Lily’s Garden vs Zen Blossom

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. [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
3. [R63] Zen Blossom 3/5 · US Relaxing but repetitive and misleading: It is a pleasant game, but the tile layouts do not change as advertised; it’s just one rectangular board with lots of tiles piled on top of each other. You quickly run out of new tiles to collect, you can only create a very limited set of flowers in the side game, I think nine, so that gets boring quickly. I have paid for the ad-free version, so I’m not in
4. [R66] Zen Blossom 3/5 · US Where are the different games?: I’m on level 951 and still have not seen any variations of the game. Just the same tiles spilling out and matching. I have not seen any of the games shown in the previews.
5. [R3] Lily’s Garden 3/5 · US It’s fun but aggravating because it hangs and crashes.: It seems like some ads are just thrown on the platform with little to zero testing. When you’re playing and have to watch an ad, the ad will stop mid play, and that’s it. You have to cancel out of the game, then start over. Argh!
6. [R36] Lily’s Garden 3/5 · GB Unusable! Ads keep crashing the game: I have given up trying to play, the game is good, but the ads keep crashing, losing progress and rewards. Please sort it out!!
7. [R69] Zen Blossom 3/5 · US So many ads!!!: Concept is good but there is an ad between each game and at least 2 ads during each game. So frustrating. Not for me!!
8. [R89] Zen Blossom 5/5 · US Fun and relaxing turn off wifi to get rid of ads: I choose to only play with wifi turned off so no interruptions with ads. Ads annoying and not relaxing but easy to simplify as the game developers created this to be able to play offline. See a lot of reviews mention frustration with ads so not sure if they are aware just turning wifi off creates a completely ad free relaxing experience. You do nee
9. [R12] Lily’s Garden 3/5 · US Graphics are scrambled: Currently the game is inoperable. I couldn’t report the problem under the gear icon so thought I would try here. I’ve sent an email but after three days, it’s still not fixed. Not sure if anyone else is experiencing it. Other Tactile games are fine.
10. [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.
11. [R72] Zen Blossom 3/5 · US Crash!: Love this game but has started throwing me off when playing on iPad. Playing on phone gives me no problems but I don’t like playing on smaller screen. This issue has only started within last week. Please, help! Five stars when it works; 1 when it doesn’t- thus the 3!
12. [R91] Zen Blossom 2/5 · US Great game, full of ads and glitches: This is a very relaxing game but the game get crashes every time it runs an ad. When I downloaded it (yesterday) there was just one ad between games: today, I’m getting an ad every minute or so, which makes the game unplayable. Too bad.
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. [R109] Zen Blossom 1/5 · US Fun, but you have to pay A LOT to win.: This game is great, it’s fun & I love the variety of flowers & colors. But you have to pay a lot of money to get any kind of bonuses. I also paid for no ads but I still get a ton, and they are VERY long ads. I also have to watch ads if I want any of the bonuses. You have to pay over & over again to actually receive the coins you earn & the weekly bonus packa
15. [R92] Zen Blossom 5/5 · US Fun Zen Blossom game: I tried this game and loved it! I had no problem spending seven bucks to not have ads every minute, I appreciate the beautiful flower graphics and smooth gameplay. Just came back to leave this good review because I play this game a lot, already past high levels. Developers are good guys too. They respond and update when they need to. Thank you Developers!
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. [R112] Zen Blossom 1/5 · US Zen Blossom: This could be really enjoyable, but it’s extremely frustrating..after 3 moves there’s an ad break..so no time for momentum..they want you to pay for most every move..then after you wait for through adbreak there’s some commercial you have to listen to not see..while you finally get back to the game. I will not pay money for any option you encounter. These constant ads and begging for
19. [R116] Zen Blossom 4/5 · US Bloom Merge feature: This game has no instructions or help section. You find out what symbols mean by trying them. Completing missions in Bloom Merge seems to earn more points for Zen Blossom but requires real money to merge flowers.
20. [R76] Zen Blossom 2/5 · US The ads are too much: The ads are out of control. It’s not even 2 minutes before an ad “break.” Gossip Harbor ads are the worst, lasting 2-3 minutes. I’ve timed it. If you run out of tile places, you have to watch an ad again. I spend more time watching ads than playing the games. 90% of the ads are gossip harbor. You need to do better with game time to ad ratios because this is just awful.