Mystery Manor Reviews

I keep hearing from GI that our feedback gets taken into account. Only if they use it to make the game more impossible. They take 2 beautiful rooms and redo them so that you can’t see the items you need to find. So, they improved the zoom. however the items were too small and indistinguishable to begin with. A blob is still a blob no matter how big you make it. Then update 2.15.1 makes the text for the names of the items you have to find too tiny. I play on a 12.9” iPad. The text shouldn’t be that small. Then there’s the guilds. The brilliant plan is to stick everyone in a guild. You can leave but you just go to a different guild. You can’t opt out! How hard is that to put in as a function. As a result the players that want to be in Guilds and do the events are hampered by the ones plopped into their guild that have no interest. Plus the rewards you can buy with guild points, like everything else in the game, are so many points you will only be able to collect one a year. This is not GI listening to their players! Keys to play rooms are impossible to earn and rooms that need to be unlocked require so many items that can’t be gotten it’s too ridiculous. Don’t tell me time and patience! I think 6 months to collect items to open rooms is excessive! Each update of this game makes it much worse. I will be deleting it and I played the original MM for the iPad and wrote a help website for over 6 years.

This game used to be fun as a hidden object game. Recently it has turned into a match 3 game and you have to play the same 15 games over and over. So boring! There have been two updates recently but nothing in both those updates appear in the game. Some of the rooms require so much to enter that the ability to play them is practically non-existent. So why bother to open them. You are forced to be in a guild whether you want to or not. No option to opt out. Often you get stuck with people who don’t play or don’t speak your language. It takes too long to advance a level as the rewards are minimal. There no quests that are achievable. A new mode has been added that slows down the game and if you banish it you have to watch the same ad over and over. I have been a supporter of this game from the beginning but I probably will be quitting as the game has turned into something that is a chore and very very boring!!

Really liked the game for a while. It was challenging, but fun. As any game, the challenges becomes harder as one progresses through the game. Now, however, with updates, the developers have made it impossible to play without spending money. And lots of it. The number of items needed to find in some rooms in a very short amount of time is ridiculous. It is a lot more frustrating than fun. Then, I hit level 186 on match three. I have played this one level for more than a week. It is impossible to to win, unless money is spent which I won’t. I have been put in a guild where only 2 or 3 out of 10 are even playing. I assume most have left due to reasons listed above. Developers, you have lost one more. I will come back when you put your players first instead of being greedy.

Edited: Response to Developers. If I play the same match three level game, for a over week, and only spend coins on the same level, in this case, level 186, I consider it not winnable without spending money. I have played many other games with extremely hard levels, but never for a week or even several days without winning. You can have your frustrating, money hungry game, there are plenty of find and seek games in MysteryManor Store.

I’ve been playing for about a month, the match three is almost impossible to beat after you hit level 130. They require you to collect a certain number of pieces (seahorses etc) but don’t actually give you enough pieces to actually pass the level without paying. Also the amount of energy required to play the rooms is too much. They require you to play rooms in specific modes to get collection pieces or to pass quests but you have to play these rooms 5 or 6 times (in these modes) to get the items needed, it shouldn’t take a week just to get items needed. You need to collect items to “banish” or “trade with” characters but there are so many characters and you never get enough items (some of which are required to play rooms) to actually accomplish anything. I’ve read past reviews and found these same issues were brought up a couple years ago and nothing has changed. The developer comments are always the same: they are working on this in the next update (or something along those lines) but obviously 2 years later and nothing has been changed. I refuse to spend money (which the charge too much anyway) on a game that is almost impossible to progress on.

I am a long time player of their old game and decided to try the new one. At first it was very exciting, because it was new. Now it is bogged down in problems that aren’t being fixed. Energy takes too long to replenish. I am at level 37 and have entered zodiac mode and 3 of my rooms are locked down because I don’t have the ability to search them because keys are almost impossible to get, I am unable to participate in the daily contest or guild events as a result of this. In essence, unless I want to spend a lot of $$$$ I am getting nowhere in this game until they fix a bunch of stuff. I have only touched on a few in this review.

UPDATE: Mar 2019 - Level 67 - things improved slightly for a while and then with each update more negative changes, progress taken away from players, costs keep going up, impossible quest strings........GREEDY developer. Ready to be done unless good, real, positive changes are made. Fix drop rates, stop making quests impossible to complete, stop baiting and switching rooms.

UPDATE: Apr 2019 - drop rate HAS NOT IMPROVED. This game could be so fun if the developer just made it a bit easier to advance. They are well on the way to destroying this game - at least by U.S.A. players who don’t want to spend a lot of $$$$$$.

I played the original iPad version of this game years ago so I was excited to see the revamped version. The graphics are beautiful but it is essentially a re-skinned version of the older game with a few enhancements.

Now here come the problems. I made it to level 9 and have run out of all quests. I’m also unable to unlock the next room (Bathroom) as there is no quest to get the key and it doesn’t drop from any other rooms. I figure I’ll contact customer support but of course this is a Russian company so I already knew customer service will be sub par. So not only did I get an extremely rude reply to “just play the game” which was written in a rude tone and full of typos and spelling mistakes. Really that’s the best your CS can do? Maybe if I actually had some quests or a way to get the needed XP I would play this game but wait I don’t. Other replies were in the same vein “play the game, level up, we couldn’t be more clear”. Well I couldn’t be more clear and rate this stinker of a game a big fat 0! Train your staff GI and have them learn how to speak properly to your customers. Please, sorry, and thank you are something they should add to their vocabulary. Oh and fix your glitchy game!

Started playing when it first came out. But this game is way to hard for me to play. So I’m going back to the old version. It is not player friendly. I gave it a good try. The only room I can play is the bathroom on the first floor. Can’t get off the first floor. The rooms are to tough to play. So can’t finish the quest. So bye The reason why I’m still on the 1st floor. I can’t not finish the quest because it is to difficult to see the items to complete the rooms before the time expires. The only room I can finish most of the time is the bathroom. Even match 3 is to hard. I been trying to beat the same level for 1 month now. I just feel like way should I play a game when I can only complete 1 room. That is no fun to me. And very frustrating. So I will keep playing the old version. A lot more fun

Make the items easier to see. No outlines of the items, make them solid. Make less items or give us more time to fine time. Match 3 in the higher levels. Either less combination or give us more moves or more time to complete the requirements. Now you guys are the developers. Use your brains and make it more player friendly.

As someone before had mentioned this is supposed to be a hidden object game. You’re supposed to look for an object be able to make the screen larger, which it stops doing after a while; & when I do find the object and click on it, it doesn’t take it. I keep pressing items pictured & nothing happens. Then I run out of time you try to make me buy something to give me more time or energy or whatever & when I don’t buy and spend my real money the creators give you the run around.
If it’s all about taking my money (our money) then why offer the game instead of fooling your customers into wasting precious time & even more outrageous our money!
Disgusted consumer! Funny how this hasn’t been posted already. Looked at your past reviews & I’d be ashamed if I were to offer a game with so many terrible reviews. Going to delete your “game” & never choose another by your company
Hope others will follow

They take your money!!!!! Every time I play a level it kicks me off. They don’t return your life energy nor do they give you credit for clearing a room. They took over 5,000 credits by kicking me out of games not to mention the diamonds and hint finder items I’ve bought. Then they won’t even let you accumulate energy if you already have so much. If you’re in a certain high level room they will kick you out as you’re almost finished. They will put you in rooms that don’t have any pens in them so you can’t play. I can go on forever about the negatives of this game. They overcharge you just to play then cheat you if you win. Don’t waste your time. Not even worth the 1 star I gave them. This used to be a fun game until they started cheating me. You would think they would try to make it right by at the very least giving you your credits that you lost but they won’t. They will take your money and cheat you. Don’t be a fool like me and buy stuff just so they can steal your money and cheat you on the game!!!!!! Worthless game by a bunch of thieves

I used to love this game! The newest updates have made it impossible to play now. I can’t stretch the game site as much as I used to be able to do, so I can barely see the game anymore. Everything has become so small, it’s nearly impossible to see let alone play. Wish they hadn’t updated it. Before it was really fun, now it’s just a memory to me. 😖 I stopped by the developers site on my app store only to find this is the exact same company that made several other games I’ve had to abandon. I guess Game Insights has no insight at all except to be greedy. All of the games have similar problems, all cost a flat fortune to play if you want to get very far and each update on each game made it worse, not easier or more friendly. Now that I know, I will avoid any of the games they make and do a write up on all 14 of my consumer blogs (with a half million people following it should have some impact)

This game is fun for maybe a week, but then it becomes expensive. Your energy accumulates so slowly, yet the amount of energy needed to play a room doubles. By a certain level, this gives you about 15 minutes of game play for an entire day, even with daily prizes. I have no problem spending a couple dollars here and there for a good game, but the prices for gems/energy are too high for me. It’s apparent that the developers created the game play with too much greed. I’m on level 18 and pretty much at a stand still. The rooms don’t switch “modes” until you play them a few times, which costs energy. I have several quests that require me to find an item in a room with a certain mode; with the lack of energy and high price of playing a room, it could take days to line these factors up correctly—only to not actually get awarded the item once you do, and start the whole process again. I really wanted to like this game. I like the graphics, story line, daily prizes, and guild competitions, and can appreciate that this all took some hard work and dedication from the developers. But I can’t afford to spend hundreds of dollars to make the game enjoyable. If vast improvements are made in that respect, I’d be happy to change my rating/review to reflect the other great aspects of the game.

I like this game, but it has many annoying and boring features. What I like:
Unlimited free play when energy is recharged of course.
Many additional oppotunities to get gems and charms and chargers through extra side games.
Some detective story, which I am unable to play unless I pay money (somehow the developers should profit from something here)
What I don’t like:
1. Hidden objects in ECHO. I think there is a glitch that is cheeting players of chances to win. I have had many a time looked in areas where the game shows me at the end the object.
2. The 50% charm, does not work in helping getting the items for quest. I have seen no difference in using the charm vs not using it.
3. Furniture in the rooms are super expensive for no good reason.
4. Unlocking rooms is near impossible since one cannot get chargers easily through the first 5 rooms.
5. The objects become significantly difficult to identify as the game level progresses. They are very small and even become a shadow on a surface or an unsual “symbol” , i.e. sunflower in Hall room and hot dog in Kitchen.
6. The repetition in the 5 initial rooms to get more chargers is putting me to sleep.
7. The ads in between rooms is putting me to sleep.
8. The timer in loading each game in rooms is putting me to sleep.
9. The astral detective not getting unlocked despite getting all of the tokens and finishing the story is unfair.

Overall, the game is very fun, even if it is somewhat annoying to have to search a room multiple times to get the thing you need.

My issue is with the match-3 aspect. If it weren’t for the match-3, I’d rate this game at 4.5 or even 5.

As you get to higher levels in the match-3, you get more and more obstacles and it becomes close to impossible to pass a level. In your match-3, you only have 2 power-ups that aren’t very powerful. You have the rocket, which only takes out the pieces directly next to it. And you have the mine/bomb, which doesn’t cover a large area.

In other games of this type, they have more power-ups that make it so that beating the level is hard, but not impossible. For instance, they usually have a power-up if you match in the shape of a T or an L or a square. And they have ones that can take out a whole row or column.

With only 2 power-ups, many obstacles, and not enough moves per level, your match-3 has become almost impossible to beat. This is extremely frustrating when you can’t move further in the rest of the game without getting the objective item in the match-3. Especially if you finally manage to pass the extremely difficult level and then you don’t get the thing you need.

I’ll start by saying that I like the rewards system for Guild events in the new version of Mystery Manor than in the old one.

However, what I really DON’T like about the Guilds in the new game is that each player is assigned to a Guild whether they want to be, or not. I end up pulling anywhere from 50% of the weight up to 90%+. Tedious and frustrating. There really should be an option for players to just opt-out of being in a Guild if they’re not interested. Also, since we can’t pick our Guild-mates, and we can’t remove non-players, the system should remove players who repeatedly don’t contribute to the events - I mean for weeks they don’t contribute. I’ve come across Guild members whose only points they’ve ever earned are for checking in every day. Sorry....But the ultra competitive side of me thinks that these people are just in the way.

I’m really eager for the update that allows us to add friends, ask friends for gifts (chargers, etc.), pick our own Guild / Guild leader, and decide whom we want in our Guild.

Been playing for quite a few months now. Fun game to pass time. However, the more I progress through the game, the more difficult it is to complete the tasks. You need to get items to trade with the characters to get charms to get access to the special rooms. For instance 7 things of milk to trade with the cat to get 5 stones to enter the fortune telling room which takes 40 stones. Sometimes it takes 3+ times exploring the room to get the item needed for the task. This means you’ll need to explore the other rooms to find the items to trade with the characters.
My biggest frustration is when you need to find the trade items you can explore multiple rooms, multiple times and not get any. And it always seems that after you do finally find the special item to complete a task and no longer need the trade item, you start getting them every time you explore a room.
The items you need from exploring are never found when you need them.

I wanted to like this, especially because there isn’t any of the kind of things that tend to jumpscare me (think, among other things, items suddenly popping in and out as an indication of where they are). And I different variations that are used.

But I can’t say I’m a fan of the time limits that are put into play after only a few searches. I get that a couple of the achievements depend on failed searches due to time over, but the limits feel pretty tight and it took me six or seven tries to finish one stage with the Logos room set in part because 1) items are hard to see and 2) no visual representation of what you’re looking for.

This makes the game feel like a money grab in the respect that you have to stock up on gems, in order to stock up on items, in order to have any reasonable chance of making progress without feeling like you want to throw your device into the wall. I sensed I was close to this, and had to delete MysteryManor for now.

If you consider yourself a hidden object expert, this game makes you prove it. But if you’re new to this style of game, you might want to look elsewhere first.

I’ve been playing this game for nearly two months. I spend about 2+ hours/day. And I’ve spent $ on it (which I’ve NEVER done with another game!) and that proves how much I’m into it. In the past 12 hours, there is a bug where we cannot access our quests/ missions. This is highly disappointing & frustrating. Please fix ASAP & give some bonus or credit for the time lost. My guild has been gaining a great team work ethic & I don’t want to lose our momentum. Let alone, why would I continue to spend real $ on a game that doesn’t continue to update & give back to its players? Thanks

I really love this game so much. I’ve been playing well over a year !!! when I first started playing this game, they only had ads if I pressed the space to watch an ad to gain an time or to double my winnings. Which I used quite often. So I was already watching plenty of adds. But then an update went through quite some time back and now when I hit the x after I won the level it will gives me an add anyway!!!! I am so frustrated with it!! It seems to be more and more often. I delete games with adds but this one is one I loved before it blasted me with adds!!!! Bring back the old days!!!!
A absolutely hate the adds shown! A lot of them are disgusting and I am playing a hidden objects game and not stupid shoot them up zombie games!!!!! They are terrible!!!!!! Gross!!! Disgust!!!!! Stupid!!!

This is a game that is great to play while streaming. Very straightforward and easy for all ages. It could benefit from some developer tweaking: diamond bonuses that actually occur when you click on the update & Level 85 in match three mini game does not reflect correct amounts/count on the left side. Blue fish constantly change count. Reproduced several times to the point I closed the game,rebooted ipad and it still occurs. Customer service is done through a texting format in MysteryManor and the thought of a pop up, saying there is a reply to view, would be good. Otherwise a user has no clue there is a response. I have made in app purchases over the years but you can play without, which is nice in comparison to games which bombard users with ads. I like the interface of this version best. Works great overall, on ipad.

I love this game and have been playing it for a long time. I always have looked forward to the updates, until today. The last update I was disappointed on the cost of the tools. The previous update changed it so you got one free and then the any of diamonds were raised for the rest. The changes in the elevator and hall make it impossible to find items without spending a fortune.

I have to admit I was extremely disappointed when I saw the new cost for the pointers and tools. It makes it even more expensive to play the game than before. The third and final change which I don't like is when the timer comes on, you had to watch an ad, and then you could tap on the characters and watch the necessary ads to have them turn green and get gifts. Now they stay blue all of the time and you have to pay to get them to turn green.

I honestly don't understand why you would take a game that is beautifully made and turn it into something people are going to drop due to cost. I doubt you will read this or even respond to me, but I feel better having you know, I am going to be leaving the game.