# The Beautiful Dream — user reviews

> 172 indexed App Store user reviews of The Beautiful Dream by NetEase Games, rated 4.70/5 from 178 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-beautiful-dream/id1011086561/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-beautiful-dream/id1011086561.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 146 · 4★ 19 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 6

## What do users think of The Beautiful Dream?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🎨 Stunning and beautiful artwork/graphics
- 🎵 Soothing and atmospheric music
- 💡 Unique and creative puzzle mechanics
- 😌 Relaxing and calming gameplay experience
- 📖 Engaging story with poetic elements
- 💰 Free-to-play with no ads
- 🎯 Clever and logical puzzle design
- ✨ Smooth character animations and movements
- 🖼️ Traditional Chinese aesthetic and cultural elements

**Cons**

- 🎮 Unintuitive and confusing controls
- ❓ Poor in-game instructions and guidance
- ⏱️ Extremely short gameplay duration
- 🎯 Imprecise tap detection and hit boxes
- 😕 Arbitrary game mechanics without clear logic
- 📚 Unclear story and translation issues
- 🔊 Unnecessary sound effects during mistakes
- 🌑 Black background rendering on older devices

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Chapter VI - Moonlight: Colors not applying to portrait in dress painting section
- Black background rendering preventing interaction on older iOS devices
- Scenes missing on older devices (iOS 7)
- Graphics downgrade to 8-bit on older devices
- Imprecise tap detection requiring very specific spot clicking
- Color picking inconsistency (arbitrary rules about which objects yield colors)

**Most requested features**

- More levels and chapters
- Longer storyline and extended gameplay
- Better tutorial or on-screen instructions
- Sequel or continuation of the story
- Chinese language version
- Soundtrack availability
- Additional mini-games
- More colors and puzzle variety

## Newest reviews (16 of 172)

### 4/5 — Bug in Chapter VI - Moonlight

*2023-07-03, version 1.1*

In Chapter VI - Moonlight, the app is not allowing the colors to be applied to the portrait where it says, “Paint the dress and heavenly pendant…”

### 5/5 — Wow.

*2019-12-17*

This is hands down the most beautiful game I have played all year. The motion of the character in particular is so fluid and gorgeous. The use of color as a gameplay mechanic is fantastic. I love the background music, although the plucks when I tapped incorrectly were a bit unnecessary and took away from the beauty of the background music. Other than that, I am in awe that this is a free game. I am definitely following this developer and seeing what they do next.

### 5/5 — ethereal

*2019-11-24, version 1.1*

so pretty, and gorgeous. simple yet pretty. very unique

### 5/5 — Игра красивая, с романтической историей

*2019-11-23*

Игра необычная. Нарисована красиво. Правда короткая. Рекомендую

### 5/5 — 小品佳作

*2019-09-23, version 1.1*

網易很多作品，向來美術不會讓我失望
最讓我不喜的是抽卡的機率
但這款小遊戲就不會有這方面的問題。美術清新簡潔，人物表現流暢淡雅，很容易讓人帶進意境，是個小品佳作

### 5/5 — 桜のところ

*2019-08-19*

もうそこでつまってるんですけどどうやったら咲くんですか？

### 5/5 — 美麗なグラフィック

*2019-06-22*

画面の中からキャッチできる色を探し出し、然るべき箇所に当てはめてストーリーを進めていくパズル。ビジュアル、BGM、キャラクターの動きなど全てがとにかく美しい。ミニゲームはほとんど簡単なものだけど、３色の蝶のピースを当てはめるものだけ意味がわからなくて難儀した。中心部分が赤くなればクリアのようです。

### 4/5 — Amazing game

*2019-06-17*

Wow I’m really impressed. This game is beautiful! The animation is great and the music is just amazing. Im in love. Such a pity it’s so short and a bit hard to choose the right movements. When I had to color the dress, I’d spent around 20 mins to figure out the right spot on the screen. I just couldn’t simply find it, even though I followed the instructions: swiped up and down...but still

### 5/5 — Game tuyệt vời

*2019-06-07, version 1.1*

Đồ hoạ đẹp , âm nhạc hay , và đặc biệt cốt truyện game có kết thúc bất ngờ , game rất hay

### 5/5 — Excellent

*2019-06-04, version 1.1*

Best games I have found in a while.

### 5/5 — Amazing as expected

*2019-05-09, version 1.1*

Like Ink Mountains, and mystery it has beautiful art, the plot it short but still amazing ❤️

### 5/5 — Good game

*2019-04-27, version 1.1*

Beautiful bg music, beautiful art, gameplay not so hard, definitely worth the time

### 5/5 — 絵が綺麗

*2019-04-18*

ゲームとしてはおもしろいものはなにも無いけれど、雰囲気がいい。なにか胸がキュンとするゲーム、ゲームなのかこれ？だが、なんかいい。

### 5/5 — 優質遊戲，免費優美無廣告

*2019-04-11, version 1.1*

美術小清新，背景音樂優美，故事也不難理解
遊戲小謎題不會太難，不會太攏長，一個很棒的小品

### 3/5 — A Beautiful idea, mechanically flawed

*2019-03-22*

I was thoroughly enjoying this game, and really getting the hang of exchanging colours to restore a beautiful world, until I got to the second minigame. Others may have had no problem with this, but I could not control the lines of the butterfly colours to unravel long enough (without constant backtracking) to re-create the intended picture. Even using a walk-through, and understanding what I needed to do, the mechanics would not let the lines flow long enough to form what they needed to. Without being able to pass this minigame, I couldn’t progress. Sadly, deleted.

### 2/5 — am I missing something... or?

*2019-02-03*

Yeah I don’t get the five star reviews this game was pretty boring. Artwork was nice though, soundtrack too. But this “mini games” aspect is literally only 2 games, one putting together a simple puzzle and the other tap-and-paint. Don’t think I recall much else. The rest of the game is basically just trying to find colors and seeing where they fit. Game is really pretty though.

Also, uh, all I got from the story was “dude lost his lady and went to look for her”. Pretty forgettable to me.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Very unintuitive controls

*2019-08-28, version 1.1*

Sure the graphics are nice, but the controls are terrible...

So the game mechanic is, you tap & hold to take the color of an object, then tap and hold something else to paint. Simple right?

But if you put blue on already blue flowers they bloom? And you can take blue from water but not flowers? How arbitrary can you get? And that’s just in the first level!

This experience is making me wonder how much of the reviews are real.... netease has made good games but this is definitely not one of them.

### 1/5 — I don't know how to move!

*2017-05-15*

The game doesn't really tell u what to do. It says to explore but you can't move and there's nothing else in the current screen to fiddle with. Help

### 1/5 — Unable to play on ip4 ios 7

*2016-08-18, version 1.1*

It said that ios 6+ is required, my phone has ios 7 n its impossible to play. First, the beautiful graphic in the screenshots turns into lame 8bit. Then, some of the original scenes are skipped, I checked the walkthrough video online n see there is this scene at the beginning where he put the flower of her head, but there is no such scene in my game. Finally, and worst, the bg of the levels are pitch black, yes, black! Which means all the things u need to color disappear!!! Only the stuffs where u get the colors from remain visible!!! How can I advance in this BLIND COLORING GAME?!!! Dream?!!!

### 1/5 — Can't play

*2016-07-10, version 1.1*

Seems like a cool game but the background is all black so I can't click on anything but the grass PLEASE   FIX  SOON!

### 1/5 — More like a nightmare

*2016-03-06, version 1.1*

Honestly, the instructions tried to be poetic and failed miserably. To interact with an object, the character has to go super close to it and then you'd have to tap on a very precise spot. This game is totally off balanced and the beautiful graphics does not make up for it.

### 1/5 — So hard to play

*2016-02-25, version 1.1*

Makes no sense! Please hire a good UX IxD designer you have so much potential! The game is beautiful to look at but player have no idea what is interact-able and what is not! Just ended up tapping the whole screen! What a shame! Please please improve your interaction design! Writing fake reviews is not going to get you where you want to be.

### 1/5 — Beautiful dream is a nightmare to "play"

*2016-01-23*

Glowing reviews and interesting description piqued my curiosity to play the game. What I saw did look beautiful and had relaxing music. However though, the game was a frustrating nightmare to "play". I found the actual play very unintuitive and couldn't figure out how to advance in game. 

It was a miracle got past even the first level but that was only cuz I got upset and started tapping the entire scene like mad. The hint showed the wall was to be painted red but nowhere I tapped seemed to respond favorably. Turned out had to tap a very specific spot on the door to complete color transfer. 

The next level I was able to get the color white from fog and saw a lantern to store the white color in (although previous level was able to hold 4 colors without it if recall so idk why is needed). The hint showed was supposed to paint the tree pink from the animal resting below it but no where I touched was able to grab said pink color. Very disappointed to say the least...

### 2/5 — Pretty but not fun

*2020-02-17, version 1.1*

Controls are not very intuitive or creative. You just tap and hold to paint things but it doesn’t really clue you in properly what to do so you just tap everywhere until something happens. Not relaxing at all. It’s a shame because it’s pretty and has nice music.
Quit after level 2.

### 2/5 — ????

*2019-06-03, version 1.1*

Sao hình ko lên mà bấm hoài ko chơi đc thế hả trời

### 2/5 — I'm sorry. It's too bad.

*2019-05-27*

The world in this game and the story are very wonderful.But its operability is too bad. The screan shows no reaction.
That's a shame I couldn't play to the last.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — short but beautiful game

*2026-05-04*

I remembered playing it 9 years ago on a tiny screen. It’s atmospheric and beautiful

### 5/5 — Gũi nha phát triển

*2022-08-07, version 1.1*

Geme rát hay day

### 5/5 — Mong công ty ra game nhập vai :))

*2022-07-15, version 1.1*

Chưa chơi nhưng mình cực thích hãng game này 😽😽😽

### 5/5 — Too short

*2020-12-25*

I wish there were many more levels to this beautiful and intriguing game. I found it very soothing and relaxing to try to solve these wonderfully drawn puzzles. The beautiful music and amazing artwork are well worth looking out and listening to.

### 5/5 — Game hay vl :))

*2020-09-03, version 1.1*

Game hay cực , đồ họa xinh xẻo :3

### 5/5 — Game quá hoàn hảo

*2020-08-29, version 1.1*

Game hayy cựcc :< đồ hoạ đẹpp

### 5/5 — Hiii

*2020-08-17, version 1.1*

Game rất hayyy nha

### 5/5 — 素敵

*2020-06-14*

普段ゲームはBGMを消してやる派ですがこれは是非BGM流してプレイしてみることをおすすめします。ゆったりとした雰囲気にひたれて暇つぶしにいいですよ。落ちはそれかーい^_^なのはご愛敬ってことで。

### 5/5 — Beautiful art and music

*2020-04-16, version 1.1*

The only issue I have is the English.

### 5/5 — Hay

*2020-02-24, version 1.1*

Hay cực luôn

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