I enjoy this game. It's cute, it's fun, & the characters are quite diverse. That said, I've passed 100 days in the game & am at level 88/89. It's been taking me all day to fill one order even with the pass & its added benefits. I don't get my free energy anymore, which is greedy af, & poor business. Since I've started paying, the orders have gotten ridiculous. This is my last month playing, sadly. I play every day as much as possible & have yet to make it to the bottom of the rewards.
Reviews for Gossip Harbor: Merge & Story
Im at level 102 after a long break (yrs), it has changed a lot but not in the ways that really matter. the energy regen is still at 100. you have the choice to merge items at up to 4x the starting level of the item. so that's literally 25 times you get to press a dang button before your out of energy. so you pay and even that isnt worth the energy unless you get a big pack or the packs for completing levels. Something needs to change because im ready to Uninstall again
It's truly fun, the story lines are entertaining and it kept me engaged for about 5 days, but takes WAY too long for your energy to add up and the items take WAY too much energy to produce. There's not enough options to earn extra energy, like watching ads. There needs to be a separate tea pot icon and potato icon. It puts out way more flour and coffee vs potato's & tea. It makes you waste your energy for things you don't even need. Unfortunately uninstalling it. Too much idle time.
Really cute game but costly! If you are not willing to sink alot of money into this game, you will get to play about 5 minutes. Then you run out of energy and it takes forever to come back. It only regenerates 100 energy every 200 minutes or so. And most of the coins you collect are spent to hear the story, not fixing or upgrading the building and such. I think you should give better rewards especially energy for completing tasks and increase the energy base to about 500 energy to start.
I really liked playing the game, but its a money sucker! over 3k in less than a month. (my own fault) but if you dont spend money you can only play for about 1 minute a day. also as you go up in levels, it costs more coins to buy things, and you get less coins when you fill an offer. Don't get sucked in. It also is nothing like the ads, totally different storyline. I will say that the app is fast and glitch free, pretty amazing how many different side games they have going and it works flawless
This game is very addictive. The bad part is waiting for things to recharge. I don't care for waiting. I wish there were more free opportunities to get energy and a little more free storage. It takes time to build energy, so some quest are not possible to finish without spending. I can't afford to purchase, so I end up losing some, but there are still a lot with the ability to win. I really like the game and hope the recharge times can be re-evaluated by you makers. Thanks for the game.
I enjoy the game a lot. I would rate it higher, but it seems its too expensive to play now. I used to have the ability to watch ads for energy, until the game noticed I was watching and that option disappeared. I spend money on the "deals" that come up but once you have done that a few times the cost of those deals goes up. Where I used to spend $1, now that I've done that the same exact deal is now $3. it seems like they see you willing to spend money so they charge even more Greed at its best!
I've played a lot of merge games and this is probably my favorite. The artstyle is cute, the items aren't too painstaking to make once you get a ways into the game, although it can progress slowly at the beginning. The events are fun, creative, and engaging (except the pirate event where you compete against 99 other people, that one isn't worth the prize at the end!) Aside from some issues with events not giving enough time to complete them, I don't have any complaints.
Overall it's a fun merge game, but I absolutely HATE how it's impossible to complete any of the events without (presumably) dropping a ton of money on the game. I tried it with this last vday event to see if I could make it work, and set alarms throughout the day to log in and play every time I had full lives (except for overnight while sleeping) and I couldn't get more than halfway through the event even using the 5 red life bottles I had saved up and constant playing.
Update: They claim ads are random. Check the subreddit, everyone there agrees the ads for bonuses went away after they spent money, myself included. --Like this game quite a bit. Absolutely nothing like the weird ads. Warning, if you put ANY money into this game you can no longer watch ads for bonuses. Also it's a huge cash grab, the prices for things fluctuate and you will never have enough to finish any events. Only play if you're casually into merge games, don't spend money.