DragonVale vs Dragon City

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. [R3] DragonVale 3/5 · US Takes too long: I can see why I didn’t play this game for too long when I first installed it. I redownloaded this game on a bored whim, saw I had no progression beyond having only one dragon, and decided to give it another try. And honestly, this game is ridiculous towards new players. It shouldn’t take twelve hours to breed what are basically the beginner dragons, and another twelve to hatch them
2. [R19] DragonVale 2/5 · US Nothing to Do: I really love the idea of breeding and collecting dragons, but as a beginner player there is really not a lot to do. I got a few dragons, but don’t have room to expand and I need an exorbitant amount of gems to do anything. I only check in once or twice a day and it feels like I’ll never get anywhere unless I spend money. There needs to be more incentive for a new player to play fre
3. [R82] Dragon City 1/5 · US FRAUD!: I’ve been playing Dragon City for a long time, and it’s become incredibly frustrating because the game feels more unfair than fun. One of the biggest issues is the Arena and League battles, where I constantly lose to opponents that I have already defeated before, even though my dragons have gotten stronger, gained levels, and improved since then. Sometimes an enemy dragon’s health bar reac
4. [R83] Dragon City 5/5 · US DragonCity: I love what the dragons do and what they look like and I play every day to get more stuff more habitats and more dragons because you can fight in the arena that is very good so it can break up the dragons
5. [R10] DragonVale 1/5 · US Too many tutorials: I can’t control my own game and layout, too many tutorials for the wrong reason. I can’t keep my gems to use on something else. It forces me to use the gems, this game is disgusting!
6. [R63] Dragon City 3/5 · US Stop: Stop forcing people to do what you’re tutorial says it should be optional
7. [R78] Dragon City 3/5 · US It’s very fun but lots of cons: I’d say it’s pretty slow at the beginning for sure and pretty time consuming.
8. [R21] DragonVale 3/5 · US What happened?: Used to love this game, and reached level 180 or 185. Today I opened it after a long time, and the game is almost unplayable! Elements are scrambled, many dragons are constructed of text, and the images are often checkerboards. It’s nearly impossible to play the game. Coins and gems look normal, and a few characters can be seen wandering the paths, but other characters are only gra
9. [R25] DragonVale 1/5 · US All GameCenter Friends GONE !: Been playing happily for many years - this latest update is a complete disaster - ALL 433 GC Friends have vanished ! And the update isn’t even optional - it’s a forced update required to open the game. How can you release an update like this without a fix, and require the update knowing what it will do to all of us ???
10. [R87] Dragon City 3/5 · GB Gets stuck on the loading screen: Great game but the loading screen gets stuck at 98%, I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game but it just doesn’t work
11. [R111] Dragon City 3/5 · GB Good but flawed: Despite playing on and off for years I continuously run into the same bug of being stuck on the Rank Up Coins tutorial screen. No matter what I do the bug continues to ruin my experience with the gameplay and my progression. Other than that it’s a great game
12. [R15] DragonVale 3/5 · US A little too gem greedy: This game is cute and all, but it goes a little too gem heavy with almost everything being needed to bought with PAID gems. Maybe the game gets a little more generous as time goes on and offers gems as rewards for things, but I’m level 13 and it’s not looking too generous at the moment. I’d be more inclined to buy gems if the game wasn’t so stingy with them.
13. [R93] Dragon City 3/5 · GB So…: Way too many micro transactions but a fun game in general
14. [R97] Dragon City 1/5 · US Pay to play: Use to be a fun game. Now if you are not willing to drop at least 100 a week you can not play. Big spenders ruin any fairness in the combats. You are congested just to keep enough habits.
15. [R1] DragonVale 1/5 · US charged me WAY too much: I've been playing dragonvale since I was a little kid, and I just recently downloaded it again because my family members still play it, and I was bored. I made a purchase of $4.99, and obviously tax comes with it too, but I was charged $8.45. Huh..? I'm a teenager so I have like NO money, but thank god that was actually in my account. I have nowhere to get actual support be
16. [R4] DragonVale 1/5 · US Piggy Bank: I purchased the PiggyBank and never received my reward. Support is impossible to get in touch with.
17. [R85] Dragon City 1/5 · US DO NOT PLAY: This game is such a rip off. They give you +10 gems to link an account, so i linked my apple. Then it STILL says +10 gems to link FB, so I did. Then it doesn’t give me the gems so i contact support and they say you can only link one account for the gems. THEN DON’T PUT +10 gems on there because you are lying trying to trick people to link FB. Everything takes so long you will have to
18. [R109] Dragon City 1/5 · GB Don’t waste your time or money: The game is full of glitches to use up all your resources to force you to spend money buying more. No customer support as the excuse is always they have a small team, no refunds or compensation for loses just fake promises we’ll get back to you which is never 😡