Awesome! But...
Mon Feb 17 2020 dhhvdvo6udI’ve been getting TONS, and when I say tons, I mean TONS, of adds for this game! It’s crazy! So I finally decided, “ok, you know what? I’ll try it and see what the huge hype about it is.” Thus, I downloaded it. And ever since, I couldn’t stop playing it. It’s ADDICTING!! It’s so satisfying and so calming to play. It relieved my stress a whole lot, and it’s just so relaxing. But the one issue with it is the coloring/painting part of the game. I think there should be a larger variety of colors so that we can paint things more realistically. And I also think that there should be brush/spray-can sizes. It would make detailing much easier. And a lot of people complain about all the adds in this game. I mean, yeah, a lot of games like this have tons of adds, because how else are they gonna make money off of making the game? (I’ve already said game too many times, sorry) But without paying for no adds, there is one way to get rid of them, or how to get WAY less. Obviously I’m not going to say how I do it, because then the creator of this game will remove the feature, probably. But other than that, I have no issues. This has to be one of my FAVORITE games. Thank you for creating this beauty of a game!🤣🤣
Fun, but some glitches
Mon Apr 27 2020 Cyd210I installed this game last night. It's fun and challenging, but I have a few concerns, one being that I have to post this because there's not a way to contact the developers in the app. There aren't any instructions for starters, so you go in completely blind. It took me a very long time to figure out what the sponge is for, and instead of improving your carving it can completely ruin it with no way of undoing. How much money you actually get also seems to depend more on how much the customer likes the paint job than on accuracy. I got only about half the bid on one, despite 98% accuracy. It is extremely difficult to figure out where to cut down to when not only is the outline white and very hard to see against some woods (I suggest changing it to black), but only one wood and the gold if I remember cut evenly. Most of the time when I get to the edge of the white line in front, the wood is behind it is either outside or has cut down into the outline, which makes 100% accuracy impossible since there's no way to know if you should leave it or keep cutting. And I realize that unlocking new chisels and sponges is dependent on leveling up, but that is broken too. I have done way more than 7 carvings, only 2 or 3 with less than 90% accuracy because of the glitches mentioned above, and I can't get past 7. I have even force closed the app and it's still stuck. Fix these and I might reinstall.
Fun, frustrating, no ads
Fri Aug 02 2024 illusionisticI like this game, it’s pretty well made, and I can tell the creator put some effort into this. The whole point of the game is to carve something out of a chunk of material, smooth it out with a sponge, spray paint it, and upgrade your stuff using money you earn from the offers. I think this game is relaxing to some extent, but there are a couple of problems. One, the game doesn’t provide you basic instructions on what to do (though I didn’t have much trouble since I’ve played similar games to this). Also the chisel options are limited to three types. I don’t mind have 3 different chisels obviously, but the problem is you can’t change the size of the tool. However, you have a lot of options for changing the handle, so that’s fun. Another thing is that you can not redo a mistake if you chip too much of the material off, but I always have to remind myself that you wouldn’t have an undo button in real life, so it’s pretty realistic. Also I don’t know if it’s just my phone that’s broken, but after a few minutes of this game, my phone starts getting too hot to touch. About the ads, yes, there’s obviously ads, but you can turn them off on airplane mode or no WiFi 🎉 So essentially, this game has basically no ads, and you can play without internet connection.
Almost perfect
Thu Jan 30 2020 Earthling10000Firstly, I am a paid user. I paid to remove the ads almost immediately. I did so out of respect for offering an option like this in lieu of a membership that removes ads. It is a fun game and I am willing to pay the price of a fast food burger to remove the ads. Beyond that, the game needs a few updates: 1) You need to explain in detail the algorithm for accuracy, or fix it. I have made perfect carvings that come out as 87%. This game really does very little, so it should get the one thing it does completely right. 2) The spray painting tool gets stuck in the corners (using iPhone 7 Plus) and will no move at all leaving the painting process incomplete. Ideally, the tool needs to be able to be moved and aimed first, and then sprayed (a two step process). It also needs a scale for the spectrum of the spray. A small brush tool would be awesome too, even if implemented as an extra step, but that is non-critical. 3) The carving tools need left and right hand right triangle tools - without it some objectives are not possible. 4.) There needs to be an option to skip the stencil step. 5.) need to be able to save the items. There are many awesome enhancements I can see to this game; however, these items are more critical to the general value of the current gameplay. Despite all of this, I love it and it was $3 well spent.
DO NOT BUY AD REMOVAL PACKAGE
Sun Apr 06 2025 savaa1198This game is a great stress reliever but the ads drive me nuts so I made the stupid decision to pay for the ad removal package. $5. It doesn’t work at all. I checked my purchase history and it didn’t show up so I thought maybe the purchase didn’t go through. I got another offer for an ad removal package for $5 and paid for it hoping it would go through this time. It says purchase successful but literally as soon as I clicked out of that screen I got an ad. I restarted the game 3 times, every time I got ads. I checked my Apple purchase history and can see I actually WAS charged for these purchases, they’re just pending in my account. And that doesn’t mean the purchase didn’t go through. Any other time I have purchased a no ads package on a game the ads immediately went away, but this time not only did the ads stay but they put up another package a day later to remove ads so you get tricked into thinking it might not have worked the first time and you just have to try again.
So ridiculous and a total scam. I’m already reporting the purchases to Apple for fraud and requesting refunds, but I wanted to warn everyone else against giving any money to this game. It doesn’t matter if it’s “only” $5, it’s still $5 spent with the intention of receiving something and then completely ignoring the user so they can have your money and also continue making money off of you through ad viewing. Disgusting and scammy devs.
More option
Sun Feb 09 2020 Beany1810The only reason this doesn't have five stars is thay you can do only one thing in this game with no objectives whatsoever. Yes, you do get ingame currency for how accurate your carved out piece is, but you can't use it. It's just there piling up. It's a good game for when you're bored or have some free time. I totally get it that you have to pay to remove the ads, but the ads keep popping up too fast, and blocking my view most of the time. A simple solution though is shutting of the internet options on my phone. But that would mean no notifications from my social networks.
Anyways, if it had more options. Maybe by unlocking them with all the ingame currency that's piling up. A few would be: choosing from what you would want to chisel away from, like wood, silver or a golden block instead of just random; unlocking more colors and paterns; different difficulty levels; different sizes of chissels; other backgrounds instead of random; an option to just chisel away whatever you like. Like creating something yourself, and you get to spray it and choose which patern to use.
I really hope you take these suggestions in consideration. It's a good game that keeps me busy at times, and i know the gamefile might be larger if certain features were added. But it would be worth the space.
Not so good
Tue Dec 08 2020 Sabre💝Ok congrats if you’re reading this, because this will probably be the most REAL review. This game was great for about an hour. So excited to get it, the ad demos seemed fun. I really liked these Voodoo games, because they are a great time-passer. But this one was different. The budget must have been low. The people are hideous, and if you get a single inch off line it goes down to a 98% accuracy, therefore you get less money. I don’t understand the joy of buying another sponge or knife, because they do the same thing. The knifes end up being bigger and bulkier, and less easy to cut with. The sponges just keep getting bigger and worse than usual. Now let’s talk about the glitches. THE GLITCHES. The world needs to fix this topic. So the game is overall pretty smooth, but it sometimes it glitches and freezes the screen. In the worst cases I had to double tap out of the game and therefore reset my place having to redo my piece for less money than I wanted to get. So if I click out in the middle of a session, and I rejoin, I immediately get the same pics to carve for less. 🤦🏾♀️ Not my day. NOW THE WORST PART IS THE ADS. Every segment of this game is intitled with ads! Next button is an ad. Time passing games are ment to be care free. I’m not gonna spend 5 minutes watching ads. It’s not as bad as those unskipable TLC/ Food Network ads. But STILL. This is not a game I’d invest my time into.
SOOOO GREAT!!!
Sun Nov 12 2023 honest reviews by me 😜I’ll start off by saying this game is really fun. I didn’t no wether to get it or not so i was reading the reviews before I got it. They all say how many adds it has and they kept talking about the “sponge”. I was actually so confused so I decided to download it for fun because I was bored on a road trip. Anyways, yea there is a lot of adds but honestly it is pretty average for a mobile game. Now i’ll explain the “sponge”. So, In the add for the game you just carve the wood. In the real game after carving the wood it gives you a sponge. It is actually very helpful. The outline goes away and the sponge is judged used to smooth the edges. Actually it wasn’t at all hard to figure this out. After smoothing the shape you paint it. It is hard to get straight line if but if you stick to solid colors or ombré it is simple. And many people said that it was impossible to get 100 percent accuracy but i have only played around five levels and have gotten 100 percent four times. So overall the game is really fun and passes time quickly for boredom. I love it !!
Fun but has some issues
Fri Feb 21 2020 HeadmasterSnapeI like this game more than I thought I would.
However, I don’t like that the game automatically corrects jagged edges and cleans up lines before the sanding phase. It makes the other chisels pointless since you don’t need to be precise because the game will fix it for you. I was carving the screw and intentionally carved a nail instead, leaving off the spiked points, and when the sanding phase started, the points were added to the carving for me. I did the same thing when carving the light bulb. I intentionally neglected to carve the ribbed details where the light bulb screws in, and when I reached the sanding phase, the detail was added for me. I’d prefer it if what we carved was what we sanded, otherwise there’s no point in trying so hard in the carving phase.
I’d also like it if we could change the angle of the chisel. Some of the things were expected to carve, have angles that are impossible to reach because we can’t rotate the chisel.
I noticed some of the reviews mentioned the limited paint colors and the issue with the spray paint being difficult to use for detail and this is true, but personally it doesn’t bother me.
DIY Woodturning is better
Thu Apr 10 2025 Jackie Robinson102191I used to play this religiously, and it’s still decent but they have pulled back dramatically on the actual Woodturning experience in order to develop secondary experiences like a storefront, ability to spray cobwebs off your log, etc. This unfortunately came at the cost of chisel options, which is something that is brutally lacking - I have no idea why they removed so many options. There were some that were unnecessary but now you only have 3 choices and often times they are not what you need for tedious projects. They could literally use the same chisel shapes and offer a few sizes for each and this would be fixed, but instead they sink resources into paywalled spray paint colors. The storefront, project selection, etc is awesome but ruins the game if it’s at the cost of the old chisel setup. Thank God there is now an alternative on AppStore, similar to the original version of this game. DIY Woodturning doesn’t have “pay to remove ads” yet, and is missing storefront experience, but I’m going to sink a ton of money into their in-app store in hopes that doesn’t take long to build. I’ve given up hope that this app will return to its former glory - literally they just need to bring back the old chisel and sanding options but refuse to.
