Pros: YOU get to control when you see ads! This is by far the aspect that keeps me coming back. If you run out of ‘energy’ you can watch ads to get more energy to play longer. You also get to skip through the storyline so you can get back to the main point of the game. It’s very satisfying to complete orders on top of advancing throughout the game with cute decor to create your little world!Cons: lots of pop ups for new challenges show up after opening the app after not playing for awhile..but you get used to it because you expect it and even then it’s not that bad.**i’ve never made any in app purchases and don’t plan to because once i do that could be a slippery slope

I have a lot to say about this game. To be totally clear: I was incentivized by a third party to play the game. I am NOT, however, obligated or incentivized to rate it, so I will be blatantly honest.What I like about the game: It's zero stakes. The gameplay is simple and satisfying. You don't have to watch ads if you don't want to. I like that I can get gems and energy by playing the game. The game's scenery is genuinely lovely and nice to look at. I honestly enjoy it, and I can see myself playing it even after my incentives for doing so end.What I don't like about this game: The dialogue is LAUGHABLY bad. Not because it has translation issues--the English is perfectly fine--but because it's choppy and not engaging. Every cutscene is the same, and every character talks the exact same way. The characters are one-dimensional and bland. The energy system, just like every energy/lives system in mobile games, is just a money grab that runs out in 5 minutes but takes hours to recharge (this game's energy system is by far the worst I've experienced). The side events and quests are fine, but excessive. The game is so cluttered with side events, in-app purchases, and things that honestly take away from the enjoyment the game offers. I want to rate this game 5 stars for its simplistic, almost mind-numbing fun, but the parts that make it unenjoyable are so glaring and obnoxious that I have to address them. Would I recommend this game? Sure! Would I recommend taking this game seriously? Absolutely not.

I suggest you take a look at the possible inherent racial bias that may exist in your game. All the brown and Black characters seem to have some deep character flaws or promiscuity about them while most of the White characters appear to have more moral or socioeconomic power or acuity. It makes your very good game come across as socially ignorant and I know this game is far better than that. I support the LGBTQ+ community but as a Black heterosexual woman, it skeeves me out that all of the White women in the game are portrayed as feminine and desirable while the one brown or Black woman is A. gay or bisexual and B. frumpy and not feminine. This perpetuates a false narrative that minority women aren’t feminine, and that they are all masculine lesbians. Frankly, the majority of Black women I know are morally admirable, feminine, and in heterosexual relationships. This includes Black and brown women in my family, friends, and colleagues. Same for Black and brown men. Your one Black man in the game is highly suspect and flamboyantly feminine. In my life, the majority of gay men I know are White. Most Black men in my life are straight, traditionally masculine, fiscally conservative, socially centrist, and are family men. Please take a look.

The game itself is great. The merge is similar to the ones I love, but there is a fatal flaw. You need cash to pass and decorate the room. However you ALSO need *** building materials ***, adhesive tape, tape measures, bricks, to name a few. I had enough cash to build the entire room, but couldn’t progress until I randomly WIN a railroad cart looking item, which there contains the building materials. There is zero player control when it comes to building materials. You can RARELY buy them in their deals and even when I have there is no guarantee that it will have ANY of the actual materials you need! I spent a day replaying the “Daily Offer” ad button and bought gems to see if the railroad cart or anything for that matter of building materials… guess what? Zip, zero, nada. I spent an entire week and money trying to build a bonus where there was one of the railroad carts, and even after spending money, I still couldn’t get it in time before the contest ended. I did receive one during that time I had purchased from a bundled offer, and it had 1 of the 3 items needed and a bunch of duplicates of what I already had. I’m giving up. Taylor’s Secret has potential, but needs some more user friendly features to actually be worth playing. Random luck to get building materials is not what ANY Merge gamers want. The game company needs to actually play the game, not just build and release. This should have been caught during QA players. Not just coders. My tip to them is to address these issues by doing just that.