Garden Joy: Design & Makeover 4+

Garden Joy

Fun and brings much joy! 😁 It is an addicting and educational game, and real trees are planted!! I have worked as a floral designer, interior designer and gardener…so great to design all over the world with interesting challenges!! Great descriptions.

However, as I have progressed through the game, it is very difficult keep a good design rating unless you’re buying things or “purchasing coordinated packages for every differing design entry. Of course, I know you need to make money, but I do believe there should be good freebies in every single purchase category. It gets to a point where you can’t even play the game anymore. If you wanna keep people playing the game, then either increase the number of diamonds that you can earn or lower the cost of the 💎💎💎diamond purchases please. There should not be outrageous inflation in a fun game … so the only ones who can earn a five star rating are those with money. ( Too real-life )

Wouldn’t it be great to see what talent could be created if everyone had the same amount of money to spend?

Freeloaders

My daughter and I have been experiencing freeloaders as partners in the special challenges. They sit there and do nothing or contribute very little like they are expecting other people to give them a free ride so they can get all the prizes. It's disgusting. They let us spend the money so they can reap the benefits. I wish there was a way to delete or substitute with a different partner when it's apparent after the first day these freeloaders don't want to help build the bouquets or the glass or whatever the challenge is. I write their designer number or name down to make sure I never get taken advantage of during the next challenge. It's a fun game, very time-consuming, and can run up your credit card in no time. The items are unrealistically priced even if it is fake money. I will be backing off come summer. Otherwise I would get nothing else done and be a literal couch potato.

Update: had another freeloader with the ice cream challenge. There should be a way to delete a partner who doesn't contribute. I wanted to report her but couldn't find her when I searched. I have no idea how she found me, but she invited me so you would think she would contribute. I won't be burned again. I'm done. Some of these people have obviously out their heads together to scam those of us who spend real money so they can benefit without spending anything or doing any of the design work. The game is a bank account drain anyway.

Issues with the game

Overall this is relaxing and I like it but they could use to add some things to it to make it work better. I was doing a design and had added the wishing well in one of the spots and then tapped on another and it added a wishing well to that spot too and I didn’t want one in the other spot so when i went back to tap it again to remove it like you do on all the others it would not remove it, it was removing all the other things around it so i went to where the other one was and tapped on it and it would not remove either just the other plants or things around it would be removed frustrating to want to change one or two of the items or remove it and cant. They should really have a clear icon for people to be able to clear it all out and restart the process again when they are unable to tap the icon to remove it. So i had to submit my design with two wishing wells in it that looked goofy and now gonna not get a good score because the game would not work it was like that item was froze, even tried shutting off my phone and restarted it to see if that would work and nothing. Then there is not even a way to report issues with the game or app without exiting the game or app. Please fix. Too slow at adding to the game im getting bored with it already been at the end of all the levels for months now, they can add new designs but they cant add new levels. Gonna give it another month then i will just find another garden design game to play and uninstall this one.

Developer Response ,

Hi, we apologize for any issues experienced in the game. We want the game to run as smoothly as possible. Please report this to our support team so they can check any potential bugs preventing you from removing your items from designs. You can reach them either through the app or by emailing garden-joy-support@scopely.com.