Scavenger Hunt!

What can I say? This has been one of my top favorite mobile game apps. Puzzle games like this are my favorite. I even have a whole book on Search and Finds. Finding this game was great and definitely helped me kill time in between my Minecraft gaming. Ive opened all available maps, completed 1 level minimum of each puzzle style (classic, paired and timed) for each map, finished all the thieves smaller puzzle, completed a few puzzle hunts challenges and even completed 1 month of daily puzzles. I’ve paid for have the ads removed. I know there are still ads if you want a free bonus like a compass but that’s expected. I’ve experienced that in other phone games. I’ve even signed in with my Apple ID and Facebook account to keep my progress synced however lately, I’ve been experiencing gameplay issues. The fps has dropped significantly. While I have no proof of exact numbers, I can best describe to change as going from a steady 60 fps down to 15. I’ve played on Wi-Fi and with data and there is no difference between the two in terms of the frames drop. The screen will jump when I’m zooming in, tapping on the item I found, and even following the compass path. It’s been going on for a while now and it’s starting to impact my ability to keep playing. I do come back because I enjoy the game overall but this frame rate drop has been increasing my desire to play something else.

Loads of fun and time flies when playing but I do have some pet peeves: 1) View of game jumps inexplicably. If I zoom in the screen sometimes jumps and zooms out or if I’m trying to see more of the landscape it jumps and zooms in to a different part of the scene. 2) There should be a view where the entire scene is visible so you can find items that aren’t close. In pairs, I’ll see one item and when I locate its pair, I loose where the other one was. 3) move the stationary icons off the page. The way you can minimize the tray of items, the other icons need to be off the scene so they’re not in the way. 4) Needs another mode…how about find all the balloons or all the cats or dozens of ribbons or vases or mushrooms in a scene WITHOUT being timed. 5) When will existing scenes expand to see what’s behind the clouds? Too long between updates. And one of these reviews mentioned a scramble option… where is that? 6) My biggest PET PEEVE… all objects aren’t there when scene opens. I was looking for a boomerang pair in the Sports World scene. I knew where it was and tried to find right when I started but only ONE was there. After finding more and moving the scene around a bit, the other boomerang appeared right where I’d look for it before. Every object should be in place when a scene opens! 7) I don’t like the TOKYO scene… can’t discern the different objects!

I love this game. Reminds me of the seek-and-find games in the back of the “Highlights” magazines when i was a kid. The St Patricks Day tickets and Greek Vases scattered in the the different worlds are a nice addition. Would be fun to have the same kind of search thrown into the mix for other holidays ie Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Chinese New Year, US NewYears, Japanese New Years, Eid al-Fitr etc. The reviews posted from JUEJUEY Sept 23rd and NOTAHOOF June 5th have some great suggestions. I like the idea of the stationary items ie Compass/magnifying glass off the page, added to the tray of items that can be minimized so they are off the screen. I play on my iPad and when I zoom in/out sometimes i hit the compass/magnifying glass by mistake. I use them sparingly as I love the challenge, but I can’t always purchase the packs in the store when needed. Thanks for such a fun game. I have enjoyed playing this game while recovering from major surgery. Keeps my brain busy while I am recovering. Looking forward to new maps-maybe a Mall Of The Americas for those who like to shop, National Parks, Jungle/rainforest, Nepal/Mt Everest, Machu Picchu, Scotland/UK, Isle of Skye, Rome/Italy, Amsterdam/Netherlands, Stockholm/Sweden, Croatia, Costa Rica etc. I have enjoyed the Japan map-I have looked up several of the items to see what they are, how they are used etc. Nice to learn about other places.

The game started out very promising. The art style, scenery, characters, items, everything is adorable. As are the little animations. However, by day 2, the frequency of the ads increased so much and became so unbearable, I had to give up playing. It got to the point where I couldn’t even locate the next item before another ad stopped my gameplay. To make things worse, it went from returning me to where I was on the map when it interrupted me to automatically sending me to the bottom of the map, causing me to lose my place. Not the end of the world since the maps aren’t massive (at least in the beginning where I was) but still annoying. Factor in how many scrolls/seconds it took to get back to where I was, however, and in no time another ad would start and the process would begin anew. It would be preferable if ads were linked to perhaps every 10 items found and/or if you come back into the app after being away. That way you are guaranteed the opportunity to make some progress before being interrupted again. Just a thought, but something definitely needs to change. It’s just too unforgiving. You can’t even interrupt/skip them at all like in some other mobile games. And you shouldn’t have to pay to make the game playable. Not saying there should be no ads, that’s how they make money, but it needs to be reasonable. Make the number of ads less obnoxious and you have something special here.

They make you think that everything is on the map and then you should pay them money so they'll show you where it is, but they don't load those objects until the end of the game it seems to be set on a timer. Meaning you may stare at the map for three hours looking for a sandwich that will not manifest there until three hours after you start looking for the sandwich. Meaning that you wasted three hours so they could try to charge you $1.99. Kind of a scam if you don't know this so you should probably know this. Things appear randomly in the map that weren't there before and objects appear randomly in the map they were not there before. It's fun until you realize that you've wasted the past three hours of your life looking for a sandwich that wasn't going to appear because it set on a timer and they didn't disclose that and now you've given them five dollars to find out object and then realize they just taken advantage of you. You're not bad at this game the game just wants you to think you're bad at the game. You could prove it if you screen recorded the whole session. Heads up. Rating this two stars. It's fun...but they're scamming people what's worse is they're making people think that they're bad at finding objects when they're actually trying to get money from you. I know you want money but wounding other people, self-esteem and confidence so you can make money it is just not a good look.

….until they added that stupid ranking system. That’s pretty much killed it for me. I downloaded this a few months ago. I paid for the ad removal because I liked the game do much. Then not long ago they changed some formatting. Where you used to be able to voluntarily watch an ad to get a power up, now you have to buy those power ups with coins. And the prices are pretty outrageous. So you can earn these coins by completing the timed daily tasks to the tune of 5 coins per daily task completed. NOW…they have added this incredibly STUPID rank system that increases as you find items. So picture this… you are racing against the clock finding items, be they balloons, cobwebs, or thieves….you’re in “the zone” things are going great then suddenly up pops this window “Congratulations!!! You are now ranked as Detective! Here’s a reward”. What!?!? I’m in the middle of a timed task and you throw me off and sabotage me with this stupid nonsense! I think they pause the clock but still, your concentration in broken. Now when you go back to the game it’s precious seconds of “where was I?” They have ruined the game. I wish I could go back and undo the update that installed that stupid rank system but I can’t. It was great while it lasted I suppose.

I’ve been playing this game for a while now and paid for the no-ads version. I’ve continued to play despite the fact that it’s super predictable when redoing each of the various cities. I appreciate that there are periodically some new cities, as by the time they put out a new one, I’ve done the existing ones many, many, many times. However, I’m incredibly frustrated with the most recent update (Greece). I was initially given access to it, same as previous ones, and completed it multiple times before it inexplicably disappeared. I now apparently have to UNLOCK it by finding a certain number of a specific object (which has varied from 300 to 200 to most recently needing 100 of these things) to “unlock” the city I had already been playing. The objects aren’t just there for you to collect and be on your way. You have to replay the existing cities MULTIPLE times, waiting several minutes for the object to even become available during a single game. Once you collect it, it’s several minutes again before another will even appear. This is beyond tedious and frustrating since I’ve already played ALL of the cities dozens of times, I have already PAID for the game, I actually ALREADY had access to the city before they “locked” it, and it’s impossible to unlock quickly. I requested support within the app and received no response at all.

I just appreciate the humor in this game. All the little figures each tell a story and some are quite funny. I like that you can have timed and untimed, since I like to relax and not rush. I like that it has easy and hard parts. I like that you can pay to get the ads removed. BUT… I’m on the SPORTS section on Pairs and there is definitely something wrong with finding the second wrestling belt. It just isn’t there. As other reviewers have said, even the clues will bring you to an empty space. My second big gripe is that although you can hit the shuffle button, essentially the items are pretty much in the same place/area. I could wish that it used NEW items or at least NEW positions, to make things more exciting. My last suggestion would be to have a HARD category (but NOT timed), maybe using the same board but completely different items that are very hard to find, because I love a challenge! I totally understand how hard it is to even make these games, but in today’s world, new and exciting categories are what keep us coming back. Overall, a big thumbs up on this game and I hope for MANY more new levels!

I’ve been playing this game for almost a year now - I even paid for the ad removal. I love the different themes & enjoy finding “Easter egg-type” references to other games/movies, etc. while playing the different areas (love the Monty Python reference in the new Medieval map, for example!). The devs seem to add new theme maps pretty regularly, which is nice & keeps the game fresh! However, I’m not thrilled the devs decided to bring back the coin rewards you then have to spend in the store for the power-ups (like the magnifying glass) that we used to just get as rewards. Remembering to go spend the coins is a pain. Also, the new leader board is fun, but I always seem to get stuck at the Sheriff level (highest) at a certain level (such as my current 403) & then I never can seem to progress past that level! I think the coding needs to be fixed….last round I was perpetually stuck at Sheriff level 1024 & couldn’t go higher, and all the same “players” also never change around me…so I know I should be progressing/changing each time the progress window pops up, but nope…still stuck at the same exact spot! It’s frustrating & takes away from the fun of playing. I’ve sent 2 support requests & chats via the game, but I never get a response, so figured it might be time to post a rating & review in the hope it will get the glitches fixed.

At this point I have to give one star but I would be thrilled to be able to change that. The game might have potential but I will never know because from the first minute the ads are constant, even including dishonest ones where the ad will not go away when you click on the X. There isn’t a chance to enjoy it at all. I am totally for paying for games I like but there is no way to know if I would like this one. It’s cute that the objects move. It’s cute that it’s large scenes. I wish it were easier to quit a scene when you have found, say, 190 out of 200. If you aren’t that good you will have to give up and delete the game. In reading other reviews I see others have managed to get past their disgust of the every-minute ads or have paid despite little evidence it’s a decent game, and it sounds like there are other issues as well, such as doing the same scene interminably. That turns me off. It would not be hard to make different scenes for every game. That kind of laziness plus the extremely manipulative and greedy ad situation had made me decide to delete the game until I opened it just now one last time and saw it is owned by a different company. Maybe they will read these reviews and change these problems, which are certainly turning off many thousands of potential players. I’ll check in a month and if it’s better I will return to this review. Don’t disappoint me!

Came across this game by accident, downloaded and have loved the gameplay every since. There are several issues that would make it be a fantastic game. 1) Fix issues with the reward chests. When opening the prize chests. 3 out of 4 boxes/chest for rewards didn’t load. When I selected the icon it went to a blank white semi-transparent screen and did not not load any further. The boxes are certainly a good reward for finding a certain amount - helpful in furthering progress and lessening the frustration of watching ads for a single spyglass! Especially when you have paid for NO ADS! 2) When you open a new section it would be helpful to only list the items that are available for that section, and not list every possible item for the entire town/puzzle. I have spent lots of time looking for items that were not even located on the open section. Lots of time wasted and frustration sets in - makes a person not want to continue or come back. It wouldn’t be hard to list a new group (add to the end) as a new section Is opened up. 3) it would be nice to have some type of daily reward for playing in consecutive days. This is not a new concept, it’s a nice and helpful jester for players that love the game and continue to play. Unless, the company is just in for it for the money they get off people buying items/packages.

The problem with apps riddled with ads? They don’t hook the gamer before they annoy the gamer then expect you to pay to get rid of the annoyance. If ads were spaced out about 2-3x longer in between than they currently are? I likely would have paid to remove them. Because I would have had enough time to enjoy the game before getting annoyed by the ads. But the “enjoy” time is so so short that is is heavily outweighed by the annoying ads and I’m not able to really get into the game. Thus giving an overall poor experience. Since my view is very negative of the game, putting any money into it is completely off the table “just to find out” if I like it or not. Can’t get into it long enough to get a feel for it. Since it’s also time-based before an ad shows, I can’t look away from the app without feel like I’m wasting time - it doesn’t value the player’s time. Maybe it should have been after X number of taps on the screen. But time-based is a slap in the face. Hard pass. I spend hundreds on games every month, but I won’t spend a dime on this. Developers need to understand that every time an ad is FORCED on the user is an opportunity for the gamer to stop playing the game, lose interest, and/or delete the game. This developer clearly missed the mark on that and their conversion is much lower than it truly could be.

I have no issue with games that have ads. The developer should be paid in some way for free games. But like EVERY game from this developer, the number of ads and their duration compared to the amount of game time you get to play is ridiculous. On some of their games, ads are tossed up every level, some of which can be only 5 seconds long. Then an ad that has a minimum time of 30 seconds to 1 minute. You have to sit and look at a screen that says download for a very long time, even if not interested. No bypassing that. Other games like this one, they seem to appear every 30 seconds or so, and then lock you up for 30 seconds to a minute with an ad. And they interrupt play randomly, so it’s annoying. The developer’s excuse that they need ads to bring free games is weak at best. Ads are ok, but when ads are 90% of the time and game play is only 10%, this is just developers trying to maximize their earnings and not caring about the game player experience. The experience here is pure annoyance and frustration. I will not be downloading any more games from this developer until they change this overload of ads. And if you want to save yourself from frustration, skip their games as well. Also, you have to be online to play, so playing in a car or on a plane is not possible. I’m passing on this developer’s games.

Love these time consuming pointless games this would have been a good one to my addition BUT 2 min into the game after downloading INSTANT AD now I don’t mind looking at Ads but another 2 min ANOTHER AD then 2/3 min later ANOTHER AD now it’s $5 would I pay $5 for a game YES again the BIG BUT they designed this game so you just outright pay for the Ad less version which is $4.99 let’s just say $5 other games I’ve payed atleast gave me 30+ min of game time before bombarding me with obnoxious Ads that 30+ min of game time helps us decide “well helps me anyways” again I don’t mind paying but I refuse to pay for these games where the company just sets it up to annoy you with Ads every few min so they gain Ad revenue so underhanded such a shame Just for the record I travel a lot so I end up at airports I’ve tried the “be social meet/talk to people routine” that gets tiresome after hundreds of flights so these games is a godsend for people like me sitting in an airport albeit if lucky a chair most standing/leaning against a wall these games help waste the time So yo the Developers of this game STOO BEING SO GREEDY atleast give the potential buyers of the game some time to try out the game before you BOMBARD us with >>>Ad after Ad after Ad after Ad After Ad <<< see how that gets annoying and you expect us to pay outright so we can maybe enjoy a game so SHAME ON YOU DEVs

This app is the perfect answer to my favorite “game that isn’t a game” which is the Scavenger Hunt in the Two Dots app. It’s a seasonal thing that pops up and is limited. I always wished it were a full game and this pretty much does that. There’s obviously a tad bit more artistry that goes into Two Dots and they also have their cute little character “dot” branding, but ScavengerHunt could easily add little faces into their characters if they wanted. Two Dots also adds funny easter eggs that reference popular media in their scenes which are fun to look for. I’m addition, they allow you to interact and click away certain items to find things below-more often than this app does. The ads in this game are unbearable, just pay to get rid of them if you have to. It’s almost unplayable. I have only played the first two levels and not even finished them but I’m happy this exists. The color makes it a lot better than other hunting games like Hidden Folks which are just insanely hard. I know a couple of older women who enjoy seek and find books, I will be recommending this game to them!

First things first, I’m not a fan of the data collection policy. Also, I’ve encountered bugs that have ruined my play experience. One of these occurred when I beat a Pairs mode of a map. Upon collecting the last set, it didn’t advance the screen saying it was complete. Instead, it restarted my entire progress for the map. I’m not going through and playing again which means I can’t compete the area. Another bug is that hints and compass find Christmas tokens instead of actual hidden items. So you waste these if you use them during this event which is lack luster by the way. Not a fan of the money grabs either. Hints are hard to come by without watching ads or paying money. It’d just be nice to reward hints through a daily login bonus or something like 99% of other mobile games do. Daily challenges are extremely tough. To expect someone to beat the hard mode without buying time is impossible. 240 seconds to find 35 items on a large map means finding one every 7 seconds. I would expect this to be labeled master/impossible versus hard. Please address these concerns and I’m sure you’ll find more people that stay playing the game which helps your ad revenue.

Unfortunately this is a fun idle game with simple but please graphics like Where’s Waldo, BUT like all other great games in the app store they are absolutely ruined by adds. 3 ads in 1 minutes is ridiculous. After the first ten minutes of play the adds become incessant making it impossible to enjoy the game. There’s no reason for as infuriations. I’d be more interested in keeping the game if before each level or every other level all the ads were played at once. Just another game profiting off of consumers. They are commodifying our consumption on a massé scale. It makes something as simple as a phone game, what’s supposed to be relaxing and chill, stressful, frustrating and annoying. We simply cannot escape being capitalized on. No i will not be paying $10 for free ads on every game i download. No i don’t want to be charged monthly. This isn’t how it was in the beginning of App store. I don’t remember Fruit Ninja, Subway Surfers, or Temple Run being constantly interrupted by ads. I believe creative artists, programmers, graphic designers should be paid fairly but that should NOT be at the cost of the consumer’s satisfaction. These are mild ways of just making life less and less enjoyable.

there’s two reasons i’m giving this 4 stars. it’s really fun and good to challenge my mind while watching tv. but the first reason it’s not getting 5 stars is that i feel like all the hidden objects aren’t out on the screen at once. you look at one particular area 5 times and nothing is there that you’re looking for. then you use the compass clue and BAM the object is so obvious sticking out right where you just looked. it doesn’t make sense and is kind of annoying. the other reason it’s not getting 5 stars are the ADS. i understand games have to make money and there will be ads. it’s nice that the ads are short. but i’m tired of them popping up every 30 seconds. i can’t even accurately search an area without getting interrupted by an ad twice in one minute. it should be one ad every 5 minutes, not one every 30 seconds. in a game where you have to focus to search a large area, that gets really annoying. it doesn’t make me want to buy the no ads option, it makes me want to stop playing and find a different scavenger hunt game.

I really enjoy the game. It would be so much better if there wasn’t an ad every 2 minutes. I’m not exaggerating, an ad pops up every 2 minutes when I’m playing the game, which is really frustrating. It interrupts my flow and it makes my game lag and freeze up afterward sometimes. Also sometimes I can’t even get out of the ad so I have to restart the game. Besides glitching because of ads, the game just freezes all the time in general. I can’t go 10 minutes playing the game without it freezing so bad that I can’t do anything and then I have to restart the app. And when this happens, it makes my phone freeze and glitch and lag too so it’s really frustrating (it also heats up my phone really bad). I understand having ads is how the developers get paid, but an ad every 10-15 minutes should suffice to get the job done (the job being getting people to pay for it to be ad free). An ad every 2 minutes is not going to achieve that, instead it’s just going to make people want to delete the game. If the glitches were fixed and the ads weren’t so frequent I would honestly really enjoy this game.

I’m absolutely addicted to this game. I paid to get the ad-free feature and never had to spend money on this game again. The only time I have to watch ads, is when I want a reward which is totally up to you. What I loooove about this game is the attention to detail in each scene, pop culture references and just overall sharp witty humor. I have played other similar games and not one of them have put so much thought into each map like this one. Only problem I have is the lack of new scenes but I’m patient and realise it is probably still a work in progress. Especially with all the thought put into it. I also have trouble with the ranking system since it never let me pass 20th place and it would be nice to see the other players scores in order to challenge myself. Even though there’s only a few scenes, you can continually challenge yourself by gaining more levels. I find the timed quests very hard but love the pair and normal modes. Keep up the good work and I look forward to a great game in the future.

Edit: May 2023 - what the heck is going on with this game? It freezes, jumps and goes in super slow motion. I log out of the game, come back in and I’ve lost 7-10 magnifying glasses doing nothing but loggin out and back in. So frustrating. I won’t play this anymore until this gets resolved. And it is THIS game because Inhave no issues with any other games or apps on my iPad. I loved this game until a couple things happened…first, the game froze when loading, so I had to delete the app and then reload it, which unfortunately meant I lost all my levels, hints, etc and had to start over at level one with one scene only. Secondly, I would get an ad when I finished a level, which is more than fair. However, now that I had to delete and reload the app, I am literally getting an ad about every 10-15 seconds. I am getting more ad time than game time and that is ridiculous. I am likely going to delete the app and maybe check back in a few months to see if the developers are actually listening and responding to the feedback they are currently getting, because the responses are all the same - too many ads, too little game time. Listen up developers, because you will have no app soon…

Pros: interesting scenes with tons of Easter eggs Engaging and addictive Cons: you will run out of game play in 1 month. If you start now, you have 13 maps to go through and probably 1 will be released while you play. After that you will wait 1 month for a game that will take 45min to complete. I’m sorry, your gaming prayers have not been answered. I used to play every night before bed. It was so fun I’d have to force myself to go to sleep. Clearly I don’t have that problem anymore. They also have "daily challenges" I am not joking when I say it’s the same thing over and over again. You have 3 options: Find thieves, clean cobwebs, and pop ballons. The items are placed in 1 of 9 maps and you have to find them, only problem is they are always hidden in the same place and since they repeat certain challenges, multiple times every month, it isn’t much of a challenge. I don’t know why they are shooting themselves in the foot. If they need extra money or employees, it’d be easy enough to to put a message in the game with a link. TLDR: Game is fun, but they don’t update it enough to play longterm.

The items your looking for isn’t all there. The items pop up randomly after a certain time giving you the impression that you aren’t good at searching for it. I’d refer a game with everything actually there. I understand having certain sections of the game being unlocked after finding so many items but having the items you’re looking for not actually be there until after a set time is defeats the purpose of the game it just seems like they’re trying to scam you into spending more and more money for things that weren’t there just to pop up. Not to mention every 3-5 items you find you get an add. I understand having adds but it being so constant is a little unreasonable. Other than that the game is really fun but right now the cons are outweighing the pros. Would definitely play again if they didn’t purposely not put the items you’re looking for in there until after a set time. You can screen record and actually see that where you’re looking it won’t be there and then when you look over it again it shows up. That’s Probably why you can’t fully zoom out to look at the whole picture.

I downloaded this when it was very new with just a couple maps. I anxiously awaited when new maps were released and replayed the old ones again and again. It was one of my favorite games! However, over time, the new maps have become nearly impossible. Items are hidden so obscurely that it takes a cumulative number of hours to complete the map, basically forcing you to use hints. I paid for the ad-free version early on, so I’m sure this isn’t accidental as getting hints requires spending money or watching ads (which I understand- having an app requires funds). But now, even the old maps have changed and there’s different items to find, equally as difficult as the new maps are. I find I can only play for a few minutes before remembering how difficult it is and losing motivation because it feels impossible. If I hadn’t paid for it, I would have deleted it already. I understand some probably enjoy these extremely difficult puzzles but I am not one of them and wish there was a level of difficulty option for the levels.

I enjoy this game a lot and play it frequently. As others have mentioned, sometimes objects are so hidden that they are virtually impossible to find without getting a hint. For instance, I was doing the Versailles scene and had found everything except the last mushroom, so I used a clue and found that it was behind something in the scene that did not move. There was no way anyone could have naturally found it there. This aspect of the game is frustrating but it’s pretty rare. My other complaint is that sometimes the movement of the background scenes can be so distracting and they actually even give me headaches occasionally. I understand minor movements and motions, but large scale things that take up a lot of the screen and constantly move are very annoying and trigger dizziness and headaches for me. I would love it if there was an option to reduce the motion a little bit. I really thoroughly enjoy this game and it would be near perfect if it didn’t have these frustrating aspects of it. I hope we get new locations soon!

Update: Changed my rating to 5 stars as they fixed the loading/lag bug. I love this game but I do wish they would change up the challenges to either give you less time or some different scenes. I can get through the entire thing in under 3 minutes because it’s always the same scenes. /———-/ It kills me to rate this lower than a 5 because it’s one of my favorite games. The developers don’t seem to monitor/update the game very often. There is supposed to be a new challenge every day but they didn’t have one for the first week of May, and then released all the days they missed, and forced the user to watch an ad to play any of them. Also, whatever this new update is they released this week absolutely killed the game. It lags so badly I can’t even play it. (The game never lagged before. Yes, I have the latest version.) Lastly, the devs don’t reply to any feedback so I don’t know if they even read emails. This game is fantastic — when it works.

I like this game overall, I like that there are timed and untimed options and that you can turn off ads with one small fee (definitely worth it). The art is very cute and everytime I play a map, I always find something new. I hope more areas open up in existing scenes/worlds and expand on the little dramas! Two issues: - In the latest update for Sports World - Pairs, I can’t clear the wrestling belt pair bc the second item doesn’t exist - I have even used clues and they show me a place on the map where there isn’t an item to collect. This should have been caught in testing. - I’m not sure what the different levels are, it doesn’t seem like the items are harder to find or the items are smaller or anything, I guess it’s just a shuffle and the “level” is just the number of times you’ve cleared it? It would be nice to have a bit of a progression in the untimed challenges. Also a visual indicator of “in progress” or “begin level” would be great so I remember what map I was working on last time I played.

First of all, I loved this game. The ads every 5 seconds were unbearable so I decided to spend the money on the ad-free version. This was fine, and even though they come out with new levels VERY slowly, I’ve enjoyed the new levels that come out every couple of months and have replayed the old ones many many times while I wait patiently for new places/levels to come out. They came out with a new level (ancient greece) and I was so excited! I played through it once, and in the middle of me playing through a second time it disappeared. I assumed it was a glitch, but I was wrong. When the level reappeared it suddenly was “locked” and available as a $4.99 purchase OR I would have to find 100 vases in the other levels which I had already played each 12 times over. Really?! I find that’s super shady. Especially when it was put out and then retracted. I paid for the game to begin with and now you’re taking away the new levels? The old levels are stagnant, and you have to be delusional to think I will be paying $4.99 a level going forward. I’m about to delete it for good at this point. Disappointed to say the least.

It’s a free game yes, but no ads are what really supports the developers also makes it the full and fulfilling game you’re looking for! It’s 4.99 for no ads and 100% worth it. The game is the most well produced scavenger hunt game on iOS. It’s fun but challenging. While there options to pay for hints, you totally don’t need to! When I’m doing just press around and the game will automatically give you some free hints. You’re welcome 😜 free hints are easy to come by, new maps and items make the game constantly enjoyable and fun, and the moving characters make each map almost interactive in a way. It’s not your typical 2D spot the item game, it’s built for the mobile and really using it to everyone’s advantage! I highly suggest this game for all ages. It’s fun, relaxing, challenging for the mind, and honestly really good for distracting or for my adhd. A+ more people should download 👍🏻 and this is coming from someone who never writes reviews or generally pays for games.

I've been looking and looking for a game that's similar to the game within a game-the Two Dots Scavenger Hunt and I am so so happy that I found this game! I love that there's no time limit for finding the objects, so it's great for relaxing. I try very hard not to purchase things in "free" apps but I like this one so much that I felt it was worth it to purchase the ad free version. I'm very glad I did, because it allows you to totally immerse yourself in the hunt and not interrupt your search every minute or so for a 30 second ad. The only drawback I've found is the hints are very hard to come by and I find it almost impossible to complete a level without at least one hint because objects are often completely hidden by other objects and cannot be seen unless you have x-ray vision. Please developers, more levels! I don't want the fun to ever end! I love that you slowly, but do add new maps and new ways to play! Overall- I love, love, love it!

I love a good game like this that keeps me searching. Some items are easier to find than others and that is what I like - a good mix between the easy and hard. Here are a few things I would change if I could: 1) Some items are too hidden and would almost be impossible to find if you didn’t have the option to get a clue. I’ve had items that are are so hidden that you might only see a tiny portion of it. I don’t think that is fair, but that’s just me. 2) For the hard puzzles, I think there should be a start button so that you can have a chance to look at the items to find. One minute and 45 seconds is already a small amount of time, but having the clock start right when you open the puzzle makes it even more difficult. You should be able to review what is hidden first, before the clock starts. 3) It would be nice, but not necessary, to be able to earn a clue other than watching a video. That’s not a huge deal for me, but just an idea.

Yes ads are annoying like everyone is saying in these reviews but I haven’t seen anyone mention how there’s not music or sound effects for the scenes. Like the park should be people laughing & music & doing park things. Zoo should have lions roaring & elephants & monkeys making sounds. In my opinion that would make the game a lot better. Instead of just hearing like click effects. Especially if like the more you zoom in the more you can hear for example if I zoom in to the gym I should hear music or weights clanking, I should hear the cars going by or the pigeons on the roof. Zoom in to the pier I should hear waves or a boat. You know what I mean? Just general ambience of the scenes would make a much more immersive game. & maybe I wouldn’t get so easily annoyed by the ads lol. I just feel like with as many visual effects & moving pieces & having to really zoom in & explore to find items, there shouldn’t be complete silence except when I click something 🫤

I purchased this and a couple of other similar games. Out of all three this one and one other are a waste of money. No new puzzles in months, yet the game icon keeps getting updated. Seem to put more effort into creating the special puzzles that you either have to pay for (even tho I paid for the add free version) or you have to replay the old levels (because, again, no new puzzles in months) to get enough parrots, llamas, or whatever to unlock it. You have to find 100. So you either replay the same tired level that never change or have to watch an ad (did I mention I already paid for the ad free version) to get 2 so you only have to play 50 times. Or you could pay $4.99 to purchase the special level and unlock immediately. But didn’t I already pay for the game!? I wish these developers would make a game that once you pay, that’s it. No power ups to purchase, no ads to watch to get something when you already paid for the ad free version, no special levels that you either have to spend hours play to unlock for free or have to pay AGAIN. This developer is greedy. Such a scam to get more money out of people!

i downloaded this game a long time ago, and it was one of my favorite games ever. so fun, and it occupied me for a while. however, i just recently redownloaded it after quite a while, and let’s just say i’m very disappointed. the game itself is pretty much the same, but, the amount of ad’s is ABSURD. basically every 5 items i find, there is an ad. it never used to be like that. and i know, there is something you can buy to remove ads, but i shouldn’t have to pay money to have an enjoyable experience. ads are fine, i get it, i have plenty of games with ads. but the amount and the frequency they occur is absolutely insane. when i first got the app, it was every so often which was tolerable. but now i can’t even play the game without being interrupted every 1 minute and 30 seconds (‼️‼️not an exaggeration, i literally timed it with a stop watch 8 times in a row and they all came out to almost the same exact time‼️‼️). like i said, i am extremely disappointed, and i will probably end up deleting it.

This is a great game, and I really want to be able to enjoy it. I’m not opposed to ads or to the developers making money. But when ads are popping up every 100 seconds (I timed it) it completely ruins the game. Yes, I could pay $7.99 to be ad free, and likely would if they didn't force me to watch constant ads while giving me less that 2 minutes of play time between ads. I can understand an ad maybe every 5 or 10 minutes, but this is beyond ridiculous. My other issue is, as other commenters have said, not all the items are there until after so much time has past and you have been forced to watch so many ads. Then all the sudden items start appearing in places you know for a fact weren’t there before because you’ve looked there multiple times. But there they are plain as day. Between the ads and items popping up that weren’t there before, it just feels too deceptive. This could be a great game that I would play a lot, but I’ll be deleting the app because I just can’t with this ridiculousness.

I really loved this game. Until the update you could watch ads and pick up 80 coins so it took a few ads to purchase a booster but usually that’s what I need to do. You could do this as many times as you needed to per day. And please know that I have bought boosters for this game quite a few times. But there are certain times of the month that our money doesn’t stretch far enough for me to buy game boosters. I’m disabled so I’m home 24/7. So I’m playing games a lot. Like I started this with, I really love this game. Have played it for hours a day. But now you can only watch 5 videos. Then it turns off your ability to watch videos for 24 hours. Did they really think that anyone would sit through those ads just to save a dollar or two if they had the money? I wouldn’t because I would like to do other things with my time. Watching ads for coins isn’t really a choice most of us would choose for ourselves. But if we want to play then that’s what we have go do.

🧸 Had to rewrite my review due to not being able to locate my first one. I enjoy chilling in bed while playing this game in the relaxed (not timed) mode of play. I deducted a star because I have had to delete and reinstall the game due to freezing issues for several days. Luckily I didn’t have to go through it all again this last time because it was for an app update. The hiding places are the same but the items are shuffled. Each game has its own set of items to find, some of them are impossible to locate when it’s completely hidden under something or behind something and no part of it is seen. I just make a mental note to always look in those areas. The “people” can be pretty funny, they will fight each other or be vomiting Lol. If your days are boring or just looking to unwind then I recommend paying the $ to remove ads since that is the #1 complaint I see on other reviews. Enjoy!! 🙃

Hi there! If you like unplayable game with ads every three to one minute this is the game for you. I downloaded this game and deleted it not even thirty minutes later. I was playing and it was really laggy, but i didnt let that get to me. I was having some fun when a ad popped up I thought nothing of it and kept playing. When three seconds later another popped up I was getting annoyed. Some of the ads were even crashing the game and not loading. I decided to keep playing thinking to give it another chance. I made the mistake of doing that though cause more ads kept popping up it couldnt even go one minute without giving a ad and crashing the game. I checked through the game and saw the price to get rid of the ads. If i remmeber correctly its 5$ not worth it just to play it proplerly. I gave up on trying the game and deleted it. I have seen better scavenger games than this. If i could i would give it zero star but I can only put one. Wouldnt recomend this game to anyone very laggy and to many ads the price to play freely is just a scam. The creator is just greedy not a good game at all. 😤

I downloaded it to both my iPhone and iPad. Lots of good things I can see I would enjoy if only ads didn’t pop up so frequently. I understand that developers get revenue from ads that enables them to profit from their product, and I’m ok with that: I think that’s fair. I don’t pay for games anymore. All the games I ever paid for are now defunct. So, my cost for playing “free” games is enduring the ad breaks. This game, however, has ad breaks every few seconds. They are triggered by finding the hidden objects. The longest interval I had was 7 objects. The shortest was 3. And some of the ads are extremely hard to tap out of. I estimate my longest continuous period of play at about 40 seconds. Most periods of play have been shorter than the ads! I changed my mind about giving this game just one star by considering how delightful the design of this game is. The delight is negated by the interval of continuous play: limiting the player to maximum of 40 seconds and minimum of 6 seconds is ridiculous. Thus, I think my 2-star rating is deserved.

The game has a great concept I love search games but the ads every 10-15 seconds and the glitchy play make it only worth 2 stars. I think the developers could have fixed all these issues by now with the money they have been getting from selling ad space and time. I would pay to remove the ads but I think the game is riddled with bugs even if you did pay I am willing to bet the glitchy play would still be there. I even downloaded it to my IPhone 14 to see if it would make any difference and it did not. Same problems there as well. Developers please fix these issues as you have something here but it just needs tweaking to keep people engaged. Adding to this review because I am fed up with the constant adds and glitching I have removed this app. Not that any of the developers care but I thought I would vent. Again great concept but horrible play due to the ads and glitches. I have given it a single star because of this. I hope more folks follow and remove this app until developers pull their heads out of you know where and fix the issues.

I started playing this game over a yr and half ago and loved it because it wasn’t required to have Wi-Fi and just enjoyed the game itself I actually stop playing one of my other games that I started over 7+ years cause this was was so addictive I however since then now I have to be connected to Wi-Fi so those ads can keep popping up and I’m ok with some ads but it plays the same one over and over with in seconds but that’s what is making me not want to play it keeps starting me from the beginning I had this game on my phone and tablet and I started on my phone I had so many of the help options that when the game restarts I loose the!! Ok so I restarted it cause I liked playing however my tablet didn’t restart so I played on that more but now it’s doing it on that. Now I don’t want to play anymore because who wants to to keep playing it when once you get back to where you started within a couple days it restarts and you loose everything!! Well I’m done playing!!

The game is fun, I enjoy looking for the hidden objects and like how simplistically the art is drawn. There is much humor to be found in both the placement of objects and the backgrounds and characters. However, I ended up deleting the game after one day because of several reasons. 1. The ads are excessive. At first, it seemed to pop an ad after about every sixth object found; then it became after every twenty seconds. If the goal is to make you forget what you’re supposed to be looking for, then congratulations, you’ve succeeded. 2. The ads definitely interfere with gameplay. It would pop an ad regardless of what I was doing. Looking without moving the screen? BOOM! Ad. Just about to tap an object? BOOM! Ad. Zooming the screen to look around? BOOM! Ad. I get that ads make the game free, but this is ridiculous, especially when some ads make you go through several screens to exit them. My suggestion is to keep the ads that allow players to exit after 10-15 seconds, and only play two ads together every minute, not 20-30 seconds of play. 3. The game absolutely DRAINS my battery! 4. The game makes my phone heat up after only about ten minutes.(Probably also contributing to the battery issue) 5. Once the phone starts heating up, the game gets glitchy and freezes, again limiting gameplay. All in all, I would try this game again because I did enjoy it when I got to play, but not before the issues above are fixed.

Update; I am done with this game. You actually responded to me and stated that you were going to work on decreasing the number of ads because they are totally unreasonable and there’s multiple comments on here of people complaining about the number of ads and how frequent the ads are we can’t even get in any realistic gameplay because of all the ads and we shouldn’t have to pay to get rid of ads. I don’t mind watching an ad once in a while but every 10 to 15 seconds I’m sorry that’s overkill. I’m done. I am removing your app from all my devices. Literally every 10-15 seconds there is a new ad. Can’t even truly play the game with all the ads. I gave you two stars over a week ago because of the the amount of ads and how it was disrupting gameplay. You actually responded to me and said “we are making significant changes to reduce the number of ads“ I played this game three times since then and guess what? the number of ads increased not decreased. you can’t even play the game. There’s so many ads. I do not recommend this game and I’m most likely going to delete it.

I really like this app! The first update made things a bit clearer and gave the option to buy hints/more time, which was definitely needed. Sometimes you just get stuck after searching for something for over a half hour and just need the answer. This new update added a new level, Versailles. I was really looking forward to enjoying it (I played the other four levels over 25 times each) but it really fell short for me. The first issue is some parts of the images are not so clear and there’s so many flowers moving that it’s extremely distracting. The part that really ruins this particular puzzle is that certain items are COMPLETELY hidden behind objects and the only way to find them is to pay (or watch an ad) for them to be revealed. I really hope the creators fix this in the next update!

I love this game! Ever since the App was updated showing new sections for Daily Searches and Events that are “Coming Soon”, I keep checking to see if they have arrived yet! I am looking forward to that Version Update! I do agree with the other reviewers who mentioned that some objects are impossible to find, which can be very frustrating. You have to memorize where the impossible to find objects are and just tap that area every time. Sure enough, even if you cannot see anything, Tap! And there something is. Argh!! I don’t mind things hidden under a moving object, but to not see it at all without a clue is aggravating. I would also like to be able to earn clues besides having to watch a video every time. Maybe one every few levels? The artwork is fun and entertaining, and the Aliens are my favorite so far! Keep up the good work!

I’ve only had this game for a couple of days, beat a couple of worlds, and while I have enjoyed it, the game definitely has a lot of frustrations that outweigh the enjoyment. The frequency of the ads is far too much. It feels like one ad ends and before I even find an item it disrupts me with another. They have little events pop up to find special things for prizes, but you can’t even receive the prize without watching an ad for it, so it’s not much of a reward for all the searching you just went through. I also got a little frustrated with all the pop ups, like getting new areas and being forced to go to that area instead of just dismissing it to stay where you are, or unlocking new worlds even though Im not going to start the net until I finish what I’m doing. Overall the game is exactly what it’s supposed to be, but it seems to get drowned out and distracts you way too much. It was fun for a bit but I can’t continue.

Without bugs the game is great. Which you would think would mean that any issues you do encounter would be handled well. Not the case. One of the worlds (Animal Park Pairs) has a bug that I have been trying to get taken care of for months. When I finally got a response from Support, the person had clearly not even read my question and instead tried to tell me how to play the game as if I could not even grasp the basic concepts. When I cant find the object and the two assists (magnifying glass and compass) cant find the object, but I have already found the first pair: the object is not there. Pretty simple. The bug/glitch has made it so that I can only find the first half of the last ten or so pairs. It even records that half have been found; which it should not do until you find the second half. Plus there is no way to reset the round in hopes of getting past the glitch. If you are Type A and you want to try this game just be prepared to have some serious irritation if you hit a bug and expect to not get any useful help from Support.

I enjoy the scavenger hunting in this game, even though several levels obviously don’t include all the items you’re looking for until you’ve come back to play later. In other words, you’re looking for 160 items but at any given time, there are likely only 30 of the items in the scene. Either that or they move the items later. I’m going to have to find another scavenger hunt game, though, because this one is very hard on your phone — causes it to get hot after 15 minutes of gameplay, kills the battery by about 10% every 5 minutes, and begins to freeze after about 20-30 minutes. The ads are definitely annoying, appearing every 3 minutes during your gameplay, but I would have tolerated them if I could play the game for a solid period of time before it started freezing. However, since the game is so annoyingly glitchy on its own, paying to get the ads removed is not worth it.

The game glitches on my iPad by zooming the screen in or out or moving to a different location randomly, greatly disrupting searching. It’s almost unplayable. The Christmas ticket game did not tell when or where to look for tickets. I believe it is also not working properly. After getting my initial ticket, there were none for hours in any puzzle. Then in the middle of the night I got one every few minutes for a little under an hour. Then, nothing again. I’ve reached out for support multiple times with zero response. On a basic level, once you complete the initial puzzle you can only then play the elite board. There is not an option to play the original level. I wish there was. There are not enough puzzles to go passed a week on the general searches. You can do timed levels and search for pairs over and over, but I prefer the basic boards. I’m looking for a better app or hoping the developer will care enough to respond and hopefully fix these issues.

Last week I would have given 5 stars but in the new update they decided to take the latest level (which I had already gotten to level 20+) and delete it. Now you can only play if you pay $5 or you play a hundred levels of previous locations / 50 levels and 50 ads. I’m well past level 100 in all the other levels but I like to bring them all up to the same numbers so not only did I lose my latest progress because they want more money but will have to play even more levels to catch up to the other themes. I’m sure this doesn’t matter to non OCD people and I wouldn’t have cared if I hadn’t lost so much progress. If they wanted to implement this it should have happened with a new location not one people have already been playing for a month or more. They’ve changed other aspects of the game for more profit so I’m wondering what’s next? If progress is going to keep being deleted it’s not worth the frustration.