Penny Flo Reviews

I feel like the fun is gone from this game due to the new levels being so difficult that they’re next to impossible to get through, even with full boosters. It seems like this has been done to get players to spend more money (buy their way through levels by paying for moves, more coins, boosters, etc). We are a top team, but we are losing players because people do not enjoy the game anymore - they have stopped playing. It was bad before with the All Hard Levels Challenge when levels remained difficult until the reset and then went back to normal. Now they are nearly impossible to get through without buying your way through them. That leaves no time to accumulate coins in between new levels because last week’s levels are taking too long to solve.

For months, I have explained to Tactile that players were leaving the game because of this. And for months I’ve been told that they need to find out what players think. They say they’re trying to find the right balance between fun and challenging.

The balance? There is no balance - I feel in an attempt to make more money, you have destroyed the fun of the game. I’m asking you - if you want your top players to continue playing, listen to what they’re saying. You’ve taken a game I enjoyed and made it frustrating and annoying. Where’s the fun in that?

Now, on level 4221 - I have a hugely different opinion. While the graphics are nice (albeit some rooms are able to be decorated nicely but others are made for colorblind misfits - apparently - ie: colors & styles are just not what I would see “fit”), I have been having issues that “support” can’t seem to answer. I’ve been playing for months now but in the past 3 days, while playing & winning levels, I am not getting any points (aka stars) to decorate with. Support doesn’t read through my questions thoroughly and, depending on who answers, they do not coincide with one another. The characters chat so much so, that quite honestly, I stopped following the story. Every time one character has to chat with another in a phone call (& there’s TONS of phone calls) you have to expend one of your points so they can blah blah blah . At some point, I realized that the characters jump from room to room or location to location so that you’re now working in 3 different areas trying to decorate. It feels now that they are A.D.D. (Absolutely no offense to anyone). Maybe if they stayed in the same room/location there wouldn’t be as many phone calls…Idk…I could go on about other issues but I feel as if there is no point.

I enjoyed this game when I first downloaded it. I got level 331, got the update, it then stop letting me choose between Flo or Penny, then if I want to fast forward, I have to pay to move to next level. I agree with the frustrated player who said they wanted to go with the wedding story line before moving on to the movie Star persons house, that story line about the cat and what you do with the car is stupid. I was pulled into this story due to the story line about the love life. Having the in app purchases I get, but to make it now where you have to pay to move to the next level and having only 4 chances is making it where I don't have the money to move forward. It is like some of the games that make you get a gift, you think is going to be free, but you have to pay for the gift. Nope, I am done. Not worth my time. I have got to play this much, because I am on medical leave of absence from work, due to surgery. I now have really expensive hospital bills that need my money more. Bye.

I started off playing lily’s garden and finished the main storyline before seeing the game just making up random things to keep it going and got bored, so started looking for more similar games. I found this one in hopes it would be like the add with different types of games but this was also similar so figured I’d try it anyways. The game would be a LOT better if you didn’t have to get so many stars just to get so little into the storyline. Three stars, which consists of several minutes to get to so little in the game, to do three more games and so on, you loose your interest knowing what the next step wil be bc you forgot what the step was beforehand. Lilys started building up with one into two to three and already into the games storyline to want to keep moving forward this one took me over what it seemed 100+ stars to get into the hotel and Im already done and uninstalled the game when it started free ads after deleting the endless “offers”. Great potential for storyline but horrible way to keep someone interested long enough to find out the ending.

Love the renovating, decorating & story aspect of the game. It was a lot of fun at first when the games to advance were winnable, and only one game was needed to advance. I imagine players giving high ratings were still in this honeymoon phase. Not me. I waited. As the game progresses , it does a hard sell on you to purchase lives & stuff in order to progress, including: Impossible to win games without a purchase; Having to play games over & over & over & over … etc. just to inch forward with the fun part of renovating & decorating, only to run out of lives; Having to win 3 games to inch forward; Having to win a game for unsatisfying things like “start new chapter”. I would highly prefer to spend $5 up front for the game, and then just enjoy it the way it works in the beginning, by having to do one winnable game for each advance. The game is supposed to be fun & entertaining escapism. It’s making me progressively frustrated & angry as I get deeper into the game.

I recently started playing this game, and it was pretty good. An interesting storyline and the match-2 games not too hard so far. I downloaded it because a reviewer on a different thread said this game was not like the other design games—not a money-grabber where the match portions get so hard you have to start buying stuff to stay in the game. That is why I have deleted the other ones: they are money-grabbers.

I was starting to get into Penny & Flo, and then two or three days ago, they had an update, and now it is riddled with ads for other games. I might be deleting this one too.

Here’s a suggestion: offer a variety of purchase options from the beginning. If you want players to pay a certain amount of money over the course of the game, then offer a one-time payment as an option, up front, after a short trial period. Along with and as an alternative to that offer, give the player a choice of if they want to potentially pay incrementally throughout the game, instead of paying up front. Let ad-watching be a third, optional choice.

Personally, if the full game price is reasonable, I would be one of the people opting to pay a one-time fee up front. That way I could just get on with the game, not worrying that it’s going to hit me in the wallet, and just enjoy PennyFlo .

This is a pretty fun game, the levels have been easy so far, and there’s a Facebook login to save progress. But PennyFlo keeps crashing. I must have reopened it 7 times just for it to crash again. Like, I can play it, but when there’s a new task, and a cut scene would load, it would get done with the scene and crash/or not play it at all and crash before it even played. Then I have to open it back up again and replay the cut scene, and hope before or after it played, I could actually do the task. Also, with the journal, to select to do a task, by using stars, most of the time I had to hit the task button twice. Like I’d click it, and the button would wiggle like I correctly tapped it, and yet it wouldn’t load until I tapped it and it wiggled a second time. Besides the crashing, still a fun game and I’m glad there’s a save progress option because I got rid of PennyFlo on my phone, because of the amount of crashes, but I might get it on some other device, when that’ll be, idk. Regardless I still had fun.

I love the game but it’s a rip off.. the reason I say that is every time I get to like only needing 1 more to obtain the win it doesn’t let you win.. it wants you to spend money it’s like the game is really ripping you off.. it sets up the failure especially if you have been spending. Why can’t it just allow you to win when you are at the end without making you have to buy more coins and why is the paying so high 900,really that’s a lot why is it so high? It just does not make sense.. again I love to decorate and help reinvent the mansion but spending money like the game wants you to is a rip off..and the game is set up to make you spend I was playing the game so much I ended up spending 60$ in one evening that’s too much..your win is also so low so winning it’s not always easy not that I am saying it should be. But there should be a break in the amount of your winnings.

I like the graphics. I like the stories. What I don’t like is that the game starts with the wedding and just veers off into the old lady’s house and stays there. I would have liked to see the wedding through first. I’ve made passed level 500 and they have been become annoyingly hard to pass. Expending 5 lives and 2 or 3 days on one level encourages me to stop playing, especially when I’ve only gotten 1 star within that time. Seldom can I do anything with one star. It’s getting to be a waste of my time and data! The fun is in the progress of the renovations, not the level play to me! The amount of tokens gained at passing levels and those needed to get 5 more moves is ridiculous! And if I can’t get any fun out of it, my money stops and I’ll delete the game. I know this isn’t something you’ll fix. I’m just telling you what I like and dislike about the game.

I love the game or at least I did, the higher up you get the only way you can pass a level is to spend money and dang that can get crazy expensive, use to be you could play the levels 4 or 5 times and you would finally pass it, but now I’m on a level for days and still not passing until I spend some money, well it’s not worth it, I love to decorate the rooms not play match three games for days on end. I’m not saying make the games where 2 or 3 moves your done but come on 4 and 5 days on the same board boring!! Something needs to change or this game is not going to be very popular. I’ve already had friends tell me they quit playing because of not being able to pass the boards and decorate the rooms. And I’m almost there myself. To bad too because it’s a fun game when you first start playing.

I really like this game I love all the decorating ideas that you get and it has a comical story to it. The games u have to actually play are not that to challenging but there are some that took me a few tires to beat but that's a good thing. No one wants to play that is too easy or it will get boring fast. This is not like that. Plus they do tell u before that if it's a regular game or hard or super hard which is nice so u know if u need one of those perks that you can win. The only downfall about this game is that I'm on level 3186 and it will say that I cannot continue. That's fine with the story mode but I had a half our of free life and I beat 8 levels but didn't get my stars for those because of that. I get it I'm fast but could be nice to still let people get stars while they are updating. Overall. I really like this game.

I really wish I could clean and renovate each room in my house as fast as Penny & Flo do it! 😂 This is actually a pretty good game for quite a few reasons! 1. The characters are interesting and quirky. 2. Great story to go along with the game. 3. Great artwork and graphics. 4. Not glitchy (for me so far). And the best thing about this game is that YOU CAN ACTUALLY ADVANCE THROUGH THE GAME WITHOUT SPENDING MONEY!! I’ve tried several other games like this and they all seem to make you advance through stages right away pretty easily, but then it slows way down so you’ll use all of your “items” that help you win, and then you get to a level that is unbeatable (no matter how many times you come back to it), so you have to spend money to get past it. At that point, I always delete the game. This game though doesn’t do that, which actually makes me WANT to spend some money so that the developers get paid for their hard work and generosity. It’s actually a good strategy if you think about it. I’d rather willingly spend money vs be made to spend money. Being able to continue to advance in the game without money also makes it nice for kids to play and people who just simply don’t have the money. I gave the game 4 stars though because I was expecting this game to have mini games that weren’t just the matching, but apparently I misunderstood the game trailer or pics of the game when I first saw it. 🤷🏻‍♀️ So hint, hint to the developers here!!

i’ve been playing this game for about 6-7 months now and i just completely the entire hotel, and was starting on the temple which i was so excited about, i’ve made an account with them which was my icloud i was signed into, my phone hasn’t been letting me update my games because “i had an ongoing subscription” so i deleted the game so i could update it because it physically wouldn’t allow me to continue if i didn’t, so i did and when i downloaded it back it was updated, but when i logged back into my account thinking i would see my progress and continue on with the new update, i was granted with the started hotel and on level one, none of my progress was saved, and after 7 months playing this game almost every day, im truly heartbroken i possessed so much time in this to never finish it but it also just turned into nothing. i loved this game, i wish i could know what happens after the temple got clean, but idk if i can posses that much time into the game again since im seeing how much i have to do all over again. i will say, PLEASE never delete this game, even if u have an account, especially if you’ve made a lot of progress because you won’t get any of it back. if anyone knows what to do about this please let me know.

I only just started playing this a short while ago but I’m already addicted! I love puzzle games and interior decoration, so this was really an awesome find. I love the fact that you can play as either Penny or Flo. I like having options! The only things that disappointed me was the in app purchases. However, they are not purchases that ruin the free app experience. I have not gotten too far into it, so I have yet to experience the entirety of what this game has to offer. I also wish you could go back to something you’ve built or restart the game entirely, as those are both things I have considered doing throughout the game. I may have missed the option the restart the game if it does exist. If it does, I cannot find it. That is all. Thank you for your time and patience in reading this review. I wish you a wonderful morning/afternoon/night and I hope you are staying safe is these dark times. Bye! 👋🏻

-Watamelon

It is a fun game to play, much like Lily’s Garden, but interior decorating and design - which I enjoyed. However, it just switched from .99 to continue playing (if you didn’t have enough coins) to 1.99(!) I don’t usually use that option - have done so only a few times with Lily, maybe once with this game - but that’s ridiculous and so I deleted PennyFlo , lest I be tempted, lol.

Update: Received a response to this review telling me they were sorry I was stuck on a level and offering assistance . I never said I was stuck on a level, only that if I ever would be stuck on a level I might be tempted to purchase additional lives and I would be crazy to pay $1.99, so was deleting it. Still, I’m adding a star since they did take the time to reply, customer service being so rare these days…

This is one of the few games I’ve found that makes it pretty easy to actually keep playing it. You win rewards a LOT, which often include infinite lives and power ups. You earn coins in every level you beat, and can watch an add to double them, so you really only need to win about 9 levels to earn enough coins to get 5 more moves. I will say, I know nothing about the story, I always skip through it. I’m more interested in designing the place lol. Lots of fun events that give you the chance to earn bonuses, and challenging levels. I often find myself with like 3 hours worth of infinite lives! That being said, the first “picture” they show in this game has absolutely nothing to do with this game. You do not do anything with make up at all.

Listen , I never wrote a review for any app ever. PennyFlo was worth using my thumb energy to write a review. LEAVE THE GAME JUST HOW IT IS! It’s not annoying, the Ads aren’t even annoying, the concept of the game is what makes you wanna keep playing. The options they have for new decor is very nice. Like everything about PennyFlo is great, please don’t change anything about it. Other game apps would have Ads being mad annoying, then they have it where it’s like you have to spend your money to even up in the game😒 Penny&Flo is just right. Idk how many times I have to say it. It’s definitely worth writing a review over. Keep doing what y’all doing. I downloaded this game yesterday and haven’t been on no other app as much as I have with this one SINCE. I would show you proof if I could this game definitely is a “time killer” and idk about you but I download games just to kill time😉

To the development team...PLEASE don’t change anything except to add more to this story! I have not had one this fun in a LONG time and a ADORE the story. Please don’t make it to hard to fast like other games or flood it with to many ads! (This is the first game in a LONG time that I like playing and actually paying for because it is not to difficult and focuses on the the story to match the play) sometimes to destress I like matching games with a story. Tbis one is freaking amazing. Lots of fun twists they have implemented with room for more and and pleasing game with opportunities to EARN the power ups and not to many lengthy ads you are forced to watch but if you want those extras.....hey....THAT I can do because then jt is my choice instead if if you want to play you have no choice but to watch. I like the extras so I do but at least I get something for it instead of it ruining my game.

I usually don’t write reviews, but I’m going to make an exception. This is easily my favorite Match 3 decorating game and I’ve played a ton of them. I love the characters, the story, the locations and they’re not overly silly or immature. The levels are balanced enough that I don’t spend days on them and feel like I’m making proper progression on the rooms for each each location. I also like the option to choose between Penny and Flo for their different power-up types that adds a depth of strategy to the levels. I do like Lily’s Garden made by the same developer but I tend to like this better as the former is a bit harder and I don’t progress as quickly on it as I do this game. Kudos to a fabulous game that I will be playing for a very long time!

I love playing this game! It offers challenges with the puzzles that allow you to use your brain and keep it active! The story with the characters is fun and keeps you wanting to get stars so you can see what is going to happen next! I’ve been completely surprised more than one time with the twists and turns in the storyline - good job writers! The decorating is also fun and always as at least 1 choice that I like. I have spent very little money playing this game and I only spent money because I wanted something - not to advance in the game. I have been stuck a few times, and I usually go to support and ask for help. Sometimes they are able to give me clues to help me figure out how to solve a puzzle - not telling me how to solve it, but more about strategy to beat that level. The support people are always very nice as well! Keep up the good work developers, implementers, customer service, testers, and everyone else that it takes to create a great product!!