Love & Pies vs Merge Hotel Empire－Design Game

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. [R4] Love & Pies 2/5 · US Not a fan of the latest update: I really love this game. I love the graphics, storyline and how inclusive the characters are. I’ve paid out of pocket for the picnic pass and a few other things. I don’t mind supporting creators when I can. However, the latest up date (9.23.22) drastically changed the number of coins needed to advance the story. Before the update, things cost 36-90 coins to advanc
2. [R8] Love & Pies 5/5 · US best merge game out there: i LOVE merge games and this one definitely takes the cake. most merge games use ai to create stories and imagery but it is such a relief that this game is drawn and made by man. such cute stories and quests!
3. [R15] Love & Pies 3/5 · US Meh: I’m just not feeling it. The story is too similar to Gossip Harbor. We’ve got not-Quinn with her divorced self and fluorescent hair. Her daughter, not-Olivia who likes boy things. Her high school love interest, not-Harrison who works against not-Quinn to pay for not-Harrison’s-dad medical bills. Come on now…
4. [R21] Love & Pies 3/5 · US So hard to progress: awesome but it takes so long to progress anywhere. it takes 600 coins just to buy one rug. I don’t like how you have to spend coins in order to just see the story and not even buy anything for your restaurant. I’ve been playing for a few months and have spent at least $25 and I’m still only on like the third room because it takes so many coins just to progress. And it’s pretty
5. [R1] Love & Pies 2/5 · US Didn’t pay, Paid and now no commercial for things I need: I was on this app before for years and was at a way advanced level than I was before and didn’t pay. Had commercials for energy and items in shadows that were big. Decide to pay and get less commercials for opportunities to earn energy and blinking items. I’m not donating another penny. Smh
6. [R6] Love & Pies 3/5 · US Great but annoying: I've been playing this game for several months now and I can confidently confirm that improvements are needed in order to compete with other popular merge games. Firstly, less time needed for recharging generators - I should not have to play hourly in order to progress (this is a game after all) Secondly, and not so importantly, the amount of notifications is excessive. I just
7. [R12] Love & Pies 3/5 · US Ummmmm: Ok well this game is very fun and I think quite well organized, but there are definitely some problems. First one is the energy thing. Let me explain, when you’re doing the matching game thing every time you click on the regenerator it takes away one energy. One out of 100 by the way. Now that might sound like a lot, but it’s not. And then you have to wait a whole hour for it to restart. L
8. [R19] Love & Pies 2/5 · US has potential: app has potential to be a fun merge game, but makes you wait extremely long to play the game so you can buy energy or coins. never understood the whole "you have to wait to play" thing till i realized it was just a money grab
9. [R10] Love & Pies 1/5 · US Crashing: Game keeps crashing. I’m about to delete for good.
10. [R13] Love & Pies 1/5 · US Still so many pop ups: I haven’t played in over a year. I tried to come back but there are still so many things you have to clock through to get to the game play. This was supposedly being addressed over 2 years ago. I know how the season pass works. It annoyed me so much having to click through the “activate” tutorial that I just closed and left the app again. Such a shame as this is a wonderful
11. [R14] Love & Pies 4/5 · US AD issues: I love this game - I’ve had it for years and love the simple gameplay and decoration aspect. My only issue is that sometimes when I watch ads in the game, they don’t give me the reward afterwards or they simply don’t allow me to exit out of the ad back into the game and I have to close the entire app. Not sure if this is a game issue or whoever is running the ads but it’s very annoying!
12. [R16] Love & Pies 1/5 · US Angry: I would’ve given it 5 stars any other time but I didn’t get my rewards for completing the rocket event. I needed the mystery cloud to complete all my albums😡
13. [R2] Love & Pies 4/5 · US Almost perfect: I truly enjoy this game, but I find the sticker packs frustrating. I didn’t realize you only had 24 hours to use the dream sticker reward after earning it. So I was extremely disappointed because I had planned on using the dream stickers toward the end of the sticker pack event to fill in spots I hadn’t managed to find. It was frustrating to realize I had wasted time and gems whi
14. [R7] Love & Pies 1/5 · US Steals money, useless customer service.: I like this game a lot. It’s fun and easy to play. But at some point an update has it occasionally charging me when I don’t authorize a purchase. I have changed my password, required a PW for every purchase, turned ability to make purchases off, deleted and redownloaded the game. It still happens. CS is totally useless and tells me to talk to Apple, which h
15. [R9] Love & Pies 3/5 · US Disappointed: Love the game and have played for a long time . Worked hard to finally complete a challenge and get the choose a sticker reward. I purposefully didn’t open it because I know they disappear shortly after opening. BUT It still disappeared. Maybe a warning before it goes. I log on multiple times a day and never was there a heads up. I’m so disappointed because the challenges are al
16. [R43] Love & Pies 1/5 · US Won’t refund unapproved purchases: They refused to refund money, that I hadn’t approved for purchases made for in game content.
17. [R45] Love & Pies 3/5 · US Awesome Game butt…: This is a really good game game but the big dent in this game is the energy bar. You join and play maybe 5 minutes and then ur energy is just gone!! Its a pay to play game. :( Unless you want to wait a week for good progress you’re done!! That really made me delete it the first time and now im considering it again.
18. [R66] Merge Hotel Empire－Design Game 3/5 · US Disappointed: In order to play and get far you have to pay. Not a fan when you have to buy everything to move along. I wouldn’t download unless you want to spend a lot.
19. [R29] Love & Pies 5/5 · US Amazing game, amazing team: This is one of the only mobile games that I’ve kept consistently. They listen to their players, and they make good content. I don’t personally go to in depth with the storyline so I wouldn’t really know where I’m at, but I can say when I first started playing it was interesting. I’ve spent a lot of money on this game and I could proudly say I don’t regret it, this gam
20. [R41] Love & Pies 5/5 · US Must Play Merge Game: I just had to review this one! I’ve tried so many merge games and this one is on top! The artwork and animation is great, the story is well done and flows beautifully, not dubbed. I look forward to getting the stickers, not like others. The merges actually make sense. The side games are not overwhelming and are enjoyable. I wish the energy refills were less gems but I’ll surv
21. [R59] Love & Pies 5/5 · US Great game: This has become one of my favorite games . I started playing it to earn points for my fetch app and have continued because I am so invested in the characters and want to see what happens next. I appreciate the creators keeping it running smooth and keeping it fun .
22. [R18] Love & Pies 3/5 · US Enjoy but too many pop ups: I enjoy playing this game but the pop ups in the beginning drive me insane, I just want to play the game like normal I dont care about the new events. If you want to advertise new events put it on the side or something where you click on it to see it instead of the tons of pop ups.
23. [R25] Love & Pies 2/5 · US so many pop-ups!: I recently opened this game up again after a while of not playing, and I was wondering why I stopped at all, and then was quickly reminded: there are so. many. pop-ups. If you don’t open the game for a few days, you have to click through tens of pop-ups about events stopping and starting. I just want to get to the game! But the pop-up event notifications totally deter me from pla