Disney Magic Kingdoms Reviews

by Mar047

Hi - I’ve been playing since way before your first birthday. Seriously doing a disservice to those of us with every single character, every single attraction, and every piece of land. There are so many plots that are unavailable - open them all up. I have about 30 attractions that I don’t have room for. I’m not even going to figure out how many concessions I have just sitting there not being used. Get rid of this character limit. I have 150 that I can send out on tasks to get tokens for leveling up characters from the most recent events - now I have to pick and choose which ones I can keep. I can’t send any of my characters out for the guests requests because I still can’t weed down which characters I need to keep and which ones I can send away right now. So many of us have spent actual money during the events to get the special characters in order to complete the event and make sure we get everything available. Refund us or take away the limit. If people’s games are crashing, that’s honestly their problem because in the many years I’ve been playing this game, I RARELY have a crash. If I do, I close out and just reopen with no problem. Most ridiculous update ever. I want all of my money back from the times I’ve spent it on the events and chests to get the special characters for events and ones that I didn’t end up getting during the events.

by 46843784

I've played this for a long time. So I thought I'd throw a couple bucks in to try and get some items in a chest. Each time it gives me a stupid confession stand and not a character. If you want to use real money, it's basically gambling. You are playing slots when you buy chests. They keep you from buying specific things in a chance chest so that you will keep spending currency. They keep making "balance" updates to make it harder.

They do a really good job on the look and feel of the world and characters. But ultimately it's one of those games where things will take you months to accomplish without buying something. You never really level up because the cost of things rises quicker than your earning power. The actual actions are basically one of only a very few. Click on this, harvest that, send a character to do X. When you send a character to do something, you don't actually see them do it, they are just in accessible for any where from 30 minutes to 24 hours. Building something that produces resources takes many uses and a LOT of hours to pay itself off if you do the math. Again, beautiful game. The voice acting and feel is charming. But they understandably so funnel you into spending money. It's just that, if you ever do, the pay off is not worth it because you are just more able to do the same monotonous actions and not new ones. Still a beautiful game and it feels great to roam around the park.

by Cagedbade

I've played this game a little over a year now and lately it's been taking a turn for the worse. Game events have been made deliberately more difficult and/or impossible to make progress in unless you spend money on exclusive characters or extra tokens. The chest reward system has been changed to provide players with less happiness points and tokens that go towards characters, and instead created an upgrade system for attractions that the token requirements are unattainable and take months worth of collecting chests to get anywhere. The happiness system has been altered so that players must play the game

by PurpleCat70

I have been playing this game for five years... some times I check in more often and other times less. I love the variety of characters and the quality of animations. I like that when you zoom in you can see the wonderful eye for detail that was put into it. Yes, they have become more money hungry as time passed to keep the game profitable but I am patient and only occasionally spend money to try to support the game. The last update has been so bad that I can’t even open the game and I know from checking Facebook that I am not alone. After a few days of getting only the loading screen I stopped trying for almost a week then was surprised when it opened for me on Saturday. I was able to use the game for half a day then it stopped letting me in again. I am disgusted at the lack of response on Facebook by the developers. This is a major coding error or an intentional effort to weed out some of the users. Even the users who can get in are having major glitches. I was able to start the event a week late and even used gems that had been trickling in from ads to buy the premium character but otherwise only got the first event character. I haven’t seen the movie but am disappointed I will be sitting this out indefinitely. I wish I knew if they were even working on it since they barely seem to acknowledge that this the worst update since I joined.

by GrapeLemonade

I haven’t been playing this game very long (a few weeks maybe?) but I can already tell that it won’t sustain my interest for long. As a die-hard Disney fan, I do love the concept of getting to build my own theme park with all my favorite characters but in classic Disney style it’s all about money. For starters, it seems there’s some characters you can only get from chests that cost real money, and you’re not even guaranteed to get one if you buy the chests! Second, the costs to do anything (unlock land, build a building, etc) are astronomical, and (so far) the currency you earn doesn’t scale appropriately. You get very little from these quests that take 12 hours! Then, it’s nearly impossible to progress because there’s just a series of doors in your face. It’s like, you have to unlock a character to progress, so you do the same 6 hour quest a ton of times until you get the items. Then you do one quest with that character, and for the next one, you have to build a building. But you have to level up the character to build the building, and the whole process starts over. I don’t mind in-app purchases, can’t complain about that, especially when an app is free. But, it should be set up so that people who don’t spend real money can still progress at a reasonable rate, and can have access to characters without them hiding behind a pay-to-unlock wall. DisneyMagicKingdoms needs to make some major changes lol.

by JennGrissettSmith

MAJOR problems lately with game crashing, through the past few updates. My iPhone is fully updated and I’ve done everything Gameloft recommends to fix, but it still crashes. Constantly. Even besides that, the fun has greatly diminished. I’ve been playing this game every day for years (level 60), and it started out really cute and fun.. great story line where you casually collect characters and magic. Stress-free and perfect for Disney fans. And I was very pleased with most updates, like finding magic chests, and having Merlin collect everything. But they’ve gone for too much and I’m sorry to say have really damaged a good thing. They’ve made this a stressful game. Too many challenges too often.. now all of the buildings have an enchantment thing that is frankly useless and looks cluttered, Merlin has more spells than should be necessary, even the magic chests that were once a nice surprise have a stress element where you have to try and tap what you want to get (and never do). I hate to complain, but I miss the fun, cute, easy game where you weren’t pressured to spend real money, and weren’t cluttered with pop ups and timed challenges and over the top everything. Every time it crashes from a few seconds of playing, I’m tempted to delete DisneyMagicKingdoms again and just forget it. It’s too much data costing too much time and money causing too much stress. Too bad.

by NBlackford

I’ve been playing off and on for a while now and for the most part I really do like the game. The further on you get though the longer quests take and the longer it takes to not only gather tokens but to actually level characters up, which I don’t mind overly much. The biggest drawback for me is that it is heavy money driven. I like the month long events where you honestly get a shot at collecting all the characters but the other events you have to dedicate heavily to have a shot at them. And after an event ends the only way to get missed characters and costumes is to pay real money. The permanent groups have one premium character each which is fine but with event limited characters more than half the entire character roster has to be paid for with real cash and the chests only offer a CHANCE at the characters, you’re more likely to get concessions stands. With the 6 chest offer you’re more often going to come out with only one character, to get the entire set of just one group can be costly. It would be a lot better if the events came back periodically or if after so long the event characters were folded into the storyline and made permanent characters. At this point I’ve resigned myself to only getting half the characters and with my job most events are unattainable so unless it’s the month long ones I don’t bother anymore.

by $unflower$

Enjoy the game but I need more space to place attractions and concessions. It’s so frustrating trying to fit them in and to lose magic, gems and potions. Why only a 10% chance of getting a token. How many times do you have to do a 6 or 12 hour task to get the token? And why do you have to make it so difficult to even get a chance to earn the last character ‘s tokens? I have been so close and then lose all the tokens for the last character. Why don’t you allow us to purchase the character? A pro rated amount of money or gems like you used to. I hate the legendary chests. I won’t buy anymore. Spending 60 gems and then getting another stupid decoration that I don’t even have space for. Set a gem or purchase price like it was in the beginning. Most of the chests are a disappointment especially the silver, gold and platinum. After waiting 6, 12, 24 hours, it’s a big letdown to get the same decorations you get for a bronze chest or could get for magic. I missed out on Christopher Robin Ariel, Chip, and the queen of hearts when I was so close. I have spent hundreds of gems and never received the character. Please put the fun back and give us some room to place things. All the spaces say coming soon. What is your definition of soon?

by SarinaMay1137

I am loving this game so far, I downloaded it and didn’t touch it for a month.. than all of a sudden got hooked! I have spent some real money so far.. & it was worth it for some favorite characters. But I don’t think it’s fair that some of the characters you can only purchase with real money for example when a legendary chest comes up for Lion King.. there’s no way you are able to earn those characters other then making a purchase.. I am only level 19 or 20 so far.. but as of now.. a good group of characters you are able to earn by playing & making progress in the story… but even some of them you have to purchase (for example I only got Toy Story’s Rex because I bought his bundle) . And I bought the legendary pack for Winnie the Pooh and got most characters except for Roo & Piglet.. but when I click on the shadows to see what I need to get them.. it says “this limited time content isn’t available” - that’s not fair! I would rather get to earn some special characters cause I can’t always afford to buy the $10+ packages! Otherwise I love the game! *Edit after playing 200 consecutive days, you earn rewards for that but I still feel the same about legendary chests and characters.. and if you buy a pack of chests or multiple even you still may not get all characters but get 3 of the same decorations/concessions! They need to take concessions and decorations out of chests people pay way too much for!!! It makes me mad!

by Ren_not In The Mood

I’ve been playing this game for a long time. And so far I have no complaints with this game! I’ve grown up with Disney and I just absolutely love it!!! I like the quests and the fun limited time events!! I like the gameplay a lot and it’s fun to follow along a journey with my favorite Disney characters! But I do wonder if they could have the big hero six people change out of their outfits! That would be 😎!!! But honestly I’ve been reading these reviews and guess what? You don’t have to pay!!! I have not paid a single penny for this game!! There is a way to play free. And you do not have to pay. 😡😡😡😡 I’m honestly angry and stressed that some people don’t know how to deal with finances. I sleep, I work, and I have a LIFE!! Yet I still have not missed a day and I did not have to pay anything!! So there.

Hey I have a complaint about this game I love it but it would be so much better if everyone could speak and say there catchphrases. Why can only Mickey and friends and toy story do it? If you could fix this I would blessed. But I just love your new update. I just hate that everyone is just big winers I must say that I’m just a kid and most of these guys are adults crying like a baby. It’s doesn’t have to pay to win. You guys are not patient at all!!!! Oh and also can you just make concessions give you magic. It would be so much better.

by C013DH

I really love this game, it’s a pretty creative idea to allow people to make their own Disney World, but it definitely has some flaws. the first one is that if you wanted to unlock a character that is bought via gems, it would probably take a good year and a half to save up and buy them, but if you want to buy them with real money, they give you only one character and 120 gems minimum for like $10 which is a bit much, I suggest they either make it somewhat easier to earn gems or lower the prices of some characters. Second is that the blue potion stuff is hard to save up cause right now all my attractions collect only 6,000 of the blue stuff, they should just definitely make attractions produce a lot more of the blue stuff, also land is way too expensive too. Third, the fact that some Disney characters in certainfranchises are only unlockable via a chest that cost 40 gems or around $5 is pretty ridiculous especially since you have a chance of not even getting a character. Other than those three things I really like this game, I just hope, despite Disney is a huge company and probably wont see our complaints, that they will take these changes into consideration because no one will want to pay for in-app purchases and inevitably they will want to delete the game and never recommend it to others.

by Caro F.

I’ve been playing DMK for the past 3 years and I progressed a LOT into the game and I almost had everything and every now and then I even invested money into the game, for example, when I needed a legendary chest for a character that isn’t out yet and stuff. It really is magical and the best game I have ever played! BUUUUT about almost a year ago my phone started acting up or more like DisneyMagicKingdoms was closing randomly after it freezes but I realized that I just needed to update my iOS. I didn’t update until after I had my progress lost for good. Yes I did connect through Facebook AND Game Center but when I tried to log back onto my game it started me off from the VERY BEGINNING OF THE GAME. My phone had frozen and the game closed by itself and...my progress and everything I worked for it? Gone. I tried so many things to get it back including signing back in 1000 times, contacting support, commenting on fb posts in hopes of a reply and nothing. I became very upset after that and stopped playing. I literally didn’t even bother to start over and I didn’t get the guts to play DMK again until my cousins encouraged me yesterday (more than half a year later). I’m gaining the confidence to slowly rebuild my whole kingdom again but geez that problem REALLY UPSET me. If it wasn’t for that, I would have given this game 5 stars. 😞😞😞😒

by E.V.I.L. Woman

I really like playing DMK I’ve been playing for about 3 years. I like collecting all the Disney characters and the cool graphics. Once I finally got myself to a good level it got a lot easier however on the downside game loft wants you to pay for bundles and prime characters all the time which is very disappointing. Everybody loves Disney but it shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. I am not rich nor can I play 24 7 because I have a family and a full time job. Also they entice you to play by making you think you can decorate your kingdom the way you want but they don’t give you enough land to place all the buildings , stands and decorations out. Seems to be a very common complaint on the message boards. Please listen to your faithful fans we love the game just give a little. One other pet peeve is all the events one after the other doesn’t give you time to level characters up which is very frustrating. I would also like to ask if we will ever get to actually have a real confrontation with Malificent it’s always the same tower challenges and nothing new. I also would like to finally open the mountain and release the yeti that would be awesome. That is one of my favorite rides at DW. Also would like to see the country bears and lady and the tramp. Thanks for asking for my opinion on the game

by Braylen88

So I just want to say that I absolutely love this game it’s fun I love all the characters and everything that comes with this game but I only have two complaints one I wish you guys can make it a little bit more easier to expand your park because it takes forever just to expand one part so I was hoping there was a way you guys could work with all your fans and trying to make a little bit easier because I have so much of my storage and it’s really hard to explain my park without spending money then to I’m curious to what happen with The Disney chest usually it gives you an opportunity to try to click on the thing you want but it doesn’t do that no more and I don’t know how to describe it but usually it will flash different things and you had to try to hit what you want out of that chat was not doing that no more and I don’t want to spend money on the characters chest because it gives me the first thing that pops up it doesn’t give me a chance to try to click on the character I want. But I didn’t know if there was a glitch or if that’s something new but if it is something new you guys need to drop the prices because if you’re stuck getting the same thing over and over again because you don’t get opportunity to click on what you want there’s no point but besides that this game is excellent I love it and thank you for creating this amazing game...

by RAD131

I have been playing this game for almost a year now, and I have noticed that after the last update the character chests do not work correctly. Before, you were able to try and time the chest to select the prize you wanted. However now it selects it for you. I would normally not care about this, however every single one of the chests I have won or purchased since the last update has given me a bench. I truly feel that since the chests are so expensive/rare, the prize should be something exclusive to the movie theme. I have been so disappointed to not receive an attraction or character like normal. All of the decorations have a separate chest, which it why I have been so disappointed with the prizes. I would hope that the next update would either switch the chests back to how they were, or eliminate the non-exclusive items from the Legendary chests. Overall though, this game is one of the best I’ve ever played. The best part about it would have to be the ease of getting the gems. I always love apps that you can play without NEEDING to pay real money to advance the game. Well don’t with this one, just a small minor fix for it to be perfect.

by Twinng13

I love playing this game it’s just that people keep saying you have to pay to win or you have to get certain items or stuff but really it I don’t I get them I was starting to feel that way too but then I realize that those people are just really greedy and want everything so do you OK please do not listen to those people because I know they try your best to keep the game more alive but I would say though that the legendary chest that you have in the game I would say lower than the price down because it seems like that whenever I try to buy one my mom always says that this it will be the last one because of how much it cost so just lower the price and maybe the game will be a little bit better also when you say coming soon you probably mean like a Year for cursed areas so I think that’s what people are complaining about that they don’t have enough storage so try to expand your kingdom because I can’t ask for more land because you’ve done enough just make sure that those coming soon areas are coming soon five out of five stars

by Devotedgoddess

To be completely honest this game is very good. The only problem is in order to get characters you either need to buy chests, drive yourself crazy trying to win every mini game and tower challenge you can to get characters or get lucky enough to get the characters or rides your waiting to get. Many of my characters are missing due to the fact that I didn’t win the tower challenges in time. Now we are told that free chests are going bye bye and no new land can be opened for less than 750,000 blue magic. In order to get items from Merlin’s shop you must save all items you can so that you can over time save up, and purchase your items needed to get characters or rides needed. It takes too long to get magic from items sold at Merlin’s cauldron. I personally think more mini games are needed to allow us to get the characters we didn’t get during the tower challenges. I also think we need things to be lowered in price and the availability to get characters outside of buying chests or tower challenges. Maybe side quests put into the game so we can collect rides and characters or allow all the characters to come back through tower challenges so we can obtain the remaining characters we don’t have??? Just my opinion.

by BIG.Disney. Fan

I love this game but I have a few complaints.l. Events are super hard. In a limited time event I usually only get the first character (at the very beginning of the event )and then I get nothing else done. 2. I agree with other players TOO MUCH SPENDING! I mean, come on, opening a limited time -legendary chest and only a 2% chance of getting a character for ten dollars, RIP0FF!!! Plus I’m only a kid and I am not falling into that trap. 3. I HATE GEMS. Come on, 100 and something for Pluto for example. My final complaint is again about the limited time EVENTS. I mean, I looked at the storybook and a bunch of movies I loved were in a limited time event that has already passed. Other than that, it’s a simple relaxing game. I like the attractions and characters and, one more thing, I had this on my iPad but then I undownloaded and then I got into it a few days ago but I don’t have any storage space on my iPad, so my Dad’s going to let me play on his phone. But we’re in Mexico right now and I have to wait 6 days. I hope Disney fixes my complaints because I am a BIG Disney fan. Bye!

UPDATE: people who think the legendary chests are a scam are W R O N G. I opened six the other day and got three characters 1 attraction 1 float and a confession. Thanks for lying to me every one else🤬🤬🤬👎👎👎

by Tocalover11

Hey Disney Magic,
I just want to give you two thumbs up for your fantastic game. It’s like I’m re-living my childhood. But i have spent lots and lots of money and its not much content i would like to recommend lowering the prices off legendary chests and put more in for calendar streak rewards because i used to play but then it got deleted and now i have spent lots of money trying to get them back in legendary chests. And I’m not even mentioning that i don’t get them because of the fact that there are so many countless and worthless items like benches! Not many people want benches when they are paying for a character in my case at least. And with the consesion stands, if you win one why cant it be only one. Like the characters you can only win them once but why can you with the same consesion more then once. And, please bring back events so people can get more characters more. Like the incredibles and Snow White. Just so kids and adults can get the chance of getting characters and attractions if they join in later. Or make more red ribbon chests, or even calendar streak rewards that are more rare like attractions and diamond or limited characters. Thank you so much for reading and i love this game but these are good suggestions that i believe would help the game and bring up profits.

by Sheledonae

When I started this game about 2 years ago, I honestly enjoyed it so much! I am a huge Disney fan and loved getting to build my own Disney park. However, the game makers have made it impossible to have fun with it anymore. I used to not have to spend any money and still got most of the characters and rides, but they have gotten ridiculous with it. Each event now requires over $10 if you want all of the rides and characters, and the difficulty levels have increased exponentially so that a new player would never even get close to getting what they need in the event’s 26 day time frame. Also, they keep giving new rides (3-4 with each event) and hardly ever release new land to place them on. I have at least 15 rides in storage that will never see the light of day. We also used to get a lot more time off between events to level up characters and other such things that you can’t really do during an event. Now, the events are back-to-back-to-back! And to top it all off, the latest update with the happiness rapidly decreasing so you would have to log in constantly throughout the day to keep it up, is absolutely ridiculous. I have never complained or even left a review on here for anything. I just am trying to be honest and say it’s just not worth it anymore.

by Lolemojisruleloveit

I’ve been playing this game for a long time. And so far I have no complaints with this game! I’ve grown up with Disney and I just absolutely love it!!! I like the quests and the fun limited time events!! I like the gameplay a lot and it’s fun to follow along a journey with my favorite Disney characters! But I do wonder if they could have the big hero six people change out of their outfits! That would be 😎!!! But honestly I’ve been reading these reviews and guess what? You don’t have to pay!!! I have not paid a single penny for this game!! There is a way to play free. And you do not have to pay. 😡😡😡😡 I’m honestly angry and stressed that some people don’t know how to deal with finances. I sleep, I work, and I have a LIFE!! Yet I still have not missed a day and I did not have to pay anything!! So there.

Hey I have a complaint about this game I love it but it would be so much better if everyone could speak and say there catchphrases. Why can only Mickey and friends and toy story do it? If you could fix this I would blessed. But I just love your new update. I just hate that everyone is just big winers I must say that I’m just a kid and most of these guys are adults crying like a baby. It’s doesn’t have to pay to win. You guys are not patient at all!!!! Oh and also can you just make concessions give you magic. It would be so much better.