# The Happiness Project — user reviews

> 12 indexed App Store user reviews of The Happiness Project by UCL, rated 3.90/5 from 42 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-happiness-project/id1366965114/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-happiness-project/id1366965114.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 22 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 5

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Unhappy

*2023-12-04*

This game is a torture device of unhappiness.

### 1/5 — Games are boring

*2022-10-28*

These games are boring and should not be used to measure motivation to happiness. I am motivated to just get the game done as quickly as possible and that's about it :)

### 1/5 — Boring

*2021-07-08*

These games are super boring

### 1/5 — Unfun games

*2021-05-12*

These games are simply not fun so one has to pretend to care whether one wins or not. I wound up quite angry!

### 1/5 — Doesn’t work on my iPhone?

*2021-01-05*

I can’t get passed the form page as there appears to be a bug when trying to fill out the  ‘country’ field.

### 2/5 — Not winning me over

*2021-02-22*

I really want to help with this project but I’m seriously doubting the effectiveness of this app. Am I the only person whose mood doesn’t change in response to a phone game? I think the games need to be more engaging or competitive or something in order to make the player care more about the outcomes. Also, the fishing game just kills me. I hate that I’m forced to play it at every level because I feel like all that tapping is going to give me a repetitive stress injury.

### 3/5 — Not stimulating

*2021-08-22*

Super boring

### 3/5 — Please fix bug I can’t play

*2021-01-04*

It won’t get past the first page where it asks you questions because every time I enter where I live it erases it. Thank you!

### 5/5 — Brilliant, subtle design

*2024-04-14*

It looked like a fairly amateurish game app at first, but in fact it works really well. Great design, QA, and well proved.

### 5/5 — Interesting project

*2021-12-20*

The games are well constructed and the questions seem relevent. All the best

## Most praised reviews (2 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Simple, but fun

*2021-03-26*

Cute little games. Quite harmless. If it helps the scientists that's great.

### 5/5 — Games for science

*2021-01-05*

Interesting games, teaching you about the science behind them as well makes it even more enjoyable. Nice to think it will help improve the scientific understanding of well-being to help people enjoy their lives more.

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*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 2026-08-24.*