# In Search of Haru: Sweet Story — user reviews > 71 indexed App Store user reviews of In Search of Haru by SEEC Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 1,060 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/in-search-of-haru-sweet-story/id1263397981/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/in-search-of-haru-sweet-story/id1263397981.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 905 · 4★ 115 · 3★ 22 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of In Search of Haru? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💕 Cute art style - 👍 Interesting story - 🎨 Beautiful character designs - 🕹️ Fun and addictive gameplay - 🔓 Free to play with no pay walls **Cons** - ⏳ Time-consuming star/memory fragment collection - 🤔 Endings not always matching player choices - 🤖 Repetitive dialogue in hallway segments - 🙄 Childish sound effects during hallway segments **Commonly reported bugs** - Freezing/crashing issues - Disappearing stars/progress after certain scenes **Most requested features** - More story content and longer chapters - Ability to skip repeated scenes - Additional game modes or areas to explore ## Newest reviews (14 of 71) ### 5/5 — Beautiful *2020-12-21, version 1.1.1* Beautiful art a good game to play whenever especially when your multitasking something else and just taking a small break. it’s fun, addicting, a little childish but I love that about it and it’s a child’s game I think it’s really fun. ### 5/5 — Adorably awesome *2020-10-11, version 1.1.1* It’s just so cute and fun to play, the stories really sweet, the art is amazing, and the characters are just so hard to choose! Really good game, highly recommend for someone who just wants to relax and play/read and nice story. ### 5/5 — So cute :)) *2020-09-24, version 1.1.1* The art is amazing, it is honestly so cute, I enjoy watching the art and the different characters including the boys, which by the way are so attractive, also to mention the female character is cute as well, I have no complaints for this game. It’s simple and cute! ### 5/5 — ✨✨ *2020-08-12, version 1.1.1* it’s actually really nice and simple. The story is pretty straight forward and although there isn’t a lot of choices on what to do, there’s 4 endings and they’re all pretty cool. Idk about other phones, but it sometimes freezes, but it’s not too much of a bother. ### 5/5 — Favorite game *2020-07-21, version 1.1.1* Ok I’ve only played two otome games in my life but this one beats both of them! The chibis are super cute and fun, the story paths and how you can look back on them! By far my most favorite game ever!!!!! ### 5/5 — SO CUTE *2020-07-19* This game is adorable! All the characters are so cute!! YOU MUST PLAY THIS GAME!!!! ### 5/5 — Ahhh!!!! Wow!!! *2020-06-26, version 1.1.1* So adorable and cute, I’ve always loved tappity tappity games and this just amplified it. I know it was released 2 or so years ago I just have to say I can’t wait to see how the developers will use this experience to grow and make other games. So excited for the future :) ### 5/5 — Great game *2020-06-15* I love this game The art is amazing, story line is really interesting, and multiple endings so you don’t just play through it once and have nothing else to do ### 5/5 — Love it! *2020-06-12, version 1.1.1* I love the app and the story line! I feel like it all comes together, no matter who you choose and at the end you’re so conflicted because all the boys seem to be the Haru we are looking for! I also like that you added a bad ending to it, but at the same time I kind of hate it (cause that’s the first ending I got). But all in all I love the game and it’s completely free and there are no missions. I definitely recommend this game to any otome fan looking for a short little romance story. ~Mae~ ### 5/5 — Really cute *2020-04-03, version 1.1.1* This game is really cute and very bubbly, if you don't like waiting for a “episode” be available this game is for you, you collect stars from talking and get cute cutscenes. This game is perfect if u just want to play something to pass the time. ### 5/5 — Awesome app, just one downside *2020-03-26, version 1.1.1* This has an awesome plot, four different endings, and amazing characters! I have finished one ending and I’m working on the second! I would recommend this app! The only downside is that it has a mini game in between the plot. It’s fun and you get to collect stars and fill in your yearbook, but it takes a while before you get back to the story’s plot. It really puts you on a cliffhanger! ### 5/5 — ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ *2020-03-21, version 1.1.1* This game was so cute ! I hope they make a part 2 this game was so addicting! (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ all the characters were so cute! And the story line was great! ☺︎︎ I hope they either make a part 2 or something like this game! ♡︎ you should download it ! ( ˘ ³˘)♥ ### 5/5 — DA BEST VISUAL NOVEL IN MA LIFE *2020-03-17* It was cute and adorable I love the the little drawing as well Love iiiiit ### 5/5 — This is.. *2020-01-15* The story is good all the boys are cute and unique! Very good! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not so sweet *2022-05-31* I spent so much time to get a very bad ending,This was not, in fact, the dopamine hit I was looking for ### 1/5 — Mostly Great Art, But... *2019-06-10, version 1.1.1* The story was getting interesting, but there were these long periods where your character wanders around the school hallway like a bimbo saying the same three lines over and over while you poke at boy/girl clones of students to add up stars to continue the story. This part was done in chibi art as well, and felt SO CHILDISH! I was embarrassed when family looked over my shoulders at what I was doing. I’d never play this in public thats for sure. I adore love stories, high school reunion stories of childhood sweethearts, and so on, but I DON’T adore childish games interspersed through the story. It seriously felt like a game for toddlers when she was in the hallway, not for people interested in a romance simulation. It was SO stupid and frustrating that I deleted the app after my fourth or fifth having to gather stars in such a monotonous silly way. ### 2/5 — Had to keep restarting!!! *2020-05-29, version 1.1.1* I really didn’t mind having to wait for the actually story and the storyline was pretty good. However, I got to the end of level 5 it wouldn’t let me choose the other route. At first I thought it was a one time thing, so I keep restarting and it kept happening. It’s probably just a bug but by four or five restarts, I had lost my patience. ### 2/5 — I don’t like the system *2020-03-29, version 1.1.1* The story is kind of ok but honestly not worth my time, my main problem is the part where i keep wandering in the hallway asking clones and making those weird sounds that’s childish and i don’t think i have the patience to keep doing this and to keep collecting those stars to read the next “chapter/episode “ which is also really really short with almost no build up, it would’ve been better if at least we do some interaction with those students on the hallway and actually get some information from them instead of collecting those stars with no purpose other than unlocking the next episode (like a puzzle). Or just change the whole system because it’s boring. That’d make the game more interesting, i also recommend adding more characters to make the story more “complex “. ### 2/5 — So far so good *2019-08-19, version 1.1.1* It’s really go so far (but who am I to talk I had it for 3 days) I like everything I normally wouldn’t play it cause of the art style but I really like it I’m glad I gave it a shot I normally give games a shot no matter the art style but I got let down a lot and didn’t really feel like playing any games that seemed like they could be bad but I read the reviews and was like ok I’ll try it and I’m most definitely not disappointed it is amazing even though you have to collect so many stars the stars are pretty easy to collect and you get really good scenes along with them so yyyyaaayyy!!! Good game and it maybe one of my favorite games so far and me saying that is really good if I do say so myself ### 2/5 — Eh *2018-01-02, version 1.1.1* While there are a handful of cute parts, the storyline is mostly mediocre and derivative of other romantic shojo works. The endings seemed to have little to do with the choices that led to them, and a lot of tedium was put in to get unsatisfactory results. You can play it if you like, but you definitely won’t be missing much if you don’t. ### 3/5 — Super cute! but… *2021-07-11, version 1.1.1* This game is adorable! The storyline is very interesting and the art style is very cute, but in order to continue the story you have to collect stars (memory fragments). To collect stars you have to wander around a hallway and talk to little chibi characters while your character repeats the same lines over and over again. Collecting memory fragments can be very time consuming and it makes very childish sounds when you talk to the chibis. Other than that the game and storyline is very good! 3/5 💕 ### 4/5 — SOO CUTE!! but••• *2023-04-23* This game is so cute and i totally recomend it if you love falling in love, mystery and shojo anime and manga. the but part tho is thay it takes so long to get the stories. the plot of this game is so well done that i just realy want to finish it. but aince it takes so long to even be able to read the story. pls find a way to make this faster or i will lose my patience ### 4/5 — Cute but more work than Jimi-Kare *2021-06-30, version 1.1.1* The art and story are very cute so far. Simple, but easy to play if you just want to poke at something mindlessly. I rate it 4 stars because of the star collecting system. IF THE STARS DIDNT DISAPPEAR then I would rate the game 5 stars. You might get 10 stars from the scratcher, or use a memory candy, and if a scene unlocks, you basically lose your stars by the time you get back to the hallway screen… In Jimi-kare, you get the points immediately after poking the thought bubbles which made the collection easy and satisfying. Don’t know why they didnt make star collection automatic here. ### 4/5 — White Box Bug *2019-03-18* I like this game but the only problem I have with it is that once in a while, a white box will appear on my screen, I am assuming an ad or something should be showing up but it is just a white box. When I try to exit out of it, it won’t let me so I have to restart the app and all my stars and people disappear which is really annoying. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Haru is best boi *2023-04-24* Lovely art style and I love all the boys! ### 5/5 — So fun!! *2022-09-06, version 1.1.1* I’m in love with this game! I usually find it really hard to keep my attention on things, but since I’m so invested in the story I don’t mind waiting a few minutes to get to the next part. The art is adorable, and the story is awesome! I already have one ending and I’m planning to get them all! 10/10, would recommend : ) ### 5/5 — -chefs kiss- *2022-06-21, version 1.1.1* I love this game soo much, -maybe even too much- the art is amazing, the characters have a lot about you can connect to, and... okay ill just aay it, THESE CHARCTERS ARE THE BEST BOYS EVER- why arent real life boys like thisss ;0; i do have one issue though... the is sooo much time spent walking in the halls trying to get memories. But yeah, other than that, the game is really fun! ### 5/5 — Love this game but… *2022-02-18, version 1.1.1* Ok I downloaded this game yesterday and I loved it it’s cute and I’m really into Otome games!!! The problem is I can’t figure out how to go in the other story I finished the 1st Dark End it’s was very surprising they told me to redo the game I didn’t delete it I restarted it then it came the same thing to the same dark end I’m not knowing how to go to the others so pls a lil help I don’t wanna keep redoing the game over and over I wanna go to the other Dark End I mean if there is one you know what I mean =/ ### 5/5 — So amazing!! *2021-12-31, version 1.1.1* This game is super cute and fun! I definitely recommend downloading it if you have nothing to do. It’s really interesting and the artwork is absolutely A M A Z I N G!!! I love it, it’s soo fun! ### 5/5 — Cute *2021-07-12* Cute ### 5/5 — Bueatiful *2021-06-27, version 1.1.1* I really liked the storyline and plots the twists were good too, for me I got 3 endings as fast as I could but the last one took awhile I think it’s because you get memory stars but later on you need a lot of them and if your infected in the story (like I was but I’ve got all the ends)and it kinda gets boring afterwards because later in the game it’s just T A P P I N G but other than that great game it’s something you can finish in a short amount of time since I finished it in a day ### 5/5 — Love this game and all the other ones ❤️❤️ *2021-06-01, version 1.1.1* I love this game , I’ve had it before and I haven’t had it in a year or two and I just loved it so I downloaded it again and it’s AMAZING! Love the creator and everything in the games ❤️❤️❤️ ### 5/5 — Game *2021-04-26* It’s a nice game ### 5/5 — Ridiculously cute. *2021-04-21, version 1.1.1* Love the game so much. TT It’s a tad but annoying to have to get a certain amount of XP only to get a small chapter, but it’s totally worth it. I definitely suggest playing this as an idle game!! :) --- *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 2026-06-10.*