# Vacation Tycoon — user reviews > 106 indexed App Store user reviews of Vacation Tycoon by Hyper Hippo Publishing Ltd., rated 3.84/5 from 255 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vacation-tycoon/id1512317319/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vacation-tycoon/id1512317319.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 153 · 4★ 20 · 3★ 13 · 2★ 25 · 1★ 44 ## What do users think of Vacation Tycoon? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Fun game - 👍 Enjoyable gameplay - 🚀 Addictive - 👍 Disability representation **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and glitches - ⏱️ Slow progression - 💰 Pay-to-win mechanics - 🔍 Lack of balance - 📺 Excessive ads - 🛑 Game freezes/crashes **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes at level 5 - Progress reset after closing app - Unable to exit season menu - Audio issues - Soft-locks at certain levels **Most requested features** - Add reset option - Improve event balancing - Increase card/resource rewards - Implement prestige system - Add more seasons/content ## Newest reviews (18 of 106) ### 2/5 — Not the best idle *2025-09-25, version 2.5.0* Try their other games. Much better!!! This one is just a bit too hard to understand and play. ### 3/5 — Bug *2025-09-06* I’ve been playing the AdVenture games for a while so when I found out about this I had to get it, but when I got to level 5 every time I open the game it makes me click on the level in the top left corner and I can’t do anything. It just sits me on that screen. So I’m stuck at level 5 and can not play the game. I even tried deleting it and re-downloading it and it did not work. **Developer response:** Sorry to hear about this issue! Please contact our Support Team directly here and we can help resolve this problem: https://bit.ly/VacationSupport ### 2/5 — Used to be fun *2025-06-29, version 2.5.0* This game used to be really fun but after reaching later levels, it just becomes such a slog. The special events were really fun and broke from the monotony but now they’ve become insanely hard and boring. You can wait days on end just to level up one of the venues now. I’m at level 54 now and it’s just boring ### 2/5 — Seems broken *2025-05-22, version 2.5.0* It’s not letting me play anymore. It makes me click on my level and then won’t let me click off of it. Have tried removing it, clearing the data and still it will not let me play the game! I liked the game until this happened. Unplayable ### 2/5 — Ads are killing this game *2025-03-22* I’ve been a fan of hyper hippo games for awhile. Most of the previous ones I played for years until they didn’t update them anymore and I’d been top level for awhile. The problem with this game is that the ads make it not worth playing. The worst ads are the webpage that you have to look at for forty seconds but have to hit X every ten seconds to continue the timer. Second worst are the more than 60 second ads. I refuse to be forced to interact with an advertisement multiple times. Other games don’t force you to do that. Every once in a while I try to play again to see if they’ve fixed it but they haven’t. **Developer response:** Thanks for that feedback! We will share your review with our team. Ads are provided by a third party so we don't have direct control over which ads are shown. If you encounter any problem ads, make sure to report them directly to our in app Support Team (tap your Season > settings > ‘Get Help’). ### 4/5 — PLEASE ADD A NEW SEASON *2024-11-27* Love this game but for so long it has said new seasons coming… its fun to get the every other day new bonus game. When are you adding a new season? It's disappointing you have to wait to play whenever a new bonus game comes up. Would y'all maybe make a shorter wait time than 24 hours to play… or add new seasons? **Developer response:** We're so glad that you've had fun playing through the Vacation Tycoon content! At this time, we do not have any additional seasons in development. If you'd like to reset your progress and play again, please reach out to our support team! Tap on the settings icon and Get Help. ### 2/5 — Виснет *2024-11-01* При входе в игру, предлагает нажать на уровень (более ничего не нажимается), после чего выскакивает окно о прогрессе и ничего нажать нельзя. **Developer response:** Hi there, sorry to hear your game isn't working properly! We have a support team ready to help! Open up the settings and tap on Get Help to be connected with customer service! ### 2/5 — Disorganized game *2024-09-05* I have played all of the hyper hippo games and have been for years. I was excited to play this one because of the new game layout. But this game feels super disorganized. Sometimes when you level up to a new season things are in different order and things that had managers that automates them don’t work for that level. It seems weird and just not fun because there is no warning. I think things need to be explained a little better as they change. This is my least favorite hyper hippo game. I was very disappointed. **Developer response:** Thanks for the honest review and feedback! While Vacation Tycoon has some similarities to our other titles, there is a lot of different mechanics and strategies involved. We will definitely share your experience and feedback with our team for review. Make sure to send our in app Support Team (tap your Season – Settings – Get Help) a message anytime you have a question about the game! ### 4/5 — Love this game *2024-08-05, version 2.5.0* I just started playing this game and like it so far but I cannot find the settings to turn off the music and sounds. Where is it located? ### 3/5 — Can’t Play *2024-07-08, version 2.5.0* Hi, I downloaded this game when it first came out and started working fine and it stopped. It loads the island and then freezes and I can’t click on anything. The music still plays in the background. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the app multiple times and still nothing. Help I want to play this game. I have this problem ### 2/5 — It’s ok *2024-07-03, version 2.5.0* This game is good but when I try to play it tells me to click on the season button and I can’t click off it ### 3/5 — Pay To Play *2024-06-11, version 2.5.0* The game is fun for a little while until it gets harder and harder to level up. When you hit level 25, you hit a brick wall. Without paying for time skips or other boosts, I’ve been stuck on this level for two months now. Which is why I stopped playing it. ### 2/5 — Please fix bug *2024-06-11, version 2.5.0* I love your games and play several, however this game once you hit lvl 3 the arrow that points to the next step in the tutorial, once you click on the lvl button a window pops up and that’s it, your stuck staring at that window. I’ve tried everything including restarting my phone and uninstalling and reinstalling but have had no luck! ### 3/5 — Glitch or bug or whatever you call it *2024-05-03, version 2.5.0* I open the game and I’m stuck on the season page. It forces me to collect the money and then forces me to open the season page and then I get stuck in it ### 2/5 — So…Freakin’…BUGGY. *2024-04-15, version 2.5.0* I usually enjoy the games from these developers, this game started out the same way. But then the bugs started happening, audio stops working (had to delete an redownload and reinstall to fix…..MULTIPLE TIMES), game freezes because ads, and eventually ended on the game not even loading anymore, not even deleting and redownloading fixed this one, screw it, I’m done. ### 2/5 — bof *2024-04-07* bon jeu mais mon jeu a freeze comme pour pas mal de monde ### 2/5 — FIX THE GAME *2024-02-25* its bugged i can’t do anything ### 2/5 — 5 Minuten am Tag Spaß.. *2024-01-22* … wenn man nicht eine Werbung nach der anderen schaut. Außerdem nicht mehr die üblichen 30s + 5s Blöcke, sondern auch 60s + 15s Blöcke. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Game Breaking *2025-06-25, version 2.5.0* Game breaking bug basically soft locked. Since I see the last update was 2 years ago they probably don’t care, but it’ll force me to click on the season number and then basically lock out any input from there no matter what I do, no matter how many times I close out ### 1/5 — Worst Hyper Hippo Game *2025-06-12, version 2.5.0* I’ve played several of their games in the past and enjoyed them. This one however makes so many pay blocks it’s not worth anyone’s time. ### 1/5 — Play the other games, not this one. *2025-03-08, version 2.5.0* I’m a fan of these Hyper Hippo games but man, this one REALLY misses the mark. The early game is incredibly rushed (it took about 6 minutes to get through the first 8 or 9 “seasons” (this is when you reset your progress to start over) and then everything just grinds to a halt… unless you’re paying for things that is. It now takes two days to progress to the next season if you want to complete all tasks (which you should to get as many cards as you can). Basically I’m not “playing” this game like I do with the other ones. It’s just not engaging or fun. The events are even worse. So incredibly slow to the point of not needing me to play them for days at a time (they only last a handful of days anyways) and the rewards aren’t worth sinking currency into. Speaking of that, they share the same currency as your main game. So to progress the event, you have to sacrifice progressing your main game OR spend real money… watching ads isn’t worth it as up have to watch THREE ads before getting ONE card (keep in mind it takes exponentially more cards to level up, so one card every 4 hours is pretty much useless when you need 16 of them) All of that being said: This game takes all the bad designs from the other games and keeps none of the good. Honestly, I have no idea who made this since it’s definitely not the same people as the first three games OR they just forgot how to make their own games, I guess. I would skip playing this one and try the other one if you’re interested in this type of game. I’ll give them 1/5 stars and they can watch 10 ads to get 0.1 more star from me (limit one per week) if they want to boost my review… 😜 just kidding, the App Store isn’t greedy like these predatory mobile games are! ### 1/5 — Won’t work *2024-10-30, version 2.5.0* Started playing this game, and now it doesn’t work? 😭 ### 1/5 — Your Game *2024-09-25, version 2.5.0* Your game is skipping through seasons like we’re at a football game. I played for 2 minutes and I’m on season 5 the game should be enjoyable to learn not the arrow telling me what to do. It’s fair enough telling people how to play the game at the start but imma be half way through the game by the time the arrow stops telling me what to do. It’s not enjoyable when all it’s telling me is how to play it instead of taking your time I didn’t even get to upgrade all my builds or reach max on anything. I’m rlly disappointed in how I cannot play games the way I would like to anymore instead of having to stop bc the game told me so. I’m vry disappointed and did not enjoy its aggravating. ### 1/5 — Freezing Bug unfixed *2024-08-29, version 2.5.0* I just started this game today. Liked it enough to get rid of the ads for it and now I get to collect the funds from when I was offline and then it freezes!!!! This needs to be fixed. I can’t even reach out to the developers. I’ve seen this issue in a number of reviews now that I’m looking for this glitch and it’s been months going on now. ### 1/5 — Just not good *2024-08-22* I’m a big hyper hippo fan and play all of their games. Not this one…. I wonder if this game was outsourced to high school beginner game design team?? It’s just very poorly thought out.. difficult to progress. The rewards are so bad. Like what kind of game makes you watch THREE ads for one reward? The reward isn’t even enough to help your game progress. And what is with sharing the same currency between the main game and the events?? It’s so difficult to earn the currency that you don’t want to invest any in a temporary event because it’s taking away from the main game. Which also makes the events unplayable. Hate to say it but I stuck this one out longer than I should have hoping it would get better, but this is the first hyper hippo game that is getting uninstalled. **Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to leave a detailed and honest review! There is a lot of great feedback here that we will make sure to share with our team. We hope you will continue to enjoy our games and provide further feedback to help improve them! ### 1/5 — Problem *2024-08-18, version 2.5.0* I can’t click anything when the game asks me to click on my level at the top left. Won’t let me exit the pop up where it tells me how many goals I have etc ### 1/5 — Beware of Garbage implementation *2024-07-12, version 2.5.0* Game was fun, until I restarted the app halfway through level 5 and the game decided to give me an unskippable tutorial click which forced me to click into a screen which doesn’t go anywhere. No matter how many times I restart the game, the same thing happens. Game is no longer fun, since it doesn’t actually work anymore. ### 1/5 — Glitches *2024-03-26, version 2.5.0* When you get to season 5 the game will ask you to go to the progress (like where it says how many more chest you need to open till the next season) screen and then it won’t let you leave or do anything else Update I reinstalled it and it still doesn’t work (I put stars so people would see it) ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I like it A Lote *2025-08-14, version 2.5.0* Its good and all. But, please add a reset option. Once i hit Season 11, it slowed considerably. Stuck on it for a couple days now. If not a reset, maybe a prestige system of sorts. ### 5/5 — Fun *2025-03-05, version 2.5.0* Would more likely buy the no ads option if it was forever and not just 7 days ### 5/5 — Un jeu prenant *2023-02-14* Ce que j’aime dans ce jeu c’est l’amélioration des managers a une influence sur les évènements hebdomadaires. 👍 **Developer response:** Thank you for your review! ### 5/5 — Super fun game *2023-01-31* Love this game AND the amazing support of the team! Keep up the good work **Developer response:** Thank you so much for the updated review! So glad our support team was able to help get your game back to normal. :D ### 5/5 — molto bello *2023-01-16* ha un grande potenziale ma dovete aggiornarlo ed aggiungere qualcosa forza! **Developer response:** Thanks for the review! If you have any suggestions on what you would like to see added to the game please send our in app support team a message anytime. (tap your Season > settings > ‘Get Help’). ### 5/5 — Mixed feelings *2022-10-23* A lot of OG games and not just tycoon games are moving to random newer versions. Completely different art styles etc. However this adds more than the older versions and keeps most of the older feel. It’s modernized without completely ruining the original feel. **Developer response:** Thank you for your review! ### 5/5 — Vacation Tycoon *2022-10-09, version 2.2.0* My favourite game too .Very addictive !😌 ### 5/5 — Vacation Tycoonnnn *2022-09-18, version 2.1.0* I love this game personally, fav out of the 4! ### 5/5 — Encore un classique *2022-09-13* Hyper Hippo sont doués pour ce genre de jeu, une nouvelle masterclass, merci. 🤝 **Developer response:** Thank You for your support! ### 5/5 — Does not disappoint *2022-06-22, version 1.5.0* I was thrilled to start playing this game, and by the time I got an ad for it. I GOT IT IMMEDIATELY. And this game is fun, so keep working on it and making it better please! 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