# Dark Romance: Performance — user reviews > 42 indexed App Store user reviews of Dark Romance by DO GAMES LIMITED, rated 4.69/5 from 538 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dark-romance-performance/id1451935127/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dark-romance-performance/id1451935127.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 424 · 4★ 78 · 3★ 25 · 2★ 4 · 1★ 7 ## What do users think of Dark Romance? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Beautiful, colorful graphics and visual design - 🎮 Engaging storyline with interesting narrative - 🧩 Varied and challenging puzzle mini-games - ⏱️ Lengthy gameplay with substantial content - 🎭 Dual protagonist perspective adds depth - ⚙️ Customizable difficulty settings and gameplay options - 🏆 High-quality production value - 🎯 Responsive developer support and quick fixes - 💎 Excellent value for price ($2.99) - 🎪 Creative collectibles and decorative elements **Cons** - 🔊 Sound effects and voice audio frequently not working - 🐛 Hint/Skip button displays blank white box - ❄️ Game freezes and crashes mid-gameplay - 🎮 Mini-games unresponsive and difficult to manipulate - ⏱️ Sluggish gameplay and slow response times - 🎤 Voice audio disappears halfway through game - 🔧 Touch sensitivity issues in certain scenes - 💳 Double-charging issue on purchase - 🗺️ Map indicators show tasks before items acquired - 🎵 Insufficient musical score and audio design **Commonly reported bugs** - Sound effects and voice audio not working or cutting out mid-game - Hint button shows blank white square with no functionality - Skip button unresponsive or non-functional - Game freezes at mini-games requiring restart - Profile corruption causing loss of game progress - Piano puzzle in Ghostly Artifact stage non-functional - Mannequin/makeup challenge touch sensitivity issues - Mailbox bonus chapter buttons and arrows not appearing - Double-charging on game purchase - Slow response time to taps and clicks - Voice audio disappearing after updates - Game crashes to desktop unexpectedly **Most requested features** - Fix persistent sound and voice audio issues - Implement working hint system with visible hints - Improve touch sensitivity and responsiveness - Add more instrumental music and opera singing - Provide item descriptions for inventory icons - Reduce monster/supernatural content in games - Improve game stability to prevent crashes ## Newest reviews (13 of 42) ### 4/5 — Dark Romance: A Performance To Die For by LynxMinx *2023-12-26, version 1.2.2* UPDATE : March 3 Good news everyone! It seems that Domini has installed their update for Mystery Tales, and Dracyy, who is an original Dream Team Elite member, has informed us that the game is working well and enjoyable to play! Domini, thank you for the quick response! As far as Artifex Mundi goes they have been untruthful to the gaming community. Secret Order 7 Shadow Breach is shown as unavailable in this country/region, yet they are advertising it and reporting that they have released it. How can you tell gamers a new game is released when its not and then charge them a monthly subscription fee for their AM club, in which you are supposed to have one new game per month? They are underhanded and I for one cannot support this type of behavior. I have unsubscribed from their AM club and I suggest you do the same if you joined. I have sent them 3 emails and they refuse to respond. If this game is not released as of today, they are going to receive a very unpleasant email from me. I did tell them that they would suffer a loss in revenue as a result of this fiasco. I hope that many of you will contact them as well to complain about this unfair situation! Remember I cannot do everything myself and neither can my amazing friend Catalina. I am sorry to give you bad news but it is our obligation to keep you informed. UPDATE: February 28 Hey gamers! Two new releases on iOS today, so good news. First our beloved Oleg from Domini released a new Mystery Tales and Artifex Mundi purportedly released the Secret Order 7. It’s not out yet but should be available later today.That’s probably Sunward, but I don’t know yet. If they don’t release it today, they’re in violation of their AM club, so I told them they had better do it and they’re somewhat afraid of me so check tonight! Update: At 9:00 pm this game still has not appeared on the App Store. I don’t know what the issue is, but I have contacted Artifex Mundi. Truthfully don’t be too quick to sign up for their club. It doesn’t really seem to save money if you’ve already bought all their games. I will probably cancel my subscription. In any event at least we have some games to play, thanks to our DTE. I want to invite a couple of gamers to join. I am extending an invitation to undercover zip and I’m an Awesome Person (you really are) to join me and the DTE. All you need to do is write thorough reviews and hype the games. No automatic 5 stars if they have flaws! It’s just an honor bestowed for loyalty and we need your help. If you have any additional information on other developers please fill us in. Welcome aboard! Remember gamers look to us for help because that’s what we try to do. For those of you who don’t know, Catalina and I worked tirelessly with Oleg and Domini, as well as Elephant, developed a relationship, and now we have games. So you must review if you want these games and don’t complain about pricing. Thanks everyone and have a great day! Thank you Oleg for another fabulous installment in this beloved series! This twisted adaptation of Phantom of the Opera will delight fans of Domini and the series. As usual, you play from the perspective of the two protagonist lovers. The game is gorgeous, lengthy and exquisite, and you can customize every aspect, from the general gameplay to the map indicators, as well as the difficulty level of the mini-games. For collectibles enthusiasts, you must collect gems to decorate a dressing room, artifacts associated with opera, and posters. The graphics were colorful and exquisite. There were tons of complex items to assemble, and when you apply inventory items, expect a magical occurrence. They might open a hidden cache, thrust you into an HO scene, or into a puzzle, or you will receive another item. Each location had a plethora of tasks to accomplish, and you will meet many helpful (and not entirely altruistic) spirits along your magnificent and magical journey. The HO scenes had a terrific variety, as well as an alternate match-3 puzzle. The puzzles/mini-games were mostly rotational in nature, but there were also games of logic, dexterity and skill, codes and an interesting one where you needed to use a map. Gameplay was exciting and held my interest. Truly it is bothering me that I cannot rate it a full 5 stars, but there were a couple of issues that prevented me from doing so. Even after the game had been updated, which was very quickly done, some of the mini-games were impossible to manipulate and I had to skip them. In addition, the map occasionally indicated an available task before the necessary inventory item had been acquired, leading me to wonder if I missed something. Normally Domini has amazing quality assurance so I don’t know what happened. However, it was still an incredible game and well worth the price of only $2.99. Thus, my true rating will be 4.5 stars. This is a must-play adventure! Happy gaming everyone! UPDATE: I play with the game muted so I didn’t know there was an issue with the voices. Welcome back to KimTwilight. I missed you! Thank you for recognizing the lengths that Catalina and I went to in order to get games. Unfortunately we both got very sick with shingles, because it was so horrendously stressful. I am confused about a “reduced price.” I thought the game was priced at $2.99 without a trial, and that was a steal for what you get from Domini. I still haven’t played Secret City but I am looking forward to it, and everyone has been rating it highly so I probably will love it. Oleg, once again thank you! You have restored our faith that there are wonderful people out there, no matter what BigFish did to us! ### 3/5 — Could have been great, but…. *2021-10-14, version 1.2.0* Halfway through the main game, the sound started going in and out. Music was fine, but voices kept disappearing, and effects were gone. And yes, I did turn my device off, just in case it was on my end. It wasn’t, and it kind of ruined the game play for me. As far as the story goes, it was really pretty good, and a bit different. There were a great variety of mini games, and the graphics were outstanding. Maybe 3.5 stars? **Developer response:** Hello! We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please write to our support team at support.dominigames.com so they could help you resolve your issue with our mystery stories. Please describe the problem in as much detail as possible and attach screenshots, if you can. This is going to greatly help them find and fix the issue quicker. ### 3/5 — Bugs *2021-08-01, version 1.1.9* Bug on iPhone stops freezes it at ever minigame. Please fix this. Otherwise love your games and I’m trying to finish them but many get stuck like this and I’m not able to move forward. ### 4/5 — Glitches *2021-03-24, version 1.1.9* This is a fun game except it has some glitches. Very frustrating when trying to play some of the games and can’t even get the object to move. ### 4/5 — Ok *2021-02-13, version 1.1.8* Once again it’s got a lot of monsters and ridiculous stuff like that. I wish it was less of that in these games.I remember back when these types of games first started they weren’t like that. I don’t understand why that’s such a trend for this type of game. Ugh One of the issues with the game is that it takes too long from when you click on something for it to actually respond. You end up clicking over and over again thinking it hasn’t understood that you’ve tapped it. Also when you get to the bonus chapter, there’s a section for the mailbox where you have to find the keys or arrange the keys or something but the instructions say there should be buttons and arrows and nothing is there. Doesn’t seem to work I just had to skip it ### 3/5 — Love the game *2021-01-03, version 1.1.8* Absolutely loving the game. Only problem I have is I’ve reached Ghostly Artifact stage and the piano won’t work so unable to continue the game ### 3/5 — Great game but.... *2019-10-09, version 1.1.3* I would buy it but it keeps crashing to iPad desktop every now and again so I don’t trust it will remain stable and it’s very expensive so I’m having second thoughts. ### 3/5 — Updated Review (Heads up!) *2019-06-06, version 1.0.3* Update: Thankfully, after creating another profile, I was able to complete the game. This game has a great storyline, beautiful scenes, and varied puzzles. There’s the option to play either traditional HO scenes or Match-3. As well, this perilous love story follows a His/Hers alternating gameplay. Overall, this is a fun game and I do recommend buying! Seemingly, after reading other’s reviews, the issues I’ve experienced are isolated. Now, the reason for my 3-star rating, besides my issues listed below, is that I experienced overall sluggish gameplay and there were several instances when I was forced to skip mini-games. Even after completion, several puzzles simply would not register or close out, which is needed to advance the game. Oddly enough though, the skip button worked, which is how I managed to continue. _________________________________________________________________ First things first, let me say that I’m extremely thankful to Domini for bringing their games to IOS and for bringing back this joyful gameplay to so many of us faithful HOAG fans! And like many others, I gave Big Fish a small fortune—only for them to jump ship and head for the hills. That being said, my game just crashed horribly. Thus, the 1-star rating...for right now, at least. So, after finishing the free trial, I, of course, purchase the game, which appears quite good. But that’s when everything went terribly wrong. Roughly 2 minutes into the game after purchasing, the game freezes and needs to be closed out entirely, which is no big deal really. Yet, as soon as, the game reloads it completely deletes my profile saying it was corrupted. All progress is gone! But I’m going to go try it again, and hopefully, everything goes well! And no worries, I’ll definitely update this review, for better or worse. ### 3/5 — A bug has prevented me from moving forward *2019-05-10, version 1.0.3* Sent an email to developer. No response yet ### 5/5 — Great game! *2019-03-10, version 1.0.3* Really not going to ever be critical of this developer who is giving us the games we crave after Big Fish deserted us. This was a really good game. ### 5/5 — Two new games ❤️DominiGames & Oleg❤️ *2019-03-07, version 1.0.3* Thank you thank you thank you You guys are definitely releasing your awesome games via mobile, and we so very much appreciate all your time and effort to make this happen ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ ### 5/5 — Another great game! *2019-03-04, version 1.0.3* Update: Received a quick response from Domini support team, the issue was resolved effortlessly and quickly, thank you Domini! Loving the length of play with this game and enjoying every moment of the colorful graphics, switching between characters and entertaining puzzles. 💕 Old review: Very excited for another game! However, I purchased the game and it doesn’t recognize my purchase; clicking on the already paid causes a continuous loading, to the point that I have to finally cancel the request. ### 4/5 — Dark Romance: A Performance To Die For by LynxMinx *2019-03-03, version 1.0.3* UPDATE : March 3 Good news everyone! It seems that Domini has installed their update for Mystery Tales, and Dracyy, who is an original Dream Team Elite member, has informed us that the game is working well and enjoyable to play! Domini, thank you for the quick response! As far as Artifex Mundi goes they have been untruthful to the gaming community. Secret Order 7 Shadow Breach is shown as unavailable in this country/region, yet they are advertising it and reporting that they have released it. How can you tell gamers a new game is released when its not and then charge them a monthly subscription fee for their AM club, in which you are supposed to have one new game per month? They are underhanded and I for one cannot support this type of behavior. I have unsubscribed from their AM club and I suggest you do the same if you joined. I have sent them 3 emails and they refuse to respond. If this game is not released as of today, they are going to receive a very unpleasant email from me. I did tell them that they would suffer a loss in revenue as a result of this fiasco. I hope that many of you will contact them as well to complain about this unfair situation! Remember I cannot do everything myself and neither can my amazing friend Catalina. I am sorry to give you bad news but it is our obligation to keep you informed. UPDATE: February 28 Hey gamers! Two new releases on iOS today, so good news. First our beloved Oleg from Domini released a new Mystery Tales and Artifex Mundi purportedly released the Secret Order 7. It’s not out yet but should be available later today.That’s probably Sunward, but I don’t know yet. If they don’t release it today, they’re in violation of their AM club, so I told them they had better do it and they’re somewhat afraid of me so check tonight! Update: At 9:00 pm this game still has not appeared on the App Store. I don’t know what the issue is, but I have contacted Artifex Mundi. Truthfully don’t be too quick to sign up for their club. It doesn’t really seem to save money if you’ve already bought all their games. I will probably cancel my subscription. In any event at least we have some games to play, thanks to our DTE. I want to invite a couple of gamers to join. I am extending an invitation to undercover zip and I’m an Awesome Person (you really are) to join me and the DTE. All you need to do is write thorough reviews and hype the games. No automatic 5 stars if they have flaws! It’s just an honor bestowed for loyalty and we need your help. If you have any additional information on other developers please fill us in. Welcome aboard! Remember gamers look to us for help because that’s what we try to do. For those of you who don’t know, Catalina and I worked tirelessly with Oleg and Domini, as well as Elephant, developed a relationship, and now we have games. So you must review if you want these games and don’t complain about pricing. Thanks everyone and have a great day! Thank you Oleg for another fabulous installment in this beloved series! This twisted adaptation of Phantom of the Opera will delight fans of Domini and the series. As usual, you play from the perspective of the two protagonist lovers. The game is gorgeous, lengthy and exquisite, and you can customize every aspect, from the general gameplay to the map indicators, as well as the difficulty level of the mini-games. For collectibles enthusiasts, you must collect gems to decorate a dressing room, artifacts associated with opera, and posters. The graphics were colorful and exquisite. There were tons of complex items to assemble, and when you apply inventory items, expect a magical occurrence. They might open a hidden cache, thrust you into an HO scene, or into a puzzle, or you will receive another item. Each location had a plethora of tasks to accomplish, and you will meet many helpful (and not entirely altruistic) spirits along your magnificent and magical journey. The HO scenes had a terrific variety, as well as an alternate match-3 puzzle. The puzzles/mini-games were mostly rotational in nature, but there were also games of logic, dexterity and skill, codes and an interesting one where you needed to use a map. Gameplay was exciting and held my interest. Truly it is bothering me that I cannot rate it a full 5 stars, but there were a couple of issues that prevented me from doing so. Even after the game had been updated, which was very quickly done, some of the mini-games were impossible to manipulate and I had to skip them. In addition, the map occasionally indicated an available task before the necessary inventory item had been acquired, leading me to wonder if I missed something. Normally Domini has amazing quality assurance so I don’t know what happened. However, it was still an incredible game and well worth the price of only $2.99. Thus, my true rating will be 4.5 stars. This is a must-play adventure! Happy gaming everyone! UPDATE: I play with the game muted so I didn’t know there was an issue with the voices. Welcome back to KimTwilight. I missed you! Thank you for recognizing the lengths that Catalina and I went to in order to get games. Unfortunately we both got very sick with shingles, because it was so horrendously stressful. I am confused about a “reduced price.” I thought the game was priced at $2.99 without a trial, and that was a steal for what you get from Domini. I still haven’t played Secret City but I am looking forward to it, and everyone has been rating it highly so I probably will love it. Oleg, once again thank you! You have restored our faith that there are wonderful people out there, no matter what BigFish did to us! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Wonky *2023-03-20, version 1.2.1* The skip/hint button did not work at all! I just play the casual mode, because I do not need more stress. I liked the story but i was disappointed. ### 1/5 — Can’t stand the voice *2021-07-03, version 1.1.9* The screeching at the start of each character voice drives me crazy! ### 1/5 — Unlock Dark Performance Coll ED *2019-02-24, version 1.0.2* Feb 22 2019 - app is listed as gone free. (normally 2.99). This games is still "LOCKED" and needs to be unlocked to honor those who downloaded willing to try one of your paid games for free. ### 1/5 — Paid £2.99 now asking for me to pay again. *2019-02-22, version 1.0* I bought this game a few days ago and started to play. Was really enjoying it and happy that at last we have some good games. About a quarter of the way through the game ends and I’m asked to purchase the game. Well I already have. Why do I have to pay twice? Please be aware if buying. You will be asked to pay twice. ### 2/5 — Skip/hint still not working *2023-12-03, version 1.2.1* This was reported to you in March and here it is December and the Skip/Hint button still not fixed. Big white square and no matter how many times the button is hit nothing happens. Giving this 2 stars. ### 2/5 — Looks good…but… *2023-04-10, version 1.2.1* I have only just started the game, but the voices aren’t audible on mine, and it doesn’t tell me what the items in my inventory are either. I can’t always tell by the small icons in the inventory. The hint option is just a blank white square, that does nothing when I tap on it. I’m assuming I am the only one with these problems as no one else has mentioned it? ### 2/5 — Glitch *2020-06-15, version 1.1.6* When I push the button on the piano and it did not show blue light on. I push the right icon and it seem got wrong icon from the piano. It not work good. ### 2/5 — No VOICE in game *2019-02-22, version 1.0.2* I so wanted to try this game; however I’ve started it three times and still I only hear the background audio. Their lips are moving and the subtitle is there but no voice. Hopefully this can be fixed and I can give it a try and not waste 2.6 GB of space. ### 3/5 — Fix the sound effects *2024-12-16, version 1.2.2* It’s kinda hard to enjoy the game while most of the sound effects are not working in the middle playing of a game. I tried resetting it a second time and it’s still not working. Please fix it ### 3/5 — Great game, but *2023-03-03, version 1.2.1* When playing the first scene, the hint mask appears to go to its place, but then the hint box is just a white square with no hint available. I tried deleting then restoring my purchase but it didn’t work. Any suggestions? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Performance *2024-02-27, version 1.2.2* I have played this game several times, and decided to give it another go. While it is an older game. It still plays well - although part of the sound disappeared about halfway through. Still, it definitely doesn’t disappoint, and for me, it’s far better than a lot of current offerings. Developers, take note - I am playing an old game instead of spending NEW money on one of those “installment” games some seem to enjoy. I don’t understand how buying smaller pieces of a larger thing (but paying for each piece) instead of buying it all at once makes sense to some people. I don’t think I am alone in that! More games like this one, please! ### 5/5 — No hints *2023-12-10, version 1.2.1* It might be a good game, but there was a white box where hints should be, but no hints. I am not going to purchase. ### 5/5 — Amazing! *2020-11-23, version 1.1.8* Beautiful game, challenging mini games. Loved everything about it! ### 5/5 — Fun *2020-09-09, version 1.1.8* Love it relaxing ### 5/5 — Romance *2020-06-11, version 1.1.6* Brilliant game. Enjoyed playing it. ### 5/5 — Absolutely LOVED this game! *2020-02-28, version 1.1.5* I REALLY REALLY enjoyed this game. When I played the one chapter try out to see if I liked it enough to purchase the entire game, I had originally given it only 4 stars because there was a glitch in the first chapter with the mannequin/hair/makeup challenge. It was near impossible to do, but I was finally able to complete it. Even after the glitch, I decided to give the whole game a try and bought it. I’m SO glad I decided to do so, because it has to be the BEST game I've ever purchased in my life. It was SO much longer than their competitors games, SO much more engaging, and the story lines are INFINITELY better. I LOVE this company’s games. Best I’ve ever played, BY FAR! ### 5/5 — Performance *2020-01-12, version 1.1.5* This was a very unique game — Bravo! It kept me entranced from start to finish. ### 5/5 — Problem Fixed... Update Caused Problems *2019-09-15, version 1.0.7* I was able to play the game with no problems since my previous review... love this game!!! Previous Review ~ Was a 5 star at 3/4 of the way thru the game... Then I installed the update and the voice feature no longer worked... I tried using a new profile in game and that didn’t fix the issue... Then I deleted the game and reinstalled it but it still hasn’t fixed the issue... Disappointed I can’t finish the game because it was great before the update... ### 5/5 — Wonderful Games - Special Thanks Lynx Minx & Catalina *2019-05-23, version 1.0.3* I am so glad to be able to enjoy these games again. This is one of my favorite series, and I was very upset when Big Fish just abandoned us. I tried to go see Big Fish in March when I was in Seattle, but was not able to get in. It almost seemed as if no one was even in the office. I would like to Thank Catalina and Lynx Minx for all their extremely long and tiresome work they have done to help all of us be able to enjoy the games we all love and enjoy. Please Lynx Minx or Catalina let me know how I can help. I. Have started sending messages to the game developers, and I’m hoping the more people that send messages the more results we should see. Also Thank you Oleg Smolyansky and Domini Games Team for bringing us such fun games. I look forward to many more. I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Memorial Day Weekend. ### 5/5 — Great game! *2019-04-22, version 1.0.3* Please keep making these games --- *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 2026-06-19.*