Lily’s Garden vs Garden Affairs

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. [R6] Lily’s Garden 3/5 · US Add lies: I would have given five stars but I’ve been playing this game for years and it does not have mini games, I don’t know why the adds say there are. But other than that it’s a great game and I love playing it and reading the story.
2. [R39] Lily’s Garden 3/5 · GB Same old cash grab: Another game with an amusing story and nice graphics which is easy to progress at first but with all match games you know you will be hit with levels you cannot complete without spending your money. They depend on you not wanting to lose your progress and thinking it’s only a small amount but then it’s rigged to make you pay almost every level you try so it’s now deleted.
3. [R62] Garden Affairs 5/5 · US Good game: I picked up Garden Affairs thinking it’d just be another chill merge game, but it actually surprised me. At first it feels pretty simple, just merging items and fixing up the garden, but it gets more addictive the longer you play. There’s always something to do, and unlocking new areas keeps it interesting.
4. [R63] Garden Affairs 3/5 · US Too easy: First off, I want to say that I’m really glad you didn’t include those terrible minigames that other match 3 game do. Aside from that, I’m finding that the game is objectively extremely easy. The levels only have 4 types of objects making it very easy to get power ups. However, I feel that the main factors are the events. There are always several of them going on at once so I end up cons
5. [R1] Lily’s Garden 1/5 · US broken ads: broken ads blacken the screen and block game progression- extremely frustrating- State Farm ad is broken blocks game and never exits, have to quit game entirely totally aggravated as a frozen ad forced deletion of app- won’t be coming back
6. [R10] Lily’s Garden 1/5 · US Love it, but ad glitches: I would give it 5 stars, but nearly every 5th or so ad will make it impossible to close out of it- meaning you have to close the game and reopen it to get out. Meaning you ALSO watched the ad for nothing, and can lose coins, or even progress (like watching an ad for +2 moves on a one shot level). This is frustrating enough to dock the review for me.
7. [R19] Lily’s Garden 1/5 · US Don’t waste your time: I’ve been playing this game for years, now after the latest update the numerous adds no longer have a way to close it. I waited 10 minutes and still no exit point. It makes game play impossible so don’t waste your time. Seriously, don’t waste your time!!!!
8. [R87] Garden Affairs 3/5 · US GAME WON’T LOAD: Have to try many times to get game to load. Then I can only play a level or two before it freezes.
9. [R16] Lily’s Garden 2/5 · US Frequent crashes: The game stops repeatedly and I lose my progress. It is annoying
10. [R28] Lily’s Garden 1/5 · US Latest update: Game keeps crashing.
11. [R46] Lily’s Garden 1/5 · US Game Crashes: I’ve been playing this game for years and have accumulated a lot of stars. 3 days ago the game crashed for 2 days (Error in game, developers notified). After it was up and running again, all my stars were gone! The game has been crashing a lot and this is not the first time I’ve lost items that I’ve won or purchased.
12. [R65] Garden Affairs 4/5 · US Extras are glitchy: I love the dice game and the homes, but they are both very glitchy. Right now I can’t buy new plots though I have enough flowers and cash. I constantly have to restart the game playing these extra modules. I’ve not had this problem with the match 3 portion, it seems very stable. Overall a fun game but I wish they’d fix the extras (and add new furniture, etc!).
13. [R4] Lily’s Garden 1/5 · US This game is designed to steal your money! BEWARE!: It has a great story line so it sucks you. After every try they present you with cheap enough options so you can win. So you click 2.99 then 9.99. Then 14.99 by a he end of the month you have spent well over 100 dollars or more. There is no way to win unless you click and pay. I take responsibility for playing this game and letting them outrigh
14. [R7] Lily’s Garden 1/5 · US Money grab: I’ve been playing this game for three years. The graphics are amazing. They changed it up to keep it interesting. Now the bad news, this is ridiculously expensive to play Even the side games, especially merge, works against you, in that not only do you have to earn energy, you have to buy it, and then as you’re playing, they put up obstacles (bubbles were running out of energy again) e
15. [R71] Garden Affairs 5/5 · US Best Design & Match without major bucks: I've played an embarrassing number of the design/match games in the App Store. All the others have quickly become frustrating unless you spend money. This game has truly creative match puzzles (with cool arrangements and match effects) and I haven't spent a penny. I'm on level 7608. I keep expecting them to force me (tempt me) to use money and I do hope
16. [R48] Lily’s Garden 1/5 · US Great game, HORRID COMPANY: Game is great until they start gaming you. CS is absolutely horrid and insulting. Small thing, they mix old me a package, and instead of addressing the issue, I received a pile of dung and no refund. That’s one way to turn a 3.99 profit and lose a gamer. Rotten service under a pretty game.
17. [R54] Lily’s Garden 1/5 · GB Game not working: I do like this game but for a few days now it don’t seem to be working and I’ve emailed the company to ask for help but they have not responded
18. [R79] Garden Affairs 2/5 · US Bad Customer Service: After making a purchase my adde to add moves disappeared i reached out to cs multiple times and no one helped
19. [R85] Garden Affairs 1/5 · US Furniture store update: The game now opens to the intro to the furniture store and it’s so big on my screen that I can’t click the button to get past it. The game is now unplayable and app support is only through Facebook? I don’t have FB. Please fix this.
20. [R43] Lily’s Garden 5/5 · US Addictive!: Beautiful graphics, lovely choices to decorate, fantastic story. Some of the mini games can be tough, but it wouldn’t make any sense to play if they all were easy to solve! Love it, BUT it’s such a pain to have to wait a whole week to continue to the next level ! I use the squirrel games between levels to kinda “practice” for the real thing, but sometimes it takes so long to get a n
21. [R68] Garden Affairs 5/5 · US Love This Game!: Your design staff deserves five stars. I have been playing this game on two tablets for a few years. Your graphics are so original and beautiful, it’s a joy to play. Please keep up the good work. And by the way, this review was entirely my idea to give to you. No one asked me to give it.