MeChat - Interactive Stories

Awesome game

I downloaded this app way back when it felt like they didn’t have many characters, but I still enjoyed it. I redownloaded it not too long ago and I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. One thing though is the gem spending, it’s hard to earn gems for free in game but the stories require so many of them. Games gotta do what they gotta do for money I guess

can’t enjoy a story without spending money or waiting hours on end

TL;DR do not download this game, if you have uninstall it. You have to pay $$$ to even slightly enjoy a game that values $ over their players. With update! Mini key: Gems = the games currency Dates/stories = an illustrated interaction you have with your character of choice level up = once you spend a certain amount of gems you level up your character of choice and get some gems back (up to 30 gems max) I’ve been playing this game for years. In the beginning it was a little hard to play without spending money but it was tolerable. You could watch and ad to bring characters back online faster, you could increase your bond with characters to get gems, etc. Now it’s nearly impossible, even with the $15 membership. The perks are barely worth it anymore. It’s now super hard to level up/increase your bond with players. They increased the amount of gem options during stories to the point where you have to spend several hundred gems per chapter. For reference it cost $19.99 to get the 400 gem package, the membership perk barely gets you 200 gems (that’s if you log in daily), you can try watching 1 minute ads for gems (you only get five gems per ad, and you can only watch 3 ads every hour), they’ll give you 10 complementary gems (every 6 hours). They’ve shortened stories immensely as well. They’ll cut 1 story(date) into 2 parts to entice you to spend 15 gems instead of waiting 4 hours to maybe finish the second half of the story. If you’ve never played the game there’s dialogue between stories sometimes, and they’ve conveniently increased the dialogue between dates/stories while shorting the stories. Making you wait sometimes over 8 hours to finish the part 2 to a story that they used to allow you to finish all at once. They also have an issue with constantly creating new characters but not finishing/updating the ones they’ve already introduced. Sometimes it’ll take them over 6 months to update a character’s story. They’ve also ruined the holiday themed events. For holidays like Christmas, Halloween, Valentines Day, etc, they would have these fun little events. Where you would have to complete different chapters for a select amount of characters and then you’d get some gems, accessories for your avatar, and sometimes new clothes/hair. You didn’t have to use gems at all before, but of course they’ve now made it so you need to spend gems in order to complete the events. Not to mention that the events will take twice as long to complete since they’ve gotten rid of the option to watch an ad to bring characters back online sooner. It’s awful, truly. I appreciate the work put into these stories by the authors but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve started to include AI generated writing into some of these stories because sometimes the dialogue is just off. There’s also no transparency as to where all this money we are expected to pay to enjoy this game is going. It can’t be for a “better playing experience” because it’s only gotten worse. It also seems as though they don’t actually look into the critiques they receive from players, you can tell by their responses to these reviews. It’s the same rendition of “thanks, I’ll let the team know but we’re not going to do anything about it.” Do not download this game it’s just another extreme pay to win story game that is rapidly decreasing in quality. I will be uninstalling and encouraging my friends to do the same. So the developers responded and it seems as though they’ve only read the title, hence my earlier mention of them not taking critiques seriously. They responded on 02/23/25 saying “ Every player can download MeChat for free. Also, we added many ways to get free gems as possible so our players aren’t forced to pay anything.” But they failed to recognize that I mentioned said ways, and they didn’t talk about how many ways they’ve limited or completely gotten rid of. So my review of 1 star as of right now stands.