# Hello Kitty - Merge Town — user reviews > 216 indexed App Store user reviews of Hello Kitty by FunCraft, Inc, rated 4.80/5 from 1,676 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hello-kitty-merge-town/id1541877656/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hello-kitty-merge-town/id1541877656.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,513 · 4★ 63 · 3★ 30 · 2★ 22 · 1★ 48 ## What do users think of Hello Kitty? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 Cute and appealing design - 🕹️ Fun and addictive gameplay - 👍 Satisfying merging experience **Cons** - 💸 Excessive ads and monetization - ⏱️ Slow progression and repetitive tasks - 🐛 Bugs and technical issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Freezing and crashing issues - Unresponsive or missing features - Saved data and account problems **Most requested features** - More content and characters to unlock - Improved pacing and progression system - Better explanations and tutorials ## Newest reviews (18 of 216) ### 2/5 — Ultra incroyable 🤩 *2026-04-05* C’est un truc de ouf frère ya pas wesh en fait c’est trop BG ma go y a pas en faite c’est trop bien mais il y a juste trop de pubs frère y’en a 15milliards ma go il faut les tejs ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2026-03-19, version 1.1.11239* Really cute and fun game, but literally every 1-2 mins there’s an ad. It’s ridiculous. Plus the ads are like 30 seconds long. Super annoying. Deleted the game after 20 mins of play. ### 2/5 — Disappointing - See Rec *2026-01-29, version 1.1.11239* TLDR; Download “Hello Kitty My Dream Store” instead. While I’m a huge Sanrio fan, and this app technically functions at baseline (hence 2 stars), it has too much room for improvement, which isn’t going to happen as the last update was 3 years ago as of now. I use the app 1Blocker, so I don’t run into the incessant ads that other reviewers have (in fact, zero total). But I don’t think this game can be played unless you pay real money, in large amounts, at high frequency, for a mundane experience. The “generators” (or items you tap to exchange energy for mergable items) are ridiculous.. I’m talking two level 1 items and then it has to recharge for 10+ minutes…unless you pay diamonds…which cost real money. Obviously, developers have to get income somehow, but the mechanics are so overly locked up for profits that a player cannot develop a fondness for the app—it’s bad for players and for business. It’ll prompt you to spend diamonds to replenish energy, only to have no generators that can use that energy, and so on. It’s really frustrating, especially because the merging board is the only aspect of the game, so there’s nothing to entertain you while you wait, and that makes the game avoidable for ADHD minds like mine. Aside from that, the aesthetics are pretty sucky. The items and board were not designed with visual fatigue and recognizability in mind. The board always looks like maddening high-contrast clutter. The pastel softness of Sanrio is absent. This is a home improvement themed merging game with *occasional* sightings of Hello Kitty, and the UI seems to have been made by a carpenter himself. Save your time, serotonin and money for a better game: Hello Kitty My Dream Store. That game is much more aesthetically appealing for a player trying to do lowkey regulation in a merging game, and there are constantly side-events that give you something to do, somewhere to harvest energy and helpful items, and a narrative that doesn’t take days to produce a plate of cookies. I’ve never invested real money in HKMDS, yet I get plenty of gameplay daily. And it’s cute, with all the characters we know and love, plus ones I’m just discovering. It’s updated by the developers at least twice a week, which keeps events fresh and entertaining even when you’ve been merging some of the same items for a while. ### 3/5 — So many ads *2025-12-08, version 1.1.11239* Wish they had an option to just remove ads I don’t need a subscription but ads pop up every few minutes to every 30 seconds it is ridiculous ### 3/5 — Volcano *2025-10-13, version 1.1.11239* I enjoy this game but there’s no real info on how to do the “events.” ### 4/5 — The game is fun! But… *2025-09-18, version 1.1.11239* I love this game, I really do, but it has a ridiculous amount of adds. Im not exaggerating when I say this. I play the game. 5 minutes in, theres an add. Thats fine. The add finished, I click an item, another add… I play for like 1 minute, another add. There is an ad every few seconds, it’s not even funny. I just want to enjoy the game. ### 4/5 — Love it but.. *2025-09-18, version 1.1.11239* I love the hello kitty game an my fave but please not have ads on the game after completing a level it takes a while to exit the ads everytime for 1 minute and more. ### 2/5 — Cute game but so many ads *2025-08-03, version 1.1.11239* I like this game a lot. Merging and seeing the characters are fun. Mainly why I gave this app only 2 stars is 1. A lot of the time items spawn for you to merge that have nothing to do with current missions. They just take up space 2. SO many ads. You merge 5 items then, boom, ad. Skip it. Do another 5 items and boom, ad ### 3/5 — Volcano *2025-07-05, version 1.1.11239* What are the islands and volcanoes for? ### 3/5 — fewer adds please *2025-06-30, version 1.1.11239* it is very fun and i love the game but there is so much adds ### 2/5 — 可愛いけどＣＭ多い *2025-04-08* 可愛いし、面白いゲームだけど一つパズルを重ねるだけでCMになりほとんどＣＭ見ているみたい。 ### 3/5 — Fun but… *2025-03-19, version 1.1.11239* It’s super cute and fun when you first start, but after playing for a couple days, the items you need to create takes wayyy longer to create. It can take a couple days to a week for some of these items. I’m playing without getting any micro transactions, so that may be why. ### 3/5 — too many ads *2025-03-15, version 1.1.11239* cute game, normal merge game, TOO MANY ADS ### 3/5 — Problems with pacing, ads, and anticlimactic finish *2025-02-13, version 1.1.11239* Once you decide to drop a few dollars on the monthly, it’s probably the cutest and least annoying merge game out there, otherwise the ads are intolerable. I played for about a year, and just finished Kiki and Lala’s house. It’s difficult to find any information about the game, so if you have questions, you might come up with very little (on forums from many years ago). The pacing of the game could be much better, as it takes several months to get between levels 20-30, for example, and during that time there are very few tasks to fulfill. Once reaching level 40, there are only three tasks to fulfill, and then the game—ends. Genuinely without any pomp and circumstance. By the way, you’ll never get to open the buried chest, or read the message in the bottle, never get to see the treasure caves, never finish the unfinished road, and never get to use the vast majority of the mergable items. For example, I made the highest merge for groceries: never used, the highest perfume bottle: never used, the highest tool (forklift) never used. So if you want to know what to upgrade first, it should be your cleaning wardrobe, for sure. The event games are all infinite levels: there’s no beating them. The point is to get to the highest level you can in 3 days in order to receive the rewards (which help you finish the game’s exp levels). But now that the whole of Hello Kitty Town is finished, there really isn't anything to do: there’s no way to change decorations, there are no new areas, and after a year of grinding, it feels—genuinely sad not to even have a little celebration at the end. I loved this game, and I’m really crestfallen now that it’s over. ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2025-01-24, version 1.1.11239* If you don’t upgrade to the paid version, the ads are really disruptive and will often start in the middle of your game and sometimes only a few seconds after you’ve just watched one. ### 3/5 — Muchos comerciales *2025-01-20, version 1.1.11239* Está algo entretenido y tiene buena historia pero hay demasiados comerciales, cada 2 min hay uno, y no intenten apagar el internet, los intente y deja de cargar el juego): ### 3/5 — これからこのゲームを入れる人へ *2025-01-20, version 1.1.11239* サンリオのゲームなんだから、しっかりして欲しい。このゲームの悪いところ→広告が多い。なんでこんなにゲームが進まなくなったのか、謎すぎる。そしていい所→暇つぶしには良き。 ### 4/5 — Неплохо *2024-10-05, version 1.1.11239* Игра развивает, но очень много рекламы ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Ridiculous capitalism *2026-03-25, version 1.1.11239* Hello kitty would NEVA condone all the ads on this game. Shame on you ### 1/5 — Way too many ads *2026-03-16, version 1.1.11239* You click one thing and an ad pops up, there's no space in between to just play the game ### 1/5 — ads needs to go *2025-10-11, version 1.1.11239* good game fix your ads then maybe more people will play ### 1/5 — 구독 환불해주세요 *2025-06-09* 구독시 광고제거 인데 무료번개,또는 아이템 타임 제거 등 광고보기가 스킵이 안되는데 광고제거가 아니지 않나요;;? 구독 할 필요가 없죠 이러면...구독 환불해주세요;;; ### 1/5 — 垃圾遊戲兩年沒有更新 *2025-05-22, version 1.1.11239* 這故事還能完成嗎？而且廣告又超多又會停在中間 ### 1/5 — 太多廣告 *2025-01-16, version 1.1.11239* 太煩 ### 1/5 — キャラ詐欺 *2024-10-29* このアプリは見捨てられてます。 ストーリーはLv.40で突如終了。 タスクが表示されないので詰む。 エンディング無し。ほったらかし。 キャラ達の会話でのらりくらり先送りしながら謎が謎のまま結局何だったのかさっぱりわからない。 広告は強制しかも多い長い。 さらにジェム購入の催促もある。 がめつくてドン引き。 ### 1/5 — Omg the ads *2024-09-13, version 1.1.11239* Too many. Unacceptable if you want to keep players engaged. ### 1/5 — 환불 *2024-09-10* 리뷰 보니까 저처럼 당한 사람이 많네요…무료 체험이라더니 결제되고 아이템도 안들어왔어요;; 환불 해주시던지 아이템을 주시던지 해주세요 ### 1/5 — i am. stuck *2024-09-03, version 1.1.11239* how do you make the golden penguin ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Hello kitty merge *2026-07-04, version 1.1.11239* Love the game ### 5/5 — Incroyable *2025-10-22* Rien a dire franchement oui ya des truc payant mais c’est vraiment pas obligatoire tu peux jy joue depuis longtemps franchement c’est une masterclass ### 5/5 — Love this game *2025-06-23, version 1.1.11239* It is so cute and so easy and addictive I love it soo much. ### 5/5 — Hello kitty love *2025-05-20, version 1.1.11239* I love hello kitty so much ### 5/5 — 最低です。 *2025-01-25* 星5にしてますが実際は星１です。星5じゃないと上の方に表示されないので仕方なくです。 コインが欲しくて課金したらエラーになってお金は払っているのにコインは増えません。課金をした後はこのアプリを開いてもエラーでゲーム出来なかったです。次の日開いたら出来ましたがコインは増えてなかったです。課金額は1000円程度ですが額ではなく詐欺の様な事をされるのがとても嫌です。 ### 5/5 — 廣告太多 *2024-06-29, version 1.1.11239* 能理解想營運下去需要廣告支持，但是就連合成途中都不停的強制直接進入廣告，常常因為等待消耗廣告時間隔了一兩分鐘才再開始合併就又強制進入廣告，這樣不停的被打岔實在非常影響遊戲體驗，再如何喜歡三麗鷗的角色也會因過度的廣告而對這遊戲反感。 ### 5/5 — Fun game! *2024-06-17, version 1.1.11239* Very fun and in a way challenges your brain! Only negative thing is I got addicted lol. Definitely recommend! ### 5/5 — Super Kawaii *2024-04-14, version 1.1.11239* I did not spend any money on this game to avoid the ads. It takes patience and I mean a ton. Level 40 is the highest and last level to unlock the Little Twin Stars. It took me 3 months to finish this game. I hope the developers plan on expanding it as there are a ton of other Sanrio characters! ### 5/5 — Too many adds but really enjoyable if you LOVE Sanrio *2024-03-28, version 1.1.11239* So l was just chilling and my mom showed me this game and l LOVE Sanrio especially Pompom so l downloaded it and started playing but then there was like a bajillion adds. like what? so other than that download this game if you like Sanrio ### 5/5 — good *2024-02-22, version 1.1.11239* i finally completed it after 2 years!! --- *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.*