Goosebumps Horror Town Reviews

I enjoyed the game with my kids to a certain point and then realized to really advance and participate, one must spend a ton of money. They say you don’t have to buy anything to play, and sure that’s correct, but you won’t get very far. Every item you create and every task you perform is timed where you have to wait, sometimes for hours. If you don’t want to wait, you can skip it for bucks. Lots of items cost hundreds of bucks, which would be impossible to earn without spending actual money . I spent a few dollars on packages and ultimately felt ripped off as they just want you to spend more and more. I laughed when I saw “best deal” for 4,000 GB bucks, it “only costs 100 actual dollars”. For the amount they want you to spend, you could go out and get a gaming console. I also noticed that sometimes I got charged for things I didn’t actually buy. It happened twice to where I had to call in and get it refunded. That freaks me out a bit as usually I have to confirm when an App purchase is made but suddenly with GoosebumpsHorrorTown, I’m having unauthorized purchases pop up. Such a shame as it has potential, just too greedy.

You literally cannot progress in most quests without spending tons of the special currency you buy as an in game purchase. One of the first quests was to get Slappy, which cost 65 of the currency you have to buy. I slowly earned it by watching 30 second ads over the course of two weeks to get one of the currency every few hours, then completing big quests which can give you 2-5 of the currency. I finally earned 65 and go to buy Slappy- and his price is raised to 100! What a ripoff! I worked so hard to buy Slappy for 65 and now when i finally get 65 he costs 100. The only explanation I have for this is maybe he’s more expensive with the Christmas update, but why would you increase the prices of normal items so severely just for the holidays? Merry Christmas, his price won’t be lowered again for another five weeks (which is how long it takes to save 100 of the in game currency).

I loved this game at first. But as I advance through the levels, the tasks become harder to compete. It takes days to craft certain items you need to get to the next level.....only to have them disappear from inventory. I am so frustrated and have contacted customer service. I just want to items to be replaced. I even spent a little money on this game. But I’m done if they don’t fix the glitch causing my items to disappear. Now I’m even more discouraged reading the ratings. Other people had this issue and obviously it still has not been resolved. Don’t waste your time like I did. I’m so frustrated.

Also I find it pretty ridiculous that most of my tasks require dollars to complete [actual money]. This is a child’s game..... I will not spend any more money if the items will just disappear.

These types of games are always fun but tend to be a bit irritating as far as the premium money works. You hardly earn any “dollars” just doing normal tasks or leveling up and have to spend real money to buy them if you really want to get certain characters or items that would be super useful. I like that you can craft items to get better items to then sell at the Pawn Shop, but I don’t really like the refreshing system of random items because sometimes you have to refresh it several times at a minute thirty a piece for it to finally pick the item you actually want to sell. This new update made one item, the suspect photo, harder to craft because it added the need for an item only Brooke can craft that takes an hour! So now I am moving at a pretty slow pace at level 17 and each new character and area takes more coins and more harder to get items to unlock, so I might end up deleting it like I did Simpsons Tapped Out because it’s no fun if everything takes 8-24 hours to do.

As someone who read all Goosebumps and Goosebumps Horrorland Books I was thrilled when I saw that this game was coming out in May of 2018. I immediately preordered it and have been playing since this game was released. This is truest the best free town simulator and in terms of a pay wall you won’t find one. Not once have I ever felt pressured into buying any IAPs. The customer support is fantastic too. Any time you have a problem you just type it into the chat and usual receive a response either the same day or within 24 hours. (The longest I’ve ever waited was 30 hours.) When you do contact them they are more than happy to fix you problems and will credit you back anything that was lost during that time. I would HIGHLY recommend this game to anyone looking for a great town simulator without any money gimmicks. Thanks PixOwl for this great game!

Update:
This game has gotten progressively more p2p and it is difficult if not impossible to complete or unlock new stories outside of events.

Edited* Adding another star, I’m liking this game more and more. There’s room for improvement, but it’s a pretty new game with tons of potential. I’m hoping there will be expansions soon, it seems like I may be coming up on the highest level pretty quickly. The devs have done a great job, fun and keeps me playing multiple times a day.*

It’s a very cute game, pretty fun so far. I seem to have a lot of technical problems with it though, I get an error that says it “can’t connect to the internet” frequently. I know I’m connected, and don’t have this issue with any other games, so it has to be a problem with GoosebumpsHorrorTown. I also feel a little annoyed with the sale bundles. There was a bundle for 5 bucks, which included a character that was sold separately for 40 goosebump dollars. I ended up buying that character and it automatically removed her from the bundle deal, but the price stayed the same. I feel like if a significant part of the bundle is removed, it should either be replaced with something else or the cost should be lowered. Minor things that won’t stop me from playing, but I probably won’t spend any actual money on it. On the plus side, you can pretty much get unlimited goosebump dollars from the drive in right now by watching ads, however I suspect the particular glitch will be corrected pretty soon, haha. Overall, decent game, I’ll stick with it for quite a while I think.

This game is great! It has all of the childhood nostalgia, good characters and quests, enough to do that you don’t get bored in 30 seconds, and just the right amount of IAP. You can purchase things to make the game progress more quickly if you don’t mind throwing devs a few bucks, but you don’t feel like you’re required to do so to progress the game along. There’s plenty to do without it and you can earn in-game currency at a reasonable speed.

The only thing I’d suggest to make this a top notch franchise game is a town planning mode. I’m currently at level 14, and I’ve got a pretty messy town. I want to group certain buildings together, but that’s hard to do without the planning mode that is common in type of game which allows you to store all of your buildings and place them where you want them. It does allow construction of streets and land, but again, it would be much easier to organize my town if I could store my buildings while I’m doing it.

A planning mode is the ONLY thing I could possibly suggest to improve this game! If you enjoy strategy games and spooky things, or if you’re a Goosebumps fan, I highly recommend it!

The game is a overall delight, but I feel like it’s a bit simple in the fact that it only has simple goals in which you must only wait to accomplish. Every goal has a waiting time it’s like to finish one goal you wait five or 15 minutes just to wait another 15 minutes to accomplish another goal and the game goes on like that. It would be much more interesting if the focus was higher on the monsters instead of on creating the town and adding the people. Another thing that would make it seem like less of a waiting game would be if the crafts from the diner and the places like that were actually playable like mini games to create the can of roaches for example. You would have to go through a process of a mini game making it seem like less of a waiting game.

I really love this game, talk about nostalgia. The price of things is fair as well as spending real money, compared to other games, I really feel like this one isn’t money hungry. Really love that you can skip quite a few tasks with the option of watching a video; very helpful. The timing of things is reasonable too.

My one and only complaint (and why I am not giving this 5 stars) is that there are times when I’m not trying to collect items, yet when I’m trying to move around the map by dragging my finger, if I get too close to an item that’s ready to collect, the game automatically picks it up. Because of this I have accidentally spent some of my bucks to expand my inventory when I wasn’t trying to. If this is something that could be fixed, that would be great and I would definitely give the 5 stars this game deserves.

I’ve enjoyed this game since the start as I love scaring my little town people. However, I’ve been slightly stuck and not sure what to do next. The storyline is telling me to add certain buildings or characters so I am working on that now. However, there are a lot of items that it says a character I have needs to make but no option to make that item exits in their options. I’ll assume like the firefighter, I need another item placed but it won’t say what. I’ve expanded to the witch and the cyborg, but can’t make the things in the witch’s section because Ricky can’t make flowers yet. I’m level 25 now. Guess I just keep plugging away and see if other options show up. Odd that I would need to make something for the pawn shop or treasure dealer that I can’t even craft and haven’t been able to for the last 5 levels. Frustrating.

Great idea for a game loving the night mode all the time! I have a suggestion thought because right now having friends is pointless and really no point in having them.. why not make it like Simpson tapped out where you can have friends click on their town tap 3 buildings for money and move on! Both parties will benefit from it. When there's an event how about we get the event currency for visiting a friends town during event times. If one thing is for sure tapped out got it right. This magic event is killing me and I've been grinding feeling like I'm getting nowhere!! I event got the magician which I think is SUPER cool! I would just like to see some new stuff I know y'all are a business and need to make money and stuff but making a game a grind takes from the fun factor and gets deleted. Thank you.

This game is very cute and fun! Almost no ads and a nice idle game setup that’s addictive but not toooooo addictive. And I’m loving the new Halloween challenges! :)

The only thing keeping this game from being 5 stars are two pretty significant bugs -
1. Items disappear a LOT. I usually notice with rare items that I’m saving up to build with or finish stories, but it happens extremely often. Perhaps I’m accidentally deleting or selling items? It would be nice to make a prompt if a non-common item is deleted that asks “are you sure you’d like to a delete this rare item?”
2. The cash disappears!! I have been saving up for weeks, I was at 70 dollars and then randomly went back down to the 40s, I saved back up to 70s again today and then restarted the game and now I’m in the 30s?!

This is extremely frustrating, especially for the cash... Especially because I have no idea why it’s happening :/

I contacted help about this and they were really responsive and offered to put the items back but said it would require a game shutoff for 12 hours. That’s no big deal and I really appreciate their support. The only problem is that this happens every other day so consistently contacting help for missing items is pretty ridiculous. Hopefully this issue is fixed so I don’t have to quit/delete the game

Just started and I’m already hooked onto this game. I loved goosebumps from reading the books and watching the 90s television show. This game puts all my favourite characters into one town... nice!

I love that the characters and houses are based on the books and characters from various different storylines. I enjoy the slow process of sending characters on tasks and collecting the tasks. I like what the game has done with slappy the ventriloquist dummy, still laughing a lot and being all goofy like how I remember him as.

It’s saddening however that some of my favourite characters like carley Beth and the haunted mask requires money to get because I really loved that storyline. But I understand this game needs some in-app purchases so I’m ok with that. ( I’m a kid so I can’t really spend money in games ).

The game has a lot of potential, is really fun overall. There are a few bugs and app crashes but I’m used to that so I don’t really mind.

Please keep up the hard work! This game is awesome! I hope new monsters get added in ( some that don’t require money ) like from the storyline piano lessons can be a murder, not sure why I like that episode in the show but please add it into the game if possible. Some books could also use more lengthening as they are rather short in the quest content.

Love this game, thanks for the nostalgia

This game is awesome! Characters/Monsters are well made. The game is simple yet very creatively orchestrated that keeps you playing daily. I’m that said; I’m 30 years old with a life and I like that I don’t have to wait forever (like hours) for a a task to be finished; which primarily is what has kept me playing instead of lose interest like all the other games I’ve played. Oh and I’m obsessed with the sounds lol I don’t know why but I love the little screams while collecting for the scare O meteor. The game essentially is making/obtaining items to sell in order to buy Characters/Monsters/Land/decor. The items are really creative, I love the way they look and how you have to make other items to make the one you want; a recipe if you will. This is what keeps the game interesting. Aesthetically pleasing and mentally stimulating. I play every day and rarely go a day without opening GoosebumpsHorrorTown .

This game is really great. I enjoyed the game for about a year and had tons of fun. I put it down for a about 8 months because I had a child and just got busy with life/work...but I recently started to play it again and was able to pick right up and enjoy it even more now. Love the look and aesthetic (the detail and animations are truly amazing), and the stories are really fun to play out. Plenty of content, and I really really enjoy making my little town. As someone who grew up reading the books in the 90s seeing all the characters I grew up reading in my little town is a huge nostalgic plus as well. At the same time the game is simple enough that a kid could play it and have fun. If you are a fan of city/town building games, idle games or just a fan of goosebumps/horror this game has something for you.

I love the Goosebumps game but I am experiencing some bug issues with GoosebumpsHorrorTown one of the issues and I don’t know if this should be happening or not but some of the monsters are disappearing when they are supposed to be visible when they are scaring the character they are after another issue I’m noticing is the mummy character doesn’t disappear after he is done scaring the citizens every time I summon him they keep multiplying I’m not exactly sure if this is supposed to happen or not but if this isn’t supposed to be happening please fix these issues but other than that this is a great app if you are a big fan of Goosebumps movies but seeing GoosebumpsHorrorTown just came out 2 days ago I’m giving it a 5 star review because I know the bugs will be fixed in this game so if you haven’t downloaded the Goosebumps game then download it now you won’t regret it so if you are reading this what are you waiting for download GoosebumpsHorrorTown right now don’t let these little bugs stop you from downloading it they haven’t stopped me from playing this game so start playing the Goosebumps game today

Ever since I was a kid I loved Goosebumps and now there is a neat game that has all of the monsters and you can even build your own town! It is a pretty great game except one thing (this is for you developers): there is a bug (or glitch) in which once I used the lawn gnomes for like the third time the all went back to there garden except for one and now it’s just roaming in the streets with no purpose and I am unsure if this is a bug or glitch; anyway, please fix this and thanks for bringing my favorite childhood tv show into a game!!!🙂
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I am back on the same day and I found the same bug as the one listed about the lawn gnomes, IT HAPPENED With THE MUMMY TOO!! And to add onto that, their annoying sound effects still linger; it makes this sort of sound when they are roaming around the town giving people frights... They would usually go back to the places ( the mummy and the lawn gnomes ) but they are still scaring people even if they are done. If this is a bug, please fix it, I really enjoy this game and it’s still good except for the bug listed above. Lastly, I’ve enable notifications, but haven’t received any I’m unsure if this is a bug but thank you for a great game anyway...😊

PLEASE READ! I love this game and have been playing it every day for a week! But some people have been giving it a weaker rating for un-proper reasons. For example, most games similar to this one have an in-game currency that’s uncommon at getting so you have to pay real money for it. It’s the same for this game but there are so many other ways to get this type of currency! You can tap on the plus sign next to the goosebumps cash sign at the top of the screen and it gives you options to buy more cash or watch videos to get 1 free cash and you can get 1 free cash from the drive-in as well. Pumpkins also spawn for me every day and you can get at LEAST 5 cash from coming back every day for 4 days. You can use this cash to speed things up but have some patience! Wait for 1/4 of the time and you’ll be able to skip the action if the character is on the sidewalk (not in a building). You can also skip things that are being made like at the diner by tapping “skip” and choosing to watch a video instead of using cash. You'll eventually run out of videos but there’s definitely a larger supply of videos here than in other games. So please leave a review once you get to know the game more because it’s the best free town-creating app iv’e ever played! Thanks Pixowl❣️

This game’s decent. It plays a lot like the Family Guy app, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing - I liked that one too. The only complaint I have is that the scare-meter sometimes drops a full 10% after about an hour or so. This wouldn’t be so bad if some of the monsters weren’t so expensive, but what ends up happening is you pay 2, 3x the amount you thought you would just to get back up to where you were. It’s just a bit aggravating, because it’s also on a 24-hr countdown. Maybe it gets easier at higher levels but... eish.

Other than that it’s a fun app, if you like... city building, or whatever this is.

Edit: Changed the rating because it turns out that the scare-meter dropping so fast was a bug, and not a feature. Good game that stays pretty true to the series I loved when I was little.

One thing that would definitely make this game even better is a nuke option similar to Family Guy, where you can remove all objects at once to redecorate your town. Tapping and holding each and every object right now is an absolute nightmare (if you’re super into decorating... which I kinda am). If it’s not your kinda thing then this game’s perfect.

Out of nowhere I had a resurgence in interest for the Goosebumps books and lore. Ironically, it was just a matter of weeks after this rekindled interest that this game was announced. Fast forward to the release of it last night and I found myself immediately playing it. I have now put in about 1.5-2 hours worth of gameplay in total. While the system of gameplay is nothing new (it’s been done quite literally thousands of times) what makes the game enjoyable is, of course, the fun and spooky feel of the Goosebumps atmosphere. The concept is clever and, in a funny way, plays out just like the books do. That is to say, there is an unlikely group of kids finding clues and solving mysteries while the creatures they’re attempting to combat are terrorizing both them and their town. This is, in essence, how the game works. You send kids on missions to unlock clues while simultaneously building your town and terrorizing it with unlocked creatures.

These types of games are always fun but tend to be a bit irritating as far as the premium money works. You hardly earn any “dollars” just doing normal tasks or leveling up and have to spend real money to buy them if you really want to get certain characters or items that would be super useful. I like that you can craft items to get better items to then sell at the Pawn Shop, but I don’t really like the refreshing system of random items because sometimes you have to refresh it several times at a minute thirty a piece for it to finally pick the item you actually want to sell. This new update made one item, the suspect photo, harder to craft because it added the need for an item only Brooke can craft that takes an hour! So now I am moving at a pretty slow pace at level 17 and each new character and area takes more coins and more harder to get items to unlock, so I might end up deleting it like I did Simpsons Tapped Out because it’s no fun if everything takes 8-24 hours to do.