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Hollywood Story® vs Love Island

Hollywood Story® 4.7★ · Free + IAP 65
Winner Hollywood Story®
Love Island 4.7★ · Free + IAP 55

Hollywood Story® offers more content and customization, but both games are heavily criticized for excessive ads and expensive in-app purchases.

Full reviews: Hollywood Story® · Love Island

Hollywood Story® and Love Island are both free-to-play simulation games with in-app purchases, but users consistently complain about the high cost of progression and overwhelming ads in both. Hollywood Story® has an edge in content variety and character customization, while Love Island focuses more on narrative choices and dating.

Head to head

Features & Content edge: Hollywood Story®R5R14R20R54
Hollywood Story® Hollywood Story® offers a variety of activities like making movies, fashion events, and unlocking new areas, with users appreciating the drama, clothes, and style R5R14R20. However, some long-time players find the game repetitive after reaching high levels and wish for new areas or things to do R54.
Love Island Love Island focuses on story-driven gameplay with dating and narrative choices, which many users find addictive and entertaining . However, players report that the storylines can become repetitive across seasons R61, and the game forces players to play as a woman, which limits options for some .
Ease of Use & Progression tieR2R10R14R15
Hollywood Story® Many users find Hollywood Story® progression difficult without spending money, citing overpriced items and quests requiring diamonds that are hard to earn R10R14. The game also suffers from significant technical glitches that prevent progression, such as black screens in new areas or being stuck in loading loops R2R15R31.
Love Island Love Island's progression is heavily gated by gems and tickets, making it difficult to play without constant spending R63R66. Users report waiting hours for tickets and only earning a few gems per ad, which is insufficient for expensive choices and outfits .
Reliability & Performance edge: Love IslandR1R2R15R16
Hollywood Story® Hollywood Story® has widespread reports of severe glitches, including white boxes around pop-ups, black screens in new areas, game crashes, and characters appearing without clothes R1R2R15. Many users also experience issues logging in with Facebook or restoring accounts R16.
Love Island Love Island users report issues with forced ads that cannot be closed, leading to game restarts and lost progress . Some experience long download times for storylines, with the game freezing if exited . A recurring bug is the disappearance of the option to watch ads for gems R76.
Price & Value tieR3R4R5R6
Hollywood Story® Hollywood Story® is free with IAP, but users are frustrated by the excessive number of forced ads that appear every few minutes or actions, making the game nearly unplayable R3R4R6R8. Many wish for an option to pay for an ad-free version R8. In-game items are also considered overpriced, requiring real money to progress R5R10R14.
Love Island Love Island is free with IAP, but users widely criticize it as a "cash grab" due to the high cost of gems for essential choices, outfits, and even basic interactions R61R63R66. Players are frustrated by the slow rate of earning free gems (3 gems per ad, with cooldowns) and the lack of rewards for completing seasons R61R66.
Customer Support tieR1R34R45R76
Hollywood Story® Users report extremely poor customer support from Hollywood Story®, with emails going unanswered and developers not addressing critical bugs R1R34R45. Some note that social media platforms have been abandoned by admins R34.
Love Island Love Island's support team is criticized for providing copy-pasted answers and failing to fix ongoing problems, such as the disappearance of ad options for gems R76. Users also report that feedback and concerns are ignored for days .
Pick Hollywood Story® if

you prefer a broader simulation experience with more varied activities like fashion, movies, and unlocking locations, and are willing to tolerate frequent ads and potential glitches R5R14R20.

Pick Love Island if

you prioritize a narrative-driven dating simulation and enjoy making story choices, even if it means significant spending on gems to access preferred options .

Evidence note: Both apps have a free-to-play model with heavy monetization through IAPs and ads, leading to similar complaints about cost and access to content. Recent reviews for both apps show a negative skew due to these issues and technical problems.

Frequently asked

Are there many ads in Hollywood Story®?
Yes, Hollywood Story® has a significant number of ads, with users reporting them appearing every few minutes or actions, making the game almost unplayable for some R4R6R8R12.
Is Love Island a pay-to-win game?
Love Island is heavily criticized for being a "cash grab" where most desirable choices, outfits, and even private conversations require expensive gems, making it difficult to fully enjoy or progress without spending real money R61R63R66R73.
Do these games have technical issues?
Yes, both games have reported technical issues; Hollywood Story® users experience frequent glitches like black screens, crashes, and unrendered graphics R2R15R31R35, while Love Island players report unclosable forced ads and issues with ad options disappearing R76.

What reviewers actually said

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  1. [R5] Hollywood Story® 5/5 · US Good game: This game is really fun. I enjoyed playing. I would say that the energy runs out very fast and the items in this game is high priced, but I love all the different clothing items you can buy and the new areas you unlock the more you play.
  2. [R14] Hollywood Story® 4/5 · US Love this game!: I’ve been playing this game off and on forever and I love it. The drama, the clothes, the style, all of it. The only thing I have a hard time with is the advancement accessibility, you have to have a lot of in game currency at all times, sometimes leading you to spending real money, you also have to wait around a lot. Otherwise it’s fun.
  3. [R20] Hollywood Story® 5/5 · US Love it! One of my fav.’s: Love it! Been playing for years
  4. [R54] Hollywood Story® 3/5 · US Can be better: While this game is fun I feel like it can be better. I’ve been playing it for years now and it’s become repetitive. I feel like it can get new areas or new things.
  5. [R2] Hollywood Story® 4/5 · US Glitch: When it opens up Holly wood and Beverly Hills my screen turns back and I can not do anything but it was fun while it lasts, it would be great if someone told me how to fix it
  6. [R10] Hollywood Story® 2/5 · US overpriced scam: everything in this game is completely overpriced. You cannot move on in the story without spending money. Many of the quest require you to spend diamond, but theres no real way to get diamonds, you can get one or two from playing mini games but other than that its kinda impossible. make the game actually playable.
  7. [R15] Hollywood Story® 3/5 · US Glitch: I’ve loved this game but the past few months every time I try to play, it shows a black screen and closes the game. Please fix the glitch!!
  8. [R1] Hollywood Story® 2/5 · US support doesn’t care: i passionately love this game so i’m honestly offended. i’ve put so much effort into this game , but every time i play these giant white boxes are around the pop-ups and i can’t see what im doing. ive probably lost over 50k followers trying to log in and see if its fixed. i’ve updated 5+ times since this issue started. i wrote another review and they said to reach out so i em
  9. [R16] Hollywood Story® 2/5 · US Issues with fb: Let me log into facebook dammit
  10. [R3] Hollywood Story® 3/5 · US Dear creator: It is good some adds and it restarts every time I leave it for like a week or two. I think you should get rid of the ads and when I date a guy and then leave to complete a mission our progress restarts.
  11. [R4] Hollywood Story® 2/5 · US Love it but…: I have been playing this game for YEARS and I LOVE it but recently I started playing again and they added forced adds that do nothing but waste time i am really sad bc I love this game and now it’s not as fun
  12. [R6] Hollywood Story® 3/5 · US Too many Ads!: I use to love this game and now I’ve redownloaded it to play again. There are waaaaaayyy too many ads now. I can barely click on anything and boom, a ad!
  13. [R34] Hollywood Story® 1/5 · US New Customer support sucks: The new owners “supercharged” don’t care for their customers and don’t reply to your emails. The game has glitches and their social media platforms admins abandoned the social media platforms. Don’t spend your money or time on this game.
  14. [R45] Hollywood Story® 3/5 · US Game is crashing: I played this game many times and I usually get to my peak and start all over again. But this time when I was starting over and I unlock Manhattan,Hollywood,and the fashion area my screen goes all black.In addition to that everytime a new character comes up their clothes are missing???? I sent out emails and I went to app support and nothings work.
  15. [R76] Love Island 2/5 · US Poor game support team and greediness: i recently started playing this 3 days ago, and within this time frame the option to see ads for gems disappeared 3x. contacted game support, they gave me the same copy pasted answer twice and haven’t fixed this ongoing problem. the game also asks for lots of gems just to do simple things like talk privately w your li or just for clothes. It’s a fun game that
  16. [R8] Hollywood Story® 4/5 · US Game is fun but the ADs are insufferable: I’ve always loved this game since I was a kid and I’m enjoying it so much but the excessive amount of ADs every 3 minutes are ruining the game for me that it’s making me want to stop playing, I understand that ADs are essential and helpful for the developers, so can I suggest adding an in game purchase where I could pay for an AD free version? You could ev
  17. [R12] Hollywood Story® 3/5 · US fun but way too many ads: this game is so much fun but... there is just too many ads for it to stay enjoyable. i remember playing this a few years ago and i thought it was just so much fun. i took a break for about 2 years and came back to this game. but there are so many ads now. even if i want to do a quest or just move around the map, an ad pops up. it makes it less enjoyable when an ad pops up
  18. [R61] Love Island 1/5 · US Cash grab game: This game is so money hungry and repetitive. It will have you spending diamonds on top of diamonds even if you JUST spent diamonds on a exclusive choice. It's the same format every. single. season. The same thing happens every single time in the same exact order. No matter what season you play. You barely get any diamonds. You don't even get a reward for playing a full season. Just
  19. [R63] Love Island 3/5 · US I like the game: I enjoy the game I just don’t like that you have to spend diamonds on any of the good choices. Like give more options cause not wasting my money on a game like this.
  20. [R66] Love Island 3/5 · US so fun…until you need gems: i really have enjoyed playing this game, but there are so many things you need gems for. it’s impossible to be fun without them. the only way to get them without spending money is watching an ad or two every fifteen minutes for literally 3 gems. i really wish you didn’t need hundreds of gems to be successful in this game but you really do. it’s honestly a money grab.
  21. [R73] Love Island 1/5 · US Money gimmick: I would have gave this game 100% all Stars of course I love reading. It’s an interesting story. The problem that I have is I feel like reading and you love interesting stories. This game is put in place to keep you spending all your money constantly. They have no ads that you can watch to earn gems, let alone tickets and I’ve noticed I’m still stuck on unlocking seven scenes that sh
  22. [R31] Hollywood Story® 1/5 · US Glitch: There are characters like the workers who have no clothes on because the game is glitched. I tried to do a quest as well to meet at an agency and whenever I enter the agency, the screen turns black so I can’t even do my quest. Waste of my time as I was finally starting to enjoy the game just for it glitch and I can’t even advance.
  23. [R35] Hollywood Story® 5/5 · US Played for years and loved until recently: I’ve played this game for yearssss and I love it to pass time and whatnot but for the last 6-8 months I’ve noticed that the games has some issues. Graphics won’t load, outfits won’t load and pop ups are just white boxes with no words or anything. It’s like it’s not loading all of the content and I don’t understand why. I’ve never had this issue until rece

Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store