Please add these ideas to this game
Wed Mar 15 2023 smyrnanLove the game it’s relaxing but I have some ideas to make it better 1: please add colors to the game once you make it to 4096 the black color gets a little bit boring so make a color scheme please. 2: add different grids to the game like 3x3 and 5x5-8x8 because I’ve got to the point we’re I’ve got so high I can’t get higher because there’s not enough room so add more grids please. 3: please add more then one undo make it five so people can make more progress, and please fix the undo glitch sometimes when I need to undo I Press the button and it doesn’t undo and I have to restart and that’s annoying so please add these to the game Thankyou.
Undo button + swipe sensitivity
Wed Jun 23 2021 Jake FileanOverall, I love this app. Not a lot of iOS apps have the original game’s 10% 4 spawn rate, and the game runs really smoothly. However, I do have two big issues with it. The first is the fact that there is no indication at the game over screen as to whether or not the undo button was used. I’m in a 2048 Discord server where we host tournaments and the rankings are based on the sum of your top legitimate scores, and without being able to see if the undo button was used it is very difficult to see if a score was faked or not, since you can simply toggle the undo off before you die and it will not appear on the game over screen. I feel that it would be better if there was a counter at the game over screen showing how many times the undo button was used over the entire run, regardless of whether or not it is toggled on at the end of the run. My second issue is that I fel that the app is much too sensitive to swipes. I have had this app register a literal tap as a swipe before, even though my finger barely moved at all. This can benefit players who are trying to get a faster time, but I have had games ruined because the app registered a swipe up when there was none. At the very least I think there should be a feature that allows players to adjust the swipe sensitivity to guard against these accidental swipes.
Ads Have Made my Favorite App Unusable
Mon Feb 28 2022 BappreviewerEdit: recv’d response from dev that all ads have x’s in corners. this simply isn’t the case. some ads started coming with app store buttons to close instead of the x’s, and increasingly ads started showing up with none. when i couldn’t find any, i even blindly tapped the corners where they usually are. clicking into the ad and returning with < 2048 in upper left still reveals no x. on iphone 12 pro max; 15.3.1. i played the game many times a day, trying to keep my 2048 tile time under 10min, and 4096 under 22min. i’m pretty sure i’m not being stumped by the ad close button between games, but i could be wrong…i was getting ad server errors intermittently as well with something like “index?foo&bar could not be displayed properly.”
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The ads have ruined this app. The game itself is a commodity by now, so there are lots of different apps with the same game. The ads they’re serving between games take the app hostsge indefinitely. i’m uninstalling it and using one of the alternatives. it’s just not worth the pain of having to kill the app between each game when there are so many alternatives available.
Classic
Sat May 20 2023 RandomreviewleaverI’m giving this game five stars because it’s a great game. The one thing I don’t like is that it’s not the original. The original doesn’t have all the new effects. The little sound effect every time I move tiles. The little bounce the tile does every time I combine two of them. The restart and undo buttons used to be much smaller. I don’t like the new stuff. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Still a great game though.
Poor swipe detection
Fri Oct 20 2017 Sparrowhawk996A slightly diagonal swipe can get interpreted as a different direction than you meant. The game needs to wait for a little bit longer swipe before moving the tiles. I've played several 2048 games, and this is the only one that misinterpreted swipes. I played this game once, up to 256, and it had already misinterpreted 2 swipes. Forget it, that's way too twitchy swipe detection for this kind of game.
UPDATE: the developer says I was touching the screen with multiple fingers, and to turn off the “extended swipe” feature. But I wasn’t touching with multiple fingers. I reinstalled the game and turned off extended swipe. The game still interprets even super-slight movement of my ONE fingertip as a full swipe. It’s still way too sensitive and interprets touch input before there’s enough input to accurately identify the overall direction of the swipe. I’m using an iPhone 6.
Cash Grab with Ads
Wed Jun 01 2022 Nick2LI was disappointed to find the original version of the game has been corrupted by the publisher with ads, and an expensive ad removal option. Because this game is not original work, the creator did not want it monetized. When ads were originally introduced, the fee was also considerably less. I didn’t mind paying that time, but now the ads are back and for much more money. This is just a greedy publisher trying to cash in. If you’re looking for a replacement: try the game that inspired 2048, “Threes”.
Update following the developer’s comment:
If the confusion stems from use of the word “original” in the first sentence, I’m referring to this version as the original 2048.
If you mean generally: there’s no originality to the game itself. The game is an intentional clone of Threes according to the creator, who made the game in a weekend as an exercise. The creator also stated this game should never draw profit because it is not original work. That information is available many places online.
I did reach out via email before this review, and was brushed off by the developer.
Ads ruin the experience
Tue Aug 18 2020 Why pay?The game was great. I liked the colors on this better than others. Previously, the ads were bearable. They claim that the update didn’t add more ads — maybe they think that’s true, but the ads that existed before generally to upgrade the game. Occasionally there would be ads for other games. Now, there’s ads for all kinds of annoying stuff — one even tried to get me to turn on my location for 2048.
The location of the close ad button has changed. It used to be in the upper right corner consistently. Now, the close area unpredictability changes. More often than not, the click target is small. Both of these issues leads to accessibility clicking the ad.
The trickery is unacceptable. I’ve deleted this game from my phone
I don’t know what to say
Fri Aug 07 2020 viprofoxHeya! I mostly like this game. MOSTLY. Why you ask? I don’t know, maybe because it’s basically useless to play? So... I was playing, and the got off and came back in like an hour. My progress was lost! Not the stats ( who even cares about them? ). I was on like 4096 and more, but it bought me to when I didn’t have a single 2048. It happens wayyy too often now. Also, it’s getting very very boring. It’s fun for about a month ( when you are still a noob ) but then you just run out of goals... so yeah... add stuff!!! Why not??? We’re all literally locked down! I don’t know if I would recommend this. It’s boring, as I already said.
Undo button glitches
Sun Jul 02 2023 DarkKeysThis is overall a fantastic app and great for killing time between meetings. The reason I'm giving 3/5 here is the undo button will randomly fail every once and a while. Today I was maybe 20 moves from the max possible score, but a poorly-timed 4 and the undo button failing threw away all that progress.
Beware of damaging your thumb!
Sat Mar 12 2022 Eyalkr1The game is nice and tend to be addictive.
However - after a few hours of playing over a few days, i got pain in my thumb (stopped playing, but it continue for more than a week).
Unlike most games, this one rely on fast and repeated movement of the thumb. I never had pains with any other games or phone usage.
App developers: please add warning on this, and give recommendation for a break every 20 minutes or so. Explain why and count total game time. This is the responsible thing to do with the specific movement this game requires. Even for people that does not suffer pain - I am sure it is damaging for long term.
