Domino Dreams‪™‬ 4+

I really enjoy a game that has a slight bit of skill. You still have to know which Domino’s to lay down in order to clear the board. It’s not very difficult, but there is a small amount of gameplay which requires skill. And this seems crucial to making me fall asleep.
I don’t like how you have to scroll through 15 different screens at the beginning to start the game. I understand it’s informative, but it just is difficult to get through a massive amount of advertising about the games features.
Also, this game is very difficult to get started. If you do lose and lose your coins, it takes several hours to get back to where you can play in a fluid motion again and encountering puzzle board makes it even worse.
This is where the game almost lost me. I don’t mind throwing a few bucks towards the game if I’ve been having fun with it for a week or so I almost feel obligated to buy something. However, I’m not going to do that on my first day of gameplay, I don’t like having to use lots of money to get started so that I can play a game that I’m just doing mindless relaxation to go to sleep

I downloaded this game through Fetch. You get points for reaching levels. I’ve been playing the game sometimes daily since I do enjoy dominos, for several months. I can count on one hand the number of times I have won more than 1 game before running out of coins. More often than not I win ZERO games before exhausting my accumulated coins. I’ve never experienced this with any other game. I like the features & side games but it’s just not enjoyable knowing that even if I won a game, I will lose the next 2 or 3 & then the coins are gone till they accumulate again. And usually I will never be able to play off of the first deal. Always have to draw 1 or more before I can even play one domino. Then i go through the game & it will usually kill me on the very last domino. I’m not whining because I never get to win but really, sometimes I have 1 domino left to play & will draw the last 3 or 4 dominos and not have one that I can play off of. You’d think with that many left in the deck there you’d be 1 match…sometimes??? Fetch has limited time to accomplish the goals they set out so my time ends in about 4 days. In all this time I have not reached even the first goal, which is to complete Chapter8. So disappointing because it’s a cute game.

This is one of the funnest games on iOS - and yet one of the most impossible games to enjoy. I spent the first two days playing this game frequently and looked forward to playing it. But around level 50 it became a grind. Now, I can’t get through 1-3 rounds without running out of coins and being forced to quit. Each level takes 3-5 minutes depending on how fast you play. That equates to roughly 5-15 minutes of play each DAY unless you constantly pay real money. Where’s the fun in that? Once I got up to 25,000 coins and had them drained to zero trying to complete ONE level ONE time - that’s a loss of 25,00 coins in about 5 minutes. The bad thing about it is that it’s obvious that the developers made the game this way to purposely drain your coins to force you to spend money. I used to think freemium games were fun because they allow you to play them without paying upfront, and some still are. But, most of them have become such money grabs that I’m starting to miss the days when we could just pay one price and enjoy the game as much as we want. Games such as Domino Dreams is a bottomless money pit and you have to empty your pockets to progress and enjoy the game. It’s too bad because it’s such a fun game; but I’m not a millionaire and I have bills to pay. It’s time to move on to another game.