# Magic City Detective 1 - F2P — user reviews

> 34 indexed App Store user reviews of Magic City Detective 1 by DO GAMES LIMITED, rated 4.69/5 from 260 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-city-detective-1-f2p/id1664837476/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-city-detective-1-f2p/id1664837476.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 209 · 4★ 35 · 3★ 7 · 2★ 5 · 1★ 4

## What do users think of Magic City Detective 1?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- ✨ Good graphics
- 📚 Interesting story
- 🧠 Puzzles are fun
- 🎁 Free to play
- 👍 High quality game

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent game crashes
- 🐛 Unresponsive controls
- 🐛 Difficult mini-games
- 🐛 Illogical puzzles
- 🐛 Frustrating progression blockers

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Game crashes on startup
- Mask disappears
- Cannot open chest with symbols
- Sliders do not move far enough
- Cannot complete harp mini-game
- Safe mini-game precision issues
- Hint not working
- Cannot open safe with heart beat notes
- Cogs mini-game not working
- Planks on bridge not rotating
- Arrow puzzle with lions and flags not working
- Wire mini-game rotation not working
- Game crashes after solving flag/lion puzzle
- Clock hands puzzle crashes game
- Game crashes when setting clock hands
- Cannot complete flag/lion game
- Wire puzzle rotation broken
- Cannot rotate wires in hotel puzzle
- Clock hands puzzle shuts down game
- Two puzzles unsolvable, third causes crash
- Colored wire puzzle rotation not working
- Game kicks off after setting clock hands to flags
- Wire mini-game flip button not working

**Most requested features**

- Fix mute button for mini-games
- Improve touch screen responsiveness
- Add hints for unclear puzzles

## Newest reviews (11 of 34)

### 2/5 — Bug

*2024-03-16*

Problème avec le coffre et les symboles, je ne peux ouvrir le coffre et continuer le jeu je suis déçue, je pense qu’il s’agit d’un bug

### 2/5 — Extremely Frustrating on iPad

*2023-11-11, version 1.0.3*

My husband and I both attempted to play this on iPad pros and finally gave up.  This game is EXTREMELY unresponsive.  We finally gave up trying to open a safe when even the most exact movements were rejected.  Sometimes I had to tap something 10 or more times to get it to collect.  Sound design could use some work. Voices were odd at best and sometimes the mouth didn’t even move as the character was talking.  The graphics are good and the story is fine which is why I’m giving it 2 stars.

### 3/5 — Problem with the silhouette puzzle in the bonus game

*2023-10-08, version 1.0.3*

The sliders do not move the silhouettes far enough left/right or up/down to outline the coral. It was a good game until this happened

### 3/5 — Pas logique...

*2023-08-08*

Je dois couper du lierre pour avancer. Je dispose d’un gant de baseball et d’une pince coupante... et c’est le gant qu’il faut utiliser ! Bref, c’est pas logique et du coup très dur de comprendre où se diriger et le but de chaque énigme.

### 2/5 — Impossible on touch screen

*2023-02-21, version 1.0.2*

Greetings…I have been enjoying your games on my iPad Air 2 on iPadOS 15.7.3 and have given all I’ve played ratings of 5 or 4. Some of the “action” mini games are hard to complete without a controller, but with patience I have gotten past them all except the SAFE mini game in Magic City Detective 1. I know the combination, and have managed to get the first 4 numbers in with great difficulty (the precision required is crazy) but can’t get the last one to work. I am stuck without a way to finish the game other than to pay you to skip it. This being the case I must abandon this game and I won’t be playing any more of your games. Too frustrating to get this far and have to quit.

### 3/5 — No se puede abrir la caja fuerte con las notas de los latidos

*2023-02-18*

Lo dicho en el título

**Developer response:** ¡Hola! Estamos trabajando en el rendimiento de nuestros juegos. Si tienes alguna sugerencia para mejorar nuestros juegos mentales, escribe a nuestro equipo de soporte support.dominigames.com. Las haremos llegar al departamento de desarrollo.

### 2/5 — bug

*2023-02-10, version 1.0.1*

there’s a bug with the planks on the bridge it’s not rotating

### 3/5 — Mystery tales 1

*2023-02-03, version 1.0.1*

Too many glitches - see if your “experts” can get passer them!

### 2/5 — Fix it!!!

*2023-02-01, version 1.0.1*

I’m at the clock with the flags…. I get it right and then I get kicked out of the game…. This means I can’t move forward and it seems that others have the same complaint…

### 3/5 — Broken

*2023-01-31, version 1.0*

The mini game with the flag and the clock does not work, once set correctly the app shuts its down

### 3/5 — Glitch

*2023-01-29, version 1.0*

There’s a glitch with the clock hands keeps shutting down every time I solve it :(

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Glitch 🫤

*2024-09-15, version 1.0.4*

I cant get the mask it totally disappeared from inside the glass …fix it or else i will have to end the game here n delete it

### 1/5 — Harp Mini Game

*2023-02-24, version 1.0.2*

You can not complete the harp mini game. Another trash game released without any QA done. Every game you’ve released recently has had glitches.

### 1/5 — Mute doesn’t mute mini games & glitches

*2023-02-18, version 1.0.2*

Trust me. If you mute it’s because you need to play silently. Sort it out and comment when you fixed.

Cogs mini game doesn’t work at all. Needs fixing.

### 1/5 — Не работает квест со стрелками

*2023-02-07*

Квест со стрелками где львы и флаги не работает. 
Исправьте пожалуйста

**Developer response:** Здравствуйте. Пожалуйста, обновите нашу сюжетную игру на поиск предметов до последней версии. Мы исправили данную проблему. Желаем вам хорошей игры! Спасибо за ваше терпение.

### 1/5 — Glitch in mini game

*2023-02-02, version 1.0.1*

I love most of your games, this one was fine until the mini game with the wires, you can't rotate them it doesn't work? Disappointed because you can't move forward so had to delete this game. Please fix this.

### 1/5 — Ошибка со стрелками

*2023-02-01*

Исправьте стрелки со львами и флагами!!!! Не работает

**Developer response:** Здравствуйте. Пожалуйста, обновите нашу сюжетную игру на поиск предметов до последней версии. Мы исправили данную проблему. Желаем вам хорошей игры! Спасибо за ваше терпение.

### 1/5 — Magic city detective

*2023-01-31, version 1.0*

Game crashes when you put the hands around the clock also crashes at the end Can not finish game had to buy gems then lost them very disappointed

### 1/5 — ZERO STARS

*2023-01-31, version 1.0*

When I got to the mini game where you have to position the wires it’s impossible to rotate them using the control at the top of the screen as it doesn’t work, it’s so frustrating as Domini games are generally very good but when they get it wrong boy do they get it wrong, another game I got a long way into but will have to delete

### 1/5 — Glitch

*2023-01-30, version 1.0*

There is a glitch in the game can’t progress any further.

### 1/5 — can’t continue

*2023-01-30, version 1.0*

i got to the hotel but can’t complete one of the games. the wires won’t rotate no matter what i try

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Stupendi!!!!!!!

*2023-05-03*

Darei mille stelle!
È un’esperienza di gioco bella, ottima grafica, precisa, puzzle divertenti e di ottimo livello!

**Developer response:** Hello! Thank you for taking your time to rate us 5 stars! We are glad to hear you enjoyed our search and find game.

### 5/5 — Merci

*2023-02-25*

Merci pour ce jeu d’une bonne qualité, et pour l’histoire et pour le graphisme . Un bon moment de cogitation et de détente ! Qui plus est gratuit , alors encore merci !

**Developer response:** Bonjour ! Merci pour vos bons mots ! Nos jeux d'objets cachés aventure sont remplis d'amour pour vous ! Nous travaillons dur pour répondre aux attentes de joueurs comme vous, et nous sommes heureux d'entendre que nous avons atteint la cible pour vous !

### 5/5 — Top

*2023-02-02*

Topspiel

**Developer response:** Hello! Thank you for giving us the highest rating! We work hard to make our adventure puzzle games balanced, so that everyone can enjoy them.

### 5/5 — Вылетает

*2023-02-01*

Игра вылетает при прохождении головоломки с флагами

**Developer response:** Здравствуйте. Пожалуйста, обновите нашу сюжетную игру на поиск предметов до последней версии. Мы исправили данную проблему. Желаем вам хорошей игры! Спасибо за ваше терпение.

### 5/5 — Oi

*2023-01-30*

Travado nao da pra jogar tudo

**Developer response:** Hello! Thank you for giving us the highest rating! We work hard to make our adventure puzzle games balanced, so that everyone can enjoy them.

### 5/5 — Problem

*2023-01-28, version 1.0*

I’m at the Tower chapter 9 and doing great till I use the flag amulet and set the hands to the flags. After I set them correct, the game will not go forward, it completely kicks off. Please fix so I can finish game. Thank you

### 4/5 — keeps crashing

*2025-07-20, version 1.0.6*

love these game but had to delete an restart game twice as it just doesn’t open

### 4/5 — Can’t figure out hint!

*2023-02-21, version 1.0.2*

I’m at a scene near a stage. A hint tells me that there is something there. When I tap on it; nothing happens. It could be the key for the harp in one of the paid rooms. If that is the case, I won’t be able to progress through the rest of the game.
Unfortunately, I have to delete this game until I’m notified by Domini as to what I’m supposed to do……

### 4/5 — Chapter 5 safe combination

*2023-02-01, version 1.0.1*

I cannot get the combination for the safe to work. It always spins back to the starting position. Will not stay on the chosen symbol.

### 4/5 — Game crashes

*2023-01-31, version 1.0*

Really good game except it crashes in chapter 9 each time I try to complete the flag/ lion game. Hopefully this issue is resolved shortly.

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