Love Island
Love Island: The Game offers engaging storylines and character interactions, but its heavy reliance on in-app purchases for essential choices, outfits, and even continuing gameplay significantly detracts from the experience, leading to widespread frustration among players.
Love Island: The Game provides an immersive narrative experience with appealing characters and plot twists, drawing players in with its interactive story. However, the game is frequently criticized for its 'pay-to-play' model, where most desirable choices, outfits, and even episode progression are locked behind expensive gem purchases or lengthy waits for free resources.
What users like
What users complain about
- Excessive gem requirements for desirable choices, outfits, and interactionsR2R3R5R13
- Limited and slow methods to earn free gems (e.g., 3 gems per ad, with long cooldowns)R1R4R5R11
- Long wait times for tickets to play new episodes (e.g., 2 hours for 1 ticket)R4R19R20R22
- Past purchases (outfits, choices) do not carry over to new seasons or replaysR24R36R85R126
- Repetitive storylines and character interactions across seasons, with declining qualityR3R23R28R49
- Forced ads that sometimes cannot be closed, leading to game resetsR6R133
- Lack of diverse gender and sexuality options, with forced male love interestsR14R37R39R58
- Technical issues like freezing, download problems, and unrewarded tasksR9R34R60R72
- Poor customer support for billing or in-game issuesR8R12R57
Latest update · v1.7.4
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
We've made some behind-the-scenes upgrades and improvements. Until next time, stay sun-kissed and drama-free!
Recurring themes
Who it's for
This game is for players who enjoy interactive story games with romance and drama, are fans of the Love Island TV show, and are willing to spend money on in-app purchases to fully experience premium choices and content R7R18. It is also suitable for those who don't mind waiting long periods for free tickets and gems R4R22.
Evidence note: The recent reviews heavily skew negative, primarily focusing on the aggressive monetization strategy and perceived decline in game quality. While the lifetime rating is high, the recent sentiment indicates a significant downward trajectory in user satisfaction, especially among long-term players.
Frequently asked
Is Love Island: The Game free to play?
How do you get gems in Love Island: The Game?
Do purchased items carry over to new seasons?
What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R7] LOVEE: Genuinely obsessed. Perfect amount of flirty and bold choices. Although can say I’m partial to spending gems and therefore money.
- [R18] I love this game: when i tell you this game got me addicted. i’ve spent wayyyyy too much money on this game..
- [R51] LOVE ISLAND: It is so good and investing and fun and I think I’m stuck in this
- [R56] Really really fun: Okay, this game is amazing. I love it so much and I’m also ways so invested in the plot, no matter which story I’m doing. They’re all so fun. Love to animations too. The only thing is the gems. It’s just so hard to get them without buying them and I don’t like to spend money on games. Yes we can watch ads which I do, but it gets real annoying, just watching a bunch of ads. And t
- [R14] Seems cool stuck playing as a woman though: I’d play it through if I wasn’t forced to play as a woman. The art is pretty cool, the hairstyles are great but that’s my only hang up aside from the diamonds system.
- [R45] Fun pastime: Enjoyable and visually appealing.
- [R52] no money no play: Love the art style and the story line as I feel it has alot of potential ONLY if you have diamonds. I was cool with watching the ads for 3 diamonds until it randomly stopped appearing on the app so the only way I can get diamonds is by spending money which I think is incredibly bogus as the free option disappeared. I do enjoy playing though but I have to stop because without the
- [R68] just for title: I really do like this game, way better than episode. All the characters are unique, you can date anyone you want, and choose whoever you want. And the drama I to live for the only problem I have is the diamonds.. I don’t like episode because of that reason. I did like that they give you diamonds when you first installed the game but it’s hard to keep things cheap when almost everyt
- [R2] I like the game: I enjoy the game I just don’t like that you have to spend diamonds on any of the good choices. Like give more options cause not wasting my money on a game like this.
- [R3] Cash grab game: This game is so money hungry and repetitive. It will have you spending diamonds on top of diamonds even if you JUST spent diamonds on a exclusive choice. It's the same format every. single. season. The same thing happens every single time in the same exact order. No matter what season you play. You barely get any diamonds. You don't even get a reward for playing a full season. Just
- [R5] so fun…until you need gems: i really have enjoyed playing this game, but there are so many things you need gems for. it’s impossible to be fun without them. the only way to get them without spending money is watching an ad or two every fifteen minutes for literally 3 gems. i really wish you didn’t need hundreds of gems to be successful in this game but you really do. it’s honestly a money grab.
- [R13] It’s okay: It’s a good game I love it it’s just the diamond problem. Questions you need diamonds for are usually (17,18,27) are more diamonds than we get each day so it forces you to pay for more diamonds just to get pretty clothes and sexy ect answers. I want them to bump up the diamond pay so every time you log in you get at least 20 diamonds every time you log in. Plus please make the spicy sc
- [R1] Development in diamonds: You should give 3 diamonds per day so it would be a little more fun to play
- [R4] My current thoughts on the gems and ticket systems: Love Island: The Game is amazing! However, I wish we could earn more gems like 5 or 10 instead of just 3 because outfits and certain choices are expensive. For example, an outfit costs 20 gems. While that is reasonable, it is hard to afford when you do not have enough. There should be a daily log-in reward to earn extra gems. Additionally, waitin
- [R11] Money gimmick: I would have gave this game 100% all Stars of course I love reading. It’s an interesting story. The problem that I have is I feel like reading and you love interesting stories. This game is put in place to keep you spending all your money constantly. They have no ads that you can watch to earn gems, let alone tickets and I’ve noticed I’m still stuck on unlocking seven scenes that sh
- [R19] Love it but there’s some discussions.: I really overall love this game a lot! It’s so entertaining and fun, but the thing I don’t like about it is that we don’t get as much diamonds, especially after I buy something, my diamonds become such a small amount. I also don’t like the fact I have to wait 2 hours for the tickets. I would much rather 1 hour and get in a day 4 tickets in total. I would love
- [R20] Tickets: I love the game just wish we could get more tickets than just 2 and we have to wait so long to get them
- [R22] uh: i enjoy the game don't get me wrong it's addicting like very addicting but it's hard to play when you have to wait 2 hours for a ticket to unlock the next episode like bro come on n if you want the 2 free tickets it's 4hrs i've already spent over $5 on the gems bec it only gives you 3 if you watch an ad every 10min n its like all the items cost gems n then the quests are also had to complete b
- [R24] Amazing, except…: I think it’s rude that I play through entire stories, pay for gems and buy outfits and gem events, but then if I start over to play through again you guys make me have to pay for all those gems AGAIN to buy outfits and gem events I already bought, AGAIN. 😒😞 why am I not allowed to keep what I’ve already paid for? 😤
- [R36] gem-purchased outfit items should transfer to other stories: i love this game but ive spent ~$45 on hairs, outfits, accessories and i wish it would be available for the next seasons because i dont want to be dropping $5 for every outfit and hair i want individually
- [R85] ☹️: it’s so fun but i hate that it’s so hard to get gems without paying!! also the fact that the clothes you’ve bought don’t carry into other story lines bothers me.
- [R126] Brutally Honest review: I cannot lie to u i spent well over i wanna say $100 on this game i really do enjoy it i love the stories and am enjoying the game. However, everything good is locked behind a paywall, u need gems for outfits hair and choices. This lowkey worse than early day episodes. I wish instead of having us pay for EVERY clothing item give us more options i completely understand wanti
- [R23] the downfall of fusebox: i’ve been playing this game since 2018 when they had the old version and released season 1. i have spent an embarrassingly large amount of money on here, and i used to be able to justify it to myself because of the value and quality of the writing. however, since fusebox has switched over and started releasing season after season after season of the same sloppy writing, st
- [R28] Awful: I am an OG player and I used to love this game. When you were erased seasons one through three and only stayed four through wherever the heck you are now. It’s so generic the graphics are horrible and it takes literally everything for Jess like you have to spend so much money and you’re not even taking into account the fact those of us who spent hundreds of dollars on the first three season
- [R49] Lost its charm: Used to be fun but now the company has become lazy with their interactions and hide everything good behind gems.
- [R6] fix your app: its fun but sometimes they wont let you close the forced ads. making you close out the game over and over again, resetting your process and having to do it again. fix it
- [R133] Why are your ads literally unskipable: Everytime I get a long ad I close your app and refuse to spend money.
- [R37] Consent MATTERS!!: Fusebox NO MEANS NO! N. O. Tell your AI that we are sick of having LI’s forced on us. We need the option to say we are NOT interested and then having the LI leave us alone!!! We are tired of the original LI’s being so pushy and please stop the love bombing!! It gives me instant ick no matter how much I liked the LI. They don’t have a connection when they just met last week! 🙄 P
- [R39] Smart People Not Allowed: cute game, but not super fun when you can’t be or date STEM people. is it unrealistic to want a STEM person in this stupid little game show? yes. do i want it anyway? yes.
- [R58] Sexuality: I wish I was able to try and date the girls or even for boys, if some guys wish to become a guy and date others of the same sex.
- [R9] cant download: ive been waiting for 5 hours for the storyline to download. it hasnt moved since 36% and the game will freeze of you exit the app. waste of my time
- [R34] Amazing game it’s js the gems and a bug: I literally love this game sm the thing is I don’t like that we get a specific amount of gems a day when some of us can’t afford that or js don’t feel like paying. Especially with all the cool clothes I wanna get and it cost gems to do the stuff I want in the game which affects my story line. Also there is a bug where for my tasks it doesn’t give me the gem
- [R60] In trouble: I spent my cons on hair for my character and now I can’t find the game this is crazy!!!!
- [R72] I love it: I love the game. I love all the plot twist, but my game was frozen for a little bit, but it’s OK. I still love the game.
- [R8] Ridiculous do not get: Do not get this app, if you have kids in house or little siblings make sure they don’t download this. my sister downloaded this game one night. She had a sleepover at my house. she used the app and bought some things off of it. now the app won’t stop charging my card. I reached out to the developers and they said they can’t help.
- [R12] Poor game support team and greediness: i recently started playing this 3 days ago, and within this time frame the option to see ads for gems disappeared 3x. contacted game support, they gave me the same copy pasted answer twice and haven’t fixed this ongoing problem. the game also asks for lots of gems just to do simple things like talk privately w your li or just for clothes. It’s a fun game that
- [R57] Review: Terrible. They take your money and ignore your choices and once you report it to feedback, they’ll ignore your concern for days.
- [R65] Smh: Why can’t we play as dudes?
- [R66] Pay to play: You HAVE to buy tickets to play the next episode. Like why do you have to send lots of money to play. But other than that the game is pretty good. You only get three free episodes then you have to pay so it’s basically useless.
- [R29] I like this game but…: The game is good but you have to watch so many ads just to get a few gems at a time and almost everything needs gems. And you can only watch 5 ads at a time to get 3 gems then you have to wait ten minutes before it shows up again and it only does that twice a day. Even when choosing your responses some of them cost gems. So basically I think they should do an update with get
- [R42] It is a great game but…: Ok I play this game all the time it is a really good game it is just the diamonds you can only get them twice but wait between them 9 minutes and if you use all of the watch add diamonds you have to wait until midnight for more but I love the story lines overall it is a great app
- [R44] Great game: This game is amazing. Though for 16+ it’s a bit boring. Overall it’s great. But having mainly everything gems is annoying. I wish we had a daily thing or something. And to watch an add for only 3 gems is sad. Especially having to wait 10 minutes before watching another ad.
- [R98] No option to play as a guy? >:(: Needs to be an option to play as a guy
- [R154] Plz make a change: Plz add where you can choose weather you want to be a boy or a girl I’ve been playing for so long and still have no option to be a boy
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store