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Head-to-head

Highrise vs Project Makeover

Highrise 4.6★ · Free + IAP 40
Winner Project Makeover
Project Makeover 4.5★ · Free + IAP 65

Project Makeover is the better choice for casual puzzle gameplay with makeover elements, despite its issues with forced pop-ups and increasing difficulty, while Highrise struggles significantly with server stability, a toxic community, and aggressive monetization.

Full reviews: Highrise · Project Makeover

Highrise, a social avatar game, faces severe criticism for its toxic community, poor moderation, frequent bugs, and aggressive monetization. Project Makeover, a puzzle and makeover game, is generally enjoyed for its core gameplay but frustrates users with excessive pop-ups and increasing difficulty at higher levels.

Head to head

Core Gameplay & Features edge: Project MakeoverR2R5R6R14
Highrise Highrise offers avatar customization, social interaction, and mini-games, with some users enjoying the creative aspects and events. However, many find the game boring or frustrating due to high prices for items and a lack of engaging free content. The ability to make friends and voice chat is appreciated, but the social aspect is often overshadowed by toxicity.
Project Makeover Project Makeover combines match-3 puzzles with makeover elements, which many users find calming and fun. The game offers variety with puzzles, mini-games, and character makeovers. However, some players are disappointed that the actual gameplay doesn't match the advertisements, and the fashion choices can be limited or unappealing.
Monetization & Value tieR4R7R9R10
Highrise Highrise is widely criticized as a 'money hungry' game with extremely expensive items and 'grabs' (loot boxes) that offer poor chances of winning rare items. Users feel forced to spend money to progress or have social interaction, and free-to-play options like watching ads or surveys are often broken or unavailable. Many long-time players feel the game has become a 'pay to thrive' environment.
Project Makeover Project Makeover is also seen as greedy, with many levels becoming impossible to beat without using power-ups or making in-app purchases. The game has removed options to watch ads for extra moves or lives, pushing players towards spending money. While some long-term players claim it's possible to play without paying, newer reviews indicate a strong 'pay to play' shift, especially at higher levels.
Reliability & Performance tieR3R6R19R22
Highrise Highrise suffers from significant technical issues, including frequent server problems, glitches with pets and rooms, and the app crashing or failing to load. Users report constant lag and bugs, with updates often introducing more problems than they fix. Some players are unable to log in for days.
Project Makeover Project Makeover also has performance issues, with users reporting problems loading the game, updates not taking, and the app crashing. Some users experience the game's music playing even when the app is closed, and one extreme review claimed the app hijacked their phone and caused a virus.
User Experience & Support edge: Project MakeoverR1R4R7R10
Highrise Highrise has a severely criticized trust and safety team and support. Users report being harassed, doxxed, and banned unfairly, with support taking weeks to respond or not helping at all, even for long-time players who have spent significant money. The community is often described as toxic, with bullying and inappropriate content, despite recent age limit changes.
Project Makeover Project Makeover's user experience is marred by an excessive number of pop-ups for events, boosts, and purchases that appear every time the game is opened, making it feel like a chore to start playing. The game also forces users to click on certain buttons or engage with new features, which is annoying. However, some users appreciate the lack of forced ads for other programs.
Pick Highrise if

You are looking for a social avatar game with extensive customization and don't mind a potentially toxic environment or significant spending to get ahead .

Pick Project Makeover if

You enjoy match-3 puzzle games combined with makeover elements and are willing to tolerate frequent pop-ups and increasing difficulty at higher levels .

Evidence note: Highrise has significantly fewer reviews than Project Makeover, and its reviews are heavily skewed negative, particularly concerning monetization and support. Project Makeover has a much larger user base, and while it also has monetization complaints, they are less severe than Highrise's issues with community toxicity and broken features. Both apps are free with in-app purchases, and both face criticism for aggressive monetization tactics.

Frequently asked

Is Highrise a safe game for children?
No, Highrise is not considered safe for children by many users, who report explicit items in the game, a toxic community with bullying, and inappropriate interactions, with some suggesting it should be 18+ rather than 16+ R18R30R36R44.
Why are Project Makeover's ads different from its gameplay?
Project Makeover's advertisements are often misleading, showing gameplay that is totally different from the actual match-3 puzzle and makeover mechanics within the app, which has disappointed many players R83R87R117.
Can I play Project Makeover without spending money?
While some long-term players claim it's possible to play Project Makeover without spending money, many recent reviews indicate that higher levels become extremely difficult or impossible to beat without using power-ups or making in-app purchases, especially since options to watch ads for extra moves or lives have been removed R70R72R85R93.

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] Highrise 5/5 · US Very cool: Cool
  2. [R5] Highrise 4/5 · US Good but could be Great: Would be great if gifs were a supported media type to post and reply to posts!!!
  3. [R6] Highrise 3/5 · US Glitched pets: My pets have been glitched and either is just not appearing even when equipped or only showing certain parts of the pet. Plzz fix this. I’ve played for years off and on, it’s pretty fun to dress up and trade items. Love the surveys they offer to get gold. It’s nice there’s another option other than buying gold.
  4. [R14] Highrise 4/5 · US Love it: So I got this game and it’s so fun u can make friends and have vc u can change ur avatar and it’s really good but……idk how to get lots of money the only way ik how to is buying for money
  5. [R4] Highrise 1/5 · US Terrible app: Terrible app filled with terrible people whoever owns it is money hungry. They constantly delete bad reviews and write fake reviews. Half of the five star reviews are fake. If you don’t spend money on this game, no one will talk to you. You won’t have any sort of social interaction you can’t event if you don’t spend money you won’t be on top. Everything that comes out as a account bo
  6. [R7] Highrise 1/5 · US Money Scheme - bad support: I previously reviewed this game saying things I enjoyed about it and what I did. After 7 years of being a player I can tell you that the admin, owners, whoever do not value you as a player, customer or consumer. They do not care how much money you spent, or your experience as a user. You are another one of the thousands playing to them. Support will not go out of th
  7. [R9] Highrise 3/5 · US Gold: It’s a great game but I haven’t been able to watch ads for almost a year or two for gold and other stuff and iv also not been able to do the surveys and stuff like other playing and iv been waiting for this to be fixed and brought it up multiple times and still waiting 😭
  8. [R10] Highrise 1/5 · US Rott in H 3 L L H I G H R I S E: Spent over $5,000 on this game. Banned my account. Won’t let me get it back. Been 3 years I’m still pssd about it. All my hard working money gone. Anyways after being banned it taught me to live a real life & to spend on my real life and not on a video game. I now play awesome games like Sims and Call of Duty without spending a penny and have made amazing friends t
  9. [R3] Highrise 3/5 · US love this game but: i love this game so much but MAN yall need to FIX THE SERVERS!!!!!! the connection sucks and my wifi is amazing, my data is amazing, it’s yalls APP you need to fix !!! i’ve been trying to log on for the past 10 minutes and it’s telling me an error. RIDICULOUS!!!
  10. [R19] Highrise 2/5 · US Messed up: You guys just messed up in last few updates, ngl i miss the old hr, the rooms are completely bug af and the pets are invisible, support center’s not responding , ppl get warnings wrongly
  11. [R22] Highrise 1/5 · US FULL OF BUGS: How many updates this game needs before fixing the already existing bugs?
  12. [R1] Highrise 1/5 · US Banned after being Harassed!: After 8 months of continuous harassment by users both this platform and their discord, I was banned for finally reacting! For 8 months I faced doxxing, harassment, rumors, witch hunting. I made over 50 different reports to their trust & safety team (Which has been an absolute joke since 2023/2024) about being called racial slurs, A PDF, my socials and personal addre
  13. [R18] Highrise 3/5 · US Addicting should be 18+: Adult friendly not kid friendly. I hope they lower gold prices and up grab odd
  14. [R30] Highrise 3/5 · US It's ok •᷄‎ࡇ•᷅: I really like it but people always kick me out!!! Idk why!! Is it my avatar? If u play this my user is livicats. Also I know I'm a teen but stuff with bo*bs...yeah not me. Also people ask me for dates I always say no I wanna be single broooooo
  15. [R36] Highrise 3/5 · US 18+: This app should not be marketed for children. There are very explicit items in game that anyone playing can access.
  16. [R44] Highrise 4/5 · US not for free players, you gotta buy to thrive: as the title suggests…it’s fun don’t get me wrong. but they push buying things, it’s fun. but if you have thin skin, I wouldn’t download it. lots of bullies. high-key witnessing a toxic environment. so good luck! this is a game for adults and not for children.
  17. [R83] Project Makeover 4/5 · US Amazing but misleading: The game it overall is amazing, but I wish that the game itself was more like the ads. They advertised it as something totally different than what I played. When I first downloaded the game and saw that it wasn’t like the ads I wasn’t surprised, but I was a little disappointed because it looked really fun on the ads. Also, it’s very hard to earn money on the game.
  18. [R87] Project Makeover 3/5 · US Fun, But…: The game is really fun, but the advertisement does not match the actual game. I’ve been playing it for over a year and none of the game actually matches the advertising.
  19. [R117] Project Makeover 3/5 · GB Timer: Time wasted waiting on you timer to reset. Also game it like advertised
  20. [R70] Project Makeover 2/5 · US Good game..but: Some levels are just ridiculous to try and beat. It takes days to beat if you don’t have enough coins Update I’m about to get rid of this game. Level 8184 is impossible to beat. It’s ridiculous
  21. [R72] Project Makeover 3/5 · US Good but too greedy: This game is very entertaining but when you get to higher levels it gets more complicated obviously but there is no ability to watch ads in exchange for having additional moves, which is annoying, you have to pay if you don’t want to wait and have any luck to pass the levels so I think bringing the ads back would be amazing
  22. [R85] Project Makeover 1/5 · US Can’t beat a level without power ups: This game sucks. Almost at level 2000 but it’s not even fun anymore because you can’t even beat the easy levels without power ups. Boo to the developers, they just want you make in-app purchases.
  23. [R93] Project Makeover 3/5 · GB It’s ok: I quite like this game it passes time but it’s one of those games that I also hate when there are levels that are near on impossible to win unless you buy something to help you along

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