Hay Day
Hay Day remains a beloved farming simulation game with a strong, long-term player base, but recent updates have introduced significant technical issues and design changes that are frustrating many users, leading to a negative trajectory in recent sentiment despite a high lifetime rating.
Hay Day is a long-standing, popular farming game known for its relaxing gameplay and social features, with many players enjoying it for years R5R13R82. However, recent updates have caused widespread issues, including loading problems, app crashes, and disliked design changes, which are negatively impacting the user experience R2R11R1R25.
What users like
What users complain about
- Frequent app loading issues and crashes, especially after updatesR2R11R17R21
- Recent updates introduce unwanted motion sickness-inducing animations and UI changesR1R25
- Newspaper is overwhelmingly filled with mining ore, making it hard to find other itemsR6R29R34R37
- Difficulty in obtaining diamonds and expansion materials without spending real moneyR5R26R34R51
- Players report losing diamonds or game progress due to glitches or account issuesR20R22R24R48
- Some players find the game overwhelming with too many events and activitiesR30R190R210
- Connectivity issues and video ads not playing correctly are common problemsR75R360
- Long build times and expensive machines/animals hinder progressionR51R330R342
- Issues with neighborhood leadership changes and being kicked out of communitiesR89R92R94
Latest update · v1.71.128
What the developer says changed (the verdict above weighs this against what reviewers report):
Hay Day is celebrating its 14th anniversary! Join the party with music, rewards, music festival decorations, and a series of very special events. Birthday celebrations - Create music, collect musical notes, and unlock music festival decorations. - Take part in special birthday events across the farm. - You can also turn the birthday music on or off in Settings. Boat Orders rework - We are testing a new version of the Boat Orders experience with a limited group of players so we can tune it before releasing it fully. - Choose where your boat sails, pick your challenge, and earn rewards your way. Beach Expansion - A new beach area by the Sanctuary will become available this summer. - You’ll be able to place your favorite beach and water decorations there! We’ve also made fixes and improvements across the farm, including updates to Seasonal Creatures, Choice Crates, events, rewards, and
Recurring themes
Who it's for
Hay Day is for players who enjoy relaxing, creative farming simulation games with social elements and minimal forced ads R5R14R72R83. It's particularly appealing to those who appreciate long-term progression and daily engagement R82. It is not for players who get motion sick easily, are frustrated by frequent technical glitches, or are unwilling to spend money to accelerate progress R1R2R9.
Evidence note: The sample of recent reviews skews significantly negative, with many users reporting critical bugs like the game not loading. This contradicts the lifetime rating and indicates a recent negative trajectory. While many positive aspects are mentioned, they are often overshadowed by these recent issues. The developer's notes mention a 'Boat Orders rework' which is explicitly called out as a negative change by users R25.
Frequently asked
Why is my Hay Day game not loading?
Are there too many ads in Hay Day?
Why is the newspaper full of ore in Hay Day?
Can you move entire farm designs in Hay Day?
Does Hay Day cause motion sickness?
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.
- [R5] Andi’s farm: LOVE the game❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ I have been playing with my cousins brother and friends since like 2019 and I love it. The best thing NO ADS!!!!! I just wish it was easier to get diamonds, other wise I think you should get it. And it’s great for all ages and easy to play!!!!
- [R14] I LOVE THIS!!!!: So I got this game ( cuz my parents recommended me it ) and I’m addicted to hayday!!! Also if you are reading and do not have hayday, totally get!! There’s not really adds. You only get adds when you have a treasure chest and free gift and you want more gifts ( the free gift is free so no adds for that ) overall no glitch or code rot!!! ( code rot is where there’s a really old gam
- [R80] Love hay day: been playing since i was a kid recently locked in n i love the game, never gives an ad unless u want an extra reward/etc
- [R83] One of the most calming games ever: The game is so fun you get to take care of animals. Feed them work at a farm help your friends out with their farm help people with their farms make Food and candles making food selling stuff. It’s just so fun.
- [R32] PLEASE BRING BACK THE COZY ANTHEM: this game is one of thee most amazing games I have ever stumbled upon. It has brought me and my friends even closer together than we already were. Hay Day unites families, friends, and communities. And what made that connection even stronger. The song. We loved the Joe Jonas Cozy Anthem and the game will never be the same without it. I have memorized every lyric
- [R82] Love Hay Day!!: What a great game! I’ve been playing for over 10 years and it’s the only game I’ve consistently stayed with. There’s a lot of activities to do and I love the social aspect of the game; helping my neighbors with their farms and gaining daily rewards. I like that the developers have added free rewards each day. Keep up those daily rewards!! Great game…relaxing and fun!!
- [R4] PLEASE ADD!: Pretty please add an option to move entire designs from farm around!!! Also if we could add previous designs we have made directly onto my farm from the design book that would be great 😍 ps: this is my favorite game ever!!! 🫶🏽
- [R27] More than just farming: I’ve been playing for a very long time and the game just keeps getting better. The design challenges are fun and really brings out your creative side. One thing that really needs to be addressed is that the only thing people sell in the marketplace are metal ores. The gift shop in town needs to require more jewelry and perhaps you could make boat orders include jewelry. Som
- [R72] Why Hay Day is a good game to play and keeps our identification: Hay Day is a very good game because it tells you to not use your real name to keep your identity a secret.It also helps me to be creative because it lets you create and move items to make your dream farm. It even helps me think a little bit like a real farmer!So that is also why I recommend this game. Thank you!
- [R16] ❤️: The best game ever ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much to the developers for the cool updates 🫶🏽 · translated
- [R67] Hay Day is the best: Five stars relaxing Makes updates every four months
- [R188] Fun but room for improvement: I have been playing Hay Day for almost 14 years. Nearly since it first came out. Most of my family and friends have as well. I have never been disappointed in the creativity and the new and entertaining upgrades. However in the most recent year or two, Hay Day has become more interested in making money. You can play many aspects of the game for free. But you cannot co
- [R2] Freeze Loading the game: Hi The game not playing on my phone (iPhone 8) and my daughter’s phone (iPhone 16). Loading the game stop in half of its run
- [R11] Why: My game is stuck at the loading screen….💔💔
- [R17] fix the opening app problem on iPad !!!!!!: this recently updated version isn’t working on iPad anymore
- [R21] Please fix: App stuck on loading page for 4 days. Unable to play. Please fix
- [R1] Overwhelming Update: I have been playing this game since 2013 but the recent update might be the end of my journey. I get very motion sick and the new animations may kill my heyday enjoyment. With each event having its own icon and taking you to a new page when you click it, its feels like i’m constantly being dragged across the farm. The neighborhood nurture event that rushes across the screen is
- [R25] Updates: I wish I would stop with the unnecessary updates. I’ve had the game 10+ years and I do like it, but I don’t know why the design for things have to change so much. Like why change the design for the orders board and why change how the boat works. Lecture add more buildings for us to buy, but I don’t know why the design has changed. I also wish the bushes that are supposed to attract butter
- [R6] Unplayable after you unlock the mine people fill the news paper with pre and that’s all you ever see: Not cool and not fun booo. Do something about the ore in the news paper
- [R29] Mining Tools and Newspaper: I BEG YOU Please STOP giving shovels, picks and dynamite for rewards constantly.
- [R34] Newspaper: Can you PLEASE allow us to filter out the newspaper so we can get the option to have less ore ? And can we please have more affordable decorations with coins and more land space and more easier ways to get expansion tools. Please !!? Thank you !!!
- [R37] love this game but goodbye: this game that i’ve been playing since 2019 has been amazing. but now with the ore and mining that’s the only thing ever sold in the shop. it’s made the game so unfun and 25/30 of the offered products in the shop is ore and no one wants to buy that. literally they nerfed their own game
- [R26] diamonds: many many times I have saved up a LOT of diamonds and then my thumb slips and 20 diamonds were just used to add a spot on a machine. incredibly frustrating.
- [R51] What I don’t like about it: It’s to hard to get gems Not enough storage to put my crops Takes too long to grow crops
- [R20] Irritated: I switched phones, and lost my entire game… I was on level 100 something and now I am back down to level 10
- [R22] Supercell I need help Apple Store I need help: How they said is safe and they didn’t return the games for the owner is very shame. Someone steal my account he changed my supercell ID and he changed. My SMS the good things my Apple ID is there a shame he she wants to steal my account for Apple ID she sent for me a virus from the Facebook the good things I have iPhone the Apple ID they return it for
- [R24] Diamonds disappearing: Disappointed beyond belief. Had 580 ish diamonds yesterday and found I only had 94 today. After contacting support they told me I spent 492 of them on marker stakes. I only have 12 stakes and haven’t opened any new plots of land and said this to the customer support, which consequently told me they could do nothing. 500 diamonds do not disappear like that.
- [R48] I'M CRYING: I CAN'T LOG INTO MY ACCOUNT AND I'M REALLY ANGRY, EVEN THOUGH I PROVIDED ALL THE DETAILS, IT'S UNFAIR.
- [R30] Love it: I’ve been playing for 9 years and it’s really fun and addicting. The only thing that frustrates me is that there’s a LOT of stuff to do and it can get overwhelming sometimes.
- [R190] Terrible Updates Recently: I used to love this game, but there is just way too much going on now. I’ve been playing for like 5 years, and always loved it, until more recently. The developers have added lots of more side games and activities that I think are pointless. it just fills up the screen with lots of random pop ups and side events. I understand that some people probably like them, but it
- [R210] Expansion permit scarcity: I’ve played for many years and watched the app go though may changes. It’s at the point where there are always like 3 events going on at once. It went from relaxing fun to a full time job on a farm. But if anything is frustrating it’s the scarcity of expansion permits without spending money (and a rotating schedule of one barn/silo expansion that is impossible to find).
- [R75] Connectivity issues: Love the event going on right now and love the song, but can you PLEASE fix the connectivity issues? I was just dealing with this a month ago and now it’s back doing the same thing again. Great game but when those connectivity issues start happening then it makes you not even want to play the game for a long while
- [R360] Updates needed: I play this daily, but in the last month I don’t know why I bother! Half the time the “play video” function doesn’t work. I don’t get the bonuses or the speed up on the items. Now to top it off the Derby isn’t working either. I failed a task, reactivated it and it reset to zero rather than continue where I left off…and then disappeared but was removed from available tasks. Con
- [R330] Search option in the daily dirt: It’s a good game but there are some factors that can be fixed One -Machines, and animals are way too expensive. I have to save up through three levels in order to afford one machine and why is a pig or goat over 2000 gold coins. Two - why does the amount increase when you buy multiple items,it’s already expensive enough Three - it takes too long for something to be
- [R342] I wish everything didn’t take so long to make: Like some things are about 14 hours!…
- [R89] What are you doing?!: I’ve been playing this game since 2015 and have never had so many problems as I’m having now. First problem I got kicked out of my own neighborhood that I created. I have all my friends family and children in my neighborhood. I was in active for a while, and when I came back, my leadership had been given to a random player. It shouldn’t matter how long you’re inactive if peop
- [R92] To many glitches: There are to many glitches with no help or support. You get kicked out of neighborhoods that you helped create and are a co-leader on with your sister which was a glitch but no help to get this fixed. I do not recommend spending time playing this game that has new issues every week
- [R94] Latest update stinks: I installed the update and got booted from the neighborhood I had been in for the longest time. Feedback from technical support has not been helpful. I was told my age had been changed and the administrators for the neighborhood had to make changes to allow me back in as they were the ones who booted me out. My wife is the administrator and doesn’t know how to remove anyone.
- [R9] I really hate that I ever invested in this game: Used to be more, this is just what it is now. Soon I will give up and move along. Just a cashgrab now
- [R8] We need an exit button when waiting 14 days for account deletion.: I want to log out of my account to log in with another account, but the game keeps making me wait 14 days before continuing. There's no logout button to help me log in with a different account
- [R3] Hay day: A great game especially if you are in the middle of a bad day or something like that but I think you should try this out before you say something bad about it
- [R10] Love this game: Guyss this is so much funnnn
- [R13] My #1 go to game!: I’ve had this game for years and have been obsessed since day 1. It’s fun and there is always something to do. I cannot say enough great things about it!!
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store