House of Power Reviews

When you reach the point of having to wait to continue the story or watch 5 Ads, even after you watch 5 ads, you will STILL WATCH MORE ADS! The game also forces your decision to continue. Choose the wrong one, and you won’t have enough campaign funds to continue. That or your influence is too low that you can’t continue, that is, until you have to pay real money to do so. This game was NEVER FREE to begin with. Eventually you will have to pay. Also, this game is EXTREMELY BIAS. I am a moderate. But this game ONLY REWARDS you if you have a certain political belief system. Specifically you have to be a left-wing liberal.

I really enjoyed the game, but it does force you to constantly start over or pay real cash for money in the game. The campaign is very short and if you complete it and start over loosing all your money. You do keep your diamonds though. It wouldn’t feel like such a scam if you could keep the diamonds and use them to buy more cash in the game.

Aside from the fact that this game asked for your money at the turn of every corner, the ending was the most underwhelming thing that I have witnessed. I did multiple play throughs to win the election without spending money under the impression that once you win as president you can now open up an entire new world of opportunities. Instead, I was met with a measly restart screen and no continuation of a poorly written story line. Imagine spending 5 dollars to discover that this game can be completed within 2 minutes and for free. Absolutely pathetic. At least give the player options after successfully winning the campaign. That is literally the most interesting part of that job.

I played for maybe an hour and the concept is fun and intriguing I will say. Only issue is that in order to advance you have to pay to much of the campaign money and in order to get more money you have to pay for it out of pocket. The developer responses were awful when I saw other reviews. Instead of being like we’ll fix it you just said that we need to make better choices. Another thing was instead of improving the price throughout the game for your choices you only adjusted it for one chapter when it could’ve been adjusted through the whole game. Seems to me the developer on wants the consumers money instead and sadly people are out there spending money on it.

I read a review, expressing the struggle of getting any actual value out of the game without spending real money in the game. I assumed, that because it was in January, and the creators responded promising to overlook their system and improve it, that their would be changes and the game would be better. It is not, you only really have 10-15 minutes of playing the game until you are forced to spend money in the game. that’s even after you pay for a week pass so you don’t have to wait 45 minutes between each session. This game has much potential and I would even have been willing to pay the 5 bucks if it hadn’t been for the obvious greed.
Wouldn’t recommend unless critical changes are mad

Kind of liked the simplicity of a decision maker (although they are very basic decisions). But there is no real way to grasp the outcome of the decisions.

Still seemed like a decent time waster Then after a few decisions you have to wait 45 minutes. I was bored and laid 5 bucks to no longer have the countdown clock. Too my surprise there is no way for the campaign to earn money so after a couple more decisions and money being drained (random amount with no strategy or reason for it) you are stuck unless you purchase more campaign funds.

So to really play the game you need to spend hundreds of dollars and it’s really not advanced enough nor does it simulate anything. A choose your own adventure book is better and far cheaper.

I have set here for about 45 minutes, after paying the $4.99 for no ads. That way I didn’t have to watch 5 ads to continue or wait the 45mins to play again. Throughout this game, you need to make decisions for your election campaign. I did see the clear in game prices for each decision, but there is no way to make it through this game with using only in game money. I made it to where I was arrested for an alleged assassination attempt on my opponent. Paid for the cheapest lawyer because I just didn’t have the money. Then I went to jail, you can either top up on gems to relook at lawyers or pay your bail which is 300k, and there is now way you will have 300k at this point. So like other reviews, this game is a waste of time.

The game has potential, it’s extremely fun to play when you can play it.. firstly, it’s impossible to play the game without dumping real money into it. It’s designed so you run out of money almost immediately and can’t progress in the game.

You can also only go through a few scenarios and then you’re prompted by an ad break, which you can try and watch the videos but it always times out after 3-4 videos and doesn’t let you finish to end the timer. If you exit HouseofPower , the video counter resets.

Ultimately I think they should focus more on opportunities in game to make cash so you can play it and reduce the amount of videos needed to continue with scenarios. Whenever Im prompted to wait 45 minutes to play a mobile game it loses all the joy with it.

The game starts interesting, but quickly you find yourself in a situation where you either play for 5 minutes and wait an hour to keep playing, or pay $5 to keep going. I payed $5 because the game looked interesting enough to justify the low price. Unfortunately shortly after this, something that would take 3 real life hours of waiting to hit, you hit a roadblock where you are forced to spend real life money to continue.
In short: they serve you an interesting idea, highly encourage you to spend to play without an hour of downtime between sessions, and then regardless of if you do or don’t force you to pay even more money to continue. Don’t play this game, it’s not interesting enough to justify the barely 5 minutes of playtime you get without spending at least $10.

So you need in game cash for everything, but you only get given a small amount at certain times in the storyline, so when you need in game cash that you don’t have, you have to spend real money or the game just doesn’t move forward. Not to mention there’s no ending or story at all, it gives you one year of presidency and then wants you to try it out over again to see different endings, which I could understand if there was a long story, but there isn’t. A few choices and the game is over. Personally, once I saw money had to be invested is when my review went straight to one star. Not to mention, you have to pay to get the “story” to continue or wait hours, when the “story” itself doesn’t even take that long. You can finish this whole “story” in probably 30mins if not less.

Overall, I enjoyed this game. It has an interesting premise, engaging storylines, and a decent progression system. This is all ruined by greed. The game seems to be designed to wring the most money out of you as possible. Every minute or so, you are required to watch an ad, and then every 5 minutes, you have to watch 5 ads, or else wait 45 minutes to wait for the game to unlock. The only way to get around this is to pay for a premium membership (which is the only thing decently priced in this game). The part that gets me, is it seems to be designed so that you run out of funds as quickly as possible, essentially stopping you from being able to continue, and forcing you to pay real money within 20 minutes of playing. Do NOT buy this unless you are prepared to pay 100+ dollars to play for a couple hours.

The concept of this game is very interesting, and it looks like it could be fun. However, you can’t get very far in the game without them forcing you to pay real money. It is designed so that you run out of funds very quickly, and the ONLY way to progress in the game is to buy more in game currency at real cost. The packages are too expensive for a game that is only mildly interesting. To me, the content of this game is not worth even the lowest package amount, which starts at $5 for a very low amount of in game currency. Additionally, it doesn’t give you enough time to really get invested in wanting to continue the story before demanding money.

It doesn’t appear much thought was put into the content. There are a lot of grammar errors, misspelled words, and a limited number of events before you are forced to wait 45 minutes, or watch five ads, yet they want to charge high amounts on the packages, for low returns. It is clearly just a money grab, they don’t even try to hide it. It’s obvious.

Waste of time. This is just a decision-making game based on the idea that you are a presidential candidate running for office and have to make your way through the campaign by spending game provided money to select a predetermined decision (out of several) based on situations the game provides with the goal to receive at least a 50% approval rating. You only get about 5 minutes of game play before a 45 minute timer pops up restricting your ability to play until the times up. The approval rating goes up or down based on the decisions you make but only move about 1%-2% per decision. And when you can finally select your decisions (again, which cost game money) you don’t know how much each decision costs, so when you spend, you don’t know how much your spending. Soon enough, you’ll be all out of money and the game will want you to spend $5, $10, $50, whatever to replenish your campaign finances, or you cannot move on to the next situation. So you are in a standstill, unable to do anything but delete the game, which I have done already. I suggest avoiding this game or suffer the same fate I did👻

too paid to win.

It made me restart when I didn’t choose the “right p” option

It’s a solid game but you need a path to play that’s free like a ad based way to make money other than that it’s fun

Unless you plan on spending $5 a week or $40 a year, don’t download. Game is absolutely ruined by an absurd amount of ads. Every three or four minutes you must watch 5 ads or wait 45 minutes to continue. Joke!

The game is a money grab for the developers. Watch a death sentence of ads or have your campaign ended unless you spend money to ever move forward. I even upgraded for a week to not see ads and I still have to pay more money to advance without spending more. Lackluster and angering.

Genuinely I like the game , the decisions you need to make are not cut and dry and you genuinely need to think but I really don’t like how I can only play about 2 min before I’m hit with a add or need to wait 45 min . I also have to constantly restart because I run out of money . Would love a way to be delayed or go back so that I don’t need to restart all the time

I spent real money on an in app purchase and did not get anything. I want my money back or for this game to work.