Modern Community vs The Sims™ FreePlay
Modern Community is better for players who enjoy a match-3 puzzle game with a strong storyline and decoration elements, while The Sims™ FreePlay is better for those seeking a broader life simulation experience with character customization and social interaction.
Modern Community offers an engaging match-3 puzzle experience with a narrative and decorating, but faces criticism for misleading ads and high difficulty. The Sims™ FreePlay provides a comprehensive life simulation, though users report issues with long task times, glitches, and monetization.
Head to head
you enjoy match-3 puzzle games with a strong narrative and decorating aspects, and appreciate a game with generally fewer in-game ads R8.
you are looking for a comprehensive life simulation game where you can create and manage characters, build homes, and develop a community, and are willing to tolerate long task times and potential monetization pressures .
Evidence note: Both apps are free with in-app purchases. Many negative reviews for Modern Community focus on the mismatch between ads and actual gameplay, and the high difficulty of levels. For The Sims™ FreePlay, common complaints revolve around long task durations, technical glitches, and aggressive monetization practices.
Frequently asked
Is Modern Community a match-3 game?
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R2] Modern Community Love!: I do love the game it’s very addictive but I love the story and how it’s so interactive and gives many options when decorating! But it’s kind of annoying that each level only gives 1 start unless it’s the challenge ones that are usually hard . Also waiting 20mins per life is so frustrating when again it’s addictive and I just want to play and continue the story wish it was a lot shorter . I
- [R3] Modern Community Not what you think: Honestly, the game on the ad showed a girl cleaning up and trying to look good, which was super interesting to me cause cleaning or sim games are fun to me but it’s completely different it’s like landscapes or something puzzles and stars which isn’t really that fun to me cause you get stuck on it and get frustrated leading to deleting the game. My overall opinion may be differe
- [R4] Modern Community not as advertised: i frequently see ads for this game that are queer code but there is no content, no way to same sex romance, no ability to change the gender of the female main character. played it a while but it’s really in-your-face hetero … and i’m tired of having no that shoved in my face after seeing queer-baiting ads.
- [R5] Modern Community Great: Good game but false advertisement
- [R13] Modern Community Fun game but the puzzles are too hard: I actually really like the game. But the puzzles are way too hard after a short time.
- [R15] Modern Community It’s okay: What makes the game great is how they tell the story. The game itself is … not sure how to put it. I like match games but this one really takes from the experience. Most levels are snaked which makes the difficulty level high even when they say it is an easy level that set up isn’t. To lose all your booster on bonus levels is defeating because those you’re not going to complete most lik
- [R18] Modern Community Needs some work: In agreement with other reviews, for hard/super hard levels there should be 30 or so moves. Additionally, at times it does feel as if you’re almost forced to buy coins to pass levels. I also wish super hard levels awarded 2 stars instead of one. Lastly, the hotel needs major work. It takes forever to complete a store because of the MULTIPLE duplicates. Even when trying to trade du
- [R7] Modern Community This will Probably cost my scores but the game cheats: I tend to look at things differently than most people. I count the numbers, pay attention to how points are awarded, and watch for patterns. After playing for a while, I started noticing that the math didn’t always seem to add up. In one round, I had three moves left, one crystal, and a fan. If the board had resolved the way it appeared it sh
- [R10] Modern Community What happened?: This used to be my favorite game. I played it every day and then it just quit opening up. I’ve deleted the game. I’ve cleared my cache and it still doesn’t work
- [R16] Modern Community Won’t even open: I downloaded it last night. It won’t open when I try to play it. How disappointing!!
- [R33] Modern Community Developers Please Read!!!: I’ve had this game for yearssss. And I love it so much but i’ve noticed recently that it glitches a lot now. Please change that! This game is amazing
- [R1] Modern Community Ai Slop + Racist Ads: The game itself is just fine tbh, I like the concept and how involved you get to be in the townspeople’s lives, everyone has their own story. What I DONT like are these stupid, unrelated AI SLOP ads everywhere! The ads have nothing to do with the gameplay or the sweet stories in the game. They also constantly depict a Black fireman as an abusive or deadbeat dad when I’m the g
- [R8] Modern Community I Found My Game!!: I have played and deleted so many game apps. I just needed something with story line, decoration skills, fun match 3 and fun small side challenges. It’s all here and I do mean ALL here. Best part it’s not overwhelming!! I don’t write reviews often but I sincerely wanted to thank the creators of this app because you guys have created a game so elite with NO ADS! I plan on spend
- [R12] Modern Community Amazing but not sustainable: The character design, the storyline, the gameplay are all amazing! The point system is mid because you never earn enough coins to allow you to continue to play the game unless you buy packages. I’m sure that’s what they want, but some people want to play the game that can’t afford to buy a whole bunch of packages, plus the packages don’t include enough coins to last mo
- [R6] Modern Community Fix levels: I love this game but the preview is not how the game actually is and if you finish all the levels you start playing through the old levels; which is fine, but it makes you play the same 5 levels over and over again. Makes it difficult for me to play everyday
- [R19] Modern Community Glorified Candy Crush: Don’t let the ads fool you. It is just candy crush plus a bunch of reading.
- [R44] Modern Community Enjoying it: Honestly I really love this game. I got pulled in by an advertisement but unfortunately the game is nothing like the ai ads. It is a standard match 3 game where you earn “points” to complete tasks, the tasks being renovations for in game characters. This game is the easiest game I’ve ever played to get infinite lives for long periods of time- it’s not uncommon for me to have well over
- [R58] Modern Community The ads lie - False advertising: Seriously don’t waste your time with this. The ads made this look almost like a Sims type game but maybe with a storyline and choices. The ad made it look interesting and exciting. But in actuality it’s just a stupid match 3 game and fixing things up with limited choices. Like Gardenscapes & others. I don’t understand why false advertising seems legal now. But anyt
- [R79] The Sims™ FreePlay High Track: Fun game, there are too many advertisements!
- [R92] The Sims™ FreePlay I love this game so much: I love this game so much and, there is no ads so I can just relax and just play the game without having any distractions or ads this is why I love and rate this game 5 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️So I urge you to download and play this game, it is just so fun and amazing and awesome 🤩. Thank me later
- [R107] The Sims™ FreePlay Soooooo fun: It’s the best time in the whole entire world for everyone and they have no ads but you get to choose if you want ads it’s so fun and also you get to have children in the game
- [R21] Modern Community Great game butttt: Its a great game but its super hard on levels after 300 impassable levels and u only get like 24 moves and or the most is 28 moves i think and i be stuck on one level a whole day. I love the game the part we design and all that. But levels that are super hard should have at least 30 moves. Also im done with the lower level of the store but one store is missing an item and like i
- [R34] Modern Community Game sucks: Got stuck on a level n lost everything I have I shouldn’t have to pay money to get through a level it’s all a giant scam 0/10 do not download literally tried contacting support for help and they did nothing 3 days stuck on level 85 it says hard but it’s impossible I used all my recourses. Game sucks DONT waste your time
- [R40] Modern Community Too hard and makes you buy to pass a level: I want to like this game but they make the levels too hard that force you to buy and it’s just too much. I’ve spent well over 75 bucks within a couple weeks and that’s a lot. I just want to play the levels at a fair chance. I’m on level 339 and have not been able to pass it.
- [R67] The Sims™ FreePlay Cannot Resume Game: I have been playing for a year and a few weeks ago I got the Living Teddy from the market, but it has a bug that does not allow you to return it to inventory. Support apparently fixed it, but I could only return it to inventory once and, then, it bugged again. So, I decided to save game and delete and reinstall. Now, I cannot load my saved game; I get up to 100% / 99% downloade
- [R85] The Sims™ FreePlay Please stop: This is the second time my game has crashed during several challenges going on, and when it comes back on, I lose all progress. All of my sims were busy doing long tasks, and when the game finally loaded all my sims had stopped what they were doing. I’ve spent tons of money on this games and it keeps cheating me.
- [R100] The Sims™ FreePlay Keep glitching out: I like this game so much but I always have to stop playing it because every time I get deeply into it the game begins to glitch like now. I’m in the middle of a 14 day development and now because of the game is glitching out. I’m not going to be able to finish it and the thing that irritates The most is how much money I’ve actually invested into this game because I really like
- [R103] The Sims™ FreePlay Won’t download: I’ve had this game for years. I go to play and it’s forcing an update but it won’t go through and I have room for it. It’s happening on my iPad and on my phone. I’ve spent a lot of money on this app as well. I keep being directed to articles but not getting any real help.
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store