Highrise: Avatar & Social World

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Highrise: Avatar & Social World is a multiplayer casual management game with economy and anime themes. It was developed by Pocket Worlds and was released on October 22, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Highrise isn't a game you watch. It's a place you live in. You show up, you dress up, and somewhere between your ninth outfit change and 4AM, you realize you've made a best friend. YOUR STYLE IS YOUR REPUTATIONThere are over 50,000 items in Highrise spanning streetwear, luxury, vintage, and fantasy. You can layer them, clash them, and build looks that nobody's put together before. What makes High…

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80%

Audience ScoreBased on 148 reviews

music3 positive mentions

gameplay3 negative mentions

Highrise offers extensive avatar customization with thousands of stylish items, allowing deep creative expression and outfit design.
The game fosters a social environment where players can form meaningful friendships, join vibrant communities, host events, and collaborate in designing rooms and worlds.
Regular events, updates, and user-generated content keep the gameplay engaging and support diverse creative activities like building, fashion, and social interactions.

The game has become heavily pay-to-win and monetized, with expensive items, account-bound goods, and gambling-like systems pressuring players to spend significant sums.
Community issues include toxicity, cliquishness, scams, predatory behaviors, and inadequate moderation, making the environment unsafe especially for minors.
Technical and support drawbacks include frustrating UI and control problems on PC, slow or unhelpful customer support, frequent unwanted updates, and gameplay that can feel repetitive or grindy.

story
10 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story in this game is praised for its immersive fashion and social storytelling elements, with detailed outfits and events that create a unique player-driven world. However, reliance on other players for event quests can lead to frustration. Recent updates including season passes, user-designed content, and special events have enhanced the narrative experience and player engagement.
- “It's perfect for those who love fashion, storytelling, and building their own social world.”
- “Every outfit, pose, and item tells a story and as a long-time collector, I’ve fallen in love with the details, the artistry, and the excitement of every new release.”
- “It's kinda like a small world where everyone has their own little story going on.”
- “People are not going to just come up to you and start asking for your life story.”
- “The event quests are often reliant on other players as well, making the gameplay extremely frustrating.”
- “I have never seen any game besides Highrise seem to make it their life mission to anger their playerbase.”
gameplay
8 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay offers a relaxing and creative experience with engaging design and music, but is hindered by awkward controls on PC and a challenging economy that may require spending money. Additionally, reliance on other players for event quests can lead to frustration, resulting in mixed reviews about overall enjoyment.
- “The gameplay is relaxing and engaging, making it a great way to unwind and express your creativity.”
- “From the very first moment, it pulled me in with its beautiful design, relaxing music, and creative gameplay.”
- “From a gameplay and economy perspective, it has become much more difficult to earn gold or obtain desirable items without spending substantial amounts of money.”
- “Gameplay is as follows on PC: janky controls, and you have to use your mouse to move, which makes it extremely awkward to use.”
- “The event quests are often reliant on other players, making the gameplay extremely frustrating.”
grinding
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Grinding in the game is widely seen as tedious and time-consuming, with many events and the season pass requiring hours of repetitive play for minimal rewards. Players find the grind frustrating and feel that the low payouts make the effort largely unrewarding.
- “Most of the events are grindy, meaning you need to spend hours in game to finish them.”
- “The main complaints for the season pass are that the goals are extremely tedious with extremely low payout, making it feel like a waste of time every time you participate in the event.”
- “The new 'season pass' events have been so tedious that people mostly discuss them as frustrating and tedious, myself included.”
graphics
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Reviews of the graphics are mixed, praising the lively, charming, and polished visuals with strong customization options, but criticizing the overuse of 3D effects and awkward character designs that detract from originality and appeal.
- “The lively and charming graphics make every scene and character delightful to watch.”
- “Polished graphics, great vibes, and enough customization to make your digital self better dressed than your real one.”
- “The 3D-ifying of everything needs to stop; it's making games lose their originality in art style, and straight up looks like AI slop.”
- “The graphics look horrible, as you're in a 3D space with 2D avatars, so everyone's characters look warped from the awkward angles.”
monetization
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game features heavy monetization with frequent pop-up ads promoting expensive item bundles and new features designed to encourage spending. While free rewards like daily streaks, ad-watching, and giveaways provide some in-game currency, these are minimal compared to the overall economy, making purchases almost necessary. Additionally, some users note issues with slow support and concerns about the game's impact on younger players.
- “There are constant pop-up ads for insanely high priced item bundles, like the ugly Idollz thing, pets (and now their outfits too), and random new items with features that never even existed before. The game is desperately trying to get addicted players to spend their paycheck before they miss out.”
- “The game suffers from heavy monetization, slow support, and serious safety concerns for younger players.”
- “In-app purchase heavy game.”
music
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is praised for its relaxing and enjoyable qualities, enhancing the social and creative atmosphere within player-created rooms. Users especially appreciate the ability to play music while hanging out, dancing, and customizing their spaces, making it a key feature for immersive and fun interactions.
- “From the very first moment, it pulled me in with its beautiful design, relaxing music, and creative gameplay.”
- “I love that we can play music in our rooms; one of my favorite parts is dancing and listening to music with friends.”
- “You can build your own rooms and worlds, join friends in those rooms and worlds to socialize, dance, listen to music, relax, talk, just hang out, play games, host events, do whatever your mind can imagine!”
stability
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game’s PC version is appreciated, but users report frequent bugs and glitches, as it is often treated like a beta. Stability issues are expected and ongoing as developers continue to fix problems.
- “Love this game, so glad they made a PC version, but it's a bit buggy and glitchy though!”
- “Con - they use beta for everything, so having glitches as they fix things is just part of the course.”
- “You should expect glitches at this point.”
atmosphere
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The atmosphere is described as fun and engaging, contributing positively to the overall gaming experience.

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Highrise: Avatar & Social World is a casual management game with economy and anime themes.

Highrise: Avatar & Social World is available on PC, Mac OS and Windows.

Highrise: Avatar & Social World was released on October 22, 2025.

Highrise: Avatar & Social World was developed by Pocket Worlds.

Highrise: Avatar & Social World has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Highrise: Avatar & Social World for its music but disliked it for its story.

Highrise: Avatar & Social World is a multiplayer game.

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