# Where's Tess — user reviews > 36 indexed App Store user reviews of Where's Tess by Luminaire Games LLC, rated 4.30/5 from 58 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wheres-tess/id6444902853/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wheres-tess/id6444902853.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 37 · 4★ 10 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 5 ## Newest reviews (11 of 36) ### 4/5 — Amazing game *2025-11-06, version 1.9* Game is perfect, but i am in chapter 27 and the game just doesn’t load? Help plz thanks ### 4/5 — Won’t load *2025-10-05, version 1.9* This game is amazing, I’m on season 2 but I’m not sure why it won’t get past episode 9. The screen won’t load and I really want to finish the game! Please get back to me as soon as possible! Please and thank you! ### 4/5 — Love this game *2025-05-26, version 1.9* I really love this game the storyline are so good and the characters they are amazing only problem I’m having is chapter 9 I think the load screen freezes I’ve tried to uninstall it then reinstall it but the chapter keeps freezing up I’m not sure if there’s a bug on the loading screen but it keeps doing this when I go on to it but apart from that the game is amazing ### 4/5 — No choice *2025-03-01* I love it but every time I want to have someone to be with it’s always some random person also there is barely any choices on who you like, so it’s pretty annoying when the person you don’t like the most. You have to go with. ### 4/5 — . *2025-01-26, version 1.8* I love this game but when I watch the adds for getting the crows and diamond it doesn’t give me anything, please fix this error ### 4/5 — I'm sad *2024-04-12, version 1.8* I love it but there's a bug I watched loads of ads too get crowns but I still just have 180 fix this please😭 ### 4/5 — Pretty *2023-06-09, version 1.6* I like the game layout already and it’s so aesthetic with the journaling! I just wish things didn’t cost so many crowns lol ### 4/5 — Sketch *2023-05-24, version 1.6* Is a great game but it took more money then it was supposed to ### 4/5 — It’s good but *2023-04-23, version 1.5* THIS GAME IS REALLY GOOD I LOVE THE STORYLINE AND EVERYTHING BUT IT KEEPS CRASHING ON ME WHEN I AM ON EPISODE 10😭 ### 5/5 — Definitely Worth Your Time. *2023-03-24, version 1.4* Shiro here! For a while, I was searching for a nice otome game to play. Unfortunately, I could find none that weren’t low-quality or not very f2p friendly. Then, I came across Where’s Tess. Don’t let the number of reviews deter you from downloading this game, because it is a gem. You don’t need to spend dozens of dollars just to play the game; no, it’s very playable, even if you don’t spend any money. The art is pretty nice, and I like how they have also given us a female love interest for all those woman-lovers out there. It has social media elements and the like, such as uploading pictures and your “popularity” or “fame” being increased by a varying amount, depending on the types of clothes you choose to wear and if you can also successfully complete the little side mini-games you can do. There is one issue I have with this game, though. I think that for the ads that you watch to gain rewards from, you could shorten their length, because I often find myself sitting and waiting for fifteen minutes or so to get all of the ad rewards because of lag and the ads being rather lag. But don’t get me wrong, I definitely like that this feature is included. Also, I’m on chapter five as of now, and every time the screen fades to white, the app crashes. However, that is likely because of my device being old and not because of the application itself, so I won’t place any of the blame onto the developers. But maybe they could change the white-screen transition into something else, like the background fade they did in all the prior chapters. If not, that’s perfectly fine; it’s an issue for minorities such as me. Overall, I definitely recommend this game for people that like dating sims such as Episode, but I also just recommend it in general. Give it a try! ### 4/5 — App crashes *2023-02-17, version 1.2* I payed for the starter pack and now my app keeps crashing I’ll give them a day before report it to apple !!!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Will Not Load *2023-06-18, version 1.6* Game looks interesting with pretty art style, but will not load for me to play. I decline saving to the cloud, ask the app not to track, then am perpetually stuck on the loading screen. No change after reopening and redownloading the app. ### 1/5 — Wont load *2023-05-19, version 1.6* The app won’t even let me into the actual game play it will load to the start screen then it stays there idk what to do about it ### 1/5 — Can’t get passed loading screen *2023-04-15, version 1.4* It won’t load ### 1/5 — Cant play *2023-04-12, version 1.4* The game is stuck in the loading screen ### 1/5 — Bought something, didn’t get it *2023-03-08, version 1.2* I bought the Style Pack for like 8.50CAD, but I didn’t get the outfits promised! The game and artstyle are both gorgeous, but I dislike that I was not given the things I paid for. Please fix this!! ### 1/5 — Well… *2023-02-28, version 1.2* Firstly I didn’t even have the experience of playing the game cuz it didn’t load for like two hours am not exaggerating ### 2/5 — No choice *2025-10-04, version 1.9* I loved this game but it just got annoying, I’m only there for holly. I hate those boys, especially that emo one. he’s so annoying, and his jokes aren’t even funny. I’ll tweak if he calls me a nickname ONE MORE TIME. I hate how it so fricking buggy, and whenever I try getting a diamond it never works. And scams me into watching a ad, yall are greedy and money hungry. Cause I get ads every the I even TOUCH the game. Those dates are so boring if it’s not with the person you want :( 2/10 only put another star, cause they Atleast tried. ### 3/5 — Loved it but there’s a problem. *2024-08-10, version 1.8* So this game is really good! It has beautiful art work and intriguing storyline, I do have a problem however, when you watch ads for crowns the crowns don’t come through. Also when you lose crowns there is no other way to make them, so i would really like to see a way to make crowns. I know you can make them by levelling up characters but not all chapters have that opportunity. Also little thing about me, I hate saying no to virtual characters and I spent all my crowns on Killian 😭 (I’m a Dylan stan). Anyway, in conclusion, fix the bug and have a better way to make crowns as well as diamonds. I still enjoy playing the game and can’t wait to unlock all the scenes with Dylan 🤭🤪 ### 3/5 — Crash *2023-08-10, version 1.6* I crashes every time I try to open it it won’t even go past the loading screen. I tried the game before and was amazing no issues I don’t know what is happening ### 3/5 — Crash *2023-02-14, version 1.2* Same for me it always crashes and it bugs all the time! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I literally love this game so much! *2026-04-26, version 1.9* I’m always recommending it to my friends! It’s so fun and cute! If you like a good story you found it plus very little ads ### 5/5 — Frozen *2025-12-04, version 1.9* I can’t read chapter 27 it’s frozen the download so U didn’t fix the bugs so please fix it ### 5/5 — A bit buggy *2025-08-14, version 1.9* I love the game, but episode 9 it says to download the new package that is available and it won’t download at all. Please help! ### 5/5 — Please help!! *2024-04-01, version 1.8* I absolutely love this game and it’s so fun! I recommend it so much and I am literally in love but I spent a bunch of diamonds to get the event reward for Tess’s birthday and I never got it! Please help I really want the reward! ### 5/5 — Take my money I’m begging you *2023-10-28, version 1.8* I really love this game so far! The art and the characters captured me instantly I even went to buy the rest of the season but the keys never showed up. The banner is now gone so I can’t even re buy it; I’m not even sad about my $0.99 I’ll give you another $0.99 I just want my keeeeys😭 ### 5/5 — Absolutely in love with this game *2023-10-18, version 1.8* When it comes to otomes and dating sims I always feel more drawn to only a couple or even just one of the love interests, so when I found that I was completely infatuated by every single one of the characters I was surprised. The game play is very unique in terms of dating sims, because so many dating sim try to imitate the big three in terms of game play(ikeman series, mystic messenger, obey me) it becomes very boring an unoriginal when you have to battle through levels, wait a full day to get tickets to read, or have the story progress solely through text messages, so “Where’s Tess” unique approach to game play where you have to take photos and gain followers was nice change. With the game’s female love interest, Holly, I was surprised as to how well written she was. With dating sims and especially new gens they often have one female love interest who was clearly written in for diversity points, I didn’t feel this way with Holly though. I absolutely loved her character and I loved how her’s and Tess’s relationship was written. Also being able to just buy an entire season for 0.99$ is amazing, not to mention the early game packs you can buy to help you progress is also one of the best things about this game. Overall this game is worth checking out despite the little amount of reviews it has. ### 5/5 — This game is so well done *2023-09-02* This game is so fun, but kinda slow ### 5/5 — Amazing Game Just Loading Issues! *2023-06-23, version 1.6* This game is literally amazing! The story is interesting & engaging, the humor is actually funny and not cringey, the artwork is beautiful, and the special choices/outfits/extras don’t cost too much! The only problem is you need to download most of the chapters and the photo packs and it has a tendency to crash or just not work. Other than that, 10/10, definitely recommend! ### 5/5 — :) *2023-04-24, version 1.5* I think there may be a buy on day ten as it keeps closing the app halfway through the day. It is still an amazing game and I love the graphics tho! ### 5/5 — Game is beautiful and great! *2023-04-03, version 1.4* I love this game! The art is gorgeous, the storyline is good, and you don’t have to pay to unlock content. Also, I love that I can spend just $0.99 to unlock a whole season, and the packs to get crowns and gems are super affordable, if you tend to spend money on games. Other story based games are so expensive, and if you have to wait hours to unlock just one chapter, it becomes boring. I love the characters and the storylines. There is so much content as well, so you can spend hours and hours playing this game. I also really enjoy the social media aspect. The posts are so cute, and I enjoy them a lot!! --- *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 2026-08-31.*