OMG the ads!
Thu Jan 02 2025 Smfplayer1I discovered this type of game platform recently and got hooked, but every app I tried was ridiculously hard, downright impossible, after 2-3 levels. This is the first one I tried where that wasn’t the case. It’s a good balance of moderate to difficult in rotating levels. However, OMG the ads are ridiculous. Yes, you can buy your way out of forced ads, but the price is too steep. I refuse to pay more than $5.00 to remove ads unless the app is of extremely high quality. This game is good but not that good, and all of them are a knock off of the other. However, everything else in this game is ad-fueled. Some levels literally have no solution without using a “power up” and once you run out, you have to pay coins or deal with ads. There’s no getting around it.
What’s worse is some of the ads are disrespectful, ignoring your silent-mode on your phone and playing audio anyway, ridiculously long (90+ seconds), and an “X” to close out that is so hard to hit precisely that you end up in a loop of App Store, game, App Store, game.
The other issue is some of the colors begin to look too much alike in higher levels, especially the blues.
Overall I like the app but the ads are just too much.
Needs colorblind mode and undo button
Wed Feb 05 2025 I a n a .From someone at level 500: One of the better ones out of all of these types of bus jam games, however some levels cannot be won without watching ads or using one of the extras. I like to challenge myself and try to win without using the extras or the 200 ticket or ad parking spot, but some levels are set up in the way that you HAVE to use these extras in order to win it. That’s kind of annoying since it’s supposed to be a puzzle game. Why make the puzzle unsolvable without watching an ad, spending a ticket, or using an extra? For this I’ve lowered my rating since my last review.
Also- a few changes I’d like to suggest to the developers. Primarily, the red and the pink colours are too similar, same with green and teal, it’s too hard to tell the difference between them when you’re playing at night and don’t want the screen up full brightness, or have on the night shift mode. It would be nice to have them obviously different values (ex. dark red, light pink) or add a colorblind mode such as stripes etc. which would be easier to tell apart. Secondly, it really really REALLY needs an undo button! Something like pay 10 coins for first undo, 20 coins for second undo, and so on. I like to try to challenge myself to win without using the extra abilities but having to reset the whole level to try again for a minor mistake or a misclick is very frustrating. If you add these two features this game will be great.
Great company
Mon Jun 23 2025 Chem majorI love that you don’t need to wait a certain time or pay coins to play each level. You also don’t have to watch ads at all to play or you have the option to pay to remove ads. Incredible and I would happily pay for this game even if its a paid game. You have the option to watch ads for second chances and such but all the levels so far are winnable without. I took off one star because at some point in the 200s all the “hard” levels are basically just guessing game and its luck not skill. I am happy with the 200+ levels I got to enjoy and will uninstall now, as there’s really very little skill element and planning when every bus is a ?. I find the planning part to be the most fun and do not enjoy the later levels at all. I do appreciate this dev team a lot for how they decided to monetize this game. Very reasonable. The game itself is also fun and addicting when the whole map isn’t ?.
Not skill based, have to watch the ads or it is an unplayable game.
Mon Aug 04 2025 kyruuuuuuBus Escape: Traffic Jam is a perfect example of a good concept ruined by a greedy developer. The core idea of solving traffic puzzles is fun, but the execution is a blatant cash grab that punishes players for not watching a constant stream of ads.
The game is unplayable without watching ads. It's not a matter of skill; it's a matter of endurance. The levels are clearly designed to be impossible to complete on your own, forcing you to watch a 90-second ad just to get the "items" needed to progress. This isn't a challenge; it's a shakedown. The developers didn't design these levels for players to clear them; they designed them to corner you into watching advertisements.
If you don't want to watch the endless, intrusive ads, your only other option is to spend real money. This creates a miserable choice: waste your time or waste your money. A good puzzle game rewards your cleverness, but this one simply rewards your patience for sitting through forced commercials.
Don't be fooled by the decent graphics or the promising premise. "Bus Escape: Traffic Jam" is not a game—it's an ad delivery system disguised as one. Avoid this unless you enjoy being held hostage by a developer who cares more about their ad revenue than the player's experience.
WAY TOO MANY ADS!!!!!
Sun Apr 27 2025 Much LOVE from TexasThis game is fun. But, you can hardly enjoy without becoming extremely frustrated because there are too many ads and what’s worse is the ads are loud and annoying, without an option to mute the sound. Also, if you have your screen split to watch a move while playing the game, the minute the ad starts it immediate pauses your movie and you have no choice but to wait in frustration while really long ads play. The game is addictive. But, I find I quit in frustration because all of the ads. I typically play games to relieve stress and tension or out of boredom. But, all of the ads defeat the purpose of me playing the game in the first place. So, I automatically know when I play this game, I have to brace myself for the upcoming frustration. There is an option in the game to pay for no ads. But, paying for that is ridiculous. There are so many high quality games with much less ads and less annoying ads that it seems unfair for this app to ask for me to pay. I don’t mind short ads here and there. But, long and annoying ads every few moves I make in the game makes me frustrated with this game and the apps being advertised in the ads. It’s absolutely ridiculous!
Ads malfunction & lose game
Sun Oct 26 2025 DysbratSeveral times recently ads have ruined a game. The ads stop and don’t continue. Have to restart. Have lost many of the special plays I’ve used to continue the game because ads glitch and/or freeze. Used several coins and several special features in a game recently and lost them and the game because it froze at the end of an ad. Just a black screen and an x to close the game. Continually tried, waited, tried again. Nothing. Again had to reopen the app. Had to restart the round. Only had three busses left to win and would’ve if the ad didn’t kill the app again.
Update:
About 1/15 ads viewed to receive bonus items to continue play when stuck freezes up or goes completely dark. Have to shut game off and restart. Or have to restart the device cause the game gets slow and funky after using a bonus feature. It Causes loss of winning streak, the game and anything I used to help win the game. Doesn’t return item used and lost with the game freeze because of the ads.
Money Grab
Sun Jul 20 2025 C2123I used to really enjoy Bus Escape: Traffic Jam. It was fun, relaxing, and I didn’t mind watching ads to access extra content or bonuses. I actually appreciated the flexibility — you could watch ads if you wanted to unlock more, or save up your tickets for when you really needed them.
But now the game has completely changed. You’re forced to use your tickets, even if you’d rather just watch an ad. You don’t get the option anymore. I can go into a game with over 1,200 tickets and come out with only 400 or 500 — just from having to spend tickets nonstop to keep playing or accessing features. It’s frustrating, especially because I’ve been saving those tickets for when I want to use them, not because I have no other choice.
It feels like the developers took away the freedom players used to have and replaced it with pressure to spend (or worse, pay). I’m honestly really disappointed, and unless this changes back, I’ll probably be deleting the app. It’s just not fun anymore when you feel forced into spending.
Too many ridiculously long ads/Wont allow you to earn boosts
Sat Aug 23 2025 DolphinKateThis app used to be OK. You can’t get past most levels without at least one ‘boost’. in order to get a boost, you have to watch a ridiculously long ad once you’ve done that it takes multiple steps to close out of the ad, including additional timers before another X will pop up, take you to another portion of the ad with another timer that you have to close out of. Put that on repeat 5+ times. It’s exhausting! Sometimes you play 20 seconds of game and have to work your way through five minutes of ads. Definitely not worth it.
In the past few weeks, the ‘watch ad’ buttons are not working. Occasionally, it will say ‘ads not available.’ This was happening for days at a time until they would work again for a day or so. Now it seems to be permanent? It’s been most of the week with no way to complete a level nor watch an ad to earn a boost. If we’re forced to watch ads, keep them minimal and decent. If we’re forced to earn boosts, let us access the ads in order to watch them. Ugh!
