Last updated on January 2nd, 2026 at 10:15 pm
About Love and Hate – Puzzle Game Review
About Love and Hate is a Puzzle/Casual game from Black Pants Studio GmbH, first launched in 23rd October 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 34+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes About Love and Hate Stand Out
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no.1 puzzler in 45 countries *
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winner of the german computergames award 2012! *
"A surprisingly sophisticated, charming game."
Jury German Computergames Award
"In conclusion, About Love, Hate and the Other Ones is one of the best puzzle games in the market for portable devices of Apple."
GameOver.gr
"…it provides a clever and fairly unique series of special-relation riddles that make time melt away."
148Apps
"Lovingly crafted pencil crayon-like visuals. Surprisingly expressive characterizations for a game about blobs."
Gamezebo
Slip into the role of Love and Hate in this fun and challenging puzzle game. Help the cute main characters to get back to their beloved hill. Master all of the 70 levels, encounter diverse other ones and find out how they respond to Love and Hate.
The game features easy to learn touch controls, specifically designed for the iPhone and iPad. Plus, lovely music and sounds, all tailor-made for the game.
Features:
• unique graphics
• outstanding music and sounds
• 80 handcrafted levels
• 6 "other ones" with unique abilities
• 4 different worlds to explore
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, About Love and Hate is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th July 2024
Recent improvements include:
This update fixes a crash that happened when closing the app.
Download & Availability
About Love and Hate is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get About Love and Hate on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
The developer sent a response, which we always appreciate. Too bad we dont see it here, but here the part we think theyd be okay with our posting. You can restart the game by going to the level select screen from the main menu, and then chosing the first level – the game will track your last played level so you can resume from whereever you left off in your second play-through. There may be easier ways to allow replay of a game, however, we did update our rating for the benefit of the doubt. Great its been updated for iPad but too bad Ive bought and played it TWO YEARS ago and can never, ever play it a second time. If you want to buy a game where you can only play one time, this is it. Beyond us why developers are so money hungry that we literally get punished for – playing the game by never getting to play it twice.
We really enjoy this game, but two times this week all our progress was lost and the game reset. Any fixes.
Great its been updated for iPad but too bad Ive bought and played it TWO YEARS ago and can never, ever play it a second time. If you want to buy a game where you can only play one time, this is it. Beyond us why developers are so money hungry that we literally get punished for – playing the game by never getting to play it twice.
This game is clever and engaging – easy to understand, clever internal logic, intuitive controls, and striking artwork. Excellent replay value too.
We love playing this game. Play a couple of levels in a few minutes. Have to plan and create a strategy. Feel like we're exercising our brain and having fun at the same time.
We love everything about this game The puzzles, the graphics, the sounds. We've had it for a long time and haven't finished, because the last puzzles are somewhat challenging for us. But they are a lot of fun and we keep trying without feeling frustrated. You just have to try it, it's really great.
A cheap game but so many levels of logic fun. Well worth it.
Not your average game, no flashy lights, no in app purchases, no clutter. Graphics : clean. Neat. Pretty. Love and hate are surprisingly appealing for two blobs. The hissed "we hate you we hate you" is cackle worthy. The gooey "we loooove you" is sweet and sticky. The other ones are equally charming. Game play : easy, simple, and intuitive. The puzzles become progressively more complicated and the switching between love and hate is seamless. Replay value : good Bottom line : would play again, would recommend to a friend.
This is just a great game. The mechanics are terribly simple, but the puzzles can be quite challenging (but never frustrating). It's fun and relaxing – no time limit, no move limit, infinite undos; you're just trying to figure out the puzzle with no arbitrary stressors. Great game for waiting rooms and the like, and even more fun when you can give it your full attention. It's a substantial game: 80 levels, and you definitely get your money's worth. Still, we would love to see even more levels, or a sequel.
Our family all say "we love you" and "we hate you" like the characters. A great game! Reminds us a little of Gesundheit. Wish there were more levels.
Such a cute puzzler. Our sister recommended it to us and we were surprised when we saw it came from the same studio as Symmetrain, another of our favorites. The gameplay is really relaxing. Using Love and Hate reflects real life, since love brings people closer and hate pushes them away. Love sends out hearts which makes some of the "other ones" walk closer and Hate sends out lightning bolts which makes them walk away. It was $1.99 well spent. We hope this game doesn't stay underrated forever.
If you ever had a chance to download a game, this one should not be missed. We have two absolute faves, Monument and this one Love Hate etc. We have played both through from beginning to end, deleted them and then re-installed them. Cannot say enuf about the quality of play, art and humor that this game contains and provides. An absolute must have.
This game is a lot of fun. Lots of clever puzzles you need to figure out. There's one bug that needs fixing. Lofs of times the game will get stuck on the Pause screen and you have to force quit the game and start it up again. Other than that, great game.
IPhone X. Game is bugging out pretty bad.
The graphics are appealing, but that's all. It's utterly boring. Doesn't have anything that makes you want to keep playing. Hearing the line we hate you over and over again is also quite annoying.
We paid and download. Opened game. Selected play. Selected level one. A clip of an in game txt screen shows for less than a second before cutting to to a cut scene of hate walking and getting hit with a button box. Love approaches and presses the button. They disappear. The scene repeats. It doesnt stop. We can not exit. We have to force close the app. We have uninstalled and re downloaded. We have the same problem still. PLEASE HELP.
…but really dull game play. It is remarkably repetitious and too easy. We couldnt go on after about 30 levels. Yawn.
The game had so much potential. An easy to pick up and play puzzle, Love and Hate had great, gothic animation styling. This gave the game a potentially serious overtone that could have been interesting. However, such potential was wasted by using ridiculous sound effects, and voice acting suited for a children's television show. Considering the game requires you to use the characters constantly and that they speak when being used, it was too much for us. We would not recommend.
We've been waiting for too long.
A few reviews we read stated what we would say. Puzzles are challenging but not impossible. The ability to undo and redo without penalty is awesome. There's no minimum number of moves, no three stars to achieve, no pressure to do it "right". Just do the puzzles and have fun.
Amazing, great idea on Love and Hate!!! Finished all levels though.
Love the concept and the puzzles. Not sure why the app does not load across all our devices. Different versions for iPhone and iPad.
This game is wonderful! Funny & stress relieving. Very interesting graphics.
Awesome puzzling, great designs. Hoping for a sequel.
Easily a favorite – excellent graphics and engaging game play with adorable characters.
THANK YOU for a well-planned game that is not only wonderful to look at but fun to play! And we keep laughing so hard at Love and Hate's voices. We love them! (we don't hate them ;) ).
This game is easily our favorite. The game play is extremely easy to learn and simple, but the game itself can still be challenging. The game is partitioned into individual puzzles, and those puzzles are grouped into different levels, requiring different tools. Each new tool has a simple description and is easy to learn. The puzzles get more challenging as the game progresses; the game is engaging. Also, being comprised of individual puzzles makes this a great casual game, that can be started and stopped as time allows.
Nice idea. Good implementation.
In our opinion this is the greatest app on the market! It TAKES AWAY our STRESS.
We love everything about this fantastic game;).
Starts off easy and ramps up very slowly. Puzzles are intuitive and feel great to figure out on your own.
Enjoyable, challenging,delightful, iLaugh,creative.
A very cute and very addictive game.
Thank you so much for the iPhone 5 support update.
We were going to rate 5 stars, buuuuuut we updated and all of our levels we've completed are deleted so we have to start over ! This is really upsetting and we're extremely disappointed with the developers. Please fix this.
All those other reports are lying.
Favorite game EVER!!! Can't wait for more levels!! We thought it would be just a game for our kids, but we ended up playing it all the time.
What a captivating game! Cute concept, challenging levels and just plain addicting.
Some one-of-a-kind mechanics that are fun to play around with and the charming characters make this one of our favorite puzzlers. We highly recommend it.
This game really makes you think in order to complete each level! The characters are hilarious too! You'll be hooked on it after the first couple of levels which are basically tutorials of how to play the game. We definitely recommend! A+++++.
Con esta nueva actualizacion, ahora si puedo jugar, antes us sacaba del juego y ahora ya puedo, muy bueno.
This is one of our favorite brain buster games. So much so that we refuse to do a walk through in order to get the most out it (we usually end up needing a tip or two). However, with the new upgrade it's hard to tell your progress. All levels are unlocked and our current level isn't indicated by anything (we're level 50-something). Anyways…great game, we hope they'll come out with an update to fix that bug.
We just spent a whole week walking through this addictive game. Superb.
Currently 70 puzzles, great game with new mechanics introduced every so often. Good difficulty curve and every now and then you'll hit a really hard one, which is awesome.
Super nice game. Nice graphics and very good playability. Level 69 was the hardest one. Can't wait for some more levels.
Simply the most complete puzzle game in all the App Store. Gradually gets more challenging and introduces new characters throughout. Hoping the developers create new levels in the near future. Great work. Wonderful game.
Great but we're stuck on level 33 arrrrrggghhhhhh.
It was a bitter sweet pill trying to choose between these two Sensations. But by the end, one realizes that it is impossible (Unhealthy), to try to Function without these two emotion. A most enjoyable experience, thank you.
We can't get out of level 13 plz some one help us get out of there. We're in so much pain right now… Plz oh plz help us.
Combines adorable characters with mind-stretching logic puzzles. Every level brings something new to think about.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.5
- Size: 55.24 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Black Pants Studio GmbH
Last updated: 4th July 2024 | Genre: Puzzle, Casual | Developer: Black Pants Studio GmbH