Great game, but with a few issues
Mon Feb 03 2025 - v e r o n i c a [army]First off, I absolutely love this game. I usually find myself gravitating towards it if I happen to be on my phone. With that being said though, there are a couple of issues that I keep experiencing.
1. Everytime the developers have you update the app, the level patterns change. There will be times where a level is hard for me to complete and once I run out of lives, I’ll take a break. Then, I’ll come back to the game, the app will have me update it, and then the pattern is completely different. It gets frustrating because I’ll try to find the solution to the new pattern online, yet no one else seems to have the same pattern as I do. I’ve come across multiple videos that each have the same level number, but each video has a completely different pattern to one another.
2. I’ve already gotten used to this issue but it might be confusing to new downloaders. The 5 extra holes that they give you, aren’t actually 5 extra holes. It’s only 4, which in the beginning made no sense to me. Why would you give me 5 extra holes if I can’t even use the fifth one most of the time?
Nothing like the ads and changes after a while.
Fri Apr 25 2025 SamOlson619I’ve been playing this game for about a month or so and at first I really enjoyed it even though it’s nothing like the ads. I mainly play it in my spare time and I’ve gotten up to level 270. Unfortunately, once I reached like level 240 or so, the levels have become extremely difficult to beat! Some you cannot beat without the power ups. The power ups were 3 extra holes for 225, 3 hammers for I think it was 350 or so and 3 x2 colors so you can clear 2 colors at once for like 375 coins. Which isn’t terrible but when you can only get up to 30 coins per level you beat(you have to watch an ad to get it which I normally do because you have to watch an ad regardless after each level.), it’s difficult to beat some levels. And there are different levels with different difficulties but the amount of coins you recieve never changes even for the extremely hard levels. Then today I went to play it and when I went to get a power up because I finally had enough, or so I thought, the prices have changed! Now it’s 550 for the 3 extra holes, 1000 for 3 hammers, and 750 for 3 x2 but the amount of coins per level is still the same. You also get to spin the wheel but you have to watch ads to get 2 spins per day and the prizes that are for coins are low amounts. When I get a coin amount it’s usually only 20 coins. I’m debating whether or not to keep the app or just delete it and find a new/better game.
Great but…
Sun Sep 01 2024 Barsh2So I paid for this to be ad free. Can be fun. But at the same time it’s a bit frustrating. Your last hole to place the screw is not your last free spot. Even if I can make a move once I fill in the last space, it already tells me that I’ve lost when I could have gone to the next toolbox. I find this extremely frustrating which in turn makes me not want to play. I mean if I ever had this game in front of me and not on a phone app, the very last empty space would be used for another pet/screw but that’s not what this app does. Anyway, please fix it. It works sometimes, like maybe 30 percent of the time, but the other 70 percent it says you lose when you shouldn’t.
Also, for some reason today I keep getting ads even though I paid for the ad free version! I keep clicking the restore purchase and it’s not working. 😡 Refund please!
I’m only at the beginning of the game…
Sun Aug 18 2024 Wollen_Kitten…but I’m seeing some major issues that will likely keep me from continuing to play it. One is the dreaded last screw hole that automatically makes you fail a level that you probably didn’t need to fail. It’s pointless to add that last screw hole if it’s not going to be usable. You should only fail a level if all of your screw holes are full and you try to add another.
The other is the option to gain 10 coins and proceed after a level OR watch an ad to get more coins or bonus stuff. The first day I played the game, it worked as it was shown. Not once did I have to watch an ad to just collect the 10 coins. When I played it today, I got an ad after every single level even when I was selecting the 10 coin no-ad version. Annoying and unnecessary.
I understand that developers have to make money somehow, but making everything so expensive and so ad-heavy that it’s unusable is not the way to gain long term customers. If I like a game, I’ll be loyal to it for YEARS. I will spend real money. But there has to be a good give and take, which this game doesn’t have. I also have no desire to do timed levels, so it’s probably good I’m bowing out now before I reach those.
Fun for a month
Sat Sep 21 2024 K8tiedidI paid to have the game be ad free, but if you want to make any kind of gold revenue you have to watch the ads. It is a pay (real money) to win game, but you don’t “win”anything, just go to the next level. Hard levels payout the same gold as regular levels. Once you get to a certain point the puzzles repeat themselves. Once you get to a high level it becomes impossible to beat a hard level without paying real money to have extras (extra holes, toolbox, or hammers) in order to beat the level. Some hard levels will require all three to beat it especially if you want to maintain certain streaks. Other side competitions in the game don’t payoff as it often requires extra purchases so you can win against others, which is then of course costing you more than the prize package. My cities stopped being able to build. It froze on Canada for weeks, finally unlocked only to be able to build 2 new cities, then locked again. All in all it’s fun for about a month of play. Customer service is unreachable to resolve the cities issue. Someone else mentioned about the extra hole not being usable and I too find that frustrating.
Good game but
Mon Jun 17 2024 beckhdezI really enjoy playing this game. I have a lot of fun trying to pass the levels without using any coins or any of the perks. I don’t normally even write a review for anything but this one thing bothered me so much that I will delete the game and never play it again. As you reach higher levels, the game will add challenges to make the levels harder. I made to a point where you need to unscrew all screws within a certain time. In this level, level 125, I had to finish within 2 minutes. I was doing well and close to finishing until at the 18 second mark, it told me I had failed and to either lose a heart or keep going using coins. I only had 4 more boxes to fill, so it wasn’t like there was much left to do. I used my coins to see how many seconds it would have taken me and I was left with 4 seconds to spare. I could have very well finished without needing to use my coins or having to give up a life. I’m extremely upset because I always watch an ad to get 30 coins after each round, so I had more than enough coins but I found it so ridiculous with 18 seconds left why did I need to even use my coins? So thank you for the cool game, it was great for the time being but I’ll go play another version now.
Ads and Prices
Tue Feb 25 2025 Heaven AndersenAt first, the game is really fun. Tons of ads but fun enough to overlook it. But as you get to harder and more difficult levels, you start having to spend the coins you won to get add-ons like extra holes for the extra screws etc. Still not a big deal. Until you’re hundreds of levels in, and get stuck on the same level for literal weeks, and you’re out of coins because you spent them all on your last multiple failed attempts at that level. And then you go look at how much it costs to buy more coins and realize: $2 for 250 coins? And one set of extra holes, or an extra suitcase, or a hammer, is more than a hundred coins? $2 just to get through ONE difficult level? It’s not a lot of money in the long run, but it is a lot for the deal you’re getting. I’m deleting the game, not because it isn’t fun, but because tons of unskippable ads with no reward and the price of a little help in the game isn’t worth it. The game isn’t anything like the ad either, and although it’s fun, I’ve just been disappointed over and over by the game.
Fun game but the screw holder seem to have bugs
Wed Apr 24 2024 ComfybobaThe game is great. It’s exactly like it’s ads. There are some ads but they don’t pop up every level like some other ones. And it also gives you unlimited lives from time to time. However, the game gives you five screw holders to hold the screw that’s blocking the spots, but the ones you can actually use is four. Whenever the screw holder gets full it immediately says I fail the level. And even if you add extra screw holder the number you can actually use without the game deciding you “fail” is always n-1. There are so many times it is clear that even the screw holder is full you can still make moves without it being considered as failing the level. Furthermore, sometimes when you have screw in the screw holder that’s the same color as the next one, once you’re able to finish the plate it will move on to the next without being consider as failing the level, which makes a lot more sense then the n-1 situation.
Great if you got cash-filled pockets
Wed Sep 25 2024 Regi_mentedThis game is fun and I would keep playing, but it appears if you can’t clear a level and don’t have enough coins to buy some helps, the only way to move on is to buy more coins, etc. No option to earn them any other way; like a side challenge or watching an ad. Tried at least two dozen times to clear a level and it’s just not doable without extra help options, but not enough coins to buy them. And I refuse to be forced to keep paying for the game.
This game is cash-driven and money motivated—as evidenced by needing to clear 3-4 sales screens every time you open the app—even before getting in to play. Great games have secondary options to earn coins or additional chances to get through a tough level—even watching an ad to do so. But not this game. It’s buy or give up.
So, I’m giving up and deleting the game—even though I already paid for the no-ad option. Rip off. Popular game concept, so I’ve already found 4 other screw-type games. Won’t miss this one.
The newest update
Fri Jul 26 2024 CatielafleurI love this game, I’ve been playing for the last month and am on level 423. I find the levels to be challenging as I keep going and love the tools to help.
But the prize for the tools is not fair. I get 10 coins when I complete a level or 30 if I want to watch a video. So saving up takes a while but if I want to buy some holes or a tools box I have to spend 225 or 285! Thats insane. not to mention I don’t wanna spend money on this game.
And the newest update has made it impossible to play! If I am on Wi-Fi when I get on the app, nothing loads! One of the side games will pop up and I cannot get out of it, I have to close the app and turn off WiFi! Not to mention, I can’t even build the city when I do complete level if I have managed to get to the level. This newest update or the last two updates have messed with the game, and I haven’t even completed more than three levels and that’s been over the last week!!
