Scavenger Hunt! Reviews

I just appreciate the humor in this game. All the little figures each tell a story and some are quite funny. I like that you can have timed and untimed, since I like to relax and not rush. I like that it has easy and hard parts. I like that you can pay to get the ads removed. BUT…
I’m on the SPORTS section on Pairs and there is definitely something wrong with finding the second wrestling belt. It just isn’t there. As other reviewers have said, even the clues will bring you to an empty space.
My second big gripe is that although you can hit the shuffle button, essentially the items are pretty much in the same place/area. I could wish that it used NEW items or at least NEW positions, to make things more exciting.
My last suggestion would be to have a HARD category (but NOT timed), maybe using the same board but completely different items that are very hard to find, because I love a challenge! I totally understand how hard it is to even make these games, but in today’s world, new and exciting categories are what keep us coming back.
Overall, a big thumbs up on this game and I hope for MANY more new levels!

I like this game overall, I like that there are timed and untimed options and that you can turn off ads with one small fee (definitely worth it). The art is very cute and everytime I play a map, I always find something new. I hope more areas open up in existing scenes/worlds and expand on the little dramas!

Two issues:
- In the latest update for Sports World - Pairs, I can’t clear the wrestling belt pair bc the second item doesn’t exist - I have even used clues and they show me a place on the map where there isn’t an item to collect. This should have been caught in testing.
- I’m not sure what the different levels are, it doesn’t seem like the items are harder to find or the items are smaller or anything, I guess it’s just a shuffle and the “level” is just the number of times you’ve cleared it? It would be nice to have a bit of a progression in the untimed challenges. Also a visual indicator of “in progress” or “begin level” would be great so I remember what map I was working on last time I played.

I really enjoy the game. It would be so much better if there wasn’t an ad every 2 minutes. I’m not exaggerating, an ad pops up every 2 minutes when I’m playing the game, which is really frustrating. It interrupts my flow and it makes my game lag and freeze up afterward sometimes. Also sometimes I can’t even get out of the ad so I have to restart the game. Besides glitching because of ads, the game just freezes all the time in general. I can’t go 10 minutes playing the game without it freezing so bad that I can’t do anything and then I have to restart ScavengerHunt . And when this happens, it makes my phone freeze and glitch and lag too so it’s really frustrating (it also heats up my phone really bad). I understand having ads is how the developers get paid, but an ad every 10-15 minutes should suffice to get the job done (the job being getting people to pay for it to be ad free). An ad every 2 minutes is not going to achieve that, instead it’s just going to make people want to delete the game. If the glitches were fixed and the ads weren’t so frequent I would honestly really enjoy this game.

It’s a free game yes, but no ads are what really supports the developers also makes it the full and fulfilling game you’re looking for! It’s 4.99 for no ads and 100% worth it.

The game is the most well produced scavenger hunt game on iOS. It’s fun but challenging. While there options to pay for hints, you totally don’t need to! When I’m doing just press around and the game will automatically give you some free hints. You’re welcome 😜 free hints are easy to come by, new maps and items make the game constantly enjoyable and fun, and the moving characters make each map almost interactive in a way. It’s not your typical 2D spot the item game, it’s built for the mobile and really using it to everyone’s advantage!

I highly suggest this game for all ages. It’s fun, relaxing, challenging for the mind, and honestly really good for distracting or for my adhd. A+ more people should download 👍🏻 and this is coming from someone who never writes reviews or generally pays for games.

I love a good game like this that keeps me searching. Some items are easier to find than others and that is what I like - a good mix between the easy and hard.
Here are a few things I would change if I could:
1) Some items are too hidden and would almost be impossible to find if you didn’t have the option to get a clue. I’ve had items that are are so hidden that you might only see a tiny portion of it. I don’t think that is fair, but that’s just me.
2) For the hard puzzles, I think there should be a start button so that you can have a chance to look at the items to find. One minute and 45 seconds is already a small amount of time, but having the clock start right when you open the puzzle makes it even more difficult. You should be able to review what is hidden first, before the clock starts.
3) It would be nice, but not necessary, to be able to earn a clue other than watching a video. That’s not a huge deal for me, but just an idea.

Yes ads are annoying like everyone is saying in these reviews but I haven’t seen anyone mention how there’s not music or sound effects for the scenes. Like the park should be people laughing & music & doing park things. Zoo should have lions roaring & elephants & monkeys making sounds. In my opinion that would make the game a lot better. Instead of just hearing like click effects. Especially if like the more you zoom in the more you can hear for example if I zoom in to the gym I should hear music or weights clanking, I should hear the cars going by or the pigeons on the roof. Zoom in to the pier I should hear waves or a boat. You know what I mean? Just general ambience of the scenes would make a much more immersive game. & maybe I wouldn’t get so easily annoyed by the ads lol. I just feel like with as many visual effects & moving pieces & having to really zoom in & explore to find items, there shouldn’t be complete silence except when I click something 🫤

🧸 Had to rewrite my review due to not being able to locate my first one.
I enjoy chilling in bed while playing this game in the relaxed (not timed) mode of play. I deducted a star because I have had to delete and reinstall the game due to freezing issues for several days. Luckily I didn’t have to go through it all again this last time because it was for an app update. The hiding places are the same but the items are shuffled. Each game has its own set of items to find, some of them are impossible to locate when it’s completely hidden under something or behind something and no part of it is seen. I just make a mental note to always look in those areas. The “people” can be pretty funny, they will fight each other or be vomiting Lol. If your days are boring or just looking to unwind then I recommend paying the $ to remove ads since that is the #1 complaint I see on other reviews. Enjoy!! 🙃

I'm not sure what people mean when they say the puzzles change. Because all that is changing is where the items are hidden. My app doesn't change what items I'm searching for, it just hides them in new places. The items stay the same per specific area you are playing. If I'm looking for a bow, balloons and cats first level then I'm looking for those same things each level unless it's a different area.

That's okay at first but once you've figured out what to look for from forced repetition then it's no longer fun. I can complete all areas in less than 3-4 minutes now. This was also my issue with their parking game and their cashier game. Too much repetition.

I really like ScavengerHunt but the objects should change each time you do a puzzle and not just with each area theme. There are also only like 6 areas to complete currently. I haven't purchased it yet but would if they added a lot more levels and shuffled the items each play.

I downloaded it to both my iPhone and iPad. Lots of good things I can see I would enjoy if only ads didn’t pop up so frequently. I understand that developers get revenue from ads that enables them to profit from their product, and I’m ok with that: I think that’s fair. I don’t pay for games anymore. All the games I ever paid for are now defunct. So, my cost for playing “free” games is enduring the ad breaks.

This game, however, has ad breaks every few seconds. They are triggered by finding the hidden objects. The longest interval I had was 7 objects. The shortest was 3. And some of the ads are extremely hard to tap out of. I estimate my longest continuous period of play at about 40 seconds. Most periods of play have been shorter than the ads!

I changed my mind about giving this game just one star by considering how delightful the design of this game is. The delight is negated by the interval of continuous play: limiting the player to maximum of 40 seconds and minimum of 6 seconds is ridiculous. Thus, I think my 2-star rating is deserved.

The game is fun, I enjoy looking for the hidden objects and like how simplistically the art is drawn. There is much humor to be found in both the placement of objects and the backgrounds and characters.

However, I ended up deleting the game after one day because of several reasons.

1. The ads are excessive. At first, it seemed to pop an ad after about every sixth object found; then it became after every twenty seconds. If the goal is to make you forget what you’re supposed to be looking for, then congratulations, you’ve succeeded.

2. The ads definitely interfere with gameplay. It would pop an ad regardless of what I was doing. Looking without moving the screen? BOOM! Ad.
Just about to tap an object?
BOOM! Ad.
Zooming the screen to look around?
BOOM! Ad.
I get that ads make the game free, but this is ridiculous, especially when some ads make you go through several screens to exit them. My suggestion is to keep the ads that allow players to exit after 10-15 seconds, and only play two ads together every minute, not 20-30 seconds of play.

3. The game absolutely DRAINS my battery!

4. The game makes my phone heat up after only about ten minutes.(Probably also contributing to the battery issue)

5. Once the phone starts heating up, the game gets glitchy and freezes, again limiting gameplay.

All in all, I would try this game again because I did enjoy it when I got to play, but not before the issues above are fixed.

Update: the latest update introduced the glitch in Sport World again.

I love this game. I love that ability to shuffle and play again. Items are hidden in new places are sometimes there are different objects to find. I agree with some reviews that objects can be too hidden behind other objects at times. There is also a glitch in the Sport World. The hint says the belt is hidden behind a person, but there is nothing there. This is a major disadvantage to hiding things directly behind other objects. I don’t mind the strategy, but perhaps implemented too far. Finally, I can’t find the Help button. It would be really nice to bring these glitches up without having to write a review. Maybe I’m not looking hard enough. Otherwise, I absolutely love this game. It’s my go to “break” during the day. Keeps my mind active while taking a break from daily tasks.

I love this game! Ever since ScavengerHunt was updated showing new sections for Daily Searches and Events that are “Coming Soon”, I keep checking to see if they have arrived yet! I am looking forward to that Version Update! I do agree with the other reviewers who mentioned that some objects are impossible to find, which can be very frustrating. You have to memorize where the impossible to find objects are and just tap that area every time. Sure enough, even if you cannot see anything, Tap! And there something is. Argh!! I don’t mind things hidden under a moving object, but to not see it at all without a clue is aggravating. I would also like to be able to earn clues besides having to watch a video every time. Maybe one every few levels? The artwork is fun and entertaining, and the Aliens are my favorite so far! Keep up the good work!

I really like ScavengerHunt! The first update made things a bit clearer and gave the option to buy hints/more time, which was definitely needed. Sometimes you just get stuck after searching for something for over a half hour and just need the answer. This new update added a new level, Versailles. I was really looking forward to enjoying it (I played the other four levels over 25 times each) but it really fell short for me. The first issue is some parts of the images are not so clear and there’s so many flowers moving that it’s extremely distracting. The part that really ruins this particular puzzle is that certain items are COMPLETELY hidden behind objects and the only way to find them is to pay (or watch an ad) for them to be revealed. I really hope the creators fix this in the next update!

I just wanted to let the creators of this game know that I am a fan. Thank you for making such a great game! It is the cutest, most fun game and it is hands down my favorite. I find it enjoyable and relaxing while still being enough of a challenge not to be boring. Paying for no ads was 100% worth it. I love the themes and cute art work and animation. I have gotten several other friends and family hooked on it as well. I am excited to see what’s coming next and to see what other bonus features are in the works! I know there are likely plenty of theme ideas in the works, but I would like to add my ideas to the hat ;) A beach/tropical island theme, haunted mansion theme, masquerade ball theme,
A safari treasure hunting type theme (kind of like The Mummy movie), and a Jurassic type theme. Haha, I could add a ton more, but nobody needs my input ;) Keep up the good work!

i like this game, it is a cute game but i feel like there’s a lot of flaws. one of the most prominent ones being the ads. there’s an ad like every minute of playing this game, that’s not an exaggeration. like when i play this game the ads make me so irritated that after playing for a few minutes i just quit because of it. one of the other flaws i noticed is the lack of music/sound effects which makes the game feel pretty empty. also, when you have the last few items to find, you literally can’t find them without the help tools that you have to watch an ad for. the items are usually like tucked behind things in the game and are impossible to find. i’ve had to use the tool for the last 10 things a few times now and it just gets old. I hope this flaws are fixed or changed in some way because i think this game has a lot of potential, especially since it’s still pretty new.

I’d give it 5 stars, but I’m stuck in a glitch in pairs mode on sport world… I’ve found all pairs but one… (the WWE looking belt) I found one belt on the short building - a food place maybe? But when I select either the compass or magnifying glass, it takes me to a dude on a street with maybe a phone or something in his hand, looking the other way? I’ve clicked and tapped and there’s no belt anywhere under this dude or around him… PLEASE HELP! It’s driving me nuts! :) and if I’m an idiot, and it’s right there, feel free to be kind so I’m not too embarrassed. If y’all reply- great! If not, and you just fix it- that’s great too! I’m kinda stuck. Gave it 4 stars for the glitch, but mainly bc I couldn’t find a link anywhere in the game settings to click to message your company for customer support - that would be a great addition to your settings. Thanks!

I absolutely love love playing this game!!! There are some parts that are hard and some that are easy. I really like the variety regular, timed and pairs. I am having an issue on the sports board with pairs. There is not a second wrestling belt so I am frustrated I can’t move forward with that. I can’t wait to see what the coming soon features are. I am sure they will be as great as everything else. The only reason I didn’t give 5 stars is because of the glitch of not being able to find the second wrestling belt and not receiving a response when I sent an email. It is definitely worth paying to have the ads removed. I don’t normally pay real money for games or in game purchases but I am so glad I did this time. Thanks for the great work on this game can’t wait to see what’s coming next

Well you've got a choice. Put up with the excessive amount of ads that you can navigate quickly or not start this game at all. It is unique, very very well done and well worth the price of $4.99 to go ad free if you like this type of game.
You don't need to spent money if you need assistance but if you go to the next screen, just watch and ad and get free help if you can't find something. That all very fair. I love this game as I like this kind of challenge. There are so many items to find that you do have to use your memory as to what you want to find or keep going back and forth from the list at the bottom to the main part of the screen. Not really annoying though. So this is a keeper for me. I went ad free and don't regret it. Now I can't put it down. LOL

i find this game so interesting and fun, though i’ve run into a few problems, 1. the amount of ADs is insane, i’ll click a few items while searching and then boom AD, once it’s over i’ll continue finding a few more items and them booommm another AD, it’s like they occur once every few clicks!, 2. the LAGGGG, i’ve never had an app lag so hard to where my phone wouldn’t respond to taps and entirely freeze, 3. for some reason it’s caused my phone to heat up a shocking amount each time i play, i don’t get these issues with any other app, my phone never heats up besides when i play this game, it results in my phone lagging while i try to close and refresh ScavengerHunt , i have storage and even tried resetting my phone, didn’t work, i will continue to play this game most likely but i don’t know how long i can stand this 😭

I like this game a lot and paid to have the ads removed but lately I’ve been playing some match games and items appear missing. I finally got frustrated and used hints on both the sports and Versailles levels and it points me to empty space. I tapped around the entire area in case it was like the festival level where it was hidden behind someone, zoomed in all the way, and even tried a different hint. Nothing worked. Glitches like these, though small, make a game far less enjoyable. I started out with 3 stars because I’m really irritated right now but put it up to 4 because I’ve really been liking the game and hadn’t had any problems until now. If this ends up being a regular occurrence then I’m going to knock it down to one because it makes it unplayable.

Loads of fun and time flies when playing but I do have some pet peeves: 1) View of game jumps inexplicably. If I zoom in the screen sometimes jumps and zooms out or if I’m trying to see more of the landscape it jumps and zooms in to a different part of the scene. 2) There should be a view where the entire scene is visible so you can find items that aren’t close. In pairs, I’ll see one item and when I locate its pair, I loose where the other one was. 3) move the stationary icons off the page. The way you can minimize the tray of items, the other icons need to be off the scene so they’re not in the way. 4) Needs another mode…how about find all the balloons or all the cats or dozens of ribbons or vases or mushrooms in a scene WITHOUT being timed. 5) When will existing scenes expand to see what’s behind the clouds? Too long between updates. And one of these reviews mentioned a scramble option… where is that? 6) My biggest PET PEEVE… all objects aren’t there when scene opens. I was looking for a boomerang pair in the Sports World scene. I knew where it was and tried to find right when I started but only ONE was there. After finding more and moving the scene around a bit, the other boomerang appeared right where I’d look for it before. Every object should be in place when a scene opens!
7) I don’t like the TOKYO scene… can’t discern the different objects!

I love this game. Reminds me of the seek-and-find games in the back of the “Highlights” magazines when i was a kid. The St Patricks Day tickets and Greek Vases scattered in the the different worlds are a nice addition. Would be fun to have the same kind of search thrown into the mix for other holidays ie Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Chinese New Year, US NewYears, Japanese New Years, Eid al-Fitr etc.
The reviews posted from JUEJUEY Sept 23rd and NOTAHOOF June 5th have some great suggestions. I like the idea of the stationary items ie Compass/magnifying glass off the page, added to the tray of items that can be minimized so they are off the screen. I play on my iPad and when I zoom in/out sometimes i hit the compass/magnifying glass by mistake. I use them sparingly as I love the challenge, but I can’t always purchase the packs in the store when needed. Thanks for such a fun game. I have enjoyed playing this game while recovering from major surgery. Keeps my brain busy while I am recovering. Looking forward to new maps-maybe a Mall Of The Americas for those who like to shop, National Parks, Jungle/rainforest, Nepal/Mt Everest, Machu Picchu, Scotland/UK, Isle of Skye, Rome/Italy, Amsterdam/Netherlands, Stockholm/Sweden, Croatia, Costa Rica etc. I have enjoyed the Japan map-I have looked up several of the items to see what they are, how they are used etc. Nice to learn about other places.

I’ve been playing this game for a while now and paid for the no-ads version. I’ve continued to play despite the fact that it’s super predictable when redoing each of the various cities. I appreciate that there are periodically some new cities, as by the time they put out a new one, I’ve done the existing ones many, many, many times.

However, I’m incredibly frustrated with the most recent update (Greece). I was initially given access to it, same as previous ones, and completed it multiple times before it inexplicably disappeared. I now apparently have to UNLOCK it by finding a certain number of a specific object (which has varied from 300 to 200 to most recently needing 100 of these things) to “unlock” the city I had already been playing. The objects aren’t just there for you to collect and be on your way. You have to replay the existing cities MULTIPLE times, waiting several minutes for the object to even become available during a single game. Once you collect it, it’s several minutes again before another will even appear. This is beyond tedious and frustrating since I’ve already played ALL of the cities dozens of times, I have already PAID for the game, I actually ALREADY had access to the city before they “locked” it, and it’s impossible to unlock quickly. I requested support within ScavengerHunt and received no response at all.

At this point I have to give one star but I would be thrilled to be able to change that. The game might have potential but I will never know because from the first minute the ads are constant, even including dishonest ones where the ad will not go away when you click on the X. There isn’t a chance to enjoy it at all. I am totally for paying for games I like but there is no way to know if I would like this one.

It’s cute that the objects move. It’s cute that it’s large scenes. I wish it were easier to quit a scene when you have found, say, 190 out of 200. If you aren’t that good you will have to give up and delete the game.

In reading other reviews I see others have managed to get past their disgust of the every-minute ads or have paid despite little evidence it’s a decent game, and it sounds like there are other issues as well, such as doing the same scene interminably. That turns me off. It would not be hard to make different scenes for every game. That kind of laziness plus the extremely manipulative and greedy ad situation had made me decide to delete the game until I opened it just now one last time and saw it is owned by a different company. Maybe they will read these reviews and change these problems, which are certainly turning off many thousands of potential players. I’ll check in a month and if it’s better I will return to this review. Don’t disappoint me!

Came across this game by accident, downloaded and have loved the gameplay every since. There are several issues that would make it be a fantastic game. 1) Fix issues with the reward chests. When opening the prize chests. 3 out of 4 boxes/chest for rewards didn’t load. When I selected the icon it went to a blank white semi-transparent screen and did not not load any further. The boxes are certainly a good reward for finding a certain amount - helpful in furthering progress and lessening the frustration of watching ads for a single spyglass! Especially when you have paid for NO ADS! 2) When you open a new section it would be helpful to only list the items that are available for that section, and not list every possible item for the entire town/puzzle. I have spent lots of time looking for items that were not even located on the open section. Lots of time wasted and frustration sets in - makes a person not want to continue or come back. It wouldn’t be hard to list a new group (add to the end) as a new section Is opened up. 3) it would be nice to have some type of daily reward for playing in consecutive days. This is not a new concept, it’s a nice and helpful jester for players that love the game and continue to play. Unless, the company is just in for it for the money they get off people buying items/packages.

I have no issue with games that have ads. The developer should be paid in some way for free games. But like EVERY game from this developer, the number of ads and their duration compared to the amount of game time you get to play is ridiculous. On some of their games, ads are tossed up every level, some of which can be only 5 seconds long. Then an ad that has a minimum time of 30 seconds to 1 minute. You have to sit and look at a screen that says download for a very long time, even if not interested. No bypassing that. Other games like this one, they seem to appear every 30 seconds or so, and then lock you up for 30 seconds to a minute with an ad. And they interrupt play randomly, so it’s annoying. The developer’s excuse that they need ads to bring free games is weak at best. Ads are ok, but when ads are 90% of the time and game play is only 10%, this is just developers trying to maximize their earnings and not caring about the game player experience. The experience here is pure annoyance and frustration. I will not be downloading any more games from this developer until they change this overload of ads. And if you want to save yourself from frustration, skip their games as well. Also, you have to be online to play, so playing in a car or on a plane is not possible. I’m passing on this developer’s games.

Love these time consuming pointless games this would have been a good one to my addition BUT
2 min into the game after downloading INSTANT AD now I don’t mind looking at Ads but another 2 min ANOTHER AD then 2/3 min later ANOTHER AD now it’s $5 would I pay $5 for a game YES again the BIG BUT they designed this game so you just outright pay for the Ad less version which is $4.99 let’s just say $5 other games I’ve payed atleast gave me 30+ min of game time before bombarding me with obnoxious Ads that 30+ min of game time helps us decide “well helps me anyways” again I don’t mind paying but I refuse to pay for these games where the company just sets it up to annoy you with Ads every few min so they gain Ad revenue so underhanded such a shame
Just for the record I travel a lot so I end up at airports I’ve tried the “be social meet/talk to people routine” that gets tiresome after hundreds of flights so these games is a godsend for people like me sitting in an airport albeit if lucky a chair most standing/leaning against a wall these games help waste the time
So yo the Developers of this game STOO BEING SO GREEDY atleast give the potential buyers of the game some time to try out the game before you BOMBARD us with >>>Ad after Ad after Ad after Ad After Ad <<< see how that gets annoying and you expect us to pay outright so we can maybe enjoy a game so SHAME ON YOU DEVs

First things first, I’m not a fan of the data collection policy. Also, I’ve encountered bugs that have ruined my play experience. One of these occurred when I beat a Pairs mode of a map. Upon collecting the last set, it didn’t advance the screen saying it was complete. Instead, it restarted my entire progress for the map. I’m not going through and playing again which means I can’t compete the area. Another bug is that hints and compass find Christmas tokens instead of actual hidden items. So you waste these if you use them during this event which is lack luster by the way.

Not a fan of the money grabs either. Hints are hard to come by without watching ads or paying money. It’d just be nice to reward hints through a daily login bonus or something like 99% of other mobile games do. Daily challenges are extremely tough. To expect someone to beat the hard mode without buying time is impossible. 240 seconds to find 35 items on a large map means finding one every 7 seconds. I would expect this to be labeled master/impossible versus hard.

Please address these concerns and I’m sure you’ll find more people that stay playing the game which helps your ad revenue.

1/2/23: the most recent version makes my phone get really hot and it crashes sporadically. Please fix this.

I’m a big fan of this game because you can play these levels over and over and they are never exactly the same. There are some patterns and some objects that don’t move but I still find it enjoyable because it’s not impossible to find stuff. I did find one glitch in the new sports world level. In the pairs, the boxing champion belt does not have a pair. When I use the hint it points to a place but there is no belt. I’m unable to complete the level because it doesn’t have a pair. Please fix this. Keep ‘em coming with the new areas. Not a huge fan of Versailles but the other two new ones are good. UPDATE: June 13, 2022 I just tried to play the pairs game in the fun land area and I can’t click on the lower heart balloon. It’s like it’s not an object but it should be. I’ve done that pairs level 48 times and this time it’s not working. Also the 2nd boxing champion belt for the pairs game in the sports world is missing again. It WAS fixed but that was like 1 or 2 versions ago. I’d love to have both of these issues fixed, please and thank you!

ScavengerHunt is the perfect answer to my favorite “game that isn’t a game” which is the Scavenger Hunt in the Two Dots app. It’s a seasonal thing that pops up and is limited. I always wished it were a full game and this pretty much does that. There’s obviously a tad bit more artistry that goes into Two Dots and they also have their cute little character “dot” branding, but this app could easily add little faces into their characters if they wanted. Two Dots also adds funny easter eggs that reference popular media in their scenes which are fun to look for. I’m addition, they allow you to interact and click away certain items to find things below-more often than ScavengerHunt does. The ads in this game are unbearable, just pay to get rid of them if you have to. It’s almost unplayable. I have only played the first two levels and not even finished them but I’m happy this exists. The color makes it a lot better than other hunting games like Hidden Folks which are just insanely hard. I know a couple of older women who enjoy seek and find books, I will be recommending this game to them!

I enjoy this game a lot and play it frequently. As others have mentioned, sometimes objects are so hidden that they are virtually impossible to find without getting a hint. For instance, I was doing the Versailles scene and had found everything except the last mushroom, so I used a clue and found that it was behind something in the scene that did not move. There was no way anyone could have naturally found it there. This aspect of the game is frustrating but it’s pretty rare.

My other complaint is that sometimes the movement of the background scenes can be so distracting and they actually even give me headaches occasionally. I understand minor movements and motions, but large scale things that take up a lot of the screen and constantly move are very annoying and trigger dizziness and headaches for me. I would love it if there was an option to reduce the motion a little bit. I really thoroughly enjoy this game and it would be near perfect if it didn’t have these frustrating aspects of it.

I hope we get new locations soon!

Edit: May 2023 - what the heck is going on with this game? It freezes, jumps and goes in super slow motion. I log out of the game, come back in and I’ve lost 7-10 magnifying glasses doing nothing but loggin out and back in. So frustrating. I won’t play this anymore until this gets resolved. And it is THIS game because Inhave no issues with any other games or apps on my iPad.

I loved this game until a couple things happened…first, the game froze when loading, so I had to delete ScavengerHunt and then reload it, which unfortunately meant I lost all my levels, hints, etc and had to start over at level one with one scene only. Secondly, I would get an ad when I finished a level, which is more than fair. However, now that I had to delete and reload ScavengerHunt , I am literally getting an ad about every 10-15 seconds. I am getting more ad time than game time and that is ridiculous. I am likely going to delete ScavengerHunt and maybe check back in a few months to see if the developers are actually listening and responding to the feedback they are currently getting, because the responses are all the same - too many ads, too little game time. Listen up developers, because you will have no app soon…

Pros: interesting scenes with tons of Easter eggs Engaging and addictive
Cons: you will run out of game play in 1 month. If you start now, you have 13 maps to go through and probably 1 will be released while you play. After that you will wait 1 month for a game that will take 45min to complete. I’m sorry, your gaming prayers have not been answered. I used to play every night before bed. It was so fun I’d have to force myself to go to sleep. Clearly I don’t have that problem anymore. They also have "daily challenges" I am not joking when I say it’s the same thing over and over again. You have 3 options: Find thieves, clean cobwebs, and pop ballons. The items are placed in 1 of 9 maps and you have to find them, only problem is they are always hidden in the same place and since they repeat certain challenges, multiple times every month, it isn’t much of a challenge. I don’t know why they are shooting themselves in the foot. If they need extra money or employees, it’d be easy enough to to put a message in the game with a link. TLDR: Game is fun, but they don’t update it enough to play longterm.

Update: Changed my rating to 5 stars as they fixed the loading/lag bug. I love this game but I do wish they would change up the challenges to either give you less time or some different scenes. I can get through the entire thing in under 3 minutes because it’s always the same scenes.

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It kills me to rate this lower than a 5 because it’s one of my favorite games. The developers don’t seem to monitor/update the game very often. There is supposed to be a new challenge every day but they didn’t have one for the first week of May, and then released all the days they missed, and forced the user to watch an ad to play any of them. Also, whatever this new update is they released this week absolutely killed the game. It lags so badly I can’t even play it. (The game never lagged before. Yes, I have the latest version.) Lastly, the devs don’t reply to any feedback so I don’t know if they even read emails. This game is fantastic — when it works.

First of all, I loved this game. The ads every 5 seconds were unbearable so I decided to spend the money on the ad-free version. This was fine, and even though they come out with new levels VERY slowly, I’ve enjoyed the new levels that come out every couple of months and have replayed the old ones many many times while I wait patiently for new places/levels to come out. They came out with a new level (ancient greece) and I was so excited! I played through it once, and in the middle of me playing through a second time it disappeared. I assumed it was a glitch, but I was wrong. When the level reappeared it suddenly was “locked” and available as a $4.99 purchase OR I would have to find 100 vases in the other levels which I had already played each 12 times over. Really?! I find that’s super shady. Especially when it was put out and then retracted. I paid for the game to begin with and now you’re taking away the new levels? The old levels are stagnant, and you have to be delusional to think I will be paying $4.99 a level going forward. I’m about to delete it for good at this point. Disappointed to say the least.

The game started out very promising. The art style, scenery, characters, items, everything is adorable. As are the little animations. However, by day 2, the frequency of the ads increased so much and became so unbearable, I had to give up playing. It got to the point where I couldn’t even locate the next item before another ad stopped my gameplay. To make things worse, it went from returning me to where I was on the map when it interrupted me to automatically sending me to the bottom of the map, causing me to lose my place. Not the end of the world since the maps aren’t massive (at least in the beginning where I was) but still annoying. Factor in how many scrolls/seconds it took to get back to where I was, however, and in no time another ad would start and the process would begin anew. It would be preferable if ads were linked to perhaps every 10 items found and/or if you come back into ScavengerHunt after being away. That way you are guaranteed the opportunity to make some progress before being interrupted again. Just a thought, but something definitely needs to change. It’s just too unforgiving. You can’t even interrupt/skip them at all like in some other mobile games. And you shouldn’t have to pay to make the game playable. Not saying there should be no ads, that’s how they make money, but it needs to be reasonable. Make the number of ads less obnoxious and you have something special here.

The problem with apps riddled with ads? They don’t hook the gamer before they annoy the gamer then expect you to pay to get rid of the annoyance.

If ads were spaced out about 2-3x longer in between than they currently are? I likely would have paid to remove them. Because I would have had enough time to enjoy the game before getting annoyed by the ads. But the “enjoy” time is so so short that is is heavily outweighed by the annoying ads and I’m not able to really get into the game. Thus giving an overall poor experience. Since my view is very negative of the game, putting any money into it is completely off the table “just to find out” if I like it or not. Can’t get into it long enough to get a feel for it. Since it’s also time-based before an ad shows, I can’t look away from ScavengerHunt without feel like I’m wasting time - it doesn’t value the player’s time. Maybe it should have been after X number of taps on the screen. But time-based is a slap in the face. Hard pass.

I spend hundreds on games every month, but I won’t spend a dime on this. Developers need to understand that every time an ad is FORCED on the user is an opportunity for the gamer to stop playing the game, lose interest, and/or delete the game. This developer clearly missed the mark on that and their conversion is much lower than it truly could be.

there’s two reasons i’m giving this 4 stars. it’s really fun and good to challenge my mind while watching tv. but the first reason it’s not getting 5 stars is that i feel like all the hidden objects aren’t out on the screen at once. you look at one particular area 5 times and nothing is there that you’re looking for. then you use the compass clue and BAM the object is so obvious sticking out right where you just looked. it doesn’t make sense and is kind of annoying. the other reason it’s not getting 5 stars are the ADS. i understand games have to make money and there will be ads. it’s nice that the ads are short. but i’m tired of them popping up every 30 seconds. i can’t even accurately search an area without getting interrupted by an ad twice in one minute. it should be one ad every 5 minutes, not one every 30 seconds. in a game where you have to focus to search a large area, that gets really annoying. it doesn’t make me want to buy the no ads option, it makes me want to stop playing and find a different scavenger hunt game.

Unfortunately this is a fun idle game with simple but please graphics like Where’s Waldo, BUT like all other great games in ScavengerHunt store they are absolutely ruined by adds. 3 ads in 1 minutes is ridiculous. After the first ten minutes of play the adds become incessant making it impossible to enjoy the game. There’s no reason for as infuriations. I’d be more interested in keeping the game if before each level or every other level all the ads were played at once. Just another game profiting off of consumers. They are commodifying our consumption on a massé scale. It makes something as simple as a phone game, what’s supposed to be relaxing and chill, stressful, frustrating and annoying. We simply cannot escape being capitalized on. No i will not be paying $10 for free ads on every game i download. No i don’t want to be charged monthly. This isn’t how it was in the beginning of App store. I don’t remember Fruit Ninja, Subway Surfers, or Temple Run being constantly interrupted by ads. I believe creative artists, programmers, graphic designers should be paid fairly but that should NOT be at the cost of the consumer’s satisfaction. These are mild ways of just making life less and less enjoyable.

I’ve been playing this game for almost a year now - I even paid for the ad removal. I love the different themes & enjoy finding “Easter egg-type” references to other games/movies, etc. while playing the different areas (love the Monty Python reference in the new Medieval map, for example!). The devs seem to add new theme maps pretty regularly, which is nice & keeps the game fresh! However, I’m not thrilled the devs decided to bring back the coin rewards you then have to spend in the store for the power-ups (like the magnifying glass) that we used to just get as rewards. Remembering to go spend the coins is a pain. Also, the new leader board is fun, but I always seem to get stuck at the Sheriff level (highest) at a certain level (such as my current 403) & then I never can seem to progress past that level! I think the coding needs to be fixed….last round I was perpetually stuck at Sheriff level 1024 & couldn’t go higher, and all the same “players” also never change around me…so I know I should be progressing/changing each time the progress window pops up, but nope…still stuck at the same exact spot! It’s frustrating & takes away from the fun of playing. I’ve sent 2 support requests & chats via the game, but I never get a response, so figured it might be time to post a rating & review in the hope it will get the glitches fixed.

They make you think that everything is on the map and then you should pay them money so they'll show you where it is, but they don't load those objects until the end of the game it seems to be set on a timer. Meaning you may stare at the map for three hours looking for a sandwich that will not manifest there until three hours after you start looking for the sandwich. Meaning that you wasted three hours so they could try to charge you $1.99. Kind of a scam if you don't know this so you should probably know this. Things appear randomly in the map that weren't there before and objects appear randomly in the map they were not there before. It's fun until you realize that you've wasted the past three hours of your life looking for a sandwich that wasn't going to appear because it set on a timer and they didn't disclose that and now you've given them five dollars to find out object and then realize they just taken advantage of you. You're not bad at this game the game just wants you to think you're bad at the game. You could prove it if you screen recorded the whole session. Heads up. Rating this two stars. It's fun...but they're scamming people what's worse is they're making people think that they're bad at finding objects when they're actually trying to get money from you. I know you want money but wounding other people, self-esteem and confidence so you can make money it is just not a good look.

….until they added that stupid ranking system. That’s pretty much killed it for me. I downloaded this a few months ago. I paid for the ad removal because I liked the game do much. Then not long ago they changed some formatting. Where you used to be able to voluntarily watch an ad to get a power up, now you have to buy those power ups with coins. And the prices are pretty outrageous. So you can earn these coins by completing the timed daily tasks to the tune of 5 coins per daily task completed. NOW…they have added this incredibly STUPID rank system that increases as you find items. So picture this… you are racing against the clock finding items, be they balloons, cobwebs, or thieves….you’re in “the zone” things are going great then suddenly up pops this window “Congratulations!!! You are now ranked as Detective! Here’s a reward”. What!?!? I’m in the middle of a timed task and you throw me off and sabotage me with this stupid nonsense! I think they pause the clock but still, your concentration in broken. Now when you go back to the game it’s precious seconds of “where was I?” They have ruined the game. I wish I could go back and undo the update that installed that stupid rank system but I can’t. It was great while it lasted I suppose.