Sally's Spa: Beauty Salon Game Reviews

If I was rating this game solely on gameplay I’d give it 5 stars. The gameplay is fun for the most part. But the game as a whole has major issues. There are levels where the difficulty feels super unfair. For example, on New York’s expert 3rd level I had literally finished the day serving all but two customers with 5 stars. Kept trying, would always be like $10-30 off the goal. Am I supposed to get EVERY customer with 5 hearts? Now THAT’S impossible. Speaking of impossible, the level system for upgrading your equipment is tedious and useless. I have over $20k earnings in this game that I can’t use because by the time I’ll be able to upgrade my second massage table, i’ll be nearly done with the game.
And what’s with the bizarre prices for in the in-app purchases? $5 for ONE employee? That’s ridiculous. The fact that the full game pack costs $35 is just… wow. You could buy a whole game with 20+ hours of content for that price on steam or something. But no, this is a literal app store game charging $35 for the “full game.”
And as for the 8 hour flight wait, I’m honestly not even sure who thought that was a good idea. Do they think it’ll annoy us to the point where we pay for fly instantly? So weird.
This game is fun, the gameplay is great, but that’s honestly about it. Everything else is just… a mess. I wish the rest of the game did the gameplay justice.

I re-downloaded this game because I remembered playing it in 2013 and loving it. I actually finished the whole game (except for getting a perfect on every level but I’m not a completionist). At the time you could upgrade everything and get the helpers just by using the rewards won from the levels. I didn’t mind as it was relaxing but still engaging to replay the levels. Now however, you either have to either watch an ad to play each individual level, or pay a couple of dollars to play the spa (not the whole game just that particular spa) with no ads. You can’t even get the helpers with in-game earnings, you have to pay for them too. Additionally, as I said, I last played this game back in 2013 and it seems the graphics and gameplay have not been updated in all that time. The game doesn’t fit right or appear crisp on the newer screens of 2022. Sad to say I didn’t even continue this game pass the third level of the first spa. It’s clearly went from an entertaining game with heart to a nickel and dime operation.

I used to play this game on my iPod back in junior high/early high school and I LOVED IT!! You could earn money and awards from levels and even get bonuses for getting a perfect score on a level! With those earned rewards and money, you could hire other people for your salon, upgrade your chairs or baths, and overall make your spa more enjoyable and make levels a little easier to beat.
Now that was years ago. I stumbled upon this game again recently and nostalgia hit me hard, so I instantly downloaded it. Now, I can’t play a level without watching an ad, I can’t hire new people without paying $4.99 and I have to physically wait 7+ hours for Sally’s “flight” to take her to a new city.
I’ve barely played 10 levels and I want to delete the game. I used to be able to play for hours and never grow tired of it. Do yourself a favor and DON’T download it, even if it’s for old times sake. I’m deleting it immediately after I write this.
Sorry, old friend Sally. It’s not the game, it’s the developers. 1/10

This game tricks you into spending money in order to complete levels. It doesn’t allow you to upgrade items in your shop with in game currency… you have to spend real life money- so then you do and you get a good 2-3 rounds and then once again are put in the position to spend real life money in order to get through to the next round (I’m talking like, playing and losing a round after 15 try’s when you only needed $2 in game coins to pass) It continues this pattern until you’re left with the empty gut feeling that you just spent hard earned money on a game that’s developed to have you lose unless you are spending your real life hard earned money. Now here you are, without the $20 that you had to work two hours to get and without SallysSpa you just played to waste a bunch of money on and delete bc if you keep it you’ll just spend more in frustration. Not worth it! Save your money and experience something better than miss sally and her little spa….

I loved this game so much when I played it however many years ago, and the gameplay itself is still really solid. However, this new version of the game is so paywalled that you might as well play the old version.

Watching an ad or so between levels is fine; games need to make money to keep running. However, only being able to play 5 levels before having to wait 8 hours to play more is ridiculous. Twenty dollars to be able to play more than five levels at a time? That's insane, especially when the travel times used to be instant. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad if you could replay old levels during the flight, or if the flights were shorter, but neither of those apply.

My other pet peeve is that you can only get the assistants with real life money. Later levels are clearly built with you having assistants in mind; why is a core game mechanic locked behind a paywall? It just doesn't make any sense.

I really love this game, but so far this new version is a complete and utter nightmare. I really hope they alleviate at least some of these issues, because I do miss playing it, but I'm not going to shill out money for a game that only lets you play 5 levels at a time and was created with a "pay to win" mindset.

It’s fine if you want us to pay to unlock certain things. However it is not okay to force the game to be significantly harder, and almost impossible to pass at times, due to the fact that certain assistants can only be unlocked through paying for them. Why are we unable to unlock them through the in-game currency when everything else is? It literally makes the in-game currency become almost useless in the early stages as you can’t use it to get two assistants or their upgrades because it’s locked through a pay wall instead. I would much rather watch more ads instead of having to pay for something that should be available to us in the first place.

I used to LOVE this game. It was such a good blend of fun and challenge but also being relaxing. But it has been positively ruined. It used to be that you could jump between locations as you pleased. Now unless you pay, there’s an 8 hour time lag in between locations for your “flight”. On top of that you have to hop between locations frequently in order to gain points to upgrade items to be able to actually pass the higher levels. Upgrades used to be very easy to obtain- now the upgrades are very slow and the other employees are paid only, you can’t get them in the free version. The levels are also ridiculously challenging. It’s not even worth playing anymore unless you’re willing to shell out cash for the paid version.

I loved playing these computer games when I was younger and was willing to spend money on this, but I’ve spent similar amounts for other similar games and I feel like I got more out of the others than Sally. Things like getting an assistant cost real life money, which is kind of wild, and more difficult levels are almost impossible to win without spending more of your real life money. Instead of allowing you to spend six or twelve dollars to buy the game outright and enjoy, the developers behind this seemed to have looked to every inch of this game to find ways to milk money out of players.

SallysSpa used to be really fun. You were able to get through all the challenges without having to
Purchase anything, the levels were difficult but achievable, and there were no adds. No I feel like the levels are too hard to accomplish half of them, even with the variations in strategy per level and the cost of the helpers is ridiculous. Please fix so I can continue to play. I am interested in Sally’s Studio too but if
It’s anything like this game I think I’ll pass.

I played this game as a teenager and loved it so much!! It’s super interactive and I recommended it to anyone I knew. Back then it was $4.99 for the game itself which is saying alot since most game apps are free I was willing to pay that and still recommend it. This new “upgraded version” is the biggest scam for money that I have seen. An add to play every single time? And better yet wait 7 hours for a “flight”. So disappointed and I’ll be deleting this from my phone. The $4.99 I paid years ago yall can keep but you aren’t getting anymore of my time or money.

I like the gameplay a lot! But it is not worth $35 plus. Stop making the levels impossible to pass without having to pay. I have so much in game money to upgrade and can’t do anything with it. You do all these feedback questions in game that won’t mean anything if you have this pay to win set up. It just seems like a desperate attempt to make some money on a game you just updated to work better on new devices. Do better

I used to play this game all the time and was excited to see a new update after so many years. You used to pay to get the game and we’re able to unlock everything in the game for free. Now that it’s free to play and pay to win you can’t even unlock everything in the game with the in game currency you win anymore. Now some of the upgrades that were obtainable in the past cost real money. Highly disappointing that they took a good game and ruined it for more money.

I played this game years ago when there weren’t ads and the difficulty was much easier. I was able to score the highest points for every level in every location. With this update, unless you want to spent $10+ on additional features, this game is a nightmare. There’s also a 8 hour wait period between new locations. Used to be a great game, developers got greedy and I no longer recommend this game to anyone.

The older version was just straight gameplay and it didn’t need changing!! Now there’s ads, time limits restrictions, and PAID CONTENT! I can’t buy the upgrades I want because everything is ‘locked’. The 30sec countdown ends, and any remaking customers don’t count once you’re closed. I can’t even go back to previous levels to better my score.

I’ve loved playing the Sally’s games for almost 10 years now! But this version stinks 👎 immediately deleted!

I was fine with paying $12 for the game, but I thought that would include the entire game. The entire world bundle should include the assistants because levels are impossible to pass without them. I caved and purchased an additional assistant for $3 because I liked the game, but if I have to pay $15 and I still can’t even play, that’s ridiculous. Gonna ask for my money back.

I wish you could buy all upgrades with money earned from playing the game. This would make the game so much better. For example, the assistants would help make levels a lot easier to pass. But I will not purchase them with money, in fact I should not have too. Also, the extra time given at the end of round is a joke. This game could be awesome, but it’s not.

I’ve been playing the old version of ‘Sally’s Spa’ and wanted to try this new one. Every time you make it through a level, you either have to pay for ‘No Ads’ or watch an Ad video to advance. Each addition in this game (such as assistants, additional time, etc.) costs you more and more. It doesn’t seem worth the cost, knowing you’ll have to chuck up more money for additions that should be included.

I used to play this game on my iPod a long time ago. It was a few dollars for the game up front and then free play after that. I am so disappointed to see how much everything costs on SallysSpa. This was one of my favorite games and I was expecting the graphics to be updated and at the very least full screen gameplay. I’d rather pay the $5 for the game than $12/mo for nothing new or updated.

This new update is horrible. I was so excited to see an update after years but this was so bad. Everything to buy is WAY TOO EXPENSIVE. And then if you don’t buy anything, you have to watch an ad before EVERY LEVEL. and then waiting 8 hours to go from world to world is ridiculous!! This is so awful. I spent some money on a helper thinking it would get rid of ads but nope. Not even going to keep playing. DELETE AND DONT DOWNLOAD.

I really would love my money back because I paid for the full game it’s still asking for money at every level. This is clearly a game made to be hard at lower levels so that you have to pay for a lot of money within the game and it’s nearly impossible to pass. It’s sad because the Sally games were pretty good for very long time. Deleting from my iPad.

This a very good game but why does it stop you right after your ready to go again

Please make it free , I cannot pay 3$ for buying full version

This game would be great but there is so mannnnnyyyy ads! Literally I will click about 3 times and there’s an add. It’s very hard to play this way cause I keep getting mad about the amount of ads! Fix this please!

I hate the fact that you have to buy the full set of the game, and I also do agree on the too many ads. The game is really fun, but again idk why we would have to buy the full set to get to the next level...

Good concept but didn't let me move on from the first level. Not fun when you play the level over and over again

Everytime you press a button on the game there’s an ad. And you have to buy the full version to get to the next destination.
It’s fun but way to many ads. 😂

This game is amazing you can help your costumers to get there stress out ❤️❤️❤️❤️I love this game

Fun but overpriced for the lack of development through the game and I finished it way too fast

Don’t get. Very fun but the full version is too pricey and it’s boring playing the same levels over and over.

I like this game but way too many adds. And I cannot get past the first five levels.😕😔😞😒

You can even get to the first level without hitting a bunch of ads

I would like it better if I could play more...I don’t really wanna pay for the full game tho

Good but before I found out I have to pay for it

I wish I could really play but there are like one million ads very level

It’s ok but I want to go to New York and open a new spa😐