Addams Family: Mystery Mansion

I pre-ordered it what feels like forever ago and I've been playing ever since. I enjoy the game. Sure, there's a few things that might irritate some like that it takes a while to get gems or supplies to unlock new rooms but I'm not the kind of person that gives up and spends real money and it does keep me busy. The big thing that bugs me though is how it's entirely too easy to click wrong while checking the time left on an action and suddenly a huge chunk of those gems you've worked so hard to get are gone simply to speed up an action that was only a few minutes from complete!!! CAN WE PLEASEEEEE GET A CONFIRMATION??? A simple pop up that asks if we're sure we want to buy this action? Something? Anything?!? This is literally the only thing that made me come write a review and the only reason it's not 5 stars. I just accidentally spent 20+ gems on a fairly useless action and I am devastated. I was soooo close to unlocking a room and now that's likely another day or more of watching videos to get my gem count back up. I'm sure it's part of the scheme to get people to buy gems but please help a girl out here?!?!?

I love this game. I am a huge fan of city-builders and this one is refreshing after some of the overly complex mega-cash-grabs the others have turned into. To the complainers: You have to complete quests to earn gems. Completing quests is THE WHOLE POINT. It took me three days to unlock Wednesday (100). I’ve been playing for two weeks now and I’ve nearly got enough gems for the greenhouse (250) and I haven’t paid a cent (clearly none of you have played The Simpsons). People who cry “boring too fast!” or “<this item> costs gems!” need another game; the pace of the gameplay is perfectly fine if you are used to crafting/decorating games. I’m giving it five stars because it deserves it. Although, as others have pointed out, beyond “let’s decorate!!” it does lack any sort of plot or storyline to engage the people who care about that sort of thing. That being said, I could care less about plot.

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I was excited for this because I LOVE the Addams Family. After reading the reviews, and the developers responses, I got the game anyway. This is not what I could call a “sit down and spend a few hours with it” game, because oftentimes you’re stuck waiting 1-3 hours for something to finish before you can do anything if you don’t want to spend money. And everything else in the game is just an annoying ad to spend money on the app, or to do some other annoying action to get more resources (like share on Facebook- etc. I don’t use my FB, nor would I want to annoy my friends with ads for games just to get some gems). This is a classic money/PR grab that we’ve all blocked people on social media for doing to us. Shame, the graphics are great and the actual decor for the house is beautiful! I expected it to be like The Sims, but was wildly disappointed with how much you feel almost forced to buy something (whether with $ or sharing). I might have actually spent money to BUY this game if they charged for it, in order for it to be more like Sims. It isn’t a game if I can only open it every few hours, or have to watch 10 ads just to get enough gems to buy one thing I need.

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I love The Addams Family. Almost everything about them. All except for this game. Almost immediately you are thrust into having to unlock a premium character. It cost 100 gems and it takes forever to earn gems. As you do your best to achieve goals, your inventory fills quickly so you are spending items you need to progress further just to make room for those items and feels like you’re starting over. Shortly after playing and unlocking a level 4 room, the next task for a character is to unlock ANOTHER room but it’s a premium room and item that cost THREE TIMES MORE than the last premium purchase! You just spent 100 gems! It’s obvious they want you to buy gems to progress faster. However, with such a slow paced game, I don’t want to spend any real money just to get stuck in the slow pace again. This could be so much better if things were a bit more achievable or they didn’t require you to have to purchase premium items that are too expensive just to move the basic story further. Maybe make items or extra task or skins exclusive only to premium purchases so that the free side is more enjoyable and move a bit faster.

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I enjoy the game up until it may take days and days to complete an action or goal required to move up levels. The goals of obtaining food items in the kitchen is difficult as you have no control of creating or receiving items from the stove/refrigerator. So you have to wait until it throws out something you need which may take days. It will give you things you don’t need which fill up your inventory with useless things. Early in the game it requires that you need to use gems to complete goals which aren’t as easy unless you spend your time waiting for a free video in the gem icon to pop up every few minutes to watch the video to get 1 gem. You do get gems completing goals but you can’t complete the goals without gems. See the problem? And it’s like you win 5 gems per goal but you need 250 gems to open a required area. So most of the time you aren’t achieving much. And Morticia is sometimes difficult to tap on due to her size for some reason and I have a large phone.