Bait and switch
Mon Jan 22 2024 RedVirtue9Got intrigued by the playable ad and of course they start out too easy. Fine. Got a hard level that was super exciting and was happy to keep playing the easy levels until they got progressively harder. Then after level 4 is this ridiculous hard level that I don’t get on the first try. Fine. But I have to watch an ad to retry. Fine. After retrying this bonus hard level a few times, I get desperate and watched more ads to get some power ups. Cycled through that a few times and after retrying this level with power ups several times and watching tons of ads, I finally pass bonus hard level #2. Regular level 5 and. 6? A breeze. Then bonus hard level 3. And the darn thing looks just as annoying as the previous hard level. Now, don’t get me wrong. I love a good hard puzzle you can sit and stew on for 20 minutes. I’m just kinda bummed that to do that, you either have to watch 5 collective minutes of ads or fork out cash just to be able to undo a mistake or have a chance to try again or get more time. Thanks but no thanks. Deleting after posting this review. Adding bonus harder levels with the super easy ones is a great idea, but the scaffolding is horrible.
If you love watching ads, this game is for you
Sun Feb 25 2024 E. E. S.I would love this game so much more without the time factor. I don’t really care they have an easy level and then a hard one and then just rinse and repeat. I love sitting forever to figure it out. But forcing me to watch a single ad that’s 80 seconds long with no exiting it just to undo a single move… yeah, that’s annoying. Another undo, 30 second ad. That’s fine. And then another 80 seconds. Need another undo? 30 seconds. I think I’m on the fourth or fifth hard level and even now, they basically want you to spend money and they don’t hide it. And all of this is for a single hard level that’s maybe 3:30 minutes long. Why am I spending more time watching ads than I am playing the game? If this is all at level 5, why would I even bother continuing to play? If this was like level 60, I could hear you out on that. This is level 5. If you took away the timed part of levels, I’d be a lot less annoyed. That or installing a “zen mode” where you just play over and over and over while not trying to beat a clock or get a better score. I’m not keeping this because it’s incredibly depressing that even ads on streaming platforms are shorter than the ones in a single game where you undo a move three or four times. When you undo a single move, you don’t get that time back. Wanna restart the level? 50/50 chance you get an 80 second ad.
Crashes out
Wed Feb 14 2024 BratzCymblineI do genuinely enjoy this game it’s not extremely easy like other puzzle games and not even puzzle games like this just other games in general but I do like that it’s hard maybe a little too hard but fun, probably can be harder as you play but still fun. What I don’t like is I was just playing a level and I watched a 80 second ad to get a open hole and played more messed up tried to use a booster was watching the ad and the screen just went black. It went completely blank and that was the 2nd or 3rd time that’s happened I didn’t mind the other times cause I wasn’t knee deep in a game but this is infuriating. I have to watch these extremely long ads that aren’t even 30 seconds maximum and went in to watch another ad for the game to completely crash out causing my game to be completely lost. I had to close out the app come back in and I have to restart and this level is very hard. Very fun game but it can’t crash like this randomly when I’m trying to play then on top of that lose my progress. What if I was at the very end watched ads and everything then it completely bugs out like this? Would be extremely mad fix this, and maybe pace the hard levels a bit really fun but disappointed.
Too many ads not enough rewards
Sat Feb 17 2024 terriberry0Ok I don’t mind watching an ad or two but this is an insane amount. You only get rewards after like 15 levels and what you get is a ridiculously low reward for the amount of time and the endless ads you must watch. I might even be willing to pay to get rid of the ads IF the rewards you received were commensurate with the effort it took to obtain them but it’s not. After 15 or 20 levels you get 1 or 2 of one of the boosters almost always an undo and if you watch an ad (of course) you can double it so 20 levels and you get 2 undos? And the ads are 1 1/2-2 minutes long and you can’t even mute them. And usually they are for the exact same scammer games touting you can make hundreds of dollars for playing (dubbed game name). It’s beyond annoying.
DEVELOPERS: if you want a successful game cut down on the length and repetition of ads give better rewards so it’s worth the effort of playing and it’s actually possible people might be willing to pay to ditch the ads but nobody wants to pay to get rid of ads and then have to watch endless ads anyway just to get through a tough level!
Make one mistake and you have to watch
Sat Feb 10 2024 JennyL791Honestly, this puzzle game is genuinely fun and engaging, but if you make two mistakes you can’t go farther, you’re stuck. That’s fine, part of the challenge. But you can’t just restart it without watching an ad or paying actual money for coins. I get putting an ad up to undo a move or get some other extra help, but just to restart? Your other option is to wait out the clock, so if you make your mistake early you might still have two full minutes until it will let you move forward. That’s just too restrictive. At the very least they should let you restart the puzzle whenever you need to OR make it so purchasing the app will allow you to restart as often as you want. That’s right, buying it doesn’t mean you can actually bypass the ads. It turned this game from a fun one I want to play to a frustration I’m absolutely going to delete. I’ll find something else to play. Too bad because for once the ads were for games that would be interesting to me.
The Most Infuriating Game, Don’t Even Download This
Sun Jan 21 2024 KittyEXFirst off, each levels has a timer. That’s fine and all but the time is so short that you’re furiously clicking on all the screws to try and get rid of all the woods as that makes your critical thinking skills go into overdrive. So, you’re stuck racing against a clock that the fun get flush down the drain causing stress. Not only that, but there are certain blocks that you have to wait on because they’re slowly rolling off the screws and you can’t make it move any faster because the only open slots are the ones being blocked by the same block you’re trying to move. Secondly, if you mess up, you can’t fix it because the undo and all the other things that’s supposed to help players cost real money. I didn’t get a single power-up thing to help me through any of the levels. The third thing is if you did mess up on the hard levels which is a lot of times, you have to repeat the easy level just to do the hard level. And lastly, as many of the other raters on this game, too many ads. I know you want to make money off of this game but you got to make it fun and worth it to play.
Too many ads!
Wed Feb 07 2024 SwyssmissWhen I pick out a new game, it’s usually because it was an ad in another game and they let me play it and try it out for 20 or 30 seconds. I preferred that business method over if you touch the screen anywhere you get nothing but pop up ads.
I had it for two days and I realize that the ads are a usually a minute long. Sometimes after the ad, the screen changes, and then you get another ad that you have to close before I can return to the game. I played it for a half hour to 45 minutes before I decided to pay to have no commercials. I if five bucks or less can get rid of the advertising, I’m definitely going to do it because I like making sure developers get paid and don’t have to scrounge through advertising. The $4.99 that I spent lasted about two hours. I played it over the weekend and Monday, I deleted it off my phone. I don’t want to watch ads that are longer than each game that I play. The game was really fun. I simply didn’t get what I paid for.
Not what I thought it was
Sat Feb 10 2024 beauxquitahThe game is fun and challenging, but it is the same 50ish puzzles just over and over again. The ads are excessive, and long. A 90 second ad, followed by a 15 second unplayable demo, followed by two more screens to exit out of. The ads also crash the game, make it freeze, and I have to force quit the app and lose any progress I made on that level. And there’s no option to play with no Wi-Fi. Which is ridiculous since it is the same recycled puzzles over and over. Each level consists of an “easy” puzzle, and then a hard puzzle. I would have preferred if each level was just one puzzle, with increasing difficulty, save for a few easy ones for some breathing room. I like the daily challenge puzzles, while they are a different concept, but the response time to the taps is lagging. It’s what I expected from the ad, and also not what I expected.
I like the gameplay, but the ads are just way too much
Fri Feb 09 2024 AllisnMustngHarder puzzles take forever to complete because one small mistake makes you need to restart, and restarting makes you watch a 90 second ad. But then each level is a pair, so when you restart you have to do the level before the one you had trouble with again. You sometimes get ads between those two sections of the level, as well.
Of course, you get boosters—but there are no grace boosters and you can only earn them by buying tickets or watching yet another 90 second ad. That goes for all four boosters—one of them being the undo button and another one being the restart button just for that section of the level. It’s egregious and annoying, and it makes this entire app not worth it. I think im gonna delete it, even though I like the gameplay. Ads are wayyyyyy overboard
Interesting game, BUT UNPLAYABLE because of the ADS
Sat Jan 20 2024 ctryguyI started playing the game and it was interesting until I hit the first AD. It was a 90 second AD, at that time I almost quit, but I let the ad play out and I finished the level, and went to the next level. But everytime I needed a bonus or something (I’m not even sure what it was called) another ad played, I cleared another level and approached a more difficult one and I needed something (not sure what, and now I really don’t care). When the next 60 second ad started I quit the program, and deleted it.
After reading some of the other 1 and 2 star reviews I can tell it doesn’t get any better. I would have paid a small amount to remove the ads, but the length of the ads and the amount of ads, and now after reading the reviews to discover that removing ads, does not remove all of the ads, is ridiculous.
I was going to leave a 1 start review but what I did play of the game was enjoyable but it’s not worth my time with the number and length of the ads.
I have deleted this game and will not revisit it. The developers should be ashamed of themselves for their greed. I believe it could have been a well received game, and how it’s gotten 4.5 with the amount of ads just does not make sense to me.
