Gardenscapes Game Reviews

A great but expensive game. An interesting match-3 game with real dialogue written well and at a level accessible to everyone, this game can consume many hours. However, they penalize high level players with levels that require power ups to complete, and with others that, if you have automatic power ups due to events running, ruin a supposedly-clever mechanic and make the level unbeatable. Of course, you can keep spending money for more turns (which is undoubtedly the goal) but it’s very easy to spend $30 in micro transactions and their “best deals” are usually not. However, the game itself is largely stable. The one giant caveat is that if you are in the midst of a level and receive a call (when playing on your phone) the game may restart and not only do you lose any progress on that level, but if you had automatic boosters, they are forfeited even if you paid for then. Contacting support only gets to a token reply that this is functioning as intended and basically you’re screwed. Please do more money in the portal on your way out. The oft-requested feature of waiting to use free lives until one had time is never answered, so enjoy six hours of unlimited lives right before bed. Still, it’s the most enjoyable “free” game out there, and by far the best game in the “Scapes” series.

Not bad until you buy a golden ticket- then it’s a bigger money grab. I have been playing this game for well over a year. It has been my go to stress reliever. However, I began to notice certain things that I did not like but the game play was fun enough so I continued to play it. That is until I made the mistake of buying a golden ticket. At first I noticed that some levels were not labeled hard but were more difficult to pass than the hard ones. I was always asked to make a purchase. Which I did not and eventually would get through the level within a day or two. However, I purchased a golden ticket for the first time since I began playing this game and have been stuck on a hard level ever since! It’s been well over a week now and I can’t get through this level. It’s not even a super hard level. The game keeps asking me to purchase stuff. I refuse. I feel like I’ve been swindled. There are other problems I see with this game. 1. The daily bonus lands on the rainbow almost every day. 2, you have to choose the power ups before you even see the level. 3. Why are all the levels worth one star when you have three category levels? 4. The pace halts to a crawl. Unless you spend money on this game, you will not advance as quickly. I feel that this game has become less about the user having fun and more about getting the user to spend money. And even with a golden ticket, they want you to spend more. This game can be a lot of fun but I think that algorithm need to be fixed.

Mixed feelings about this game. On one hand, it’s wildly addictive. On the other, it’s overly frustrating to be stuck on a level that clearly shows the developers lacked some basic empathy/understanding of how the game works. I’m often stuck on levels that are not super hard, per their labeling. I have looked past the thanksgiving-riddled decor (mass genocide and stolen land? not something to celebrate) and the now Christmas-heavy theme, which is great for folks who celebrate Christmas. But I can’t look past the openly racist Asian-inspired area. Being Asian myself, I am so confused how this material made it past the quality check, let alone the initial copywriting phase. The story had to first be pitched and then approved by a manager of sorts. It is just bizarre. I skip most of it because it’s like a slap in the face every time I read it. It is most blatantly racist in the backwards, broken English they use for the Asian character, and the stereotypical “master” title is getting really old. (If they were going for the true stereotype, they could have at least consulted someone Asian and used the proper term “sensei” which would have made it less inaccurate, at least.) I know, it’s just a game, but someone should really be required to take some equity training. This is a very bad representation of Asian people and I’m disappointed it’s a large part of this game. If I were invested in this or advertising on this platform, I’d want to be more inclusive.

Every update has made this game worse. I use to love this game, I was someone who spent money pretty regularly on this game but as of the last year or so they’ve removed the daily wheel, lowered the bonuses you received, changed the algorithm of the puzzles, and as of this last update they’ve made you lose all power ups if you save and quit I really can’t see a reason to play the game. The developers have changed the game in hopes to make you frustrated enough that you spend money while also upping the prices of the purchase bundles and giving you less rewards for real money spent. Ive easily spent $1,000+ over my 6 or so years of playing this game, I had no problem spending $5 a month for events or $0.99 for 1000 coins and one of each power up here and there. I know the developers put money into the game but whoever is in charge of the prices now is killing the game. New people aren’t flocking to gardenscaps. The people who spend money are the people like me who have been playing since the game came out and no one wants to play anymore. I know it’s just a silly little game but so many of us really loved it and it was a fun game to play! Everyone loved Austin and our gardens but it’s just not fun anymore, everything is so money focused. If you read this far don’t waste your time on this washed up game. Maybe they’ll listing to all the bad reviews and change but I doubt it. Know your audience. That’s all I have to say.

Worse than Gambling. So, I enjoyed playing this game. The graphics are good, and the game is enjoyable. The problem is the ratio of coin payouts to what you have to spend to stay in the game. There are different ways to earn coins without paying for them; the normal maximum payout for free coins is 500 (some challenges can go as high as 6000 coins), and that doesn’t happen very often. You have to spend coins to stay in a game after running out of moves—the first charge for five additional moves is 900 coins, the next one is about 2000, and the next one after that is about 3000 coins. As the levels become progressively more difficult, you will run into some levels that are almost impossible to beat, even with boosters. If you give up without paying for more moves, you lose your starting boosters, making it even more difficult to beat challenging levels. Buying coins can cost anywhere from .99 cents for a few coins to $99 for 110,000 coins and several boosters. But because payouts for free coins are so low in comparison to the large number of coins that you will need to stay in the game, you will always end up losing and even large numbers of coins will quickly disappear. It’s worse than gambling because with gambling, at least you have a chance to win big jackpots. I ended up spending over $400 before I quit. It’s addictive and it’ll end up costing you. Don’t do it. Also, the fact that this company markets this game to kids is pretty shady, imo.

Best game. I’ve been playing this game for five years since I was pregnant with my five year old! This and Homescapes I downloaded when they came out and every penny spent has been worth it. I love the golden tickets and I’m looking forward to another holiday season full of decorations and new challenges! I play every day and spin the daily wheel everyday for five years and I’ve only hit the jackpot twice so that’s a little rigged. I think the reward for people who play daily should be greater and those who spend money. Maybe offer a yearly golden ticket package? 25 for the year? I would buy that for sure. Plus I’ve only finished a few room renovations and a few golden tickets and again I play everyday and I think I’m pretty good, so I don’t want it to be too easy but maybe offer more unlimited power ups during those events. Those help so much but sometimes even if I have all three going unlimited for 15 minutes I only get through one super hard level and they are wasted on one level. Just a few suggestions for ya. But overall this and Homescapes are amazing games that literally help me relax and clear my mind. My husband can’t believe how faithfully I play but after three kids all day long cooking cleaning and a cake business I need some me time playing my games!

Addictive, too easy to spend money.. This is a fun, entertaining, story telling, somewhat educational game. The artwork is nice, the logic to keeping you playing has been thought out, and it is pretty easy to play. You can win each level without power ups, but it is real tempting and very easy to buy power ups or to extend game just a few more plays. I have spent too much money in this game and am about ready to end it. But it was my choice to spend the money and Apple sends you a report on your expenditures so you can say WHAT! One big problem, when you run out of battery and your devices powers down (ok, that is the players fault), when you power back up and re-enter the game and the last level you were playing, the game thinks you had lost the level and the power ups you had stored in the bucket or chest are gone!!! The developers might consider not removing the power ups until after the last move of a level that ends the level, not during a crash. I lost a full chest of power ups after this loss of power crash (I did not plug in the iPad in time) and am finding it almost impossible to recover, or I need to spend more money. And I am done spending money. Time for me to move on, but I hope the developers can fix this issue. Until they do, don’t run out of power while playing this game!

Great game, and I don’t spend money on it ever. I don’t understand the temptation to spend money on this game??? While I can see how easy it is to spend money, I never have and never will. For me, whenever the “buy” messages appear, I ignore them. When you are out of energy or lives, to me that is the cue to put the game down and shift focus to another activity, possibly that doesn’t involve playing another game on your mobile device or tablet. When I’ve exhausted my lives, I've already spent a considerable amount of time playing GardenScapes and it’s now time to do something else, like cook dinner, wash the dishes, sweep the floor, etc. This reminds me of how great this game is constructed. At the point when you’ve exhausted your current lives, you must wait a time period before a life or lives are regenerated. In essence, there is a subliminal message in this game that tacitly tells you to keep your priorities in order, and not be so obsessed with constantly playing a game for hours upon hours. I appreciate the sociological/psychological aspect of GardenScapes. Finally, the game is very impressive and the graphics are exceptional. The developers should be commended on how well they’ve constructed the game.

Favorite game :). I downloaded the game based on the click bait of a story line where you are given the options to save the girl, save the house from burning, etc. The actual game is nothing of the sort. I also noticed that the game will cheat you to try and get you to spend money. If I’m stuck on a level that I’ve lost 20 times, I won’t log on for several days and all of a sudden when I come back, I have “welcome back” rewards, and I can beat said level in 6 moves. That is so annoying. The challenge level is actually perfect for me, not too easy but not too hard. No one would play a game with zero challenge. The reward wheel is annoying too. I’ve played for quite a long time now and have hit jackpot one time. Almost every other time I get rainbow blast, but never anything else that could be helpful. Overall, this is a fun game to pass the time but it could definitely use some improvements. It IS very visually appealing, and I love the calming music and sound effects. I also love Austin’s borderline creepy personality and positivity. One last thing that I like is that there are no pop up ads and those type of annoyances. I’m the type of person that will spend a few dollars on a game if it is fair and if I feel that the devs deserve it FOR being fair.

Fun but annoying. This game is definitely addicting and can be fun, but also very frustrating at times. As others have mentioned the levels get progressively harder as you go on. You can end up wasting lots of power ups and coins trying to beat a level and still lose. Also the rewards stay pretty much the same so you’re basically always getting diminishing returns as you play. But by far the most annoying thing for me is the multi-step process needed to restart a level when you lose or decide to quit. Whenever there is any kind of challenge active where you have to collect things or earn rewards, there is always a pop up where Austin asks if you are ABSOLUTELY SURE you want to lose your rewards/collected items from that level, trying to get you to use your coins and continue. Yes Austin, I am 100% sure I would rather give up these 15 apples I matched than waste my coins on 5 more useless moves that will bring me no where close to winning the level. Of course there is no option to disable these popups, probably because they are just a poorly disguised attempt to get people to spend money on coins. This used to be less of a problem because there weren’t always challenges going on so usually there would be no popup. Now the challenges are constant, and I have to mash the end level button multiple times to blow through Austin’s unhelpful advice every single time I lose or quit.

What Is up with the ads. I had downloaded the game 2-ish years ago and it was normal. All the adds were normal. Just a simple game when you complete puzzles to rebuild the guys garden, no biggie. Til I started seeing the newer ads. Every single one of them is a lie. I keep seeing my little sister see adds for puzzle games like these and they are nothing like the game, but she wants to download it. This is a pure scam and waste of storage. Even when I first saw ads for this app what i was first going to download it the ads never showed that it was one of those puzzle games. After I realized I tried to play it for a while, but it got really, and I mean really boring. And a lot of people can probably agree with me when I say boring puzzle games or puzzle games that lie to you are not worth playing. Nowadays the ads are far more terrible. Whenever I see one of the ads I cry inside. What part of ‘fun’ includes watching the stupid fake hand abuse these mother and daughter. I don’t know about you, but watching a mother and daughter suffer honestly makes me not want to play it even more. If you are going to advertise your game, please, just show what it actually is. We don’t have the time to watch the game in the ads and download a COMPLETELY different game. It being free does not give you an excuse to lead people on into thinking the game shown in the ads is what they are getting into. Thank you for reading.

I love it and it’s fun to play but..... First off, I just want to say that I absolutely love this game. I love the aspect of decorating the home, the plot, all of that. The only thing that gripes me about it is that, the game is so transparent in the fact that they make like 2 or 3 levels in a row super easy like passing it in 1 or 2 lives and then they’ll give you a level that you can’t pass for a week, like making it impossible, and you can only pass if you use the power ups or use the coins for more turns. After about a week and the game notices that you don’t use any of it, they make the level on probably the 9th day SUPER easy to pass and you’ll move on. I’ve noticed this about 6 or 7 times in the game and I’m upper 100 levels. Now to be fair, A LOT of puzzle games are like this. Homescapes is just visually appealing enough to make it bearable. The reason why I don’t mind it so much is because I play it a lot on my free time or when I’m bored so playing it, knowing I’m going to lose a level because they’ll make me wait to see if I use the power ups, is killing time for me until I actually pass it. Besides all of that, if you don’t like games that have that same interface and strategy with its players then this game is probably not for you, but it is a very well looking game with load of fun puzzles to play from!

Fun, but the game cheats to try to get your money. I’ve been playing this for many months now, and while I enjoy the premise and the gameplay, I found that the game purposely tries to prevent me leveling up. I currently have 23 extra lives (probably the 5th or 6th time I’ve accumulated this amount) that I got from the daily spin. I purposely press the stop button on different parts of the wheel, and yet I STILL get extra lives every time. It’s totally fixed. I’ve found myself stuck on levels for weeks because what I really need is a power up to give me the edge to pass the level, but I’m buried alive in extra lives instead. Additionally, I’ve found that if I start blowing through levels too quickly, the game will purposely make my lose a level by refusing to drop the needed shape. I’ve had more than twelve moves left to me after gathering all the gnomes or the lemonade but one, and despite making matches right beneath where I need things to be rearranged, the game will just keep dropping useless shapes for all of my 12 moves and purposely prevent me from winning. I’ve noticed that the only way to combat this programmed cheating is to just stop playing. I won’t open the app for days and then suddenly the game provides everything I need to pass a level I’d been stuck on for 9 days. It’s very frustrating, and there have been several times I’ve considered just deleting it.

Avoid if you have an Apple device. I have been playing for years and used to love the game. I have made it over level 15,450 and spent way too much money over the years. I didn’t mind because it was fun and entertaining. However, with each update it is clear that Playrix is only getting more greedy. Boosters and coins are more expensive to purchase for less. Now, they have taken away the option to reset a gain before making a move without losing boosters and a life. Our previous mini games, like renovations, have stopped and disappeared from our history. They took away garden league and replaced it with bowling match, doesn’t sound like a big deal until you realize many teams are cheating or are made up of bots and playrix refuses to do anything about it. They constantly have Expeditions as side games but they are ridiculously expensive to pass with in game coins and almost impossible to beat without spending real money. I am so frustrated with the game that I am no longer going to spend real money on it and have greatly decreased the frequency I play it. This used to be my “go to” game and now it’s a “if I’m really bored, I’ll think about playing” game. So disappointed that Playrix has chosen greed over player enjoyment. Trying to contact support and actually reach a human, not a bot, is almost impossible. When you do finally reach a real person they are either unable to help because of Playrix rules or just don’t care.

It’s not bad, but NOTHING LIKE THE ADDS… 😭. Okay so this game is super fun I’ve been playing it for a few years now , but my one and only complaint is that this game is nothing like it shows in the adds you can only do what is shown in the adds in the mini games , which isn’t really fair because even the icon of the game has a picture of the mini games and that picture doesn’t really show how the mini games really go . The game is about helping a gardener restore his childhood home and also I’ve seen ads that say this game needs no WiFi and has no ads . That is not true , maybe Playrix, the developer could keep this game , change the icon maybe and if possible make another game that’s jsut as shown in the ads with a different name and icon and different ads Update: this is just my perspective of the game and what I would like , possibly not your idea of the game, and I would love a response from the developer, Playrix but I overall absolutely love this game. Update from I few years later: playrix, please make the stuff said in the adds true. Um also yes even the game gossip harbour isn’t like the adds but the adds, the girl and mom are the same? Why? Also the real game tbh is boring, the adds show something so fun tho! Why can’t you make an app like that? Please? I will give it five stars and a wholesome review 🥰 so please Playrix, (side note, the game is still awesome just not my kind of game)

Too hard or ?. I enjoy this game immensely. I really do. I have to agree with some of the other reviewers about the difficulty in some of the levels and how it can take a very long time to pass a level. However, I think it’s somewhat okay. I look forward to the challenge of trying something different the next time I get a chance to play that level. I do not pay anything for the extra stuff. I did it once and felt like a heel. That’s part of the challenge. The only thing that bugs me more than levels being a bit too challenging at times is having to add crap to areas. It sounds so nitpicky as I type this out, but here goes. So we finish the fountain in the garden and then change the basin to a statue that takes like 9 stars to finish? It really takes a long time to finish any area in the garden when we have to do that stuff. I’m all for the challenging levels, but how many stars it takes to do the changes is a bit much. How about giving us the choice of a decoration: maybe the butler really wants the peacock for the basin in he fountain and it costs 3 stars. You like the angel for the basin and it costs 2 stars, maybe the original basin costs 1 Star. Just an idea. I think it would be more fun to have a choice that way.

Game can quickly become a money pit. Only gets 2 stars because this game is deliberately designed to quickly become a money pit. Decorating the garden should be fun, but this game is designed to frustrate the hell out of any player unwilling to spend real cash to buy coins which are required for everything from Austin’s (lazy butler) chores to answering the stupid phone and feeding the dog. DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME! If you purchase coins, they won’t go far because the stupid match puzzle crap you’re required to play and beat will consume your coins in no time. Each puzzle level is designed to require more moves than a player is given to eliminate obstacles to: find gnomes (there are always too many), get rid of acorns, collect specified items (fruit, water drops, etc). Each level increases in difficulty, but the rewards DO NOT increase, nor do the boosters, etc. needed to play the higher, more difficult levels. If you have a physical or learning disability, this game is literally impossible to play and advance in because the stupid puzzles are too difficult to manage. Pity the developers didn’t make this game more user friendly for individuals with physical or learning challenges by providing advancement options to complete other than the stupidly difficult and unrewarding puzzles. ☹️ DELETING GAME...won’t waste money on it and refuse to waste time on stupid online forums plowing thru drivel looking for shortcuts and hints.

Starts off ok. The idea of this game is great . It was really fun at first . As others have said as you get higher up in levels you need to have power ups to beat the levels to get coins to do anything in the game . However you can’t get power ups without having coins and you need to beat the levels to get coins lol so it’s a circle you can’t get out of unless you purchase power ups from the app. Also because the shapes fall “randomly” there are not always moves to make and the computer re shuffles the shapes . This messes up the game because many times you are trying to play to get shapes in order they they are shuffled . The explosives help a lot but you need to match 4 shapes in a row and many times you can do 20 to 25 moves which is all the moves you get and you won’t get 4 shapes in a row . The game is absolutely designed for the makers to get you to buy coins and power ups and lives . I am around level 45 and think I will be erasing the game . I’m sure once others play more they will do the same . If your quick to review a game I would have given this 5 stars at first but after sometime of playing ...... no thanks .. I’ll keep my cash and you keep your coins lol

Mom, Counselor, Gardenscaper. I’m almost to level 10,000. The game has slowed down a bit. There are some levels that are pretty hard and I’ll spend weeks on them, or buy the power up disk with extra firecrackers. This game got me through graduate school. It gave me the mental break I needed to refocus and get back to work. I wish a couple of things were different. There used to be a place we could pick to watch ads to get more money. On a hard level, I’d spend days getting more coins through ads and more power ups and now I cannot have the ads. It would build up to lots of power ups and 900 coins so I could have extra lives and finally beat a level that took so long. It’s not something I thought about for a long time because I would just play this game, but I recently downloaded another game and there are tons of Gardenscapes ads. We don’t have ads…but you advertise. Another thing, why aren’t your loyal players given the chance to play mini games? I want to help the lady and her daughter stay warm after that jerk face ex ran off to marry someone else. The’ve never shown up in my play. All we have are those excursions that are impossible to beat without lots of money. I spend around $10 a month on my payday to play your game. I’ve been playing about 5 years and I did try to start a new edition of the game on the iPad so I could play mini games but it was so frustrating to start over. I linked my progress back to Facebook and the games were gone. :(

The Nicest Game Ever. This is, seriously, the "nicest" game on the internet. Austin is like your super-supportive friend, who's so positive it's almost creepy, but you gotta love him, because he's just so nice. I started playing this game as part of an offer to earn gold in another game I play, and I've been a daily player ever since. The match-3 levels are pretty addictive and challenging, and they're always changing and adding new features, so it stays fresh and interesting. At the same time, you're fixing up the gardens and having adventures with Austin. All the neighbors you meet are fun characters, with interesting backstories. It's all gorgeously rendered, and totally bug-free. You can play offline. Fun little events happen pretty frequently. Best of all, there's practically ZERO ad-presence... you have the option of watching videos for coins from time to time, but ads are never shoved in your face. I think this game is designed to appeal to older adults-- hence, the 80's-supermarket-style music, but I really think anyone can have fun with it. I am seriously just impressed with the quality of it. The only things I'd potentially change about this one: faster recharge on lives, different music options, and more customization options for the garden decor. But it's serously pretty great as it is.

Great game, one irritating problem. Overall I love this game. HOWEVER, there is one issue that irritates me endlessly, and I’m writing this review hoping it gets resolved. In some levels in which the goal is to get the punch cups to drop to the bottom of the map, there are little nooks that allow for the rainbow blast power up to drop down into the nook in the space below the cup, so that you can’t use the rainbow blast because the only thing to switch it with is the cup. If this happens, there is no way to win the level!! The rainbow blast is blocking the cup, and no amount of blasting with bombs will move the rainbow blast out of the way. The ONLY way to win would be to use the little “hand” special to switch the places of the cup and the rainbow blast. So if you don’t have that, you basically waste an entire life and any other power ups you started the game with. Like is said, compared to the entirely of the game, this problem is small, but it is definitely a design flaw that causes me to just waste entire levels! It’s SO SO SO aggravating because it’s different than the level just being difficult- rather the level by design and chance is impossible. At the very least, provide a “surrender” option so that I don’t have to do random swipes for 10 moves knowing that the level has become unwinable.

The best game ever!!!!!. This game has zero ads yes you read that right zero add and it needs no Internet. OK I bet both of those ideas just blew your mind. If you wanna see how it is find out yourself in this game is the best ever if I wanted to read this like I am about soon even though I am saying it right now anyways but this is the best game ever best game ever that’s why the title is called. Best game ever if you wanna think royal matches better than this, I don’t think so. I think that this is the best game ever real match. Yes, it has zero ads zero Internet but this I find it the best game ever you could take this on train boats anything just don’t drop your phone or else you really won’t be able to play this game but now you can download this game just watch and your parents will be like what let me see these ratings. This looks like nothing to me. They look at it and they see all these good ratings now you try this game out for yourself and find out about these ratings. Do you like oh yeah yes Katie yes Jeffrey you got that, that’s down pack. You got it now. Download this game right now now I have to stop talking now because I need to try this new game out that I’ve been playing. I cannot stop playing. I’m on a really high level now. If you think you can be my level 543 then you are very good but I don’t think so yet I think you might because you’re gonna love this game so much now come on. You’re gonna get this in love now. I gotta go now bye

Addicting but has major flaws. I started out LOVING this game. I’d always play whenever I needed something to do to pass the time. However, once you get into the upper levels (1000+), they barely give you enough moves to beat it without using power ups or buying more moves making it a pay to play game. You’ll be stuck at the same level for 1+ week trying to beat it. I noticed that if you quit and don’t play for awhile, they’ll give you power ups when you return and make that same level instantly beatable. I understand they need to make some levels more difficult but basically being locked out of the game for 1+ week is ridiculous. Another thing I dislike are those super hard levels (with 300 gold reward) are virtually impossible to beat and we have no option of skipping it. When I get to a level like that, I always lose my streak with power ups. But that’s probably their intention. One last flaw I’d like to point out is that we win unlimited lives a lot but there’s no way of deciding when to use them (ie you can win 2 hours unlimited lives but have to stay playing for 2 hours or else you’ll waste it). There were so many times when I only had 15-20 minutes to kill and I would get 2 hours unlimited and have to let that go to waste.

Love this game. The game is great so many things to do I love how it’s not your everyday puzzle game. You finish a puzzle and get stars and actually get to do something like making the garden beautiful. I do wish there were easier ways to get money to buy the extra garden designs examples the fairytale and Greek looking garden options or drop the price because over 8000 for some will take forever to get also it’d be nice for more options of getting lives not everyone has friends that can send lives to them or can get into one of those alliances with a lot of active people so I think a way to get lives easier would be nice I get so into the game then get stuck waiting thirty minutes just for one life. I love the game though other than that I definitely can’t complain it’s so much fun. I also love how they give you chances to change the house I think we should get an option to paint the house the colors we want also it’ll give it even more of our own personal touch to the house when not using the holiday themes. Keep up the great work. I’d of given 5 stars but because of those few things I feel would help the game I gave 4 hopefully in time I can give that 5th star because this game definitely deserves it please consider adding better ways to get lives and money to buy in game items and painting the house for our own personal touch for when we aren’t using one of the holiday themes.

I will literally never delete this game. I have had this game for three years, and I love it more than any other game I have ever downloaded. I love how many things austin can say. The graphics are amazing! I like how when ever you click on something it makes a noise, like if you tap bush is makes a like bush sound or if you click on ice it makes an ice clinking sound. The sheer effort they put into the little social page you can click on is so cute, like im sure not too many people look at it, but its always there, ya know? I love gardening in real life, and I love gardening in the game too, its just so green and lush I love it. If I get to a hard level, I may just stop playing for a few months, but in the end I will always come back. I love my dog (his name is goose!), and how sometimes theres those little training levels. I love the background music its so calming. I do wish there was a way, if you truly needed to, to skip a level like maybe a special ticket thats only available from the treasure chest on the daily wheel. Im 17 years old (female) and my friends sometimes make fun of me for playing it and they call me an old lady but I dont care, I will play this game as long as it exists. I dream to one day finish my beautiful garden alongside my trusty butler, Austin:)

Missed it by one. As others, I came by this game due to the misleading ads. That’s not the only thing wrong with this game. As for not spending a dime and enjoying this game, you would have to be a zen master not to get frustrated. You can play free, of course, but be prepared to play the same level many many many many times before you get a glimmer of hope. And this is where I think the game is rigged. There were too many, way too many, times where my moves were at 0 but I still had one thing to collect/destroy. Butterflies appearing only after I made my last move, a firecracker appearing just after your last move, etc. That tactic is used to get you to press that continue button and spend 900 coins. What??? You don’t have 900 coins because you just used all your coins on power ups for the very hard level and breeze through that to find that the next regular level is harder than the vey hard level? That’s how they get you. Tempt you to press that button to get more coins. So my take is unless you have a trust fund or have the patience of a zen master, steer clear of this game. I’m at level 1637 and been stuck there for a couple of days now because I had to use 3 sets of power ups to get past a normal level. Yes that’s 9 power ups for a normal level. Go figure. I can’t be a zen master anymore. I’m deleting this game. Same goes for Homescapes. Same problem same company.

said it was the same in the ads. so they have lied to me and told me that it would be the same thing in the ad but no, I had to do the little puzzle things where you try to get the threes in the forest with the thingies like blocks those little green and blue blocks so that we will be trying to help the little girls and the daughter in the mom that was a lie literally helping a man with his garden garden, y’all lied to me and everybody else who watch this ad and got the game that’s why I give y’all a three star find the game was fun but we had to do stuff that I didn’t think we’ll be doing when I first started playing. I thought it was a scam. It was a scam, but then I actually tried to do the game. It was fine, but like in the ad, it said that we will be helping the little girl and her mom but we didn’t help the little girl and I felt that if you’re going to put up ad at least put up what it actually is and don’t lie to people but overall the game is fun. You do sometimes get the mini games but you don’t just get to the game and they show you how to do the mini games and stuff you have to play that little puzzle Thingand it’s not that I don’t like doing puzzles. I love puzzles but I just wish that it could’ve been like how it was in the game in the ads, so why is it not like it is in the ad

Relaxing game.... I really enjoy playing this game, great graphics, challenging puzzles, customizable settings, cute storylines and I enjoy playing after work or when I have some free time. Things I would tweak: Austin is a gardener...not a butler (picky, but it just annoys me 😉), to move along faster in the game you need to purchase boosts (I no longer do this, so it just takes much longer to get free boosts), the 1 daily free spin is appreciated but the game needs more opportunities to get boosts, and finally the stars...you need to solve 1 puzzle to earn 1 star. Depending on what you are trying to accomplish (clean an area, plant a tree, renovate an architectural structure), the game requires so many stars for each task. Many times the required stars are more than what I think is reasonable, or they break the task up into 2 or even 3 parts (meaning even more stars). Finally, the special events like transforming the mansion or a part of the garden for the holidays (Christmas, Halloween...) have a time limit, but no break on the number of stars or an increase in coins to “purchase” more boosts. Towards the very end of the event the game will double the stars or coins, but almost too late unless you play constantly. So overall I would recommend the game, but for casual play & relaxing and don’t get caught up in trying to go thru it quickly.

Letting players know. I'm letting all of you know that think you have to pay to beat a level is not true. Yes you can pay for the coins and stuff if you want. But it's just a matter of trial and error. I'm on level 559 and have not spent a dime of real money. I only use the coins I earn and the prizes I win with the wheel and events, sometimes it doesn't work out and I don't beat it but it doesn't mean I have to pay to win, I spent weeks on a level before keep trying don't give up and when you finally get a good set up the satisfaction is greater when you win. I love this game with the storyline it brings. I love trying to guess the new area when the other is complete. Same thing goes for Homescapes both are amazing. (I'm on level 289 and spent no real money on it) Both games for all levels trial and error. Don't give up don't get frustrated. Support the developers by keeping the games. You can buy the sales offer. But just because you can't beat a level in a certain amount of days or weeks doesn't mean it's set up to where you have to pay to win. All levels in all games are made to be beaten without pay or upgrades. Paying to help doesn't mean you'll beat the level then. So don't get mad at the developers.

Ridiculous!. I really like this game, and I don’t want to stop playing it, but it’s so ridiculous! I’ve been stuck on one level for two days, and it’s driving me crazy! I’ve seen other reviews of people who have been stuck on one level for over a week sometimes like come on that’s ridiculous. Some of the levels are so unforgiving, and unfair. How are you supposed to make your goal if the darn game barely gives you any matches? So you’re just stuck there wasting turns until you fail. You don’t get enough coins to really do anything. There’s so many dumb things to do that requires stars, which you also don’t get a lot of. This game honestly just wants to drain all your money. It doesn’t give you any other way to try and progress by being stingy on coins, stars, and power ups. Want to win this level better pay $5 for it just to get stumped on the next one and pay more, and more. I really liked this game, but I can’t, and won’t pay an arm and a leg to play a phone game. Also the fact that each life takes 30 min to fill up! How are you ever going to get anywhere like that! I also don’t understand the stupid safe mechanic? So I have coins that I earned, and can use, but I have to buy them from you!? That’s like if I had to buy my own money! It’s stupid, and unfair! I’m about to delete this game because it honestly makes me want to throw my phone with how dumb all of this is!

Used to be 5 stars until. …the most recent update. I’ve been playing this game for about a year or more and while some levels they don’t give enough moves and it’s always pushing you to spend money (I never do) it’s been a fun game. I mean there’s many things you won’t complete if you don’t spend $$$ to buy more of something in the mini games but whatever, I don’t care if I finish those or not. However, the most recent update is so frustrating! If you don’t win the level, the pop up used to have 2 options and even that was a problem as sometimes I’d hit the “900 coins for 5 more lives” option when I didn’t mean to instead of the “try again” option and now it’s so. much. worse! Now the pop up literally is just that one option and it’s way too easy to blow 900 coins on accident with an accidental tap. Very poor update. I always thought you should have to confirm you want to spend the coins, not the other way around. They need to fix this and put it back to the old way. Also, what’s with the 3 year old Fisher-Price looking power-ups now? As more and more updates and the constant ask for $$$, I’ve found I’ve played less and less so it will probably go by the wayside like all the other games that “improve” and make it worse to play.

Please fix. Great game, been playing for a couple years and is awesome at burning up time. I literally have only one complaint. I don’t know if it’s a phone issue or something else but whenever I leave the app, not close it, to check something else and come back it’s always right where I was, either in the middle of a round or waiting somewhere in the garden to start the next round. However recently I have noticed that if I leave the app, not close it, I can open and use any app and come back to play where ever I left off except for when I open and use my camera. Once I’ve done that doesn’t matter if I’m in the middle of a round or not the app completely reloads upon coming back to it like opening it it for the first time. Like I said I don’t know if there is a way around this or if I’m just stuck with this issue or it’s an issue that o my I’m dealing with, however with how long this game has been on the market and it’s following it’s odd to see that it doesn’t have a refresh/resume option upon returning/re-opening the app, like a “ would you like to continue where you left off “ option like so many other apps on the market have. I don’t know what it takes to add this or if it’s even possible with this app but it’s an issue/nuisance, especially if you invest a couple dollars into getting power ups to get you through a level or have beaten enough levels in a row to build up a nice bundle of free power ups ie the chest or magic hat.

Fun but buggy. Update: The bugs I mentioned below for fixed. However, in the newest update, they changed the interface for quitting the level and made it so your muscle memory for tapping on a button makes you tap the button for spending coins for extra turns. I have lost about 3000 coins that way when I was nowhere close to finishing the level and would obviously not have chosen to get the extra turns. I know they’re in it to make money but that just feels evil to me so I’m going to stop playing. I have been playing this game for a year or two and it is enjoyable. Recently I’ve noticed some bugs that are really frustrating. Both are about not giving you the promotional rewards you’re supposed to get. When there is a time period when you are supposed to get double of one of the currencies, on random rounds when I win, it doesn’t double the currency. More frustrating, when there is an event that rotates rewards for collecting something (currently snowballs) whenever the reward is an amount of time of infinite dynamite/rainbow blaster, it doesn’t pay out when you achieve it. This has happened to me in two separate events. I spent a lot of my in-game currency to keep my earned power blasters to help me continue through the levels and collect enough to earn the big reward, and all I got was that I had less currency. I’ll try to remember for next time not to bother getting tempted by it. I would be really angry if I had spent actual money to progress in the game.

Changed The Game To a Money grab.. I first played this game about two years ago, I was flying through the levels, very much enjoying the game, then took a break around level 150. I recently got back into the game, now I’m stuck on level 412, it’s a “super hard” level but, without any boosters or pay to continues its entirely impossible, unless you are super lucky and get a tnt every move you make. But let’s be real. From the previous time I was into this game I managed to save up over 30,000 coins because I could make it through levels without having to use all of my coins to get more boosters or moves. I’m now at 2,000 because it’s almost impossible to get through some of the harder levels without boosters. I decided to look up the level I’m stuck on to see if people are also having a difficult time with the level, and to my surprise, a video from two years ago had 10 more moves at the beginning of the level!! Not to mention, the bonus moves you can get during the level have decreased in the amount of moves you receive, and one is entirely missing. Now the game is spamming me to “buy more boosters!” “buy more lives!” “buy more coins!”“buy the pass to receive boosters!” It’s sad what they slowly turned this game into. The game used to be very good, now it’s completely turned me, and many other people off. Revert the levels to how they used to be, and the game will be enjoyable again.

Please fix rocket/firecracker priorities. I love this game and have been playing it for several months. I’m around the 1700 level mark and I have to make a complaint. The firecracker rocket things (the icon is a colorful cluster of three of them together) are normally supposed to go after crates or firefly jars, things you need to clear the level. But what’s frustrating is to be down to the last turn and I make a match with one, which should clear the one last crate or item.... and instead the stupid things go after a piece of fruit or leaf with a renovation ticket vs the thing I needed to complete the level. This is especially infuriating when I’ve got all the extra power ups from the treasure chest like the extra turns, bombs etc but then because the stupid rockets go after the ticket instead of the needed item to clear the round I end up losing and because I don’t have 900 coins left I loose the treasure chest items. This keeps happening and it’s super frustrating. If the rockets are supposed to help you clear times needed to finish the level then have it do that 100% of the time. I would rather finish the level than get tickets... which I lose anyways for losing the level so it make absolutely no sense at all. Otherwise I love the game. I hope you can fix this issue.

Help..... I have been playing this game for a while. I’m currently on level 968. It is a fun game that I feel is practical. It does have its challenges but it never gets to the point where I feel like a have to give up because I can’t beat a level or what not. And I love that they always have little mini promos. Which also come in handy if you feel stuck on a level. Like gaining power ups when you win games and the daily wheel and other things to get power ups and coins. Unfortunately I am having an issue with the renovation tickets. My ticket balance is 33. And when I beat a level, let’s say I win 10 tickets for the level I won, my balance will show that I only had 23 tickets and the ten tickets won are added to the balance keeping my ticket count at 33. I’ve even seen it give me a negative balance if I win more than 33 tickets on a level. I tried to write customer service but didn’t get a response. I have no update needed, so I’m not sure what to do. Now I don’t gain any tickets at all. The event just says “hurry up”. And I received a pop up on the game right before writing this about how you can get double the tickets for a limited time. But now I’m not showing that I am even given the option to win tickets. Outside of the tickets the game is amazing.

My favorite phone game. I've been playing this game now for definitely over a year and it has come such a long way. It used to be SUCH a pay-to-play and the levels were impossibly hard so you felt hopeless. But it was the beautiful visuals and the cute storyline that kept me playing. As I got to later levels and the developers fixed all the little kinks in it, it's now arguably perfect. They have provided easier ways to get coins than just by winning levels, like a daily wheel spin, the introduction of "hard levels" (give you double the coins but really aren't often any harder than regular levels), frequent mini events that provide additional coins, power-ups, or even infinite lives for a period of time. Love it love it. My only complaint is that I wish I could put that time limit for infinite lives on hold in some way. I can't tell you how many times I've just thought to maybe play a couple games during a break at work or right before bed.. and then those are the times I hit jackpot 😰 One time during an event I went all the way to the top and got 8 hours total of infinite lives right before bed and ended up staying up all night because I didn't want to waste it. I was dead at work the next day.

Game. This game is one of the best games I've ever played!! It lets you help Austin (the butler) renovate and grow his garden!! Yeah sure sometimes the levels do get so annoying that i ignore the game for almost several months, but thats the ONLY reason i gave it a four star. In this game, there are rarely ANY ads! (Also, i tried putting a four-and-a-half star but it just wouldn’t let me). One thing that i like about this game is that if you are a gardener who wants to make their garden look better than it already is, this game is perfect for you 😊😊🙂. And if you are more like a indoor house person who wants to make their house look better than it already is, i highly recommend playing Homescapes because homescapes is basically the same game as Gardenscapes just its renovating and making the HOUSE look better than it already is. Also, in both of these games, after you reach a certain level, you’re allowed to either join or create a team. If you join a team you can chat and interact with people you’ve never met before.(of course you have to interact through your chats in the chat box.). If you create a team you have got to name it, describe it, choose a logo out of the options they give you, and confirm and hope people join. I hope you like this game!!! Good luck!🍀 👍🏻 have fun!!😉😀😀😊😄🥳

It’s silly but it’s fun. The puzzles themselves are good, they’re difficult sometimes but all of them are possible to beat without wasting any bonuses or spending your money. I’ve played it for a couple of years now on and off and without having paid a dime I got really far. I finally bought a small package of coins just because I enjoyed the game enough I wanted to support the creators. I figured I should leave a review, too. The plot is thin and just over all silly but... it’s meant to be. Really, you just don’t think about why you need to play a puzzle to earn a point to get the butler to answer the gate. You don’t think about why a helicopter is free to use for dropping off things and picking up trees. None of that matters, it’s just a silly thing the creators added in to make it fun to earn points from puzzles. He says cute things in between and I’m fond of him, despite the fact that he doesn’t like cats... not sure I could ever agree with you there, Austin, but I like the cat addition in their Homescapes game (even though he seems to have forgotten how much he disliked cats... or about the garden and dog too?) Like I said, you just don’t think about it too much. Thanks to the creators for a fun puzzle game, looking forward to more!

This game was totally different in the ads. OK, so I download this game a couple months ago because I kept seeing it all over and I’m like I’ll try it. Why not but completely different me wrong. I love it. I love the graphic designs on it. It’s beautiful, but I’m not a big fan of it I mean, yes you do get to play some of the mini games it shows on the ad itself but only a little bit. My mom also has scam and I guess she thought it was different but it is puzzling but not as puzzling as I like it. I like my games challenging, but I’m not big fan of doing this to me, but I do want to ask her and once I ask her, I’ll check back but this game is although super fun. It is calming and relaxing, but I do wish the game was a bit more interesting the games that shows on the ad itself but I just don’t like games that are like shows you different things on the ads to make a game seem interesting and says that it’s like the same thing when you download the game I think they’re doing that so they can get more people hooked onto the game and I don’t say no ads, there are fullscreen ads all the time and some of my games and it’s annoying. This game isn’t really that it gives you a couple ads every once in a while but not a lot. I just wish that there would be a few more puzzles like it shows on the ad and hopefully the developers respond to this because I would love this fixed and I have no other complaints about this game or problems with it. It’s normal to me.

Fun but frustrating. I got started because I enjoy getting away from every day stressful life. This game is extremely frustrating. They’ve dropped the amount of moves you make at each level, and it’s now more a “pay to play” game. Constantly promoting competitions, etc. but to achieve any kind of awards you need to pay for bonuses, lives, etc. to move forward. Yes, it’s your choice to pay or not...however when/if you don’t, you can be stuck on a level days or weeks! No exaggeration! And if you use bonuses to start with that you can win 1 each day spinning a wheel, they put the bonus (bomb, rainbow, etc) in a useless spot that you either have to use immediately to make your next move, nullifying the bonus or putting it somewhere where it’s stuck and you can’t use at all. It was fun to begin with...my favorite part is decorating the garden...I really enjoy that and competing with my team for prizes. However to continually get stuck with no chance of winning before your time is up and then because you’re not advancing you can’t compete for prizes in competitions and get rewards, not fun. Unless and until they fix some issues (others complain about constant crashes, missing awards, etc) and reinstate the moves you took away a few months ago... I may be done. Sad when all a game thinks about is how much money they can take as well as enjoyment. And tech support is non-existent. Gamer beware....

Fix your ads, man 🥲. This is… the most misleading game I have ever seen. I like puzzles like, well, probably anyone else who downloaded the game, but I personally do not like the matching puzzles. The ads consistently show only one minigame, the one with the keys. It’s the one where you have to get the money to the girl or the coal to the fire or the dog to the guy. It even advertises that you can pick the next level, when the minigame is randomly generated every time you enter it and one puzzle will repeat more than three times after playing 8 minigames or so. The false advertising does attract downloaders, but it also loses a lot of them immediately (for example, me). Users like to know what they are signing up for and the actual functions of the game. I remember that before downloading the game, I genuinely could not figure out why it was called “Gardenscapes” if all the puzzles shown in the ads have nothing to do with… well… gardens. That’s how bad the false advertising is. The game is mostly making a garden using points, dialogue, and the matching puzzles like Candy Crush x10 and appear much more often than the one with the keys, the one people actually download the game for. Thank you for reading my rant, and if you are a fan of the game, you probably think I am a mindless hater trying to sound mature. And if you haven’t downloaded the game, then now you know what to look out for. Have fun and have a good rest of your day :D

Addicting, But Frustrating. First of all, I want to say that I love absolutely love this game! It is very well advertised, and it is such good quality. I really enjoy the storyline and the beautiful garden. However, I do have a couple of problems with this game. During the first couple of days I easily went through and played the levels. However, when I hit the 60’s it got hard. Now, I’m not complaining about the difficulty level, but there is a frustrating cycle when you just can’t complete a level. If you don’t have enough coins to buy more moves, then you don’t have enough coins to buy a power up. You can spin the wheel every day to win prizes, but you rarely get something you can use to win that level. Also, if you can’t when the levels and you don’t get any stars, and if you don’t get any stores and you can’t complete any of the challenges and win coins! You see where I’m going with this?It’s almost like the game is forcing you to purchase coins if you need an extra boost I a level.😕 Even after all this, I still love this game and gave it four stars for its originality and fun! I do ask that there be an easier way to get coins, though, like on Homescapes when you check in consecutively, you get coin rewards. I think that would be a great addition to Gardenscapes! Thank you to all the creators of this game, you guys are awesome!

Pretty Good. It’s a great game and I did not get it from looking at the adds my sister has been playing for years and has a really big garden so she suggested it to me. But now that I see the adds it’s kind of a scam for one thing the stuff they show on ads are mini games and people only have them every 10-20 levels plus the mini games are not nearly as fun or long as they seem to be most of the time when I beat a normals level it either gives me a super hard level that I get stuck on or it keeps giving me easier levels so that you finally get stuck on a level. If you download Gardenscapes it may seem easy at first but it gets harder and harder every day take it from me I’m on level 519 and most of the time I open the app I get stuck on a level and trust me I’m not a bad player I have tons of match games that I’m on a high level in but for some reason Gardenscapes is the hardest. Right now I’m stuck on a level. A good thing about Gardenscapes is that it has a lucky spin every day most of the time you get pretty good stuff depending on the level you use it. But sometimes they have fun seasons that give you better and better rewards every time you beat a level but the minute you lose one they all disappear which is pretty annoying especially when you’re on a level that gives you 3 stars when you beat it ( those levels are always hard but when you have tons of rewards and lose it’s really annoying.).

Good match 3 variety. For the most part, I enjoy this game. Several variations of the standard Match 3 - unblock barriers, collect items, etc. Games vary in difficulty - some are very difficult and I don’t think I could win without using boosters that you can win in the game or buy with real money, or buying extra moves using coins you earn by winning levels. I would like more ways to get coins. It’s tough when you need coins to pass a level but the only way to get them is by passing the level. I’d also like an “undo” because sometimes my finger slides sideways instead of up and I inadvertently make the wrong match. I got this as a free game and won’t spend real money on it. There are some challenge levels where you only get 1 chance but if you win you get more coins and other prizes. They cost a life to play and you can’t skip them. I’d like to be able to skip. There are also team and individual challenges, where you can win things when you or your team collectively hit certain milestones. It’s always nice to win free stuff! There are also side games that don’t require skill or luck, but playing them can earn you coins and/or boosters. These side games usually last for several days. I play them just to get the free stuff, but some are pretty fun. All in all, this is a pleasant way to kill some time.

Great Game, But.... So, I’ve been playing this game for a while (and I mean a while...) like, close to the 7,000 level range and I’ve been having mixed feelings with this game. First of all I do enjoy playing it, but I have a few complaints for some levels. I’ve seen a response where the developers left a message saying all levels are beatable without power ups. While this may be true, the levels are very random. What I mean is this, if you replay a level, fruits or whatever is there don’t say in the same place. You will have to reset the level just to be able to make a huge blast power up to help clear levels. Some levels also have so few turns that it’s super hard to beat unless you get a perfect start. Sometimes you’re forced to you a power up or all 3 to just clear a stage. Especially in the later stages, you would need to keep as many power ups just for that purpose. I have played stages as well where easy stages would act as hard or expert levels, and have few amounts of turns. The same with certain hard levels where it instead should be an expert level. I do love the fact that there are these challenges where you can beat a level consecutively to earn extra power ups. Those definitely help, but you can easily lose them. So, while I do love the game, I have to give it a 3 out of 5 stars. Just because of the the way some of the levels are made.

Please start telling the truth in your ads. I downloaded this game thinking the complete opposite of what the game is actually about. This game is about rebuilding the garden of his childhood. You complete furniture with collecting starts. You collect these starts from a mini game very similar to candy crush but it’s related to the garden. But let’s get to the point. I downloaded this game from an ad. There are many ads saying that you either, save him and the girl from Antarctica, or you have to save the house with out failing, or save the garden without getting a fail. All the ads make the person fail but making it really easy to chose the correct answers. Me and my friend decided to try this game for my little sister to play. Without even thinking how some of the ads don’t even go with the point of the game. Later on it was downloaded and my sister had no idea what to do. I then knew that the ads where straight clickbait so this game could grown even more! These ads are even used in their game Home Scapes. Other than the ads clickbaited probably many people, this game gets a 3 star. Not a 4 or a 5 because of how difficult the levels are to get starts, it can take days to finish some. At the start it was easy but then the challenge came where I was stuck on for many many days! Any way that my review. Thank you for reading and I hope you can stop the clickbait, thanks!

Fun at first, impossible in advanced levels. If you’re just starting out, this is a fun game. The longer you play, the more apparent the money grab aspect of the game becomes. Advanced levels (I’m on level 3234) are frustrating and often times nearly impossible to beat. I’ve been stuck on some levels for weeks. At first I figured that the levels were totally randomized and I just wasn’t getting boards that i could beat. But the interesting thing is, if you are stuck and stop playing for a while, the game will generate a message saying to come back and try the level you’re stuck on and suddenly, the board will generate what you need in order for it to be passable. Obviously, then, it’s not totally random. And since all of the in game events are limited time, advanced players with difficult levels don’t have a chance to complete these events in time. I have made the mistake of paying actual money for items in this game, but I encourage others to avoid doing so. I’ve contacted the developers when my progress has mysteriously disappeared, or when game aspects (like the colored rockets) appear to have a glitch. Nothing is ever fixed, progress is never recovered, and their “compensation” for their mistakes does not involve returning the money you wasted on their broken game. Save yourself frustration and time and play Township, which is a much better game from these same developers.

Enjoyable game. I had to put this at the highest ranking I could in order for the team to see it and acknowledge. There have been a lot of game apps advertising for things they just don’t do. I can live with that as disheartening that it can be. But to me it seams that they keep aiming more and more for the shock factor as time goes by. First we are seeing the woman getting cheated on or her husband leaves her because she shows him a pregnancy test. Then it is the man cheating on her as she is watching from the side lines with their child. Then she is watching from the side lines with their child AND she is pregnant. Then the other scenario is where the man is with the other woman kicking out the wife sometimes keeping the child from her or sometimes kicking the kid out too. In the ending scene the freeze to death. But today I have SEEN IT ALL this time the woman finds a baby in THE DUMPSTER! Are you seriously kidding me right now? Is there a level you won’t stoop to? When I see this type of ads for games I actually play. I delete them. You should be ashamed at how desperate you are to get your games noticed. They were already noticed and enjoyed until you jumped on this bandwagon.

Needs some updates. This game is addicting, and it has its perks. It’s more interactive than other matching games and the garden graphics and storyline is super cute. However it is bit racist at times and could use a moral shift… and there are certain levels that simply cost you to pass them. You can either play them 100 times or spend $$ on coins to get past them; I do feel as if they toss them in so you will buy coins. I’m all for supporting a game but I’d rather pay $5 up front than feel worthless because I can’t beat a level without help. ** the mini side games are fun they take you on little adventures where you get to help a friend with a task. In the beginning the “cost” of things is manageable but the inflation reminds me too much of the American economy. Things cost 10x the amount of lightning bolts but we still only get 2-5 a level 😒. So again you can’t find out the end without paying dollars. !* there are annoying glitches! I can’t tell you how many times I try and switch a bomb to the right and the game shifts it left so it doesn’t hit that strategic gnome. Or! When it’s all greedy on it’s suggested match and I want to make a different match that will actually help the progress of the level and it won’t let me, it’s like my fingers don’t exist. 🫥. I’ve also used stars to add to the garden and a glitch in the matrix happens and those task and bits of the story I have to do again, only the stars have already been used.

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Best 3-match game. I downloaded Gardenscapes when it had first came out and stopped playing due to the difficulty and resorted to Homescapes when Playrix had brought that out, however due to the difficulty of Homescapes thought I might give Gardenscapes a second chance and have not regret, the updates are fantastic. Passing levels is much easier and not as time consuming as other 3-match games. Also has an amazing captivating story-line 100% recommend to everyone - daily spins and weekend challenges are the best part of the whole game as it really engages you to compete against others and also gain more coins and bombs to pass levels! - currently completed the Christmas challenge and am excited to see what’s in store next!

Thanks for saving me money. Hi. The levels in this game are way too hard, stupidly hard. I found myself buying stuff every few levels, almost unconsciously. The levels almost all require multiple boosters to pass or extra lives. The only way to get boosters is to win levels or decorate your garden. But that’s right you can’t decorate your garden without winning levels. Anyway for this reason I have disabled the ability to make in app purchases for all apps. I don’t mind paying for content but this game is ridiculous and is set up so that the only way to win is to spend. I have found it fun, up to the point it was frustrating and is now just boring. It’s a shame for you playrix because as I said I don’t mind spending some cash on games but your game design is just directed at making people spend. Well done you. Just wondering what level those who give positive feedback are on.

Very rewarding game. Highly recommend.. This is so far my favourite match-three game I’ve played and I prefer it above their other game HomeScapes and even all Candy Crush games too. It’s fun, the animation is beautiful and best of all it’s rewarding — you don’t have to spend your own money to play it or to keep moving up. The renovations you make to the garden from beating levels are so rewarding and beautiful that it just makes you want to keep playing just to see what’s next. There aren’t many choices for power ups and you can’t connect two power ups together to create a super explosive. However, I actually prefer it this way as it keeps things simple yet challenging. The game would lose its spark if they changed it to be similar to Candy Crush and other match-three games (they tried to do so on HomeScapes and in my opinion, it doesn’t work well). Overall this is one of my favourite games yet and I’ve been playing for about a year now I think.

A game only wants you to pay. The game became less and less fair during each update. For examples in level 848 you’re only gets 20 moves to remove35 pink flowers and 80 water drops, the flower port to generate flowers need three matches near the port to generate every four flowers, and the flower port are surrounded by icy pieces which will again need to be matched two times to remove the ice, and all 80 water drops are in these pieces covered by ice. Now tell me how can you play without Paying money to get coins and the boosters, since for each level you win you only get around 50 to 80 coins but for the first five extra step you need to pay 900 and second five extra take 1200. Moreover, the game support team is a mess. Questions never get an answer from human being. Their tips are useless and the only thing the game team will suggest you to do is to see tips.

Crash Garden. What has happened? Just recently the game just keeps crashing and always at that critical point when you are just about to complete the level or you have then....boom.....it crashes before the level completed is recognised!! Then you lose your boosters and have to play the level again from scratch! Really frustrating and I have just about given up on this game. This never happened previously. Please, please fix. It’s a great game and I want to keep playing. The graphics are great, the levels challenging and I love decorating the gardens. I get excited to find out what is next that you can cash in your stars for. Would definitely recommend this game, but please fix the bugs. Make it a 5 star rating again.

Super addictive. I love Gardenscapes (I’m on level 450) and it’s so fun to play and I love how it has a purpose (to decorate your garden) instead of just pointless levels like other games have. The graphics and detail and all the thought that goes into each level, each task you have to complete, and even a social media for the characters, is amazing! I also love all the decor you can add for each area with the themes, but one thing I recommend is receiving the cash (for the decor) more frequently because I get barely any and then can’t buy the decor for each area. I also think there should be a way to skip a level or that hearts should reset faster because if you’re stuck on a level it can be really annoying if you just keep using all your hearts and then having to wait 30 mins for a new try. Overall I love the game and think it’s super addictive and fun to play in your spare time.

Disappointed 😞😕. It’s an overall average game. The concept of the game is pretty underwhelming. The reasons that I was disappointed is because 1. There are tons of ads 2. It’s nothing like the ads for this game suggest. By watching the ad, the reason why I got this game was because it looked fun and independent, so I thought it would be a lot more free than it actually was when I got the game. It pretty much tells you everything that you have to do. 3. You have to play these little games to get money. You use the money to buy things so you can decorate your garden (but again they tell you how to decorate it). It would help if we actually started with coins because we have to make lots of money otherwise. Overall the game was 3 stars from me because some people might think I’m being harsh but seriously I was very disappointed because I was getting excited about the game. I hope you consider looking at this and fixing all of these things. Thanks

Love but needs improvements. I would give 5 stars because I absolutely love this game. Can’t really fault much apart from when you are granted with boosters and they put them in the worse spots and you end up losing all your lives because of it. I ABSOLUTELY HATE THE PINK CHALLENGE LEVELS!!! I’ll be on a roll and have all these boosters in my chest and without a doubt 9/10 will lose to these challenge levels and I think they’ve done it on purpose to make you purchase boosters because they’re almost impossible to pass!! I really wish they would remove them. If they did I’d probably give 5 stars. I wish we had the option on when we can use the selected boosters also, they always placed wherever at the start of a level. I wish we could select when we could use them, like if we have 5/20 moves left.

Stop bombarding with ads. This game doesn’t even deserve a rating just from the simple fact from how many ads have been shoved in my face from other apps. The game is not only just a horrible game gameplay wise (in a sense that it brings nothing useful or new) there is 0 story line and the ads are useless at telling you what the game is actually about. The most recent ad i have seen contained a problem where there was a pink fluid that can almost be described as pink cough medicine that was being funnelled down to an IV drip so the mother could be “saved” however the “pink cough medicine” is being stopped by poles that you have to pull out and one at the bottom that you slide across since there are 2 holes at the bottom of the funnel. The IV was on the left side hole. The “user” didn’t move the pole at the bottom to the other side, “they” moved the poles just below the “pink cough medicine” so that the other side got the “pink cough medicine”. Aka the side that didn’t have the IV… JUST MOVE THE IV DRIP IT IS VERY SIMPLE YOU HAVE ALL THIS MONEY TO SPEND ON PROMOTION FOR YOUR DUMB GAME WHY DONT YOU FUNNEL SOME OF THAT FUNDING INTO MAKING YOUR GAME NEW AND EXCITING. Jesus

Fun and free. This is my first try of a matching up game and so far I'm enjoying it. As I've made my way through the levels I've occasionally got stuck a while on one game without enough stars or spades to save me if I get close, but on the whole I find it paces well, and having the extra challenges ( like training the dog) to reward me with extra stars, and as an option to playing the main game, adds to its interest. Plus, like it's twin, Homescapes, I'm enjoying the gradual reveal of the garden as we renovate it (Austin and his friends and I) so that adds another dimension to the play. The downside is that as some levels are so hard that I just don’t get them out time after time, even using up my boosters and spending 900coins for 5 extra turns, I sometimes get so discouraged I leave the game for weeks. But on my return I’m often welcomed by a gift of free boosters which might be enough to get me past the difficult level, so that keeps me coming back.

I love gardenscapes but theres a couple minor problems. I truly love garden scapes but i downloaded the game thinking it would be as showed and told. Because i downloaded it because of the ad and was told it would be everything shown and not some fake other game where its different from the ad. The ad literally said something like “ are you sick of games that arent what they seem like or say in the ads well this game is just as fun as the ad” or something like that but it only shows the levels where you pull the levers and stuff but there are other levels and tbh most of the times its the levels with those candy crush match thingy which isnt as fun. So if you are going to download it just know

Good but then Bad Later. I don’t normally write reviews but I feel this may help others if considering to play this game. When you start the game it is very manageable to progress and it’s enjoyable therefore you can spend a little to support the developers. Unfortunately for me after playing for a month or so, the game became very much pay to win. The thing is sometimes you can pay and still not win. The Puzzle RNG can break and you can unfortunately use a lot of hard earned help(Boosters and extra turns) and still not solve the level. Like other reviews has mentioned it can become very frustrating when suddenly a level can not be beaten with help and will stop your progression. There are indications on how hard the level is before starting it but you sometimes find what is meant to be easy can be very difficult. The other frustrating aspect is when you do use a booster for the level, it manages to find a way to actually be a disadvantage by placing them in the worst spot. I tested the level several times only to find the same placement each time because it wants you to use extra turns instead which costs gold(payment req most of the time). After playing for couple months, it’s reached a point where it’s not enjoyable and can only imagine how much money the other players much higher than me has spent to reach their level. I hope this helps players decide if this game is worth the playing.

Good game but expensive in the end.. First off, good game. Good graphics, good storyline. But. You need to throw _lots_ of in-app purchases if you want to go far in the levels and story. Quite a lot of the tasks requires lots of stars to complete, and in 2 parts as well. Each parts requires 3-4 stars to complete. So you need to complete lots and lots of level to move a single task to then move the storyline along. And when it comes to hard or super hard levels, you almost always likely to NEED to use multiple power-ups PLUS extra moves. Not many freebies at all in the game, and since you requires so many stars to complete every tasks, you’ll use up your freebies power ups and coins very quickly. Which means to then acquire those additional power ups and extra moves to progress the storyline, you need to make an in-app purchases that can be very very expensive (you need lots of them). So. Good game. Good graphics. Good storyline. But be ready to throw lots of $$$$ if you really want to enjoy it. If you don’t want or don’t have those extra $$$$ to throw at the game, you better off playing something else.

Disappointed. Themed events like the Christmas one are impossible to complete when it takes 3 weeks just to complete one level and that level isn’t even labelled as hard. I have used power ups and extra turns - all to no avail. Very disappointed! Don’t tell me to read how to play either! If you select a power up at the beginning of a game we should be able to place it wherever and whenever we would like to use it not where it is randomly put. More often than not they are placed in a position where a move could make a power up so rendered useless. I do like how we can change our decorative choices so as change the gardens look from time to time. I am just very frustrated and disappointed that I can never complete the themed events. I play morning, noon and night but am now so disappointed I am ready to delete the game.

Is it really worth it?. I’ve downloaded, deleted and re-downloaded this games more times than I can even remember. And every time I re-download it I remember why I deleted it in the first place. You’re constantly playing the levels in order to get stars, but the stars get used up on the stupidest things that don’t even involve the garden. (i.e. getting a dog, calling someone etc.) and then there are times where you’ll use a star, and then something will happen where a part of the garden you’ve already fixed gets ruined, and another star needs to be wasted to fix something you’ve already fixed before. It feel like the game hardly focuses on actually fixing up the garden, but instead on all of the other little features of the game. And then there’s the actual game play, puzzles can be ridiculous sometimes. Boosters will be placed in a position that ruins the possibility to make other bombs. They will also sometimes be placed right in the middle of the only useful fruits which usually results in losing moves and ultimately loosing the whole level. While the game can be good, it can also become incredibly tedious.

Go for it!. This game is incredibly entertaining! Some nights I can’t put my phone down for hours, seriously. It’s so addictive! Especially when you start building and kind of designing an epic garden. I’m actually about 300 levels deep now, and I’ve also spent a lot of money on this game. So I’ve had to delete it. It will get to a point where it becomes very difficult and you can’t really go any further without purchasing things to help you get to the next level. Which is disappointing. I love this game a lot, but some levels are just far too difficult. So my only advice would be to watch your spend guys! But otherwise, enjoy the game! It’s definitely worth trying out.

Glitch. This game is amazing, but there is one strange thing. There is a telephone station far away from the house not near the house, so across the road from the far away telephone station there is a forest like area. If you explore that you will see a small lake and a very big rock nearby it, if you tap that big rock, Austin from home or anywhere will walk over and talk about that particular rock. But what is weird is that Austin walks over everything, if he is at home he won’t go through the gate he will walk over the gate, he even walks into the parts of the garden which haven’t been unlocked, and then he walks on the water to the rock. This doesn’t bother me in any way, but I just wanted to let you guys know. 🙂

Sadly, I've lost interest after awhile.. Hi, I downloaded this game in the morning and I’m stilling playing it since it’s super fun and enjoyable! I definitely recommend this at times when there’s really nothing to do and you want something to change that boredom to satisfaction! This is the perfect game for me and some other people, since some of us have nothing to do. I do wish that the task where you have to help the poor family pop up more often like in the ads, but overall, it’s fantastic! I do plan on adding more things to my review after maybe a month or so, but I don’t expect any bad changes! Great job game developers, see you next month! Plus, the graphics, animations are so pretty! I love it very much! After a little while, this game lost its touch. It's getting difficult and I just don't really feel like playing the game. You did do a great job, but this game isn't the best for me after awhile. I do hope your experience is way more better than mine, and please don't take this as hate! I love the game, it's just not for me. I love your work and I encourage you guys to keep on trying!

Enjoyable game but…. I have enjoyed this game and the challenges, I don’t really follow the storyline, I just enjoy the puzzles. But like so many other games these days, the puzzles have an automatic hint, which I find extremely annoying. I know these hints aren’t necessarily the best move and I rarely follow them, but they are really annoying when you are trying to plan a move and the hint is constantly flashing, breaking your concentration. I am a bit old school and don’t understand why people want to be given the answer straight away, where is the challenge? Can you not build in an option as many other games have, of turning off the hints? It would make the game much more enjoyable. So because of this, I can only give this game 3 stars and I will delete it for now. If the hint function is amended in the future I will definitely be back because I do enjoy it.

New Upgrade is trash. It’s so infuriating that they just released a new upgrade where you can’t quit a level without consequence if you haven’t made a move yet. You now lose a life and any boosters applied. So you are stuck with the level you are dealt even if it’s a terrible layout and puts your boosters in awful positions. What’s to be gained? Why did they intentionally do this? After years of playing casually it was so nice to exit a level and try again for a better set up especially on hard levels. So what’s even the goal? Plus now there’s new challenges where you are beating other “gold?” levels that start at 1 and don’t count towards your total levels. What happened to the normal game play? Now I can barely make progress on the regular levels because rarely are they available now. As someone who has been playing for years and is always close to maxing out available levels this has been so disappointing. It’s not even fun anymore.

Got money hungry. These games used to be awesome back in the day - talking about all the ones this company does. Township, Fishdom, Homescapes, etc. but over the last couple years they’ve slowly gotten worse and worse. They removed almost all their fun mini games in favour of just repeating the same two over and over, they’ve made it harder to get power ups, they’ve gotten lazy about actually letting you customise your garden, they’ve removed exploits that made the game a bit easier, they’ve made it a lot more punishing in general so that you get stuck for literal weeks on one level if you don’t spend fifty dollars on power ups. Five years ago I could’ve recommended these games. Now, in their present state, I can’t. Because it’s just so obvious that all these people care about is squeezing the last dollars out of their fans. They don’t care if they’re making a fun game.

Fantastic until you get to higher levels. I have played this game for about a year now, and can say that I have absolutely enjoyed and loved it. It has so much going on as far as competitions, seasons, makeovers and so much more. I have played a lot of hours on this game, as my night shift hours allow a lot of quiet and downtime, and I have also allocated this game a quite healthy budget. However, unfortunately and with regret, I have now removed Gardenscapes and have discontinued playing it, and the reason for this is that there is just no way I can continue to justify the budget I choose to spend just to be able to play it. It has become a pay to play game for me at level 9000+. Each level is so difficult that I can spend a couple of days trying to beat a level, or give in and pay for extra lives to do it. And quite often paying for one extra set of lives is not enough to beat a level. The game developers have recently removed some awards for beating bonus levels, such as bombs, which when you rely on these to help complete a level, makes the game even more difficult at level 9000+. Combine this with the fact that at 9000+ you get NO value out of the season tickets and rewards due to how difficult each level has become, which come at a cost to purchase, and the game for me lost its enjoyability and became more frustrating and just bad value for money. Such a shame, because it really is a very clever and was a an extremely enjoyable game.

Gardenscapes. Best game ever! I’ve been playing forever and am totally addicted. Nana of three Still playing still loving it at 72 years of age. Great to turn to in this time of Lock Down It helped get me through Lock Down and is definitely up there as one of my three favourite games Still my favourite game and I’m heading for 73 years of age Love it love it and it is very ge erous with prizes I think I have come to the conclusion that this is my favourite game Another year has flown by and with Covid lockdown this game has helped fill in all my free time and I still love it. Best game ever i have been playing for an hour and am on a winning streak i think this is one of the games most generous with the prizes. Still very happy and impressed with this game. What would I do without this game to return to everyday 😊I’ve decided this is DEFINITELY my favourite game What more can I say …..still playing You guessed it….there is nothing more I can say except that it is the one game I never tire of.❤️Back again..just celebrated my 74th birthday and still going strong. I would love to replay it over from the very start 🌻🌻 Just trying to recover from Covid and still depending on Gardenscapes to keep me amused 🌷🌷I was playing Gardenscapes on 2 devices and even when I deleted it from one it took two days to get my favourite game back

Enjoyable game. Gardenscapes is enjoyable. You can play it with not too much or no outlay or a lot if you wish depending on your patience which I like, so I spend as little or as much as I like. Criticisms: I feel like as you get further along in the game some levels are very similar if not the same as others. Also there is some inconsistency in the levels and how hard they are. Some very hard levels I've found super easy and then at other times I've been struggling to finish a normal level. I wish there was more choice in decorative items but sometimes you are forced to pick between three ugly options quite frequently to deck out the area of the garden you are in. The bonus ones you can buy with money you earnt from levels are sometimes better but majority aren't and are only worth the prize of purchasing the complete set if you can be bothered, which I can't really. There aren't any advertisements in this game which is great and I really like the team challenges, the pets and seeing my garden unfold as I go. I've been playing for a couple of years now and will continue to play as there is a lot to enjoy about the game.

Good game, except…... The advertising or forced pop up boxes are really getting out of hand now guys and need to be cleaned up. I logged in for the first time in a while (this was still an issue when I stopped) and was given 15 minutes of free lives and a power up, for my own curiosity I decided to time from the point of receiving this power up until I was able to actually able to enter a game and make use of them. Skipping all text and cutscenes as fast as possible and( not reading a single thing ) the time left on my power was 12:17 so that’s nearly a full 3 minutes of adverts almost every login. For those that read the event or story or advertising on login probably will get maybe one game out of the powers. Great game, but please tidy up before the clutter gets even worse or the players decline ( my groups already had everyone leave ) Thanks for such a great game otherwise

Do not be fooled by the ads. So the ads say that this game is just minigames, minigames, minigames, minigames, minigames. They’re always about a little girl and her mother who need money, fire or they need to get to each other. You solve the puzzle by pulling golden sticks in the correct order. But that’s NOTHING like the actual game. In the actual game, you can make your own garden and solve match 3 puzzles. You earn stars and coins which you use to make your garden. There’s even 1 ad I saw about this game where it says, ‘Don’t you hate it when the game looks so fun in the ads, but when you download the app, it’s a totally different game? Well, today I found a game that’s EXACTLY like the way it’s shown in the ads.’ And they’re talking about YOUR game. So, like, come on! You’re literally just humiliating yourselves! So you’re actually just making it more obvious that this game is NOT like the way they show it in the ads.

Challenging, but rewarding. I have played Gardenscapes for around a year, and I’m on level 673. This was the first match 3 game I had ever played, so it was really hard starting off playing, as I was progressing really slowly. It’s definitely not to say levels have got easier, in fact. after level 600, it feels as if they get sooooo much harder, but I’ve learnt if you play a level again and again, you should be able to finally succeed. I love the storyline and decorating elements of the game, they were very well done. If you have played Homescapes, and are looking to play Gardenscapes, I would recommend it, as G.S is noticeably easier than H.S in my opinion. There are a few things that could be improved though. It would be nice if you could visit other peoples gardens, with a similar mechanism to Township. Maybe you could send a few people a present every day! That would be amazing. Also, would it be possible to add a skip level button? There are so many times I’ve been stuck on a level for weeks, until it becomes so boring to play, resulting in me not playing for weeks. Anyway, thanks for reading my rant, and overall great game Playrix! 🌱🌳

Used to love, has gotten worse with each update. Don’t get me wrong, this app definitely has positives. I’ve been playing for well over a year and have enjoyed it during that time. In saying that, with each update the game seems to have gotten less fair. First example, the competitions are great- with each consecutive level you beat, you get a booster. However, I’ve noticed since the last update, the game will put the booster into a spot that screws you up for that level. Eg- some hard levels start with the fruit in such a way that you can make a booster first go. The game will plonk your prize booster right in the middle so you can’t make the one the level needs you to to win from the start. This makes the boosters not just unhelpful, but loses your lives. I also wish you could properly skip the dialogue and cutscenes. As an older player, the storylines get a bit repetitive and some go for ages. You can skip but it doesn’t skip a lot. I used to spend money on this app but refuse to anymore. You can tell that the game has become rigged, easy levels can take 30 plus goes to complete, and then you’ll all of a sudden get all these amazing matches and finish with 15 moves left. It gets tiresome and has me wanting to delete the app, even after all this time. Hopefully the developers take things on board. Also please don’t advise me to view tips like you have other players. I’m well versed with the rules.

Greed killed the game. I have played this game for years and am at the top level. I have enjoyed playing it and haven’t minded paying for extra rewards as it’s been a great way to kill time during early postpartum and also during long commutes. But Playrix has slowly been gutting the game and the absolute only reason can be greed. They have doubled the prices, removed most boosters in the expeditions and raised the gem price per object removal to laughable extremes (which has made finishing these near impossible). Literally what is the point? The actual levels themselves are becoming impossible to complete and I’m getting through 1 or 2 levels and then getting stuck on one for days in which the absolute only way to clear the level is to pay exorbitantly and it’s an absolute joke. Thank you for ruining a truly great game and sapping it of anything worthy of my time. I’m sad to say I will be getting rid of the game now and you will not see a single cent from me again.

Nice, but could be a little fairer.. Haven’t been playing long, but am thoroughly enjoying the puzzles. However I’m finding that some are extremely hard and I feel in order to make you spend money, now I get randomized drops and such but when power ups pop next to each other or a level requires six more moves to get through to the other side, (Level 96 is a testament to that and one I’m stuck on now wanting to spend real money to complete). The levels with dirt and ore seem a tad ridiculous with portals and not much room for the items to drop for you to switch about to get power ups, can barely get fireworks let alone a tnt bundle, would love to be able to make a barrel on these levels. Otherwise it’s fun, but would like to see the levels that spiked my interest, with the scissors and tape and things that you need to fix.

Not a happy camper!!!. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE this game. I am upto level 2959. But what really annoys me and not makes me want to play it, I have to wait a fair few days each time just for new levels to me added onto the game, so I’m stuck with the stupid treasure chest finding the keys which doesn’t even give stars and it SHOULD. Also, when using stars to renovate the garden, it’s making me use 4/5 stars some things need 2 or 3 as well which means 8+ stars gone in one go!!! And not only that using so many stars and the PERCENTAGE that reaches to the end of the day is REDICULOUS- for example, I use 5 stars, and the percentage bar goes up 3-5 percent and that’s BEYOND A JOKE!!! spending so much money all the time on this game because I love it, yet everything is just stingy now. Go through big chunks of stars at a time only to get a low percentage on the percentage bar, and trying to pass so many levels just to get a big amount of stars, only for that big amount of stars to be gone by doing only very few things in the garden! I think that needs to be fixed. Start rewarding the loyal paying customers with more stars and rewards, because it’s beyond a joke and I’m thinking about deleting the game because of all that!!

Losing it’s charm. When I first downloaded the game, I thought it was good because it makes you think and win your levels. As I reached the thousand level it just became annoying not because you cannot a win a level but because they won’t let you win it unless you have exhausted your coins and power ups. The worst thing that has happened is they have added betting to encourage children into gambling. So I don’t think it deserves any stars at all. The one star is only because it was good in the first few hundred levels. Also it is a misleading advertisement to download the game. After downloading I realized that they are mini games that come only once in a blue moon for you to play. There’s also a lot of cheating in this game to make you buy more coins. It’s designed to not let you win. Looks like greed is taking over the developer. But it’s not worth it... you’ll get more negative reviews and lose your business. The 1304 level shows the creator of the app has gone all nuts giving only 9 moves to finish the level. Wonder if he himself could finish it off!

Positives and improvement suggestions. I’m on level 962 Summary: Overall the game is great but some things could be changed to make it more enjoyable to play long term. Positives: Played this game for quite a while now - I don’t spend money on it to try challenge myself. I enjoy building my garden and picking from the different decorations. Love the new decoration themes. Game doesn’t crash (iPhone8), very smooth graphics. Suggestions: Would love the game so much more if each task was only decoration or pet related. Don’t like the irrelevant tasks like “help kid find kite” that takes up 4 stars. As you go along there are too many tasks to each section, I get bored of one section after the first 30 tasks, been stuck on the island diving one for a while (I’m only 77% into the 7th section at level 962). Would also love if hard levels gave 2 stars and really hard levels gave 3 stars. Would be good if you were rewarded with more green cash than what you get now ($20-$40 max reward and an item can cost $600-$2600) and no other way to get them than beating levels. Also not loving the new timer bombs, countdown shouldn’t start for frozen ones till the ice is broken- butterflies are challenging enough.

Good game but it has a few issues. I have been playing Gardenscapes for a few months, I’m on level 603, and I really like the game. I think that it’s really cool how there are always competitions going on. There are also some problems. First of all, I play this game on my iPad, and it keeps kicking me out every five minutes. It doesn’t take away my stars or anything, but it’s really annoying and makes me lose time, which drives me crazy because I don’t have much time to play. Also, most of the goals in the extra stuff are impossible. I mean, how are you supposed get like 1000 of those tokens in only 30 days?! It’s impossible, at least for me, I have never finished one of those seasons. And with the extra renovations, eg the trivia club, you also only have about ten days to get about 4000 tokens, and you only get about 40 tokens per level. It is more for harder levels but still. So please fix the glitches, particularly the kicking out. But overall good game.

You haven’t crashed just yet. Started this game on a whim early last year and found it quite fun, entertaining and even a little addictive. Since then the updates have been great, they’ve added extra competitions to participate in with exciting prizes. I often see mobile games like this try too hard to create something more interactive and current but it just ends up more irritating, but that’s not the case with GardenScapes. They’ve managed to keep the basic foundation of the game we love and ad fun new features. For a future update: the ability to ad someone as a friend: view their garden and participate in events with them making it more competitive rather than against a random person. Thank you for the excellent work, keep going !

Cats. Hey look, I think the game is really fun. But the fact that you thought you should buy a puppy really made me sad. Like sure, nothing wrong with that! But the fact that the lady had gave you a great deal for a cat and you declined it made me sad. I wanted a CAT! You know there are CRAZY cat lovers like me in the world? Some even play this game! Also, you made cats look bad. In Austin’s “thought” of the cat scratching a tree was WRONG! If a cat needed to a scratch a tree, this would be too sharpen their claws and that would protect you from even more trespassers!!! The cat would learn to grow and love you and you’d feel happy! But no? You make dogs better for a garden just because there active? They aren’t as active as you think! And also, cats are also very good at being active. People just think their lazy because they sleep. SLEEP? Sleep just makes a human/animal more active! I’m very disappointed you think of cats like a useless, unworthy creature. I haven’t got very far into the game, but I’m deleting it JUST BECAUSE OF THIS!

Good and bad. First off I would like to say that this is an awesome game with a lot of good qualities. The art style and colours of the game are good and give it good flow, the characters and their back story are also very good and well throughout. I would have to say as a downfall for this game, some of the quests or missions in the game are just pointless and have nothing to do with designing and setting up your own garden. Things like helping a boy fix his helicopter or get his kite from the tree or even to help fix someone’s tire as they drive past are all pointless to the game and what it’s about, which is designing and creating your own garden. Not only that but some of those missions can take up to 3 stars, which could be better off being used on the garden. Also if I’m in one area I wold like to focus solely o. That are and not have to jump back and fix things or do things in other areas. But as I stated in the start of this review it is a great game and I really enjoy it. One other thing that I would like to see in game and I’m sure many other players would too, there needs to be some form of skip added to the mission so if you have been on them for more than 6 or so turns you have the chance to skip over that missions, or at least a feature to make the missions you get stuck on less hard. Thanks

Decent game but garbage physics. I’m up to level 2442 and have been playing since March 2017. Enjoyable when bored, and the continuous events make it easier to complete levels. But when there are multiple levels that have been beaten in a row, an easy looking level can’t be complete and the event bonuses are lost, even when trying to beat the levels using extra power ups on top of those bonuses. The physics in this game have become so much more worse since the 1000’s, where some pieces move in different directions to avoid bombs, or where lemonades do not follow the path towards the bottom and instead allowing other pieces to fall down. The honey is the most irritating part of the game, as breaking the jars of honey does not count towards the match beside the honey itself, and any time there is a bomb or power up beside the honey, the next move it is instantly covered over. This should not be the case and it should be randomised. The honey also travels through corners of barriers, which is kind of unfair as I can’t switch through barriers, but the honey is allowed to travel through the corners with ease. Overall a good game but some things with it really need to be rewritten, as it just makes the game more unenjoyable when you’re stuck on a level that you’ve tried 30 times already.

Starts off well, doesn’t age well. The game started off great with lots of things to customise and design the garden but after a while useless little jobs would use up my stars that wouldn’t let me move onto the next task without completing. Many of these tasks require 2 to 3 stars which can be difficult to get if you’re stuck on a level. Another issue I have with this game is the levels are simple at the beginning with some hard and super hard levels thrown in randomly but as you progress the hard and super hard levels are more frequent than normal levels, making it difficult if you don’t have power ups. Many regular levels I have found to be nearly impossible to beat even with all the power ups and just becomes more frustrating than enjoyable and this has turned me off the game. If you’re looking for a game to pass time or a simple match-up game then I would recommend but if you’re looking for a more design aspect in a game I would suggest something else.

It’s good but has down falls.. This game is great when I am bored but you don’t get enough stars to keep updating the garden and only 1 date per level is insane when you have to do so Many things that don’t involve gardening and takes way too long to do... the second fountain is on day 3 now and still not complete and I play on my iPad and iPhone. I’m getting to the point I don’t want to play anymore and on my iPhone I’m only level 92! It’s all becoming too slow and there’s things I just don’t want to do and you can’t skip them and HAVE to do them. I’m Starting to lose interest purely because it’s just taking too long to do anything and seems to be rigged to get people spending. I love this game but I’m tired of levels that take too long to do, a garden area that’s taking WAY too long to finish and levels that really should give extra stars to complete levels but don’t so when you’re out of lives and want to do things in the garden you can’t because there may not be any stars and all your lives are gone.

The ad is not the same as the game…!DONT DOWNLOAD!. I swear..l honestly I saw an ad saying it was the exact same as the ad shown. But when I downloaded is, it was like tapping on things and that candy game in candy crush. Barely ever get to help the girl and the kid… DO NOT DOWNLOAD! If u want a good game and not any hard as candy games and just want to help the girl.. then get a diff game, like I know that it’s just how the game is.. BUT THE AD LIED even though it said it was the exact same as shown, I only like the dog u get and the garden… SO NOT COOL!! No joke, I’d rather get a game with forced ads then this. Please make the game what everyone wants.. like is that too hard to ask? Only bright side is the color, the cute dog, and the quality, i mean excuse me for being such a hater. But I wanted to help the kid and the woman. Not play some candy crushing game 5 times so I can only play it once. I’m sorry but u guys need to step up the game a bit.

Just another IOS game designed to force you to buy in game credits. This game as well as its sister app Homescapes seem to offer the same gameplay and allow you to play up-to a certain level for free then the puzzles become so hard you can’t proceed without spending real money on in game upgrades to continue which is a real shame because up until that point I was enjoying both games. I understand developers need to get paid but I will not be bullied into paying. If I enjoy playing a game & it allows for unlimited functionable free play then I have spent hundreds of dollars buying in game upgrades. I feel that’s my duty as a customer who enjoys playing the game the developer has spent hours on hours developing and producing. But enough already on the multitude of iOS and other platforms games that try to force me into paying I refuse. If you want my money make a great that’s free to play forever and entice me into upgrades that enhance my enjoyment of the game.

Problems.. Okay I’d like to say a few things.. with these type of apps, suggesting gardenscapes, homescapes, matchington mansion and other playful games, I’m getting of sick of the amount of ads that show during different social media sites and games. Like I get that you want advertisements and people to get your games for reviews, rates and money, but maybe just lower the amount of ads? Also, while we are talking about ads, I’m getting quite disturbed and triggered of how the ads show something completely irrelevant to what the game actually does. For example, I might be playing a different game and an ad will pop up in the middle of it, I could watch the ad and think that “Oh! This looks like a fun game! Let me get it!” And so I will go and download this game right? But when it’s finished downloading, I go into it and it’s a WHOLE DIFFERENT GAME!! I just wanted to say this. Hope you fix this and fix the ad problems. Thanks for listening and giving your time to read this.

Not a happy player 😔 Level 3131. I have been playing this game forever now and usually one of the top 3 players on the leader board, I play it so much especially during the challenges. However like most of the players I am getting increasingly frustrated at how I enjoyable this game is becoming the levels are ridiculously hard to win some taking over 30+ attempts and powers to get through them just to earn one star then when all stars are earned I can’t even choose the design of the item that I am building which was the whole joy of the game originally 80% of the challenges are unpersonalised now and to top that off every task requires 3-4 stars and has to take two to three attempts so annoying. Another annoying thing is I am so up to date I always have to complete the chest challenges guys you need to be faster with the updates if you want to keep my interest. I yes to absolutely love this game now I often choose not to even open the app and stick to my favs like Disney Magic Kingdoms and Candy Crush to avoid disappointment!!

Take a leaf. I don't mind this game but options are very limited. 1 level took me 50+ tried and 6 days to pass. I was over it. I'll still play it but when people ask about games I tell them not to bother with this one. Disney kingdoms is what I tell them to play. Levelling up characters gives gems that unlock things so the game makes it possible to progress. But this game. No options. You either get lucky in the daily spin or spend real money. After completing a hard level that rewards with 2 stars, the next few that follow get hard again. They are like ordinary levels but impossible to pass and of course you can't use the power ups cause u used all those trying to pass the super hard level just before. I get it shouldn't be easy. But this game shouldn't be about the puzzles. It should be about building the garden. 1 star because I think even the developers missed the point with this game. Fix it and I'll happily change my rating.

LIARS. Ok, so I was really excited when I downloaded this app, but was very disappointed. First of all, you need to play this stupid match three in game to do all most EVERYTHING! And you only have about twenty five moves to do it, and it’s almost impossible to do it with only twenty five moves. And I kept on getting stuck on the same level for ages! And what they show in the add is mostly COMPLETELY different to the actual game! I got this game because I want to renovate the garden! I have had this game for a few years, and I have finished TWO sections of the whole game. I DO NOT recommend getting this or getting it for a young child under eight. This was a waste of time, and got really boring real quick. It’s kind of fun, and every time I go into the game, it bombarded me with notifications about these other in games! I used to be obsessed with it but got very annoyed when I couldn’t even pass the same level. If you’re willing to spend a lot of time on this app, then great. This is the game for you. But if you only want to play it every once in a while, don’t waste your time with this silly app.

Was The Best But Now..... I’ve been playing this game for years. I’m on level 3281 and I’ve spent a bit of money on this game too. I did stop playing for a while as things got too tedious. But I am back again. Just wanted to say I’ve never yet played any of those mini games that are shown in the advertising!? Where are they?? There are side quests, like at the moment I think you have to decorate a chalet. Let me just say I have yet to complete ANY of these extra rooms as the tasks just take too many stars or whatever point scoring is used for the game. Now I do actually like my garden. It is looking pretty good. Just wish there were more flowers of different types to put in. How about change up the colours and design of them a bit more 💐🌺🌸🌼🌻🌹🥀🥀🌈🎄🌲.

Where is the Original? Mansion Find the hidden object Garden Scapes. I originally downloaded the “Gardenscapes Mansion” App when it first came out - where the player would find the hidden object, I loved it !!! You find the hidden objects in the different rooms in the houses, this was the best find the hidden object game available at the time on the App Store and your attention to details and design excellent … the player would help Austin do the garden and renovate the interior of the mansion… there was no interruptions with annoying berry explosion matching games! These games you offer now are still good but I don’t want all the stupid berry and explosive matching games ! I updated my iPad and can not access this version anymore☹️ Is there a version of the original “Find the hidden object” and design your mansion decor ? Will you release another of these soon?

Soon to be ex loyal player. I absolutely hate the recent update! I have played this game for a long time now. I'm up to level 2150 or something. I have spent money on this game & whilst I don't like doing it, I didn't mind in order to beat a tough level or advance. Ok so here goes.... the recent update and changes are terrible! I hate the introduction of the currency to add decorations at the cost of real coin prizes! Plus hard levels used to reward 2 stars, now it's just a sucky one star and the silly cash! It's are enough to get stars. Coin rewards have all but ceased! I see this as greed from the game developers to get customers to buy coins. The gas cylinders are a ridiculous idea too! Wasting a life so easily?! I used to think the company and game developers were fair & how good and refreshing it was. However the above factors I have mentioned have almost COMPLETELY put me off the same, I'm ready to quit. PLEASE address these concerns developers. Really unhappy player.

It’s Relaxing - latest update not so good :(. Latest update is not letting me open up this app. It keeps logging me out! I’ve got progress that I need to save! Anyways., It’s a good game and I play it during transit to and from work by train or bus. I also play it when I’m ignoring people., until I run out of lives then I have no choice but to socialise. However., I agree with other reviews., other side missions is not worth my time because I want to build this virtual garden not fix helicopter., or fix a kite etc. I’m always stuck on levels for about 20-50 lives because the game wants me to use up my money to move onto the next level! I mean., seriously? Can’t I just save my pretend money and make it easier after say 10 tries or even 5??? I’m broke in real life., so being “virtually rich” is awesome!!! Three stars is sometimes too much for something simple! Also., I tried to skip those challenges eg the fireworks or Apple challenge., yes I want to participate and NO I don’t want to see my rank! But for some reason when I press the “X” button the game shows me the score board 🥱🤦🏽‍♀️ I don’t care., I want to escape and play in peace! Overall it’s a good time wasting game and it’s entertaining enough!

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Great Game. Loads of fun but very frustrating at times when it takes so long to complete a level

Pathetic. The game has nothing to do with the ads plus the appreciation score has nothing to do with the reviews. EVERYBODY SHOULD READ ALL THE REVIEWS.

Not Bad. I enjoy playing the game however the fact that you can only get friends though Facebook is quite annoying. Only one friend is playing it, so I can't request lives. It also costs quite a bit of $ as many of the levels I have had to buy coins to keep playing after spending days trying to complete certain levels.

FIX YOUR GLITCH …. Extremely disappointed in your customer service, which consists of absolutely no humans or promised emails. Waiting 2 weeks for reply for you guys to fix your glitch. Never again will i spend another dime on your game.

The Ad is a big lie. Just stop advertising lies, or don’t advertise it at all. Not sure why faulty information is allowed to circulate. A big scam

Stop These Ads. These ads for the mini games are depressing. I get that you’re trying to tell us they are so easy a monkey could get it right, but it won’t work on anyone really smart, and it’s depressing as hell. Definitely driving away my interest.

Not what’s advertised. I downloaded this game because of the ads. Turns out this game is nothing like the ads.. silly me for thinking you would advertise your actual product and not something fake!

Ad isn’t real. The ad completely lies about the game but why would the developers care they still make money

Completely trash.. Downloaded this cause of an add and it was false advertisement

Bait fraud. I downloaded this because I saw an ad while playing another game. It looked interesting, but what I downloaded is definitely NOT the game I saw advertised. I will not be playing this game, I am feeling duped.

Fake Game. I’ve seen ads for this game just about everywhere. These ads have nothing to do with the game at all and are completely false. This game is not what it is being advertised to be.

Confused. The ads show a guy trapped in some way that you must use logic to free. But when you get the app it’s a stupid match three game. Very not cool. 😖

Pretty Fun. Can be a fun game but some levels are ridiculous to pass and there should be more boosts available.

Fake ads. I’ve been playing this game for several years and I rarely see the gameplay that I’m now seeing in the ads that start out by saying “tired of fake ads”.

False advertising. Literally ran an ad mocking the false advertising trend that happens with apps, claiming it was actually like the ads. In the ad itself it showed a pull the pin type when in reality it’s a match three. At no point in game play do you ever see gameplay that is advertised, including in the ad that they directly lie about not advertising falsely. What is so hard about an accurate ad for a game? People do not like being lied to.

Don’t do it!. This is nothing like the ad! It’s not different levels of saving someone it’s just another stupid jewel candy crush matching game. Biggest waste of time to even download it!

no way. fun 1 days . after that , if you buy nothing . you stuck and it become boring . buy nothing . it not worth it

Nothing like add. Add is for helping a guy escape water BUT the game is actually a jewel match game.

Fake game. All advertisement videos are about making decisions and selecting the best object for that moment. However, the actual game is similar to candy crush with a few extra tasks on the side. Nothing like advertised!!!

WHERE ARE THE CUTE MINI GAMES?. The adds show all kinds of cute mini games. All I get are STUPID match games. YUCH! If this game doesn’t soon change, it’s going back to the dump. I have deleted this…AGAIN! I keep seeing the ads, but what you get when you add the game, it is NOTHING like the ads. If it was, I would have kept it.

FALSE ADVERTISING. Downloaded this game after watching a ad and found it nothing like what was being depicted in said ad.....you are frauds and should be sued for false advertising!!!! I am contacting the Canadian Ad Standard Counsel to have your misleading ads blocked on Canadian IPNs. SHAME ON YOU!!! PATHETIC!!!

It’s not a logic game as advertised. Not as advertised. Don’t bother downloading If you got lured here thinking you have to pull pins to save lambs. It’s not this game. This franchise misleads you into thinking you’re getting a certain game. It’s misleading, false advertising whatever you want to call it. Waste of my time.

Lies in ads. I have played over 6000 levels in this game. It is a match 3 game not a whatever the type game they advertise. False advertising. So disappointed in them. For shame.

False Advertising. Not at all like the advertising. Why do you have false advertising.

Not like the add. The add was you we’re supposed to help the 2 people survive. But it’s just a stupid jewel game. If you like it good for you. But I wanted it to be like the add

Enough with the clickbait ads.. This company’s ads are totally fake and have nothing to do with the game. This practice is dishonest, unethical and should be illegal. I’ll voice my protest by keeping my money, instead of giving it to a sleazy, lying company like Playrix. Disgusting.

False advertising. you don’t get to do any of the cool puzzle things that are in the ads the game is boring it’s sucks. poop in a bucket

Misleading ads, not fun game. As many have mentioned the ads are misleading. This is a candy crush concept game with mini games. I really enjoy candy crush so I don’t mind but the issue I find with these type of games is it’s impossible to pass a game unless you pay for boosters to pass the game. I guess you could play the level like 50 times in hopes of eventually getting the right combo of moves but honestly no one is going to play it that long. The disturbing thing I didn’t expect with this game is one of the mini games in it is one of those "makeup" concepts where the female downgrades herself as a person because a guy left her. We are supposed to help her "look better" to earn the guy back. Like I’m sorry, NO.

Uncomfortable for the character. Feel annoying using women as poor image , bagging for money 🙄🙄🙄

Fake ads. Stop making ads that have NOTHING to do with the actual game

False advertising. Very disappointing

Not at all like the ad. The ad of being able to chose your outcome is no where in this game. It’s like a candy crush game. Very disappointed.

Stopped Playing Frequently. I am 300+ level and find the game repetitive and frustrating be cause I get stuck on levels far too long so I don't play very often now.

Junk. This game is STILL nothing like the ad says. 5 years later and its still utter nonsense. It never once shows a stupid jewel game in the ad. But thats the majority.

Grrr. Beautifully designed artwork, very pretty and enjoyable to some degree..... But it is VERY frustrating to use stars (which are way too hard to earn!) for silly stuff like phone calls, or to use 20+ stars to complete a fountain or decorate the yard (it would be nice to have more choice on the work to be done or not, and that the star cost is less ). Maybe earn 2+ stars for hard levels and more coins for each completed level. It's clear you want your users to spend money, understandably, but making it more fun for us so we don't give up and uninstall the game is also to your advantage. Thanks

False advertising. The ads for your game say you’re doing one thing but the actual game play is completely different. I have reported this game to my provincial Consumers Affairs Office, the Better Business Bureau as well as Advertising Standards Canada. It is illegal to show these kinds of false advertisements in Canada, it would be in your best interest to stop showing these fake advertisements before you get investigated. The fines are not small, and they take this stuff seriously.

This game sucks.. I like the concept of the game but hate the fact that the game decides when you pass the levels. No point in even trying to be strategic. It’s frustrating to spend more two days on the same level.

Meh. This is not the game they show you in the ads. When does that occur? The levels are pretty hard to beat and some improvements require a ridiculous amount of stars.

Bad. It’s nothing like the add and I feel very ripped off! The add said you got to fix stuff and try to chose the right stuff but that’s not at all what the game is like! I don’t like this game!

Fake ads. Your ads are NOTHING like the game, mini games be damned. Time for another complaint to the Canadian authorities to get your game blocked in Canada for false misleading advertising

The worst app ever. It is nothing like the add and just an other candy crush knock off I hate this game it really sucks like really do not download

Gardenscapes. Was enjoyable, but with latest update you can only play with wifi. Went from playing 3 or 4 times a day and now I can't be bothered.

Deceptive Practices. Nothing like the ad. Copies ads from popular games. The jewel game itself gets to a point where you can’t advance without spending money. Basically a poorly designed game where the designers don’t know how to make money so they resort to deceptive advertising.

Horrible Ads. The ads for this game are terrible, showing a mother and child on the brink of death. The game is nothing like the ads whatsoever, and I don’t understand why this company would want to advertise a game that might actually be fun with ads portraying such horrific scenes. Not only that, but ads that are not even relevant to the gameplay itself! The game follows the usual greedy, predatory pay to win scheme that’s just going to frustrate ftp players. It’s not worth your time. All I’m saying is, if we want the gaming industry to change, we can’t keep giving them money when they make bad games.

Absolute Scam. I am completely disappointed and mad with GardenScapes, the advertisements are absolutely misleading and are completely different from the actual game. I thought I was getting a fun looking game where you free people in a kind of puzzle, when in reality it’s just a stupid ‘candy crush’ like game. I spent about 5 hours playing the dumb game trying to get to the game part seen in the ad, until I realized it doesn’t exist... This is a complete violation of deceptive practices and I feel used, and infringed by the makers of this game. To put it simply, GardenScapes is committing a fraud: false advertising. I feel that a lawsuit could even be risen against this crime that they have committed. Please Gardenscapes, stop advertising/scamming consumers with false, misleading, wrong information.

Where’s the real game?. I seen an ad for this puzzle solving game but it’s not what I downloaded 🙄🙄🙄🙄

Misleading ads. I am at level 2100 and have never played what you advertise. Very misleading.

Possibly illegal. Without even getting into the game itself I have to leave a one star review because of how hypocritical their ad is. The ad says that that games with fake ads are bad and then proceeds to show us a fake ad. Truly terrible.

Misleading ads. The ads don’t describe the game. If you want it to stop everyone has to give them a one star rating every time the ads come up. That will drop them.

Why do you advertise your game with stupid ads. Why not just show actual game play? Ridiculous

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Great game, and I don’t spend money on it ever. I don’t understand the temptation to spend money on this game??? While I can see how easy it is to spend money, I never have and never will. For me, whenever the “buy” messages appear, I ignore them. When you are out of energy or lives, to me that is the cue to put the game down and shift focus to another activity, possibly that doesn’t involve playing another game on your mobile device or tablet. When I’ve exhausted my lives, I've already spent a considerable amount of time playing GardenScapes and it’s now time to do something else, like cook dinner, wash the dishes, sweep the floor, etc. This reminds me of how great this game is constructed. At the point when you’ve exhausted your current lives, you must wait a time period before a life or lives are regenerated. In essence, there is a subliminal message in this game that tacitly tells you to keep your priorities in order, and not be so obsessed with constantly playing a game for hours upon hours. I appreciate the sociological/psychological aspect of GardenScapes. Finally, the game is very impressive and the graphics are exceptional. The developers should be commended on how well they’ve constructed the game.

Bait & Switch: A shameless money grab. Don’t download this game... for so many reasons. Foremost - it is a standard match-3, decorate your garden/house game, but not only do NO ads for it show actual gameplay, they advertise completely different game types! This is not a “How to Loot” game, nor is it based on “Make a Choice to Save Their Lives”. However, that’s what all the ads would have you believe. That’s a deplorable business practice known as Bait and Switch. Deplorable, and in many places, illegal. if Playrix were a brick and mortar business, they’d be in trouble. To top things off, the actual game has level after level which - while technically possible to beat w/out using boosts/buying extra moves - rely on sheer luck to defeat. There are even levels which are constructed in such a manner as to immediately negate any boosts you *might* start with! Like I said in the title: Shameless. Lying. Money grab. Even if they used ads which depicted the same style of gameplay... the number of levels which force you to rely on luck - and luck alone - make this game an exercise in futility, and would be enough to only net the game a second star. Only took me 1400+ lvls to finally give up on this waste of time, money, and peace of mind. Sad thing is, I was looking forward to actually playing a “Make a Choice to Save Their Lives” game when I downloaded this! (For that matter, I’d love to play the imaginary “How to Loot”!)

Would be 5 but too hard. The graphics are so cute and I like everything about this game but it's too freaking hard! It takes me a week of playing to maybe finish one level. And I didn't even get the daily spins until level 24! And you don't get anything for not passing. It's incredibly frustrating and I wish we could at least friend people in the game without Facebook. Just other neighbors so I can get lives. This is ridiculously hard and normally I don't mind purchasing in-game as a thank you but when they rig it like this it just makes me go the opposite way. You have 2 layers plus items chained up? It makes it impossible. If you're going to make it so hard, at least don't limit the number of turns then. Update: I’ve been stuck on level 179 or something for a couple of months and I’ve used all the boosts and paid coins to keep going but the lemonade kept getting stuck in the side thing that moves along the border and I wasted like 5600 coins and 7 shovels and all three boosts on that attempt. I’m so close to quitting forever. I have paid probably $40 after playing for over 6 months and refuse to spend another penny on this greedy developer’s game. Also I have like 48 lives just sitting in the envelope from the daily spin, why is that even a prize??? I don’t give a crap about free lives when the levels are this hard.

I'm deleting it. This is a cute game and addictive, unfortunately, it gets difficult too quickly and you need boosters to get thru the levels. You earn a few in game but otherwise you have to pay for them or pay for coins to get you extra time to finish the level. You also have to play levels to earn stars to make changes to the areas of the garden, which is fine except when you can't get past a level and some tasks take 2 or 3 stars to complete (ie 2 or 3 levels passed to earn those stars). Would be easy to spend a bunch of money on this game. I would rather pay $5, $10 or even $20 on a game and not have in-game purchases. I would continue to play this game but I'm only at level 65 and working on the 3rd area of the game and can't get past it. I had unlimited lives but out of boosters and had to have played that level at least 100 times. If it's this hard now, how much worse does it get? I'm not going to keep throwing money at this game - it reminds me of the carnival games where you try to win the big stuffed animal, but you have to keep buying tickets to play. By the time you are done and walk away with a dinky stuffed bear, you could have bought 20 of the big ones. So, if you are still reading, I am deleting the game to eliminate the frustration. I would recommend avoiding the frustration altogether...

Sometimes Glitchy/Puzzle levels lack reasonable reward. I would give 5 stars but it’s glitchy especially on the puzzle levels. It will say 100% completed and fail me on multiple occasions. This has happened on the pet food, coal, coin, water, or combo puzzle levels. I just completed one that was one of the easiest that I’ve had in a while for the puzzles since I’m in the 1800+ levels. I turned all the silver coins gold before dropping in the bucket and it failed me. 3 times. I will also add since the puzzle levels are required to be completed they should give a better reward. Especially levels when you’re working with the coins. The gold coins you put in the bucket should get you the reward of whatever number of coins you got in there. I know you’re in it for people making purchases so instead of requiring 100% in the bucket, only reward the coins that made it in the bucket. I understand the water or coal ones or pet food ones only being a few coins but some are still difficult enough to be worth maybe 25 coins? 10 is just not worth the effort especially with a 100% on puzzle levels being required to move on to the standard matching levels.

What Is up with the ads. I had downloaded the game 2-ish years ago and it was normal. All the adds were normal. Just a simple game when you complete puzzles to rebuild the guys garden, no biggie. Til I started seeing the newer ads. Every single one of them is a lie. I keep seeing my little sister see adds for puzzle games like these and they are nothing like the game, but she wants to download it. This is a pure scam and waste of storage. Even when I first saw ads for this app what i was first going to download it the ads never showed that it was one of those puzzle games. After I realized I tried to play it for a while, but it got really, and I mean really boring. And a lot of people can probably agree with me when I say boring puzzle games or puzzle games that lie to you are not worth playing. Nowadays the ads are far more terrible. Whenever I see one of the ads I cry inside. What part of ‘fun’ includes watching the stupid fake hand abuse these mother and daughter. I don’t know about you, but watching a mother and daughter suffer honestly makes me not want to play it even more. If you are going to advertise your game, please, just show what it actually is. We don’t have the time to watch the game in the ads and download a COMPLETELY different game. It being free does not give you an excuse to lead people on into thinking the game shown in the ads is what they are getting into. Thank you for reading.

Lacking support. I hate to even admit that I’ve spent money on a game, but on Gardenscapes, I have. Now I have a problem. One day I go on to see that everything is gone. I’ve been pushed back levels that I’ve already beaten. One being a “super hard level” and one of the reasons I spent money on this game. (Although I have also purchased coins on many other occasions, it took me 2 days of failing this level before I gave in to buying some help). Aside from being pushed back, everything is gone. No more toy chests, no more dog levels, tasks I’ve done, and stars that I had accrued. (I like to save them up and do a lump of tasks at once.) I contacted support through the in-app feature. While waiting on their response, I resumed playing to beat the same levels once again. Once support got back to me, I was advised to delete the app, restart my phone and download the app again. Although I had already tried that, I did it again. This time...THE SAME THING HAPPENS! All of the games features are still missing, but once again I am pushed back to the same level as before and the stars I had gained while waiting for support to get back to me are gone. I tell this to support and I am still waiting on a response. I’d be more than happy to send screenshots showing that all features are missing. Had I not spent money on this game, I would not be complaining, but this is unfair. Either my game needs to be fixed or I need to be refunded.

Harder levels but terrible rewards throughout the game.. This game is/was very well addicting and advertised but the fact that the game gets harder when you get further but you don’t get better rewards is ridiculous and cheap. I’m not giving you my hard earned money for some pay to play bull crap. Give me better rewards the deeper I get into the game. Don’t get me wrong I love the difficulty of the levels but my rewards stayed the same no matter how far and long I played a specific level/levels. You add all types of crap to make the levels harder but you don’t give us better rewards? Kinda stupid if you ask me. For future references keep that same energy for rewards if you’re going to make the levels harder. It’s kinda hard to beat a level if you keep getting the “no more moves” sign in your face. Also why don’t my bombs explode at the end of every game I play, even if I didn’t finish the level in the right amount of moves? Y’all really just made up rules as you went along with this game. Doesn’t make any sense at all. It’s petty and ridiculous. Also I should have access to my extra bombs and electric balls or whatever they’re called at all times. I worked hard to get them or earned them by waiting everyday for the wheel spin. That’s foolish, continuing to stop me from completing a level by not allowing me to use my own rewards in the middle of a match. Fix yourselves!!!!

Too hard or ?. I enjoy this game immensely. I really do. I have to agree with some of the other reviewers about the difficulty in some of the levels and how it can take a very long time to pass a level. However, I think it’s somewhat okay. I look forward to the challenge of trying something different the next time I get a chance to play that level. I do not pay anything for the extra stuff. I did it once and felt like a heel. That’s part of the challenge. The only thing that bugs me more than levels being a bit too challenging at times is having to add crap to areas. It sounds so nitpicky as I type this out, but here goes. So we finish the fountain in the garden and then change the basin to a statue that takes like 9 stars to finish? It really takes a long time to finish any area in the garden when we have to do that stuff. I’m all for the challenging levels, but how many stars it takes to do the changes is a bit much. How about giving us the choice of a decoration: maybe the butler really wants the peacock for the basin in he fountain and it costs 3 stars. You like the angel for the basin and it costs 2 stars, maybe the original basin costs 1 Star. Just an idea. I think it would be more fun to have a choice that way.

Kinda over it. I was obsessed with this game when I first started, I played everyday! It took up all my free time. But the more and more I played, I kept getting discouraged because it feels like they want you to lose? Is this a tactic to get you to pay actual dollars to buy coins? Because it doesn’t work. I’ve been stuck on a level for almost a week and I have no idea how I would be able to beat it. And I’m not about to spend my hard earned money on a game that is triggered to make you lose. They give you only a few playable pieces to begin with, more obstacles than you can clear, and only like 30 moves? At the MOST? IMPOSSIBLE. And whenever I used one of the few boosters I won to help, they gave me NO other option but to use them as soon as the game started. And they put them right where they would have no effect whatsoever. I wouldn’t even be able to move them lower to where the obstacles were! And when you won coins to actually do something with the garden, it was for stupid things like merely calling someone or setting up a tea meeting? I want to decorate a GARDEN, not entertain guests? I wasted SO much time on this game for nothing. I thought it’d be a fun easy game to play on my free time to relieve some stress, but honestly, it gave me more stress than I already had! I will be deleting! If you’re thinking about downloading this game, have fun being stuck on a level for 500 years and then getting no reward anyway!

Bring the old world back. I have had this game since 2017 and I’ve noticed that this game has changed a lot it became more harder to beat each level and not speaking of movement what’s that! Only 17 movements per level some levels are impossible to win and you get stuck for days on one level. Getting less coins by beating levels, by completing one task now I have to spend 4 stars to 5 stars really this game is getting so bad that I can’t even enjoy the game anymore and the side games are getting boring noting different, also we stopped getting our treasure chest instead we’re getting the hat which doesn’t gives much boost, also we stopped getting sales on the golden ticket I remember the price wasn’t that high nobody is gonna spend 9.99$ for the golden and not even getting any sales. When first time I started playing this game it was amazing lots of fun, many different side games but now I’m considering on deleting the game since is no longer that enjoyable so much years on playing this game and now by each update it’s getting so bad, please mind this review and fix that thank you… I gave 5 start only for people can see my review

Ridiculous!. I really like this game, and I don’t want to stop playing it, but it’s so ridiculous! I’ve been stuck on one level for two days, and it’s driving me crazy! I’ve seen other reviews of people who have been stuck on one level for over a week sometimes like come on that’s ridiculous. Some of the levels are so unforgiving, and unfair. How are you supposed to make your goal if the darn game barely gives you any matches? So you’re just stuck there wasting turns until you fail. You don’t get enough coins to really do anything. There’s so many dumb things to do that requires stars, which you also don’t get a lot of. This game honestly just wants to drain all your money. It doesn’t give you any other way to try and progress by being stingy on coins, stars, and power ups. Want to win this level better pay $5 for it just to get stumped on the next one and pay more, and more. I really liked this game, but I can’t, and won’t pay an arm and a leg to play a phone game. Also the fact that each life takes 30 min to fill up! How are you ever going to get anywhere like that! I also don’t understand the stupid safe mechanic? So I have coins that I earned, and can use, but I have to buy them from you!? That’s like if I had to buy my own money! It’s stupid, and unfair! I’m about to delete this game because it honestly makes me want to throw my phone with how dumb all of this is!

Fix your ads, man 🥲. This is… the most misleading game I have ever seen. I like puzzles like, well, probably anyone else who downloaded the game, but I personally do not like the matching puzzles. The ads consistently show only one minigame, the one with the keys. It’s the one where you have to get the money to the girl or the coal to the fire or the dog to the guy. It even advertises that you can pick the next level, when the minigame is randomly generated every time you enter it and one puzzle will repeat more than three times after playing 8 minigames or so. The false advertising does attract downloaders, but it also loses a lot of them immediately (for example, me). Users like to know what they are signing up for and the actual functions of the game. I remember that before downloading the game, I genuinely could not figure out why it was called “Gardenscapes” if all the puzzles shown in the ads have nothing to do with… well… gardens. That’s how bad the false advertising is. The game is mostly making a garden using points, dialogue, and the matching puzzles like Candy Crush x10 and appear much more often than the one with the keys, the one people actually download the game for. Thank you for reading my rant, and if you are a fan of the game, you probably think I am a mindless hater trying to sound mature. And if you haven’t downloaded the game, then now you know what to look out for. Have fun and have a good rest of your day :D

Many super hard levels now. Coming back to add to this, the Challenge levels are TOO HARD. They should not make you lose all your hard earned power ups like during Treasure Hound. Newer levels are just entirely too hard and I’m often stuck on a level for a very long time. The game is just stressful now. I also miss the events that you could earn an entire house and main garden new theme. Like for holidays. I seriously do not need any more animals or these other event things that take up space. I’ve been playing this game for years. I am over 13,000 levels in, and the newer levels are entirely too challenging and force you to either use boosters, replay the level like 40 times and hope you get lucky, or buy extra moves. Everytime they do Treasure Hound it’s hard enough to get to the top booster tier, and then they hit you with an impossible challenge level and you lose all your hard earned boosters. It’s so frustrating. I bought the recent even Golden Ticket for the Koala and couldn’t even get close to the end. I used to be able to find those with some effort, but Icould not even get close to the end of this one. Some levels I get stuck on for days and have to do over and over and over just to maybe get lucky and get the right combination of pieces. It’s extremely disappointing.

Game can quickly become a money pit. Only gets 2 stars because this game is deliberately designed to quickly become a money pit. Decorating the garden should be fun, but this game is designed to frustrate the hell out of any player unwilling to spend real cash to buy coins which are required for everything from Austin’s (lazy butler) chores to answering the stupid phone and feeding the dog. DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS GAME! If you purchase coins, they won’t go far because the stupid match puzzle crap you’re required to play and beat will consume your coins in no time. Each puzzle level is designed to require more moves than a player is given to eliminate obstacles to: find gnomes (there are always too many), get rid of acorns, collect specified items (fruit, water drops, etc). Each level increases in difficulty, but the rewards DO NOT increase, nor do the boosters, etc. needed to play the higher, more difficult levels. If you have a physical or learning disability, this game is literally impossible to play and advance in because the stupid puzzles are too difficult to manage. Pity the developers didn’t make this game more user friendly for individuals with physical or learning challenges by providing advancement options to complete other than the stupidly difficult and unrewarding puzzles. ☹️ DELETING GAME...won’t waste money on it and refuse to waste time on stupid online forums plowing thru drivel looking for shortcuts and hints.

Game. This game is one of the best games I've ever played!! It lets you help Austin (the butler) renovate and grow his garden!! Yeah sure sometimes the levels do get so annoying that i ignore the game for almost several months, but thats the ONLY reason i gave it a four star. In this game, there are rarely ANY ads! (Also, i tried putting a four-and-a-half star but it just wouldn’t let me). One thing that i like about this game is that if you are a gardener who wants to make their garden look better than it already is, this game is perfect for you 😊😊🙂. And if you are more like a indoor house person who wants to make their house look better than it already is, i highly recommend playing Homescapes because homescapes is basically the same game as Gardenscapes just its renovating and making the HOUSE look better than it already is. Also, in both of these games, after you reach a certain level, you’re allowed to either join or create a team. If you join a team you can chat and interact with people you’ve never met before.(of course you have to interact through your chats in the chat box.). If you create a team you have got to name it, describe it, choose a logo out of the options they give you, and confirm and hope people join. I hope you like this game!!! Good luck!🍀 👍🏻 have fun!!😉😀😀😊😄🥳

Update to last coment (update again). Went back in to beat the level again, only to have it crash, again!!! Thats twice on the same level, making me lose another bomb booster and 900 coins along with it! That is now two bomb boosters, 3,000 coins, and two lived your game has cost me in less than 30 minutes on only one level because of crashes. Im really frustrated right now, please help! Update: Not sure if this was a response to my last review but i did end up getting 2000 coins from the developers a few weeks ago which was nice of them (though this was months after I posted my review and I cant find any sort of response from them)! The game doesnt crash anymore at the end of a level which is great! though the levels are still frustratingly hard at times that makes me quit while playing. One question though with the new update it wants you to try out the golden ticket for free, while that is nice of them to let us, id prefer not to and just go the normal path, but its not letting me say no, is there anyway to forego this cause im unable to claim any stage prize unless i try the golden ticket. other than that the game has improved and is becoming more fun to play, hence it getting bumped up to 4 stars 😁

Transaction heavy. The previews for the game are misleading and imply that you will play more interesting pin puzzle games and see additional story plot points. However, mini game levels are rarely available and are not as interesting as the mini games in the preview. Also, huge problem is that the updates have removed fun elements of the game—-dog training game that offered powerups for each stage of completion, more free power-ups between levels, free lives have been removed from the spin wheel, quests to unlock interesting decorations are rare and have shorter durations than the golden ticket quests. Also, most new decorations are gaudy and uninteresting. There is no way to see old quests to try to get the good decorations. They also removed the in-game cash that let you apply different decorative styles to the treehouse, maze, and other areas. Most people on my peer teams buy the golden ticket everytime—-the game heavily promotes this $5 purchase mechanic over other ways of enjoying the game. And since the dog training, cat courtship, cake layer, and scarf making games for earning free powerups have been removed, the game becomes more of a slog to try to beat levels without any free powerups. Congrats to the developers for removing the most fun elements out of the game in favor of profit.

Addicting but has major flaws. I started out LOVING this game. I’d always play whenever I needed something to do to pass the time. However, once you get into the upper levels (1000+), they barely give you enough moves to beat it without using power ups or buying more moves making it a pay to play game. You’ll be stuck at the same level for 1+ week trying to beat it. I noticed that if you quit and don’t play for awhile, they’ll give you power ups when you return and make that same level instantly beatable. I understand they need to make some levels more difficult but basically being locked out of the game for 1+ week is ridiculous. Another thing I dislike are those super hard levels (with 300 gold reward) are virtually impossible to beat and we have no option of skipping it. When I get to a level like that, I always lose my streak with power ups. But that’s probably their intention. One last flaw I’d like to point out is that we win unlimited lives a lot but there’s no way of deciding when to use them (ie you can win 2 hours unlimited lives but have to stay playing for 2 hours or else you’ll waste it). There were so many times when I only had 15-20 minutes to kill and I would get 2 hours unlimited and have to let that go to waste.

Stupid. I genuinely hate this game. I played it religiously. I’m over level 4,000 and have never spent a dime, but I have to say this game really puts a downer on my moods and happiness. I was playing this game every single day and I would get so mad. They purposely mess with your games so you can’t pass levels, so you have to use your boosts, coins, etc. and you still can’t pass certain levels until the game decides you’ve wasted enough of your life on it. I stopped playing for MONTHS and was very happy. Found some other games that actually want you to be happy and have fun and enjoy the holiday decorations. So I logged back into this game for the holidays because they come out with decent decorations and guess what, I’ve played the game for a couple of days and I remember exactly why I hate it. The amount of bells, or pumpkin coins , etc that you need to get the specialty items to make your garden cute and special is RIDICULOUS and OF COURSE they still mess with you so it’s a nightmare to get ANYTHING. I am DONE with this game and wish I could get my life back that I wasted being unhappy with this stupid game. I would rather play a game that wants you to be happy and enjoy playing and that rewards you and even gives you a break for the holidays so at least during that time of the year you can enjoy the game. But that’s not how this game works. They want you to spend money regardless of what their little “automated comment response” says. This game doesn’t want happiness. Don’t give them your money they don’t deserve it.

Disappointed. I’ve been playing this game for years off and on. I saw an ad that they added in the mini scape games (e.g. Rescue Austin’s date) and decided to restart it again. Well I have yet to see one of these mini games pop up so I checked google to see if I was missing something. Turns out I’m not, it’s an unethical bait and switch tactic. In the UK these ads were banned but I guess it’s ok for it to continue in the US. As it relates to the ACTUAL game, it’s a matching game like candy crush. Playing leads to stars and stars lead to garden design. It’s pretty straight forward and plenty of opportunities to make it easy without spending real money (e.g. bumper crop tournaments). It is addicting and like I said, when I realize I’m spending too much time I take a break. UPDATE: I am so tired of this games messed up algorithm. I have tried for 5 days to beat one level. Pay money to get extra moves and then get an easy level in which I saw one after the other of the algorithm intentionally preventing me from getting winning moves. For example, the lily pads that rotate and 3 are a match, but the algorithm instead makes it to where the pieces fall a way that intentionally prevents that match when the entire game play it never moved pieces like that. I am just incredibly frustrated with how this game has gone. Continuous advertising to recruit friends, I do that and don’t even get they aware for doing so. So you Playrix can cancel my requests because I am deleting the game and writing this review on the App Store.

FRUSTRATING!!!. At one time, many moons ago, I gave this game 5 stars. It was such a fun game and I played 3-4 times a day. I’m not sure what has happened in recent updates, but I cannot play this game anymore without being kicked out every time the screen changes. It takes 2-3 minutes to load the game and once I get in, I get a reward and then booted. I might get to play one game and then I get kicked out. Every time any characters have dialogue, I get to read about one sentence and then booted. I used to be able to play with my friends and receive lives from them; but not any more. I can give lives to other players on my team, but I can’t give them to my sister because her requests aren’t showing up. I have purchased golden tickets in the past because they were a lot of fun. If something isn’t done to fix the problems, I will be done with the game. I cannot compete or complete any races or other reward games. I know I am not the online person with these problems. I see A LOT of people going through the same aggravation on the Gardenscapes Facebook page. These issues have been going on for at least 5 months. Can someone at Playerix please tell me how to fix these issues? I have deleted and reinstalled. I have cleared cache. I have removed other games to keep this one. HELP.....!!!

Please fix rocket/firecracker priorities. I love this game and have been playing it for several months. I’m around the 1700 level mark and I have to make a complaint. The firecracker rocket things (the icon is a colorful cluster of three of them together) are normally supposed to go after crates or firefly jars, things you need to clear the level. But what’s frustrating is to be down to the last turn and I make a match with one, which should clear the one last crate or item.... and instead the stupid things go after a piece of fruit or leaf with a renovation ticket vs the thing I needed to complete the level. This is especially infuriating when I’ve got all the extra power ups from the treasure chest like the extra turns, bombs etc but then because the stupid rockets go after the ticket instead of the needed item to clear the round I end up losing and because I don’t have 900 coins left I loose the treasure chest items. This keeps happening and it’s super frustrating. If the rockets are supposed to help you clear times needed to finish the level then have it do that 100% of the time. I would rather finish the level than get tickets... which I lose anyways for losing the level so it make absolutely no sense at all. Otherwise I love the game. I hope you can fix this issue.

AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!!!!. This is clearly and obnoxiously one of the most dishonest apps you will find. I downloaded this and played it for quite a while, and never got to those interesting looking puzzles that they have advertised. It’s just one of those stupid games where you, in this case, have to build a garden. That seems to be it! You have to watch this stupid soap opera videoAnd you have to just do whatever they say for several minutes so that you can finally get to another “puzzle”. And of course, you never get to an actual puzzle, you just get different versions of the same boring game like Bejeweled. If you wanna play that game just go to that app. Otherwise you have to sit around all day long building a garden so that every 30 minutes or so you get to play a very low interest level of a Bejeweled. Furthermore, they have a clever a little trick in their reviews. It seems to me that it was the makers of this dishonest, possibly even fraudulent, incredibly boring “game”, Who gave it a stunning review. And guess what else! For me to leave my review after I left a one star, which is way too good to give to this app, but they don’t allow for ZERO STARS, The app kept shutting me down after entering just a few letters. I was able to use my Messages app to write this and cut and paste it instantly. It’s a shame that we have to do such things because of extremely dishonest scummy people out there. So believe me when I say, avoid this app at all costs. It’s the most boring and dishonest scam I have ever seen

My favorite phone game. I've been playing this game now for definitely over a year and it has come such a long way. It used to be SUCH a pay-to-play and the levels were impossibly hard so you felt hopeless. But it was the beautiful visuals and the cute storyline that kept me playing. As I got to later levels and the developers fixed all the little kinks in it, it's now arguably perfect. They have provided easier ways to get coins than just by winning levels, like a daily wheel spin, the introduction of "hard levels" (give you double the coins but really aren't often any harder than regular levels), frequent mini events that provide additional coins, power-ups, or even infinite lives for a period of time. Love it love it. My only complaint is that I wish I could put that time limit for infinite lives on hold in some way. I can't tell you how many times I've just thought to maybe play a couple games during a break at work or right before bed.. and then those are the times I hit jackpot 😰 One time during an event I went all the way to the top and got 8 hours total of infinite lives right before bed and ended up staying up all night because I didn't want to waste it. I was dead at work the next day.

Fun at first, impossible in advanced levels. If you’re just starting out, this is a fun game. The longer you play, the more apparent the money grab aspect of the game becomes. Advanced levels (I’m on level 3234) are frustrating and often times nearly impossible to beat. I’ve been stuck on some levels for weeks. At first I figured that the levels were totally randomized and I just wasn’t getting boards that i could beat. But the interesting thing is, if you are stuck and stop playing for a while, the game will generate a message saying to come back and try the level you’re stuck on and suddenly, the board will generate what you need in order for it to be passable. Obviously, then, it’s not totally random. And since all of the in game events are limited time, advanced players with difficult levels don’t have a chance to complete these events in time. I have made the mistake of paying actual money for items in this game, but I encourage others to avoid doing so. I’ve contacted the developers when my progress has mysteriously disappeared, or when game aspects (like the colored rockets) appear to have a glitch. Nothing is ever fixed, progress is never recovered, and their “compensation” for their mistakes does not involve returning the money you wasted on their broken game. Save yourself frustration and time and play Township, which is a much better game from these same developers.

Changed The Game To a Money grab.. I first played this game about two years ago, I was flying through the levels, very much enjoying the game, then took a break around level 150. I recently got back into the game, now I’m stuck on level 412, it’s a “super hard” level but, without any boosters or pay to continues its entirely impossible, unless you are super lucky and get a tnt every move you make. But let’s be real. From the previous time I was into this game I managed to save up over 30,000 coins because I could make it through levels without having to use all of my coins to get more boosters or moves. I’m now at 2,000 because it’s almost impossible to get through some of the harder levels without boosters. I decided to look up the level I’m stuck on to see if people are also having a difficult time with the level, and to my surprise, a video from two years ago had 10 more moves at the beginning of the level!! Not to mention, the bonus moves you can get during the level have decreased in the amount of moves you receive, and one is entirely missing. Now the game is spamming me to “buy more boosters!” “buy more lives!” “buy more coins!”“buy the pass to receive boosters!” It’s sad what they slowly turned this game into. The game used to be very good, now it’s completely turned me, and many other people off. Revert the levels to how they used to be, and the game will be enjoyable again.

Favorite game :). I downloaded the game based on the click bait of a story line where you are given the options to save the girl, save the house from burning, etc. The actual game is nothing of the sort. I also noticed that the game will cheat you to try and get you to spend money. If I’m stuck on a level that I’ve lost 20 times, I won’t log on for several days and all of a sudden when I come back, I have “welcome back” rewards, and I can beat said level in 6 moves. That is so annoying. The challenge level is actually perfect for me, not too easy but not too hard. No one would play a game with zero challenge. The reward wheel is annoying too. I’ve played for quite a long time now and have hit jackpot one time. Almost every other time I get rainbow blast, but never anything else that could be helpful. Overall, this is a fun game to pass the time but it could definitely use some improvements. It IS very visually appealing, and I love the calming music and sound effects. I also love Austin’s borderline creepy personality and positivity. One last thing that I like is that there are no pop up ads and those type of annoyances. I’m the type of person that will spend a few dollars on a game if it is fair and if I feel that the devs deserve it FOR being fair.

It’s silly but it’s fun. The puzzles themselves are good, they’re difficult sometimes but all of them are possible to beat without wasting any bonuses or spending your money. I’ve played it for a couple of years now on and off and without having paid a dime I got really far. I finally bought a small package of coins just because I enjoyed the game enough I wanted to support the creators. I figured I should leave a review, too. The plot is thin and just over all silly but... it’s meant to be. Really, you just don’t think about why you need to play a puzzle to earn a point to get the butler to answer the gate. You don’t think about why a helicopter is free to use for dropping off things and picking up trees. None of that matters, it’s just a silly thing the creators added in to make it fun to earn points from puzzles. He says cute things in between and I’m fond of him, despite the fact that he doesn’t like cats... not sure I could ever agree with you there, Austin, but I like the cat addition in their Homescapes game (even though he seems to have forgotten how much he disliked cats... or about the garden and dog too?) Like I said, you just don’t think about it too much. Thanks to the creators for a fun puzzle game, looking forward to more!

Relaxing game.... I really enjoy playing this game, great graphics, challenging puzzles, customizable settings, cute storylines and I enjoy playing after work or when I have some free time. Things I would tweak: Austin is a gardener...not a butler (picky, but it just annoys me 😉), to move along faster in the game you need to purchase boosts (I no longer do this, so it just takes much longer to get free boosts), the 1 daily free spin is appreciated but the game needs more opportunities to get boosts, and finally the stars...you need to solve 1 puzzle to earn 1 star. Depending on what you are trying to accomplish (clean an area, plant a tree, renovate an architectural structure), the game requires so many stars for each task. Many times the required stars are more than what I think is reasonable, or they break the task up into 2 or even 3 parts (meaning even more stars). Finally, the special events like transforming the mansion or a part of the garden for the holidays (Christmas, Halloween...) have a time limit, but no break on the number of stars or an increase in coins to “purchase” more boosts. Towards the very end of the event the game will double the stars or coins, but almost too late unless you play constantly. So overall I would recommend the game, but for casual play & relaxing and don’t get caught up in trying to go thru it quickly.

Enjoyable game. I had to put this at the highest ranking I could in order for the team to see it and acknowledge. There have been a lot of game apps advertising for things they just don’t do. I can live with that as disheartening that it can be. But to me it seams that they keep aiming more and more for the shock factor as time goes by. First we are seeing the woman getting cheated on or her husband leaves her because she shows him a pregnancy test. Then it is the man cheating on her as she is watching from the side lines with their child. Then she is watching from the side lines with their child AND she is pregnant. Then the other scenario is where the man is with the other woman kicking out the wife sometimes keeping the child from her or sometimes kicking the kid out too. In the ending scene the freeze to death. But today I have SEEN IT ALL this time the woman finds a baby in THE DUMPSTER! Are you seriously kidding me right now? Is there a level you won’t stoop to? When I see this type of ads for games I actually play. I delete them. You should be ashamed at how desperate you are to get your games noticed. They were already noticed and enjoyed until you jumped on this bandwagon.

Every update has made this game worse. I use to love this game, I was someone who spent money pretty regularly on this game but as of the last year or so they’ve removed the daily wheel, lowered the bonuses you received, changed the algorithm of the puzzles, and as of this last update they’ve made you lose all power ups if you save and quit I really can’t see a reason to play the game. The developers have changed the game in hopes to make you frustrated enough that you spend money while also upping the prices of the purchase bundles and giving you less rewards for real money spent. Ive easily spent $1,000+ over my 6 or so years of playing this game, I had no problem spending $5 a month for events or $0.99 for 1000 coins and one of each power up here and there. I know the developers put money into the game but whoever is in charge of the prices now is killing the game. New people aren’t flocking to gardenscaps. The people who spend money are the people like me who have been playing since the game came out and no one wants to play anymore. I know it’s just a silly little game but so many of us really loved it and it was a fun game to play! Everyone loved Austin and our gardens but it’s just not fun anymore, everything is so money focused. If you read this far don’t waste your time on this washed up game. Maybe they’ll listing to all the bad reviews and change but I doubt it. Know your audience. That’s all I have to say.

Fabulous beautiful EXPENSIVE Russian game. TOO EXPENSIVE!!!!! Please read!. Update. Please read all latest and recent reviews at 1 star level. We are trying to warn new players!! I am blocking this Russian developed game via screen time feature on IPhone. Google this to learn how. New update is robbing long time players!! So I have spent about $300 to play since Level 800. There many thousands of Levels apparently beyond 10k levels! Hints: Got to Level 750 without paying or joining a team. -Absolutely join the best team you can find or you will not progress much past this. Lame teams are not worth your money or time. -Believe me that you will pay and pay after Level 1100. -Yes. It is incredibly addictive. Impossible to delete off your iPhone no matter how much you wish to. -Gets repetitive after level 1200. Tough to find a team who will cooperate in playing. Teams must also pay a lot to progress as each team member must pay money for each challenge. -Super Hard levels as they are called are nearly impossible or entirely impossible to win unless you have all the available extras only achievable through paying for extras. More money. Sometimes you get about a half hour free play which is so exciting but be prepared to pay big time after that. These developers know what they’re doing with your money!!! -Do the Math!!! The so-called energy and power up deals are not very good. You will need multiple deals per game scene to progress!! Lovely game if you can give Russian developers your hard earned cash. Would you pay $300 for a game in a store? I did over about 3 months BUT I’m deleting. Forever. NOW!!!

Great game but…….. I really like this game and the team events and many other aspects the game has to offer. I will say there are some very frustrating things about the game that I personally feel would make the game so much better if they were fixed. One such example is Challenge Levels. It’s a bit frustrating that losing these levels costs you any progress you’ve made in acquiring boosts like Magic Hat and Super Rainbow Blasts. Often times these levels are almost impossible to win, they can’t be skipped, and again, losing costs you all progress. In my experience with the game, it feels unfair that these levels almost always show up at the worst times. Like within one or two levels of acquiring a Super Rainbow Blast. You have to beat ten levels to get the SRB only to lose it one level later. Maybe it’s just my luck, but that happens pretty consistently for me. I personally think losing a Challenge Level should not cost you anything OR it should be skippable - again - at no cost. Just a thought. Once again, this is a great game that I enjoy and have shared with friends and family. Great job, Devs! Thanks for putting this game together and allowing all of us to enjoy it! 😊

Give me a break. I’ve been playing this game quite a while. I’m at level 1803. Decorating the gardens is fun. But at the higher levels it gets difficult to win. I’m not talking playing 3 or 4 games, I mean it’s common to play over a week before the game finally settles into a pattern that is winnable. I won’t ever buy boosters because of this. Even using all three boosters won’t win a game until the algorithm time is up. When I get tired of this, I put the game aside for a month, and when I come back they shower me with extra boosters and bonuses and make the game winnable for a while. All this is extremely frustrating, but to add to the frustration, they’ve now added the lucky ticket booster which gives players an extra 3 moves. The question I have about this, is the game now winnable every time for the ticket holders, and therefore never winnable for the people who haven’t bought a ticket? Based on my observation, 3 moves wouldn’t help me win half the time, although it might help once in a while. So even spending $4.99 players will still have to buy coins to get additional moves. I will still play the game, I am interested in finishing the garden, but I play randomly, and have moved onto other games. Homescapes doesn’t have the same difficulties, but they tend to have unwinnable games also, they don’t keep them unwinnable for as long. Lily’s Garden seems to have the perfect balance between difficult and winnable. I know that revenue is a must, but I refuse to spend mine unless I get something that I know would work, and in this game, it’s a waste.

Starts off ok. The idea of this game is great . It was really fun at first . As others have said as you get higher up in levels you need to have power ups to beat the levels to get coins to do anything in the game . However you can’t get power ups without having coins and you need to beat the levels to get coins lol so it’s a circle you can’t get out of unless you purchase power ups from the app. Also because the shapes fall “randomly” there are not always moves to make and the computer re shuffles the shapes . This messes up the game because many times you are trying to play to get shapes in order they they are shuffled . The explosives help a lot but you need to match 4 shapes in a row and many times you can do 20 to 25 moves which is all the moves you get and you won’t get 4 shapes in a row . The game is absolutely designed for the makers to get you to buy coins and power ups and lives . I am around level 45 and think I will be erasing the game . I’m sure once others play more they will do the same . If your quick to review a game I would have given this 5 stars at first but after sometime of playing ...... no thanks .. I’ll keep my cash and you keep your coins lol

Gardenscapes. When i fist started the game it was so fun until I got to the higher levels then it started taking longer and longer to complete a level so now it may take several days to get through a level sometimes I can’t get through it and the Frustration sets in and I pay money to get boosts to get through it. They have challenges where you can earn boosts but some of those are very hard and I can’t get through them either just to get the boosts to go to the next level so it makes the challenge useless to me as far as getting boosts to get through to the next level. I have decided to quit several times because I can’t get to the next level without paying money to get boosts they never give enough time or give you enough moves for a lot of the challenges. I’m getting very close to stopping playing this game completely if something doesn’t change soon I feel like I could’ve bought this whole game with all the money I put into it ( dummy me). I’m at level 740 So you know I love play the game it’s fun when you don’t have to spend several days trying to get through level. That’s when the frustrations starts. Like I said I love playing the game I just don’t like having to pay real money to get boosts Just to get through a level that I have worked on for several days. There is another game similar to this game, (This company makes) I have been looking at that i will not start it it because I’m gonna be in the same boat. I would not tell my friends to join this game is very addictive and I have payed a lot of money just to progress through the levels. I am going to quit very soon. Bottom line the game is fun but very frustrating and costly.

Quirky. You can tell when the developer is trying to get you to spend money because you get stuck on certain levels and cannot get anywhere for quite some time. I’ve actually had bombs and explosives disappear to make the level harder. I have spent money on this game I have purchased extra specials and promotions. However I don’t think it’s fair to be targeted all the time to spend money. It is a good game and it is entertaining but it’s not worth spending more than a few bucks on every month. I would actually pay a subscription every month if I knew they would not manipulate the game to make it harder to try to get you to spend money. **Deleted for good. This 2020 Christmas I was excited about this game and filling my time in quarantine. But NO. The app developer decided to revoke moves on the hardest of levels leaving me and others who are complaining online, the inability to beat a level for days. I can understand being tasked for 15 tries to beat a level, but not 100’s. You know it’s fairly rigged when you get one move away from beating it, but fail, over and over. How obvious can you get? People pay good money when they feel like THEY ARE WINNING in this messed up world! You’re missing the point. I don’t feel like every level should be won immediate but when your pumping Christmas decor and “40% off” boosters, it goes hand in hand that the developer would skew the probability to beat the level to sublimely coax you into purchasing those discounted boosters. It’s the way of the world. It’s the Pez dispenser mentality.

Not my favorite .(I say Home scapes is better ). Don’t get me wrong I like the game invite but every time it won’t give me the right moves to play or you know how it is and then the stuff cost way too much on the game way way too much . I like the game to staff and I can , you can do the Guardian and all that kind of stuff but the game itself is really boring it’s like kind of want to those games where you have to do something but it what are you do it until it want you I like the game to staff and I can you can do the Guardian and all that kind of stuff but the game itself is really boring it’s like kind of want to those games where you have to do something but it won’t let you and that gets on my nerves a lot that I’m not trying to put everything down on this game I’m just trying to say that I am only play it when I have to this is my writing I gave it to because it was really that good to me I’ll be with him I did I don’t wanna but you down or then I like all your things that I get that but for me the game is just not what I expected to get one I saw the ad I was like oh this is going to be fine but guess what it’s not how do you like my interview and didn’t feel you know all about Lala blah that about it is I really like game is yes it has some things in it that I wish I could change I just want to tell people who made this thing that I need some changes or some updates.

Missed it by one. As others, I came by this game due to the misleading ads. That’s not the only thing wrong with this game. As for not spending a dime and enjoying this game, you would have to be a zen master not to get frustrated. You can play free, of course, but be prepared to play the same level many many many many times before you get a glimmer of hope. And this is where I think the game is rigged. There were too many, way too many, times where my moves were at 0 but I still had one thing to collect/destroy. Butterflies appearing only after I made my last move, a firecracker appearing just after your last move, etc. That tactic is used to get you to press that continue button and spend 900 coins. What??? You don’t have 900 coins because you just used all your coins on power ups for the very hard level and breeze through that to find that the next regular level is harder than the vey hard level? That’s how they get you. Tempt you to press that button to get more coins. So my take is unless you have a trust fund or have the patience of a zen master, steer clear of this game. I’m at level 1637 and been stuck there for a couple of days now because I had to use 3 sets of power ups to get past a normal level. Yes that’s 9 power ups for a normal level. Go figure. I can’t be a zen master anymore. I’m deleting this game. Same goes for Homescapes. Same problem same company.

I will literally never delete this game. I have had this game for three years, and I love it more than any other game I have ever downloaded. I love how many things austin can say. The graphics are amazing! I like how when ever you click on something it makes a noise, like if you tap bush is makes a like bush sound or if you click on ice it makes an ice clinking sound. The sheer effort they put into the little social page you can click on is so cute, like im sure not too many people look at it, but its always there, ya know? I love gardening in real life, and I love gardening in the game too, its just so green and lush I love it. If I get to a hard level, I may just stop playing for a few months, but in the end I will always come back. I love my dog (his name is goose!), and how sometimes theres those little training levels. I love the background music its so calming. I do wish there was a way, if you truly needed to, to skip a level like maybe a special ticket thats only available from the treasure chest on the daily wheel. Im 17 years old (female) and my friends sometimes make fun of me for playing it and they call me an old lady but I dont care, I will play this game as long as it exists. I dream to one day finish my beautiful garden alongside my trusty butler, Austin:)

Addicting, Love it! But.... This game is so much fun, I LOVE playing it on my free time. However, I have to agree with everyone else that thinks the game could be more fair. These puzzles aren’t easy, some get very difficult the higher the levels. More should be rewarded to us when we win, not just one star & 50 coins? It’s ridiculous, because this game is a great addictive game. Also, I don’t understand why it has to cost so much coins when we run out of turns, seriously 900 coins for the first second chance & it just keeps going higher. Why can’t it be 100 coins, because when we pass we don’t get rewarded enough! It’s just isn’t fair to the players who really want to win so we have to throw some actual money away to buy turns when the game isn’t giving us enough. One more thing, is that when a level consist of stuff like the flowers or having to get 8-10 cups more turns should be given to us, it’s hard & it doesn’t make sense to have less turns then what you’re asking us to collect, if that makes sense. Please, I hope you guys read this! I hope some major modifications are taken into notice because this game could be even more great! It gets tiring to struggle, & you’ll lose customers. Please, again just take some notice, fix these little things! Thank you for you time!

Help..... I have been playing this game for a while. I’m currently on level 968. It is a fun game that I feel is practical. It does have its challenges but it never gets to the point where I feel like a have to give up because I can’t beat a level or what not. And I love that they always have little mini promos. Which also come in handy if you feel stuck on a level. Like gaining power ups when you win games and the daily wheel and other things to get power ups and coins. Unfortunately I am having an issue with the renovation tickets. My ticket balance is 33. And when I beat a level, let’s say I win 10 tickets for the level I won, my balance will show that I only had 23 tickets and the ten tickets won are added to the balance keeping my ticket count at 33. I’ve even seen it give me a negative balance if I win more than 33 tickets on a level. I tried to write customer service but didn’t get a response. I have no update needed, so I’m not sure what to do. Now I don’t gain any tickets at all. The event just says “hurry up”. And I received a pop up on the game right before writing this about how you can get double the tickets for a limited time. But now I’m not showing that I am even given the option to win tickets. Outside of the tickets the game is amazing.

Used to be 5 stars until. …the most recent update. I’ve been playing this game for about a year or more and while some levels they don’t give enough moves and it’s always pushing you to spend money (I never do) it’s been a fun game. I mean there’s many things you won’t complete if you don’t spend $$$ to buy more of something in the mini games but whatever, I don’t care if I finish those or not. However, the most recent update is so frustrating! If you don’t win the level, the pop up used to have 2 options and even that was a problem as sometimes I’d hit the “900 coins for 5 more lives” option when I didn’t mean to instead of the “try again” option and now it’s so. much. worse! Now the pop up literally is just that one option and it’s way too easy to blow 900 coins on accident with an accidental tap. Very poor update. I always thought you should have to confirm you want to spend the coins, not the other way around. They need to fix this and put it back to the old way. Also, what’s with the 3 year old Fisher-Price looking power-ups now? As more and more updates and the constant ask for $$$, I’ve found I’ve played less and less so it will probably go by the wayside like all the other games that “improve” and make it worse to play.

Buyer Beware. You can play this game without having to pay for lives or boosts, but you will almost certainly experience extremely slow progress and repeated close calls where you almost complete a level, while they dangle the promise of getting through the level as merely a purchase away. There is constant pressure to make the in-game purchases as they auto enroll you in tournament after tournament, where you will only do well as long as you continue to buy additional coins (credits) and lives. And all of that may be fine if you are willing to make those purchases, but be aware that there will be no loyalty to you as their customer. Purchased credits are rapidly depleted as suddenly levels become more difficult to complete, squeezing you to continue making additional purchases. If you happen to encounter a bug with any of the levels, and attempt to wind through the confusing labyrinth of customer service questions and screens (talking to a bot most of the way), you will experience long lag times between responses, and the human on the other side will frustrate you by asking for information you have already provided. They do not stand behind their product, and they have no sympathy for their paying customers who encounter technical issues with their product. Customer service is virtually nonexistent. For me, that was the dealbreaker.

I love the gam, but…. This is actually my favorite game and I’ve been playing it for a few years. I enjoy the garden building as the motivator and reward for passing levels and I prefer this type of match 3 game. I like it better than their Homescapes game. However, the further you get into the game, the more and more money you have to spend to progress. Past a certain level, ads are no longer offered to earn gems so you have to spend a long time on levels that are giving you trouble, or pay for gems and powerups. In addition, they’ve added “seasons” which are about $5 per season. I’m willing to pay this, but that amount a month seems like a reasonable amount of money for them to be getting from me without making things so difficult that it requires more and more purchases. The challenge levels add insult to injury as they are designed to make you use all powerups and gems to pass this level to earn the rewards - I had better luck getting streaks without this “bonus” which causes you to lose your streak powerups. So, very soon I will have to stop playing this game. Just not comfortable putting this much money into a game.

Letting players know. I'm letting all of you know that think you have to pay to beat a level is not true. Yes you can pay for the coins and stuff if you want. But it's just a matter of trial and error. I'm on level 559 and have not spent a dime of real money. I only use the coins I earn and the prizes I win with the wheel and events, sometimes it doesn't work out and I don't beat it but it doesn't mean I have to pay to win, I spent weeks on a level before keep trying don't give up and when you finally get a good set up the satisfaction is greater when you win. I love this game with the storyline it brings. I love trying to guess the new area when the other is complete. Same thing goes for Homescapes both are amazing. (I'm on level 289 and spent no real money on it) Both games for all levels trial and error. Don't give up don't get frustrated. Support the developers by keeping the games. You can buy the sales offer. But just because you can't beat a level in a certain amount of days or weeks doesn't mean it's set up to where you have to pay to win. All levels in all games are made to be beaten without pay or upgrades. Paying to help doesn't mean you'll beat the level then. So don't get mad at the developers.

said it was the same in the ads. so they have lied to me and told me that it would be the same thing in the ad but no, I had to do the little puzzle things where you try to get the threes in the forest with the thingies like blocks those little green and blue blocks so that we will be trying to help the little girls and the daughter in the mom that was a lie literally helping a man with his garden garden, y’all lied to me and everybody else who watch this ad and got the game that’s why I give y’all a three star find the game was fun but we had to do stuff that I didn’t think we’ll be doing when I first started playing. I thought it was a scam. It was a scam, but then I actually tried to do the game. It was fine, but like in the ad, it said that we will be helping the little girl and her mom but we didn’t help the little girl and I felt that if you’re going to put up ad at least put up what it actually is and don’t lie to people but overall the game is fun. You do sometimes get the mini games but you don’t just get to the game and they show you how to do the mini games and stuff you have to play that little puzzle Thingand it’s not that I don’t like doing puzzles. I love puzzles but I just wish that it could’ve been like how it was in the game in the ads, so why is it not like it is in the ad

If you are looking for an honest review here it is. I have been playing this game for years, and when I say years I think it has been over 4 years that I have been playing this game. If you are looking for a well balanced game, look elsewhere. Challenge levels make the game almost impossible because you have such a slim chance of winning them. And when you build up those combo boosts from winning levels in a succession only to loose them on a stupid challenge level that was designed to be near impossible, it just ruins the whole experience. Hard and impossible levels have such a ridiculously small amount of moves that even with 5 starter combo boosts I lost the level 5 times in a row. It’s hard to get boosts, it’s hard to get money in this game and it’s even more annoying to wait for lives while you watch a 20 min boost you just got tick away. It’s not very well balanced, a lot of the levels are unfair and sometimes it’s better to drop the game for a few months so at least you get the welcome back bonus and actually have something to help you win the impossible levels. Overall, I would not recommend this game and say you look elsewhere so you too can avoid getting frustrated at the absolutely broken game mechanics.

Way too expensive to play. I actually really like this game but BEWARE! If you plan to be competitive and win challenges you will need to spend A LOT of cash to do that. Also, the game frequently seems to be glitchy VERY COSTLY GLICHES too. Example; items that usually will take 3-4 “hits” to destroy will glitches and require more hits to eliminate (I’ve counted more than 10. To me; this is deceptive & shady practice that certainly does not feel like a simple accident in the system. The creators are constantly upgrading the game which is great except that, with every upgrade comes higher prices and LESS for your money. And the goals to achieve bonuses and helpful tool increase so that it’s VERY RARE for the player to advance. My rate would be 4 stars but the SHADY PRICE GOUGING THAT GOES ON is really a shame. I’ll be dumping the game, there are too many other games and choices that are far more PLAYER FRIENDLY …. AND to help your fellow players they have such ridiculously low helps they allow daily (example; 3 cards sent and 1 card received per day? That’s nonsense and unfair to loyal players) way to screw over your customers. Maybe if the creators would make future updates to help their players have a more enjoyable experience that would be pretty awesome. Feels like WE are the enemy on this app sad REALLY SAD… TOO many other FUN GAMES out there that won’t bust your bank.. we are talking VERY EXPENSIVE! ! Oh And way too many advertisements.. ITS RIDICULOUS!