Gossip Harbor: Merge & Story

Ironic that the game running ads about other games not being what they claim, is not the game it's ads claim. This game is nothing but microtransactions. You can play for about 5 minutes before you need to buy more energy to continue. The story is awful. Leveling up is severely throttled unless you spend money. Overall a hot mess of a scam. Don't waste your time.

Ive played this for years, and I really like the graphics and game mechanics. However, it's become more of a money pit recently. I feel like you can only play for 5 min and then you need to pay to refill. Also, while the story is cute, I'm getting really bored at the hirer levels, especially since I'm not paying in-app.

I love the story lines and the mini games. A couple of months ago I would have rated this as a 5+. HOWEVER, as much as I hate to, I'm going to have to delete the app. It's to the point where it takes several hundred energies to fulfill just 1 order. Rarely can I play any of the mini games because they are over before I can fulfill enough orders to play. I really wish they would lower the energies so I could continue. I played daily and made several purchases monthly.

The gameplay and storyline are decent, and I do enjoy the game for relaxing, but it's definitely a pay to win game, even moreso now. The game used to allow you to watch an ad to get small items for free or to get a little free energy, but all ad based rewards are gone now. So, you can wait a minute and a half for a single energy to generate, or you can pay for more energy. The energy you can buy has no cap, but earned energy caps at 100.

I've been playing this for a couple days before writing a review. The game is interesting. My issue is that the orders to complete get increasingly more advanced while the amount of ingredients you get are SO LOW that you spend all your coins to complete one or two orders only! Who wants to spend 100+ coins and you don't even have enough to complete an order of coffee level 5?! If orders are advanced, then give us more advanced items! Either you $buy$ energy or take days to fulfill 3 orders.

For a merge game, this app is pretty entertaining. The characters are fun, and matching items to level up gets easier once you get the hang of it all. However, so far, this is not a match game in which you match tiles to "help" the characters out of bad scenarios (which was what the advertisement showed). Also, when you are given the option to receive a free item by watching an ad, bare in mind that most of the time, the ad does not load properly, and you do not receive the item.

Don't waste your time on this game. Its fun until you get to around level 40, then you have to start spending lots of money. Its definitely a pay to play game. Energy takes a long time to regenerate. 100 energy is not enough to merge items at a higher level, hence to why you have to spend money. Also side challenges require spending money to complete.

Honestly, it's a fun, somewhat mindless game at first. However, as you progress, the orders often take more and more energy, but you're still limited to the 100 energy max, and it takes 2 minutes to refill 1 energy. It ends up becoming cumbersome to continue. Maybe if they were to increase the max energy amount, or decrease the time to refill, it would make it worth it. But I'm level 47 and honestly about ready to uninstall.

It starts off fun but gets slow fast. It takes way too much energy to make your merge items. I am at lvl 17 and cant do much. The energy takes forever to refill, and their really isn't any way to get more unless you spend real $$$. And you get very little coins to continue the story. This is definitely only a few minutes of game play game and a money grabber type of game. Prizes, rewards, and merge items should advance with you.

Design of it would be a 4*. The advertising for it was definitely misscomunicated. You really don't do any of the survival puzzles it kept showing.I've been playing for 2 months now, and I haven't been able to complete any of the side quests because they don't give you enough energy to last through making big orders and the time they give you to complete the side missions isn't enough to even get halfway through. It feels rigged so that you have to spend your own $$ to get anywhere in the game.

It's a major pay to play/win when it comes down to the races and events both against "other people" and on general. Repetitive orders that require way too much energy to make. I usually drop some money when it's a good game to help support the devs, and I'm not saying it isn't - but there's not enough energy to keep me wanting to come back more and continuously play. It has a lot of potential built-in and aesthetically it's nice... but greed overruns the fun, in my opinion.

I would give this game 5 stars if it were based on game play alone. I love the game, but the fact that once you're a higher level it takes days to fill orders is insane. And the side quests are impossible. I have even paid for several things and still have trouble. the fact that you have to use 2 energy to play 1 level higher stuff is also stupid. as you merge better item generators you should be able to get better items easier.

I've played a lot of merge games and this is probably my favorite. The artstyle is cute, the items aren't too painstaking to make once you get a ways into the game, although it can progress slowly at the beginning. The events are fun, creative, and engaging (except the pirate event where you compete against 99 other people, that one isn't worth the prize at the end!) Aside from some issues with events not giving enough time to complete them, I don't have any complaints.

Update: They claim ads are random. Check the subreddit, everyone there agrees the ads for bonuses went away after they spent money, myself included. --Like this game quite a bit. Absolutely nothing like the weird ads. Warning, if you put ANY money into this game you can no longer watch ads for bonuses. Also it's a huge cash grab, the prices for things fluctuate and you will never have enough to finish any events. Only play if you're casually into merge games, don't spend money.

requires too much money to enjoy. if you do not spend money, the game is sooooo slow and almost not enjoyable for more than 10 minutes at a time every 4 hours. it takes hours for your energy to turn back to full. but the more you play the MORE energy is required to complete tasks. so it becomes even less enjoyable. Things start to take 2 wéeks to complete if u don't play every 2 hours and spend money. probably a better game out there. back to clash of clans I go

I sincerely enjoy this game. The story, the tacky but fun decorating. Even most of the mini (side quest) games. Unfortunately, this is a serious micro-transaction game. As soon as you are in the higher levels, items are almost impossible to simply make, and the rewards for creating them are miniscule. If it takes me 3 days of only making/merging one item, I should have more of a reward. I do appreciate the addition of an energy box when the new day arrives.

not happy at all. I kept an eye on this game with its adds. Completely false advertising! I enjoyed playing on the ads much more than the actual game. If the game was exactly like the ads show, I would have been stuck to it like glue. With all the different types of small games. Why do you lie straight to one's face!? No blizzards anywhere. Highly disappointed. Too little energy to fill orders, it becomes boring after level 10 is reached. I would have liked to finish the story..... :(

Fun but needs $$$ to play! I've been paying to buy energy to complete orders, but then it makes it more difficult and even more energy is required for simple tasks with little return. Although I just purchased some. Then you can buy a pass, but the pass runs out before you can complete a task you purchased energy for. So, it's pricing me out. It takes a lot of money.

I wish I could rate higher. I enjoy the game design, characters and story but its pay to win.. and you dont win much. You have to wait a few hours to reach 100 energy to play for 5-10 minutes. Incredibly frustrating, and when you have enough coins itll usually just be for short character chat rather than decorating. Super slow progression. They'd make more money just charging a flat rate for a decent game. I hope they can make it more fair, but I dont see myself continuing playing, sadly.

Addicting! One of my favorites in the merge genre. Constructive criticism: I appreciate a game without ads (which is SO rare), but it would help having the option to watch ads for extra energy/rewards rather than having to wait. I believe the option to watch an ad for +15 energy is only available once per 24 hours, whereas similar games allow you to earn +25 per ad and it's unlimited, so a huge help! Regardless, love the game- I'm just looking for a way to be able to play more!