is just a match three game, it’s nothing revolutionary. Surely earning a little money from lots of players is a better revenue model than earning more money from the few who are mental enough to spend £30 on a decent amount of power ups.

I think on the whole the pricing is too greedy and that makes the game inaccessible for those who can’t afford to buy. Not spending a penny means progress is deathly slow - you need so many stars from completed games to participate in the story line that being stuck on one for days on end is horribly dull. I have very little time for game playing and have concluded that this is a waste of that precious time. I think a little more thought into player psychology wouldn’t go amiss.

2018-02-19

Good Game

Very good game. Same concept as Fishdom but a lot harder. I find Fishdom very easy with a few levels here and there that take more than a few goes to pass. I've noticed Fishdom has recently been made easier in the sense that it's now easier to get diamonds. I do think that I would personally enjoy Homescapes more if it was the same level of difficult as Fishdom but that's because I'm easily frustrated. As other reviews state, it's quite challenging and would be boring if it was too easy. I think maybe a feature where you can select the difficulty (easy/medium/hard) would go really well with this game because I've seen a lot of reviewers are happy with the difficulty. I also think considering you win between 50 and 60 coins per level that 900 coins for 5 extra moves is quite over priced no matter what difficulty the game is supposed to be. On Fishdom it costs 9 diamonds to get some extra moves and you get at least 1 diamond every time you feed your fish. So if you have 4 tanks you'll get 4 diamonds. I have 8 tanks so I get 8 diamonds every day, which I would say makes the game a fair bit easier. I would prefer this difficulty level to be implemented with Homescapes. I think the developers should really look at this as difficultly is mentioned in nearly ever review.

2018-01-31

General Review

This is honestly my favourite game, I was an avid player of Gardenscapes and downloaded this as soon as it came out. The levels can be quite hard and I’ve been so tempted to delete the game at some points but I’ve never felt so proud and satisfied when I’ve completed a level. I’m currently on level 169 and I just can’t stop playing! This is one of the few rare games that I haven’t deleted after the first few days and I really love the idea of having an objective as it makes me want to carry on. My only complaint that I would hopefully like to see changed in the future (unless you’ve already done it of course) is that of the infinity hearts. I usually play before college or before I go to sleep so when I’m given an our or two of infinity hearts I can’t use them which defeats the point of the reward. I would absolutely love it if we could apply them at the time we want instead of just starting the timer automatically as soon as you’re rewarded it . I quite like the limit of lives haha otherwise I’d never stop. Overall, fantastic game glad to have downloaded it.

Hope to have some feedback!

Thank you 😄

2018-01-04

Edited review

Don’t like this update preferred it before oh well I’m going to carry on playing cause it’s the only game I like

Edit: So I don’t quite remember what the update actually was but I stopped playing this game for ages because one level I was on (I think it was either 128 or 129) I was stuck on for ages and when I returned I was greeted with three hours of unlimited lives and several power ups. However the lives were wasted as I played two rounds and had to go out. I hadn’t deleted the game from my phone but the game seemed pleased I’d returned and wished to keep me playing. I completed the level in one go and then five more easy enough. Now I’m struggling again on level 134 and all I need the star for is to open a parcel. It’s really annoying as what I want to do is finish my kitchen but hey ho. I don’t think these should be part of what you spend your stars on.

However, after reading the other reviews saying you are practically required to buy items to help I have not had to do this. All that’s required is patience and logic. As a tip maybe think ahead of each move. So before you make a move, think. Will this create any further opportunities or will it remove an opportunity?

I will be changing my review from 3 to 4 stars

2017-11-13

So frustrating!! Poorly thought through!

As everybody else has said this game has tremendous appeal and has great potential fir becoming addictive....however! Some of the levels are impossible to achieve without spending money over and over again on boosters etc that last seconds and often get you nowhere! The boosters you buy have to be chosen before you play the level and are placed on the game at the beginning. You have no control over where they are placed! More often than not they are triggered by a run of cascades and therefore not at all useful. This is a complete rip off money making ploy designed to make you spend more money and completely takes away any enjoyment of the game! Why can't the boosters be available for you to play when you need them (as with the hammer). Perhaps the developers should take a look at games like Empires that are much more satisfying to play.

I enjoy working at getting through a challenging level that requires a bit of thought and skill but when it takes days and days to get one star to clear away rubbish or feed the parrot rather than actually refurbish the house that is a waste of my time.

With so meant poor reviews saying the same thing about this game you would think the developers would listen and 'develop' rather than lose players! Oh well, another one lost I'm afraid.

2017-10-26

If you like a challenge...

Downloaded after seeing it in an advert whilst playing another game. The graphics are really nice and the game looks good. Lots of people complaining about it being too difficult too early which is kinda true but what's the point in playing it if it isn't a bit of a challenge??? You don't have to spend money if you don't want to, I'm on level 78 and haven't spent anything. It costs a minimum of 900 coins to do anything and you earn a minimum of 50 coins per game. So 18 levels to earn enough coins to buy something seems pretty far fetched. However, you can watch adverts to get free coins (usually only between 30 and 50 per advert) which is fine when you've got nothing better to do.

Some people have complained about the lack of lives but that to me is a good thing, again it makes the game harder and it's more satisfying when you do win a level. I'm not sure if it's deliberate or just purely coincidental but when I'm stuck on a level it seems after a few failed attempts the game just makes life really easy. It seems it arranges the items such that power ups can be made in abundance and I can then complete the level with ease. Maybe it's just pure luck??

It's a good game but maybe not for someone who wants to sit down and play endlessly for hours on end.

2017-10-20

Amazing graphic, a bit difficult

I saw the game in an ad and I thought I discovered one of the best games for phones... love the graphics , love the characters, love the idea! However levels got difficult really fast; initially I thought maybe it’s me, but after reading the reviews I realised it’s not.

The upsetting part is that I bought a package with coins ( £4.99 ) that I managed to spend in 10 minutes :( I bought some lives and some boosters but never got them...

As others have mentioned after working so hard to get one star, it should be used for the house and not for other silly things like opening the door !!! can you please think of a way for us to make coins quicker or even lowering the difficulty of the levels a bit ; you could give a daily gift or the option of replaying previous levels to get coins without losing lives , or maybe a daily spin gift ( coins or stars or lives or to use against a task) i would play the game continuously if it wasn’t for the lives thing. Wouldn’t you prefer that ? And who wants boosters and stuff can still invest money... I’m sure you will listen to your players requests!

2017-09-29

Not recommended

I really like the idea behind the game and the drawings/look of it are really pretty. As in Gardenscapes, however, I will probably abandon it soon for two reasons: Austin the butler is kinda creepy, and because the puzzle games you need to solve to obtain "stars" (the currency needed to perform actions) become insanely difficult very early on. I am usually good at these kind of games, but without power ups (which mostly you have to buy) one level every two is really hard. I need to play some levels 20 times to be able to eventually solve them (thanks to pure luck). It would not be so bad if then I could use these stars to actually refurbish the house... but half of the times these stars are needed for inane actions such as "open the door to the postman" or "make a phone call". I am now stuck at a level knowing that when I finally conquer it I will have to use the star to "call a taxi". It's mildly infuriating. I understand the dev's goal is to frustrate you into paying real money for power ups and extra lives, but I still think it's ridiculous. If you are not hyper patient or hyper rich I'd not recommend this game. What a pity though.

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SET UP TO FAIL AND FOR MONEY SPEND

Great game by unicorn dreams

Great

❤️❤️❤️🎉

Payment issues

Fun

Problem

Not for me

Disappointed

HORRIBLE GAME!!

Fake ad

Addictive but irritating

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Fun

Too many Tournaments!

Too hard

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Downhill

Great game

Game

Defeated

The best game in the world

Mind blowing

Good game

AWSOME GAME

Frustrating

Amazing game<3

Poor taste.

Too difficult

Deducted coins

Review matter

Addicted to this, pls add controller support

Bit too hard

Not what it advertises

Amazing game

Homescapes

worst game

Rip off

Addictive but spend money

Gets annoying

Rip off

Criball

Housescapes

To many unwanted games

The brilliant app

Read me

Lies like usual

A varied game

not fun

Great game but don’t always receive bonuses

Big potential and big upsets

Used to be a fun game but not anymore

Don’t waste your money

Getting too hard

Gone downhill

Great game

I don’t recommend this app.

Money trap!

Too difficult