Hay Day in IOS

★★★★★ App Store Editors’ Notes

★★★★★ 2+ years

I have had this game for over 2 years on and off. Overall I enjoy the game, there are plenty of individual tasks as well as “derby” or group tasks to accomplish with other online players. The game is updated regularly and during the holidays special tasks/in-game activities occur, which is a fun touch! My rating is 4/5 stars for the sole fact there are a couple of “improvements” I would love to see within the game: 1. An option to lock/close the farm store front to sell items to fellow farmers in our neighborhood. Sometimes we are not online at the same time and would like to sell specific items to another to help them out and although I don’t advertise these items in the newsletter, other farmers still intercept and purchase the items before my fellow farmers can. 2. The gift catalogue where we can purchase a package with tickets we have earned from helping other farmers outright makes me mad!! Although it shows potential items and then the possibility of a random item, it is ALWAYS a random item! If it is going to be random, just advertise it as such, not as a potential to get an item you would like, but never receive! 3. If a farm needs help/the advertisement is shown in the newspaper, it should only be shown if it isn’t an option for the neighborhood to fill. It is so frustrating having the “help” derby task and wasting time visiting a farm to only find out you cannot help/fill orders since it is only for neighbors to fill.

★★★★★ Lowering my rating

I have enjoyed this game for years. The obvious greed of the developers in the last several months is the reason I am reducing my rating. They are withholding previous deals to purchase the diamonds necessary to play at a high level, where hiring Tom and being able to speed up tasks require diamonds. They added a $4.99 per month feature that gives good benefit, but adds $60 to my annual expense. I used to be able to spend $70 to purchase 4000 diamonds twice a year, bringing my annual cost to $200. Now, I am not seeing the $70 offer. In the Valley, they are making it impossible to complete all the tasks by not having needed resources available without paying diamonds to allow more movement. I settle for not finishing all tasks everyday. This session, my team may not make the requirements to gain benefits at the end due to lack of “chickens” to capture. An Easter production feature that is short-lived would require 20 plus diamonds to be more useful. There are increasingly frequent offers that would take more money now. All very off-putting and making me think of leaving the game. Benefits of the game for me are the social interaction with teammates, interesting challenges to manage production and resources to maximize outcomes, and the beautiful graphics. I am 82 years old and able to play off and on during the day which makes achieving goals doable. I believe the mental effort I must expend keeps my mind sharp. I am a CoLeader on my team.

★★★★★ Best farming game!

I’ve been playing this game for over 5 years and even if I don’t play consistently, I always find my way back. (I’m Level 46) This game reminds me so much of the OG Facebook FarmVille game and I love it. Btw the crops do not wither away on this game! ;) this is not a pay to win game in my opinion, I’ve spend maybe $50 in diamonds in all my years of playing just because I wanted to, not because I had to to advance levels. Of course most of the decorations/houses/trucks that you can buy to make your farm look unique are for diamonds but it’s not necessary. I haven’t noticed many glitches when I’m playing, so I think the dev team is pretty quick at fixing issues. One complaint I have is I wish it was easier to be able to expand my farm. You have to collect SO many different items to get more space. 🫠 and that getting the colored tickets was a bit easier. All the extra animals like cats, dogs, and horses all cost a certain amount of tickets to get them roaming around on your farm. I’d also mention that I don’t like how the storage is set up, like I have so many different decorations/fencing that it’s hard to see what I have because you have to go through the store tab. Not big complaints but they do bug me. But overall, this game is fun, once your high enough level it will keep you very busy!

★★★★★ LOVE LOVE LOVE, but one change PLEASE

I absolutely love this game, I’ve been playing it on and off for years but only recently started playing it seriously, and there’s a few things I want changed but major one is I wish they would make an update that double checks with you before spending diamonds. A lot of the time I’ll play in between doing things so I’ll be in a rush and I’ve had multiple instances where I’ve accidentally clicked an option to pay diamonds to replace crops or whatever it is, even when I dont need to. I wish they would make a screen pop up before you spend diamonds asking you if you’re SURE you want to do that action. Especially for newer players diamonds can be really beneficial and when you spend it on accident like that, it can be really frustrating. Another change I’d suggest is adding a search button to the daily dirt, or categories to make it easier to find supplies when you need to fill a boat or truck order. Although this might make it a little leas exciting, the daily dirt is 80% indigo, wheat, strawberries and other spam crops, and very rarely can you find expansion items or ingredients for orders. And I also know Tom is used for this service but he costs a lot in diamonds which isn’t accessible to new players and only available every 3 hours after a task. which goes to waste when you’re sleeping, at work and/or school, or are busy with other responsibilities.

★★★★★ Wow! I love it!

Okay so I have been playing this game for 3 years now! I really, really love it! When I was younger, I downloaded this game because I saw animals and I am in LOVE with animal games! I played the game and I didn’t understand and I only made it to level 6 back when I deleted and completely forgot about Hay Day. When I was looking through my purchased games, I noticed hay day and I was like, “Ohh, I remember this!”. So I downloaded and started a whole new game. I am on level 14 and I am so addicted! Every time I get a notification like; “Milk is ready to be collected!” Or “Your animals are missing you!” I click the notification so fast and spend as much time as I could on the game. My favorite animal on the game (so far..) is the pig! It is really cute and chubby 😻 and when I tap on them they wave! How cute!! Everything adds up to the game and everything is homemade! We harvest crops, use those crops to make goods, and get money for selling them! Everything grows in the game and nothing will ever stop growing! I also adore the way we can chat with other people and trade! It’s a really good way to meet people and help other farms out. I am in a neighborhood and I am really good friends with everyone in the neighborhood. I also like how the game isn’t cruel and we don’t slaughter the pig for bacon, but we do put hem in a machine and take their fat! I really love this game and I hope updates will come on their way soon! Keep up the good work XOXO ~Angela’s Farm

★★★★★ i love this game so much.. BUT..

I’ve been playing this game since a little before thanksgiving, and i’ve been pretty obsessed and almost at level 25. My only issues are the expansion items, items that cost diamonds (including tom) are very expensive, vouchers, and the wait times for certain products. I feel like it is so hard to come across expansion items for land, and the fact that it requires so many makes it difficult to get farther in the game. Now; Tom is a very useful character in the game WHEN he is in service. He takes 3 hours to rest, and once your little “free trial” is up, he costs 15 DIAMONDS for ONE DAY. Think about it. 24 hours a day; you sleep for 8, and have other things to do. So it’s a waste of diamonds for a one time use every 3 hours for a DAY. With the vouchers, i get many of them. BUT some animals require the most common voucher, (green) and for some reason, the game has given me more of the other color vouchers than the green one. For that voucher being the cheapest or most common, it’s not very common for me. Lastly, i get that this is a “somewhat realistic type” farming game, but it’s so hard to get at the tasks i wanna get done, done! It’s not the items that go INTO the main items like cakes, pies, etc., but the time for those are insane and i can never get them done, especially when they’re in my boat orders and I forget about them because they just take so long to get done. And even though this is a bunch of complaining, i actually really love the game but i hope the devs could possibly look into some of these to make the game a bit more enjoyable.

★★★★★ Would like to see a warehouse!

I have been playing this game for many years. I have read the other comments and ideas and agree with all of them. The one thing I would like to see is a warehouse for storing building items, expansion items, saws, etc. Expansion items take up a lot of room in the barn. Many require 90 or more of 3 items and then only give you 50 more slots in your silo, barn etc. That is a lot of items for very little return. I would also like to see a hardware store that building and expansion items could be purchased for coins. It would be a lot more fun if you were able to upgrade or expand buildings a little easier. I spend a lot more money on this game as I it is the only game I feel like I get any worthwhile return on what I spend. I would like to add here that I am retired and on a fixed income. I don’t have a lot of extra money to spend. I always hire Tom to help out my game. I don’t like the Valley season as it hasn’t been open in some time and I keep getting gas for it when I can’t use it. Seems senseless to me. It also takes forever to get the zoo animals and some of the farm animals that require tickets from the farm pass. That is the other thing I always purchase. The only reason I give this game 4 stars instead of 5 is because of the items I’ve listed. Thanks for the upgrades! Keep them coming!