Island Building vs Happy Merge Home

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.

1. [R2] Island Building 5/5 · US Dream Island: Best puzzle and building game ever!! This game is so exciting as you play number puzzles and all the while you are building your island. No other fun game like Dream Island.. I play this fun little gem all day long..love it!! Five stars..kudos to the developers 😃
2. [R8] Island Building 5/5 · US LITERALLY THE BEST IDLE GAME I HAVE EVER DOWNLOADED: This masterpiece is on par with the likes of dragon city and candy crush. No obligatory ads, fun gameplay that is fast enough to keep you entertained, but not so fast it’s overwhelming. Multiple different progression systems, and this is all from playing for like, 20 minutes. If you’re on the fence, this is your sign to download this absolute le
3. [R74] Happy Merge Home 4/5 · US Fun, but not as advertised: The game is absolutely nothing like the ads or even the pictures in the App Store. It's fun, but it's just your basic merge game. You merge stuff to earn coins and then use the coins to buy furniture and decorations to decorate rooms. You don't clean or fix anything though.
4. [R120] Happy Merge Home 3/5 · US Game isn’t played as advertised: I was disappointed with the lies of the actual game play when I saw the ad for this game. Turns out to be a merger game….youll need to merge forever just to do one home improvement. Then you run out of energy so quick 😭 I am grateful that this isn’t a forced advertisement game tho. You’ll get a chance to volunteer to watch ads for energy of other things you’ll need
5. [R13] Island Building 1/5 · US Long tutorial: Tutorial too long.
6. [R21] Island Building 3/5 · US Eh: Game is pretty fun, but it would be better if I wasn’t forced to watch ads every five minutes when I try to buy an upgrade only to get one gem, and if it weren’t so expensive to buy everything. The only way I would be able to get enough money to just buy one thing is if I leave the app until I get a notification then have to buy double the money just to repeat the process until I can buy somet
7. [R69] Happy Merge Home 3/5 · US Ads are ruining this game: This game is fun and has kept my interest daily for a few months now, but these new forced ads will be the reason I delete it from my phone. I appreciated how in the past, viewing ads was OPTIONAL. You could watch them if you wanted additional products, but they never popped up unprompted. This changed within the last few weeks. Now I have to close out the whole game and
8. [R96] Happy Merge Home 3/5 · US Initially enjoyed the game, then…: Initially the game is fun, a few ads, which is understandable and energy costs are consistent, but to make the game more challenging the game just makes the same items energy costs more, but doesn’t allocate more energy to the user or give the user any other way to earn additional energy other than to purchase it. Then the building portion of the game cost more o
9. [R9] Island Building 3/5 · US Great game: This is a great game and it’s fun but it drains my phone battery fast and is really glitchy. I’ll watch ads to skip deliveries and it will freeze. After I got this game and the ad problem started, it happened to the rest of my phone. Still a good game though.
10. [R40] Island Building 1/5 · US Glitching: My game is currently glitching. When I click on the plan to take me to my island or to the hotel my game will just shut off. It’s really aggravating Bc I enjoy playing this game.
11. [R82] Happy Merge Home 2/5 · US What happened?: I loved this game I was up to the last house and was in the middle of playing the carnival event the app crashed and restarted and I erased all my levels I completed and it brought me back to one. I’m devastated. I am not starting over again. I emailed support and no answer. I absolutely loved this game I played for a few years. I can’t believe this happened if it’s not resolved I’
12. [R94] Happy Merge Home 1/5 · US Updated- erased play time: Set me back i dont know how many levels and took away my progress -like months worth. My producers are broken back down and pieces disappeared. Ready to delete
13. [R11] Island Building 5/5 · US DREAM ISLAND SUPERB GAME!!! 👍: I updated a while back and the name had changed. It was AMERICAN DREAM for years. I love it. So many things to do. But I’m disappointed. I’ve upgraded all my buildings on my island and have nothing to spend my gold bars on. No more tasks to do. I was stunned when I went to see what my tasks were and it was empty. My heart sank. The developer said it sounds like I
14. [R73] Happy Merge Home 2/5 · US Went waaaay down: First of all, the screenshots on the App Store are misleading. That is not the game play at all. You can’t move furniture accordingly. The game is that you merge items and you get to pick which furniture you want. I’ve noticed during the most recent update, items are getting pricier which requires more coins. They want you to pay in app or else the game is harder. I think they’re
15. [R91] Happy Merge Home 2/5 · US Disappointed: The update of watching 3 videos to get a free item has ruined the game. All items are high level for orders and you don’t have enough energy to get the items unless you buy more energy so you end up having to watch a dozen videos for barely anything.
16. [R28] Island Building 1/5 · US Game ends at level 60: Nothing to do and there are never any updates. This is a dead game.
17. [R32] Island Building 4/5 · US It’s good but No updates: It’s amazing but they haven’t updated the game in over 6 months and I finished the game and it’s just generally boring
18. [R106] Happy Merge Home 1/5 · US Update on 1/9/26: The game experience is definitely declining from each app update. It’s so difficult to get free items now or accumulate energy points. The game experience is very limited without paying a high price. I’m starting to feel difficult to stay on the app and keep playing.