Design Island:3D Home Makeover Reviews

by Deenahsquare

This was my favorite game! No longer. I’m about to delete this. They used to have levels that were difficult but not impossible. They had lots of power ups and coins and lives. Then, I don’t know what happened to the developers! They didn’t like us enjoying this game I guess. I’m on level 940 something.. and I have to play each level at least 30 times before I can somehow manage to scrape through the levels, even when they are green levels! I have to use all my power ups multiple times. It’s been so frustrating. They make special events and I used to complete them all. Now I haven’t completed the last three events because in 7-10 days I can barely cross 1 level. So it’s been really frustrating and I feel sad. Why did you have to destroy such a good game? I don’t consider this worth a headache. Look for other games.

by Dreamer4474

I thoroughly Love this game and it has been fun, HOWEVER , e wry two seconds it interrupts my playing to ask me to login in to my Facebook to use my information!! NO, I do not have Facebook!!! I’m going to end up deleting it because it’s beyond annoying to not be able to play with out clicking the pop up box!! It is literally every two seconds . I feel like a game should be able to be fun without using Facebook . I have tried to turn off and clear out every every or anything to stop it ! And yet it continues ! It’s frustrating and ruins the fun of the game ! You need to fix that big time !

by Helen Trask

Great fun until...game crashes. You contact support and they act like they’ve never heard of this issue even though you can read through the comments and it’s obvious that this is a real problem. The chat people talk down to you. They ask you to share screen shots of the problem even though you tell them repeatedly that you can’t because the game blows up, shuts down, and automatically closes DesignIsland . The support staff is clearly trained to chat you in circles, frustrate you, and hope you delete DesignIsland so that they don’t have to address the issue. I image them “high-fiving” each other every time a player gives up and deletes DesignIsland . So as I told my customer service “support” person, “You win. I’m done. Keep my money.” But you all need to be aware. The higher you get in the game, the more the game blows up. Don’t waste your time or money.

by Annie Oh

I have put up with the frequent crashes that also take one of your lives, even though you may have been beating the level at the time. And yes, when you return to that level the winning move has mysteriously disappeared. So you lose the level, and another life of course.
But now you cannot “save” lives as before. I have been stockpiling my “5 life” wins on spins or gifts for when I needed them, for a total of about 30 lives. So I just went to use these lives and all but 5 are gone. Yes, they have been deleted due to a new policy which doesn’t allow you to accrue more than 5 lives, or maybe 10 under certain circumstances. I obviously didn’t qualify for the 10 life “bank”. Don’t you think it would have been sporting to let us keep our saved lives and use them, and to notify people about the policy change as well? I had to find out about this by searching out this info (listed as: Where did my lives go? or something similar).
I have foolishly spent real money playing this game but I see it was wasted.
Don’t trust this company and don’t spend any money on their products.

by Way36

So I used to love playing this game but for some reason they are not updating it for further levels. I have 164 stars but unable to use them because there are no updates to take the game further. Please do not tell me that it takes time to test out different levels because this isn’t the only game I play. It has been months since there has been an update. Making the game no longer challenging trying to finish levels or rooms what I am talking about. It keeps saying check out Facebook when the next update is, but there isn’t any update.

by Mcakin

The puzzles are fun, the rewards are sufficient, & events ongoing. However, the team events are missing something. Other games, such as Sweet Escapes (my favorite) have with team events somehow bring people together through the chats & overall challenge. Not so here & I can’t really put my finger on why/how that is . It’s just simply there and most people appear to have a take it or leave it/ meh attitude with team events.

The ongoing/untimed scenes are fun to decorate, but the limited time scenes continually repeat. I’ve been playing for over a year & rarely get one completed before it is replaced with yet another scene I didn’t formerly complete, leaving me to start the same boring timed scenes over & over again. Personally, I absolutely dread when the the concert/music scenes show up. They are uninteresting and the sounds that accompany them are irritating. I usually don’t play for a couple of days until those are gone.

Bottom line is, I want to love this game, but it definitely needs work on the team events and limited time scenes to be earn my 5 stars.

by Litehousesfan

There was a time when I really enjoyed this game. Enjoyed it so much I spent quite a bit of money on it (and I don’t usually do that unless I really....REALLY like the game). I understand that the levels have to get more challenging the higher up you go....I get it. My issue is when it starts to take 2 weeks or more to get through a level (and that’s with spending money on the game), it is no longer fun. I gave up trying to do the special events a while back. Sad to say I can’t even get in on things like the treasure chest, the missle race, the duck helps, etc. so I’m walking away for the time being because I get so very frustrated when I play this game. I play these types of games to relax and relieve stress. This game is now adding to the stress instead.

I hate this because I really do like the game. I know I’ll get some robotic response to this because I see typically same response over and over. I may come back and try again or I may just leave all together. We shall see.

by Daisyeight8

UPDATE: I sent all of the data to the design team and they told me to wait for the update and hopefully that would fix my issues... it didn’t. The game is still crashing and in fact it is crashing more often. Now I can’t even complete a level before DesignIsland disappears.

I like the game. It’s fun to play and design. The problem I have is that I will play a level and then DesignIsland will disappear from my screen. I’ll pull DesignIsland back up, play another level or decorate something and then DesignIsland disappears again. I tried deleting DesignIsland and reinstalling but nothing.

by Annoyed Panda Pop Player

I’ve give this game 5 stars if it weren’t for the fact that it is too slow to add levels. Perhaps it’s because I play it all the time (the game is addictive) but I keep running into the situation where I’ve beat all the levels and then I have to wait 2-3 weeks for there to be more added. Also, the events are too short and are always over before I have a chance to complete them. Why not make them 2 weeks at least? It’s getting frustrating and I don’t know if I’ll keep playing.

by Sharon_is_super

This game started out pretty great for a match game. The graphics are good and the scenes are pretty. Their biggest downfall is whoever chose the color pallets. The pallet is the same in EVERY SINGLE SCENE. You get to choose between yellow, orangey-red, or a warm grass green. The result of this, is that every scene you design looks.. the exact same. No matter what. There are NO cool color tones to choose from, just the same ones over and over and over. You can’t choose between, like, a cool, crisp scene, a warm cozy scene, or a green, earthy scene. No matter what color combo you choose, it’s this extremely warm-toned yellow tinged scene. I’m not playing anymore because it’s getting frustrating.

by Catsup Cactus

I like this game but with the power up drop down function in the levels where the bombs, rockets and line blaster things are supposed to come down, it doesn’t give any as often as I think it should. There have been some levels where the cookies drop down every turn but I’ve just failed this level where the rocket hasn’t dropped down even once and I don’t think that’s fair. I thought those were supposed to help you in the level. I can’t afford to buy a bunch of boosters and so a lot of the time, I abandoned games like this because of this exact issue. I don’t mind having the drop down with cookies I just would like it to be more balanced.

by Kitticatn

I just started playing this game and it moves forward well so far, with explanations of how to use each game piece and rewards of adding furniture at each game win. I like adding items after each game win instead of having to win several games to add something. I don’t have a strong feeling about the game yet but was asked to rate and write a review already, so here it is. It will probably get harder as I play longer, which I won’t like, but it’s too soon to know yet. I’m enjoying playing. I’m giving it a 4 instead of a 5 because it’s too early to love the game.

by Jamie Lee Bree

This was my favorite puzzle match & design game. I’ve played most of them. I spent a little money on this one, but I was willing to. I enjoyed the missile races and came in first place a few times. But, around my approach to level 1,000, I began having crash issues. It also kept popping up a prompt for me to connect with Facebook once I deactivated my Facebook account. I thought perhaps with the most recent update the crashing issue would resolve, but it did not. And customer service was responsive but not helpful. So I finally deleted it. Too bad.

by Taverna60

This game is not all that great developers then take a chill but whoever plays don’t spend money because what they’re doing is they’re making you do that so you can beat the game and it’s such a sad world because all people do is do that because money is the root of all evil you don’t let anybody do that it’s not worth your time

by Lilgivenchyprincess

when i first started the game, i expected a cheap, knock-off version of the other more popular match 3 games. i wasn't a big fan of Iris at the start either, and the magic part of the game didn't seem to fit. after playing through several levels and spending a little bit of money, i've quite changed my mind about the whole thing. i think Iris is very cute and you have the option to chat with her (in exchange for lives too!) which i feel is quite charming and unique to this game. i like playing different scenes as opposed to seeing dusty rooms you've still yet to unlock after playing thousands of levels. the events are fun and every bonus i've unlocked so far has been far more generous than any other game i've played. i purchased a surprise offer for .99 that had great value as well. i am excited to keep playing!

by 85560

DesignIsland is absolutely amazing! I downloaded DesignIsland because it seems like maybe one of those games by the levels were hard to beat, but these are not too easy and not too hard to just right! It’s super fun and I haven’t had any ads so far I would definitely recommend DesignIsland if you’re looking for one of those puzzle games where you can design a house. I am so glad I downloaded DesignIsland!😁

by LuluinGA

I discovered that I had to let the game go farther in the game then the sound kicked in. It’s a very cute game and so far I like it but I just started it. Will write more after I have a chance to play it more but so far so good.

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Looks like a cute game but I have absolutely no sound. Yes my volume is up. Yes I tried another game on the same iPad. Actually two games that I have and they both play sound. Has anyone else had a problem with no sound?

by Balloon Dreams

i love DesignIsland so much! and i will still give it 5 stars regardless it is my favorite stress reliever game. but tonight i just got the new 3160 app update and everytime i leave DesignIsland even for a minute to answer a text, snapchat, etc., it will refresh to the home page of the game and i lose the level i was playing.......before in previous version it gave an option of resuming the level you were on. if that is not available anymore that is okay but to only leave DesignIsland for a minute and come back to a refreshed page everytime is frustrating. before you could leave for a good amount of time maybe 10 minutes or so and it would still be on the level you were playing. hoping it could be a bug and may be fixed soon ? thanks !

by Genbaby1

I love how easy yet still challenging this Match 3 game/ Renovation game is! I’m a huge fan of Match 3 games & i’ve probably downloaded almost every game like that but this one is currently my fave. Other levels from other games typically get super hard & impossible to beat making you spend money to pass but this one doesn’t & it makes me so happy! ☺️ The graphics are great & of course getting to choose the way you can design is always fun. Please come out w more similar games like this 💕💕

by PJ-A

Just started playing about 2 hrs ago and am truly impressed ;). Of course, seems all of these kinds of game start off fun then devolve to slamming you with long ads that simply either go on and on or start up after every puzzle. This game is unique in it’s superior graphics. They’re unusual in a fun, colorful and playful way. They’ve also introduced new elements into the puzzle part that are fun and interesting. What so many game-makers don’t realize, is that if they would simply continue the fun, friendly and ad-free after a customer makes a purchase, I for one would continue to play and pay every couple of days, at least. Whaat happens with 90% of the time, at least with others I played, is... when the constant ads start or the game-play becomes unbeatable without constant dings for more money, I simply delete them and find another... Hope this one is different 💖