Garden Affairs vs Gardenscapes

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] 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.
2. [R11] 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
3. [R8] 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.
4. [R62] Gardenscapes 5/5 · US New programmer review: I’m not liking the new game as much as the old style for the adventures. There are too many fixes too many find and fix constantly find and fix over and over and fix this is getting repetitive and boring. I miss the old blue and yellow trails and the new adventures is stupid. Some of these obstacles I have to move 3040 and 50 energy points, which means I have to wait 2 1/2 3
5. [R4] Garden Affairs 1/5 · US Too hard once you reach a certain level: Once you reach a certain level they completely stall the progress needing 6 stars to move ahead. It makes the game so frustrating and slow so I’m quitting for good.
6. [R5] 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!).
7. [R12] Garden Affairs 3/5 · US Cute but corny story, but too stingy on earning stars: I understand the app developers want to make $, but the game is so slow as you only earn 1-2 stars per game (and sometimes it takes multiple times to play the same level) who has that much time in a day to play an app?! And each time you use stars to progress the story line, it takes 2-4 stars!! So you spend about 1-1.5 hours a day to move th
8. [R67] Gardenscapes 2/5 · US Used to be fun: This game was fun to start when you could take more than 5 steps for your 100 energy points. Every level for the last few days has been Hard or Super Hard. Makes it difficult to earn anything to help when you can’t make progress. FYI: the same goes for Homescapes.
9. [R27] 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.
10. [R22] Garden Affairs 1/5 · US Hasn’t Worked in a month: Your app is no longer working and has a repair page on the screen and guess what???? It goes no where!!!!
11. [R25] 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.
12. [R91] Gardenscapes 2/5 · US Freezes way to much: After im doing a game it freezes or during the game then I have to go out of the game that’s js annoying is anyone else having this trouble?
13. [R47] Garden Affairs 5/5 · US Great game with no need to purchase anything.: Very fun to play and no purchases needed to beat any level. I have only purchased the vip pass several times. That pass lasts the whole month at that. I am on level 2,740
14. [R76] Gardenscapes 1/5 · US Money Tank: Unless you have a lot of money to spend do not play this game
15. [R118] Gardenscapes 1/5 · US Pay to play game: This game is advertised as free-to-play, but in reality it has become pay-to-play. The gameplay feels heavily manipulated by an algorithm designed to push players into spending money. Boosters often make little difference when trying to pass difficult levels. What is even more frustrating is that whenever you’re close to reaching a milestone in a competition or event, even easy
16. [R19] 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
17. [R10] Garden Affairs 1/5 · US Stories not loading: The stories, or rather the game resources, are not loading. I can't progress further. The game constantly shows 0 MB loading and says the internet is loading at 0 MB, even though my connection is stable and fast. I tried deleting my account to start over, but there's no information on how long account deletion takes. Support always shows 3 people in line, even when I waited for an hour. I don't know what to do. · translated
18. [R106] Gardenscapes 1/5 · US Zero support: I bought boosters and upgrades 4 days ago which were not delivered as there were bugs in the game that deleted them immediately. I have been trying for the last 4 days to contact support via email, in app support and even Twitter (X) but despite a 48 hour response commitment they just refuse to respond. I’ve been playing for 10 years now and maybe it’s time to call it quits. Unfortun