# Dark Parables: Ballad of Rapunzel HD - A Hidden Object Fairy Tale Adventure — user reviews > 239 indexed App Store user reviews of Dark Parables by Big Fish Games, Inc, rated 4.44/5 from 595 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dark-parables-ballad-of-rapunzel-hd-a-hidden-object-fairy-tale-adventure/id964337838/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dark-parables-ballad-of-rapunzel-hd-a-hidden-object-fairy-tale-adventure/id964337838.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 384 · 4★ 147 · 3★ 28 · 2★ 15 · 1★ 21 ## What do users think of Dark Parables? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🌟 Beautiful graphics - 🎨 Vibrant colors - 🧩 Challenging puzzles - 👍 Enjoyable gameplay - 🎥 Engaging storyline **Cons** - 🤖 Repetitive mini-games - 🗺️ Confusing map navigation - 🔍 Difficulty finding small objects - 📢 Excessive review prompts **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes on certain devices - Purchased game not unlocking properly **Most requested features** - Interactive map with teleportation - More varied mini-games and puzzles - Improved object visibility in hidden object scenes ## Newest reviews (14 of 239) ### 2/5 — I would give more stars but asking for rating too much, too soon. *2023-05-18, version 1.0.2* I can’t say if I like the game or not yet. I just wanted the obnoxious asking to rate the game to stop. It’s often and annoying. So two starts for annoying asking on a paid game. ### 2/5 — Did not enjoy *2022-07-20, version 1.0.2* The items were often so small that it was hard to see what they were. Too many HOPs and not enough puzzles. Insufficient instructions with puzzles. ### 4/5 — Rapunzel *2022-04-23, version 1.0.2* I liked this game. It's nice to get a game without any glitches. Great graphics, story and the hint button gets you through the rough spots. I would recommend it. Apr/22 I just replayed this game 7 years after I bought it & it really holds up. The scenes are very ornate. Still enjoyed the play! ### 3/5 — It won’t give me what I paid for *2021-01-27, version 1.0.2* I bough the full version a while back and when I when to play it today it said there was no record of the purchase can you fix this I spent the seven dollars a while ago and I want it back I love this game . ### 4/5 — Back & Forth *2020-12-11, version 1.0.2* I like the games for DP but I hate the constant back and forth allow the map to portal you the games that do that are by far the best, not so annoying ### 4/5 — Dark map for Rapunzel *2020-11-10, version 1.0.2* Game was fun to play. Beautiful graphics but I do have a couple of not so fun comments. Map was confusing to use. Didn’t automatically take you to a specific chamber which would have helped. Try to go right in the map and you went down. Directions were screwy. Also some of the puzzles had match the objects to the backgrounds. Very confusing to read the backgrounds to see and understand the pattern. Two puzzles were that way. Not good. Story was good and graphics were great. Could be better. ### 3/5 — Dull *2020-10-10, version 1.0.2* Blue Tea Games - Poor visuals, few puzzles, boring HOPs (not real objects). Not up to the standard of the usual makers like Eipix. ### 3/5 — Vergleichsweise schwach *2020-09-23, version 1.0.2* Wenig Geschichte, schwache Rätsel, es gibt deutlich bessere Spiele von Big Fish. Außerdem geht mir persönlich diese übertriebene Schnörkeloptik echt auf die Nerven. Schade. ### 3/5 — Ok *2020-09-21, version 1.0.2* Ok ### 4/5 — Rapunzel *2020-09-21, version 1.0.2* Great storyline Very good HOP’s ### 5/5 — Excellent in all respects. *2020-09-03, version 1.0.2* Great all the way around. ### 5/5 — Rapunzel *2020-08-23, version 1.0.2* Glorious hidden object pictures with atmospheric music.Good storyline with interesting puzzles,I am loving it! Gerda refers to the “ice queen” is this a game I haven’t heard of? Would love more games of this beauty, thank you Blue Tea! ### 4/5 — Good game *2020-08-22, version 1.0.2* Puzzles were great fun ### 2/5 — Is This a Short Game?? *2020-08-22, version 1.0.2* I like Big Fish games and have bought quite a few, but I make a decision to buy after the play-for-free part has ended. In this case, I’d barely begun the game before I was told to pay up. I’d been on maybe three scenes? The graphics are indeed very beautiful but I can’t say much else about it. I was so put off, I did not buy and deleted it. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Rapunzel! *2023-03-07, version 1.0.2* Could be a lot better if you have to keep going back and forth to the boat canal because you don’t have everything you needed before hand and i sound have given it was five but this stupid little girl that you had to add to the game wasn’t necessary! But whatever now the sky kingdom game was the best by far that's what got me to look into this terrible piece of crap! ### 1/5 — No more, Big Fish *2022-03-26, version 1.0.2* This is not my first Big Fish game. The game has mostly beautiful graphics, challenging HOGs, and good puzzles. Map is more useless than most. The worst part of this game is the interminable “rate this game” pop ups that ruin the game play. Now I have rated it. Are you happy? Some horrible evil graphics at the end also clinched that I won’t purchase anything else from this developer. ### 1/5 — Had already bought the full game, they re-released it as free with purchases *2021-12-19, version 1.0.2* I had already bought this full game, they re-released it as free with additional purchases, and put the full game in additional purchase, now I’ve to pay again, besides this developer has not updated so many of its games which are then removed by apple, so not gonna buy any of their games. ### 1/5 — Mike *2021-10-15, version 1.0.2* Got bored easily would not pay for this game. ### 1/5 — Not impressed *2020-12-22, version 1.0.2* Recently played the trial of this game then decided to purchase the unlock option at £2.99. Only after doing this the game would not play. Every time I went to already purchased it kicked me out the game, now saying in store purchases not allowed It said the purchased had failed but it came off my bank account and was sent a billing invoice from Apple for the game but are unable to play the unlocked versions. Trying hard to find a way to contact big fish about the problem but finding it very hard too. It’s a shame as was so looking forward to playing the unlocked version. Has put me off big fish games and tempted to delete both the game and the big fish from my iPad and write off the £2.99 ### 1/5 — Ugh.. *2020-10-14, version 1.0.2* Where to start.. extremely boring, vomit-inducing scenes (far too busy and messy), weird confused and pretty much non-existent storyline, dull as hell HOS, glitchy... the extra star is for effort as there’s clearly been effort made but despite having paid for the game I think this is the first Big Fish game I will need to abandon. ### 1/5 — Not family shareable *2019-04-24, version 1.0.2* My daughter loves playing these types of games. She buys them. But I can not play them on my iPad. From what I figured out, you must all share the same account, even if I download from her purchase, it will let me play the trial game but not the whole game. ### 1/5 — Enough! *2018-09-03, version 1.0.2* I probably have never liked a game less...and I’m pretty easy to please ### 1/5 — Terrible *2018-08-06, version 1.0.2* I hated this game. I am sorry I purchased it but at least it was on sale. Very confusing dialogue, too many rooms open at once, hated the HOSs, constant interruptions to rate the game. I have never had to use the hint as much as I did with this game. ### 1/5 — Frustrating! *2018-07-15, version 1.0.2* Your repeated ads kept freezing the game. I wasn’t able to get past entering my name. Total zero wasting my bandwidth. Shame! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Tommy Jersey Maczko *2024-07-14, version 1.0.2* Best Princess game please keep it please and Thankyou ### 5/5 — Challenging *2024-01-30, version 1.0.2* What has been said before still applies with regards to finding oneself having to start the games over because some item disappears and can’t be recovered. Also the repeated insistence of the game to interrupt gameplay to have itself rated in Big Fish game continues to be annoying. ### 5/5 — This game *2021-06-27, version 1.0.2* I love it thank you vot hte fun times Mwa xoxo ### 5/5 — Fun *2020-11-06, version 1.0.2* I really like the background music, etc. Beautiful graphics too. So much to see and do but I had to button a lot as no good map. ### 5/5 — Beautiful game *2020-10-21, version 1.0.2* This is a challenging game, especially the HO, but unlike other posters, I think they are beautiful. The entire game transports the viewer to exotic places. ### 5/5 — Great graphics *2020-09-30, version 1.0.2* Most beautiful graphics, good value, some puzzles were a little difficult but overall excellent ### 5/5 — Great game *2020-09-21, version 1.0.2* Beautiful graphics, sound, love this game. ### 5/5 — Rapunzel *2020-09-19, version 1.0.2* Sehr schöne Grafik ### 5/5 — Dark parables *2020-09-15, version 1.0.2* Loved playing every one of these games . Fantastic graphics, gripping games. ### 5/5 — Sophie2013 *2020-09-07, version 1.0.2* Good game, nice graphics with some pretty good puzzles. If you like the dark parables series then I can highly recommend this one though I do agree with Nick, the write a review pop ups are a little irritating. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*