Leave a Review Hidden City
Developers are skewing the game to bilk players!
The crystals mini game is skewed to only let you get to the third level then it is impassable without having multiple “power tools” of every type to win every single game. They skew the statistics as well to inflate the success rate of that mini game with those of their expedition one to make the crystals game stats seem easy.
This is not the usual gem or candy game that is passable on other sites. These developers are underhanded in their tracking of the game and in the game setup to force players (as much as they can) into spending money and apply even more pressure to do so by making special game events nearly solely dependent on playing and passing hundreds of crystals mini games to participate in the majority of the special event deals.
They deliberately do this but make it seem like everyone has a fair chance which in such a rigged game only the wealthy can succeed. The developers are deceitful and practice the ultimate in poor gamesmanship or else they would revamp crystals for the masses by making it winnable like it’s contemporaries on other sites or offering a feature for a player to opt to level down.Show lessThisby
Constant Pressure To Puchase Is Offputting....
I have been playing for a year now and it's the onpy game I play on a daily basis. The graphics for the last Halloween event were really hard to see and the crystal thing is an utter joke. You get one each time you level up yet if you want to open a location early it can cost from 250 crystals or more. A blatant rip off. I only ever purchase the £1.99 crystal set and that is only when I find the highway robber crystal that doubles your purchases. They have some bundles of crystals for £100! For a mobile phone game. Outrageous. I really hope they go bankrupt for being so egregiously greedy. Why not offer a free and a paid for version that requires no rip off in game purchases. I hope everyone boycots purchases bigger than £2 and boycotts the game if this continues. Some people have no morals at all.Show lessZooter4668
Developer Response
Hi, thanks for playing Hidden City! We are very sorry to hear about your experience. 🙁 We truly appreciate your feedback and will keep working to improve the game based on the input of our valued players!Great game
Can be frustrating and seems like it wants you to spend lots of money to buy special tools but the game is addictive. Wish there where more instructionsArum2015
Potential to be great but nasty push - don’t waste your time on this one
This game has great graphics but the constant push to buy something is getting me to the point where I am thinking of deleting the game. There is a constant barrage of ads for in-app purchases and frankly it is a very slow and boring game if you choose not to - they do everything to get you to spend money. You are also inundated with adverts for other games - not in the way that most apps do where you can choose to click on a game for a reward, but literally by blocking what you are doing all the time. On average an ad comes up every 3-4 minutes and that is insane! So in short - unless you like spending money and enjoy constant interruptions, don’t bother...Show lessCityrie
So sick of game crashing!
I really like this game but the fact that it crashes so frequently when those stupid advertisements pop up is frustrating. They take way to long to load and most of the time completely crash the game loosing what ever progress I had just made! Besides why do I need to be advertised to as soon as the game starts!! I just saw a whole page of games I can download I don't need another one to pop up and crash the game I just got into! Wish I could rate the game higher as everything else is great, the gameplay, the graphics and the story line all inspire me to want to play, but the bugs ruin the experience. I don't think I'll be downloading any other G5 games if this is the standard.Show lessNatbutterflyblue
Please make add free version
I don't mind the welcome screen pop up, but the constant pop ups are frustrating. I would happily pay 2.99 to play without pop ups. This game is a lot of fun and you can play for awhile and there are different things to do, and that's fun.
However- I also play paranormal society. That game I can only play for 15 mins and I am out of energy and only have 2 goals, where this one there are so m any goals I don't bother to look at them much. I can't keep the threads for each set straight so I often don't even read them. The friends area seems off somehow and I think it could be more friendly. I don't think I need to know every trivial achievement my lvl 85 friend makes, but I would like to be able to actually send gifts and can't seem to figure that out. I get error messages that say I've already sent them when I haven't.
I would also buy gems if there were more fun/ reasonably priced packages. Especially since I can get duplicate sets/collections long before I can get the "assembly materials" needed to combine them.Show lessSirenKnight
Not loving the update
I used to love this game. The graphics and ideas were great but the new update although a great concept seems to have many bugs and is harder to obtain items. My carnival square daily reward timer just stopped so I'm not getting my rewards. Sometimes I don't get my gifts that are sent to me. I don't know where they go but when you get out of the friends section they are not rewarded to you and they've made it harder to get assembler items for the new location which means you can't put items together without playing more of the same location over and over again before you can assemble them which of course uses up your energy and then expects you to pay out more money. Not sure how much longer I'll keep playing this which really disappoints me as I was really enjoying the challenges.Show lessMandyline
Ads Ruin the Game Experience
I've been a playing HC for almost 3 years because the hidden object scenes are great, along with the well-designed graphics and events. HOWEVER, the pop-up ads after EVERY play or battle with monsters is ridiculous, not to mention the number of unsolicited invites from friends who unknowingly download a game and trigger an invite to all their friends (I know, because I foolishly tried this once and got blasted by friends for sending them invites, which I didn't do knowingly). This is SPAM and is totally unethical to falsely send unsolicited advertisements from other players without permission! Worse, in order to delete those unwanted invites, you have to click on the invite, wait for it to load...click the "x" and then repeat the same process before you get the delete button. By the time you clear all the invites each day, you've wasted a ridiculous amount of time. Writing to G5 makes no difference, because they must get enough hits to make it worth the complaints. Really too bad, because this is ruining the game experience and guaranteed to make me never try another G5 game again.Show lessDiamond*Girl
Good but annoying
It's a really addictive game, if you don't have a lot of spare time then just don't bother. However if your like me and are trying to avoid all the important stuff you should be doing then go for it. There is a lot to do, maybe to much. There are like 50 quests open at one time once you've been playing for a few hours, and nowhere near enough energy to get them done. You don't win enough energy when you complete a part of the game so you end up using gems to get more energy, gems run out fast so then of course you have to either stop playing or buy more gems. This feature could get very expensive because the game is so addictive. All the mini games start off very easy and after a while get super hard, to the point I just can't win, so end up using energy without getting any back.
This game is deffo made well for the game developers, I'm sure they will make a lot of money 😂Show lessJusawhat
Way too expensive
I've read a lot of the reviews and see what they're talking about. Why is everything in"download queue"???? The game is great but soooo expensive I finally had to delete it then tonight I reinstalled and I get this download queue message and all things floating are covered in a black devil so you can't see what it is. I was addicted and spent a small fortune in a VERY short time but saw my bill and got a reality check resulting in getting rid of it.
If you need those silly rubies for every other thing in order to progress to the next level then G5 needs to occasionally give them as a reward for completing something in half the time given or for not using the magnifying glass to help--something!
This is just outrageously expensive to play. Too bad, too, because it is one of the best I've seen for a long while. Sorry G5, you lost a good customer with your greed. No more lining your coffers. Enough is enough!! Have deleted twice and go back. Spent TONS of money and it still doesn't give credit when collections are completed plus now it wants you fo visit or help friends in daily quests...I DONT want friends. Stupid requirement and the ads at the end of each task is so annoying as others have pointed outShow lessJamsjmg
