# Mahjong Venice Mystery Puzzle — user reviews > 119 indexed App Store user reviews of Mahjong Venice Mystery Puzzle by Andreas Schneider, rated 4.60/5 from 425 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mahjong-venice-mystery-puzzle/id389571923/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mahjong-venice-mystery-puzzle/id389571923.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 327 · 4★ 60 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 9 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Mahjong Venice Mystery Puzzle? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Fast and furious gameplay - 👍 Helps improve concentration and focus - 🎨 Lovely graphics and beautiful tiles - 🧠 Challenges the brain and keeps it working - ⏱️ Satisfying to improve personal best scores **Cons** - 🔍 Difficult to play on smaller screens like iPhone - 🔍 Tiles can be hard to distinguish at times - 🕰️ Timed gameplay can be stressful - 🔍 Placement of UI elements could be improved - 📺 Too many ads, even in paid version **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes or crashes after certain levels - Sound effects sometimes cut out unexpectedly - Progress or scores not saving properly **Most requested features** - More frequent release of new levels and content - Ability to restart progress from the beginning - Leaderboards to compete against other players - Option to turn off timed elements and other activities - Improved performance and stability, especially on older devices ## Newest reviews (15 of 119) ### 3/5 — Ads *2024-03-28* There are to many ads while playing the game ### 2/5 — Great Game! *2024-02-16* Reason for the rating is because it’s very annoying playing this game after each level there are ads otherwise I really thought I found a game that I can enjoy but my goodness every time I win a level there goes an ad for another minute or less after each win that’s the only reason I gave it two stars. **Developer response:** Free games have ads - this is how we finance game development. You can buy the premium version - without ads. Search on the AppStore for "Venice Mystery Premium". ### 4/5 — More map play *2022-08-24, version 1.8.4* The map play is in my opinion the best part of the game. It’s been YEARS since you have made any kind of updates. ### 4/5 — Levels *2022-02-24, version 1.8.4* Need more levels ASAP PLZ ### 3/5 — Review *2021-10-24, version 1.8.4* I like this game,however, the ads arealityle much. They are too long ### 4/5 — Downgrade *2021-09-11, version 1.8.4* This game used to be fun until the ads increased. ### 4/5 — Loved *2021-06-14, version 1.8.3* I loved playing this game until I could go no further and had not completed all the levels will try again . ### 3/5 — Too many adds *2020-09-25, version 1.7.5* Love the game. Way too many adds. Hate them ### 2/5 — ?? Where did my game go? *2020-09-17, version 1.7.5* I just clicked on my game to play and it’s back to zero? Where are all my points and powers?? I had over 3 million points ### 5/5 — Great *2020-09-04* I find this game very relaxing. ### 5/5 — Like this game *2020-08-11, version 1.7.5* So far I’m liking this game. ### 5/5 — Venice Mystery *2020-08-04, version 1.7.5* It’s interesting and challenging. It does not compensate enough when you do the stages fast and need to change the tiles it does not compensate enough.. ### 3/5 — Great game, could be better *2020-07-20, version 1.7.5* I love playing this game m. It is annoying that you have to fix the options every time you open it. Also it constantly kicks me out of the map play and makes me start over. Other than than fun game. ### 3/5 — Freezes Repeatedly *2020-06-21* Was really enjoying this game so until it repeatedly started to freeze. Have to open and close the app to get it to work. ### 2/5 — Venice Mystery *2020-06-15* Why?? After each round I get bumped into an advertisement for other games. Need to double click on my iPad and go back into my Venice Mystery game and continue...why? Frustrating! One month later...still waiting for an update.......😡😡😡😡 I have both versions on the cloud....still have advertisements! Please disregard above....all okay! Thank you🤗 **Developer response:** This is a free app, thats why you see ads. You can purchase the full version "Mahong Venice Mystery Premium" which does not have ads. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2022-08-02, version 1.8.4* You will spend more time forced to watch ads than to play the game. Very boring as a result. No fun ### 1/5 — Very Unhappy *2022-07-18, version 1.8.4* This used to be my favorite game. I’m ok with the occasional ad but come on. What’s with an ad after every level. You guys need to do better. ### 1/5 — Too many ads!!! *2021-12-27, version 1.8.4* I love playing this game, however I am deleting it because I HATE having to watch an ad after every level!!! It’s the most aggravating thing ever!!! ### 1/5 — Disapointed *2021-02-04, version 1.7.9* Enjoyed the original game, played nearly every day. Now after one or two rounds foolish cartoons take over. I have deleted it and reinstalled in hopes the cartoons would be eliminated. I cannot recommend this new version. ### 1/5 — Beware! *2020-08-03* Sorry, but this game is a rip-off! I had purchased this game several years ago and went to re-download the original version and selected “restore purchases”. It never did! Instead I was stuck with the ad filled game. It’s ridiculous to force me to watch 30 second ads every few minutes and a huge waste of my time and money. **Developer response:** Maybe you bought the Full version at that time - this is the free version. Take a look at Venice Mystery Premium to get an ad-free version. ### 1/5 — Why the adds? *2020-04-27* I played this game when it first came out and purchased full version. It was great! Now there are annoying adds even in the full version which has taken all the fun out of it! I have deleted the game now which is sad.... **Developer response:** Hello, this is the free version you are playing! If you purchased the full version when it came out, please download the full version again (free of charge). Or go to the options menu and hit "Restore Purchases" to re-activate your full version from within the free version. There are two versions on the App Store. Look for "Mahjong Venice Mystery Premium" to get the full version that has no ads. If you are still having trouble please write to sp@gamgogames.com Thanks! ### 1/5 — Can’t play *2019-10-07, version 1.7.3* This game looks awesome and buying ads free isn’t too expensive, but I can’t play. I either get stuck at the choose tile set screen in map mode or the buy power up screen in quick play. ☹️ ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2019-09-08, version 1.7.3* I paid for the full game. I had to re download it and now there are way too many 30 second ads. The number of 30 second ads make this unplayable. ### 1/5 — What happened *2019-05-02, version 1.7.2* This was a fun game but not anymore. Can’t play it. It freezes up when I go in to map play. Please fix. ### 1/5 — Ruined a good game with update *2013-09-20* I was really enjoying this game until the recent update. I don't like the new glossy tiles, the previous matte-look ones were easier to use. I really don't like the flashing hints - it was a plus that there were no hints before. But, worst of all, the tiles have shrunk and moved to the left so the end tile is over one of the power ups. So that tile is now unusable which pretty much makes the game unplayable. Did anyone test the game before releasing the update??? It seems a pretty major thing to get wrong. So, to sum up, I hate the new look, hate the hints & have lost a tile. I won't be playing this again until there is an update fixing it. Why ruin a perfectly good game with stupid "improvements" that wreck game play? ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — A brilliant game for fun and to help improve concentration *2024-10-18* Thank you to the inventor of this game. I started using this game by accident, after a couple of head injuries caused symptoms of what you’d probably now call brain fog. I found the game helped improve my ability to focus and analyse patterns again. It was helpful, and less stressful to compete against myself, which is how this game operates. There is great satisfaction in improving your own best score. I’d highly recommend this game - for fun, and to improve your concentration/focus. ### 5/5 — Peggy-69 *2024-06-27* I really enjoyed playing this. Got to level 65. And started crashing after a played a few tiles. Even rebooted. Still crashed. So ended up deleting. Like I said really enjoyed this one. ### 5/5 — A favorite, but… *2023-10-05* I love this game, but it’s very difficult to play on an iPhone; much better on iPad. I have played for many years (finally purchased Premium!) and I love the combination of puzzles for each location. I wish I could find more games like this one. **Developer response:** Thanks for your review. :) ### 5/5 — I love this game only I bought the premium version and I’m still getting ads! *2023-06-07* .. **Developer response:** May it be possible that you still start the free version (yellow icon) instead of the premium version (silver looking icon). ### 5/5 — A favorite, but… *2022-03-08, version 1.8.4* I love this game, but it’s very difficult to play on an iPhone. ### 5/5 — and ol' reliable friend *2021-03-15, version 1.8.0* This is an old school reliable standby. i really enjoy playing it. ### 5/5 — Mahjong mystery puzzle *2021-03-11* Love this game play it over and over **Developer response:** Thanks Mary! ### 5/5 — Awesome game *2020-12-20, version 1.7.9* Love this game, but wish they would have leaderboards . Also a way to restart everything from zero ### 5/5 — Love it, *2020-11-13, version 1.7.5* I can not stop playing. The only thing I do not like about this game is there is no pause key. Other then that I love playing ### 5/5 — Mahjong Venice puzzle *2020-10-03* I love this game. It helps me focus and improves my hand and eye coordination. It’s addictive in a good way! There are so many combination to the game and I never get bored with it Margo **Developer response:** Thanks Frankie! --- *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.*